Sassy Mamas and Smiles

I think it was about a week ago that Maddy gave me the Sassy Mama Award so I am finally getting around to passing it on.

First off, I have to give this to Susie and Logo. They are two of the sassiest girls I know. Susie's fondness for orange knickers certainly has to qualify her. As far as Logo goes, I couldn't even begin to narrow it down to a single post that exemplifies her sassiness. You'll just have to go peruse her archives for yourselves.

Next, I will have to award Jocelyn and Theresa. Again, every post from these two ladies oozes sass. They are both brilliant writers and funny as all get out. Go read them.




Next, Moose gave Isaac this Make My Day Award for his Death by Locust video. Since he doesn't actually blog I will pass it on to some people in his stead. At the risk of sounding completely whiney, it was a rotten weekend. I screwed up my back on Saturday morning and I've been in wicked pain ever since. After a month of taking care of other sick and injured people you might think I'd get cheerful help from the folks who have recovered. You'd also be wrong...insult added to injury. But I want to pass this award on to G-man, Tommy, and David for either giving some specific words of encouragement or just making me giggle once or twice this weekend. Thank you for some smiles and kindness when I needed it.



Finally we come to the audience participation portion of our post. I was corresponding with David and we discussed famous places we had grown up near to but either have never seen or didn't see until we were well into adulthood. I grew up only about 2 hours away from New York City but never made it there until I was 31. I'd seen over 30 other states in the country, visited Canada and Bolivia, and had lived overseas but I still hadn't gotten to NYC.

So how about you? what famous local (to you) landmark do you have yet to see or didn't see for a ridiculously long period of time?

Bits & Pieces of This & That

Please explain why I can make this beautiful and delicious sandwich with marinated boneless chicken breasts grilled to juicy perfection and served with fresh mozzarella, homemade pesto and freshly roasted bell peppers on a perfectly toasted ciabatta roll and it is take your clothes off yummy, but...

...I can never make a grilled cheese sandwich without burning the thing?

In other fabulous fresh food news...Jillie sent me a box of lemons from her tree! Oh, there is nothing like a lemon right from the tree. What flavor! What a treat! Thankyouthankyouthankyou, Miss Jillie!

In some REALLY big news...

I need to also thank Lecram, who gave me one Bewitched nose twitch last week...

Do you remember what I twitched for?

Do you?

It worked! WOOOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!

That's our new baby, a Kawasaki V 800. We took our first ride on Sunday afternoon, which was perfect bike weather, by the way. It was reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyREALLY wonderful.

I haven't been on a bike in 10 years. Too damn long. Man, it was so great to be a part of the scenery instead of passing through it in a box!

Here's me...

We just need a name for her. And yes, It's a she, she told me that much.

Suggestions?