Time Off - And the Chewy Box is Here!

Abby the Lab here.

This is Mom's  extra homemade shop lamp.  Look, it DOES say "electric perk".

Dad has been on the road traveling for work most of the last month and he has to leave again soon, but he had a couple of days off from being an engineer to be at home with Mom.  She did her best to spoil him - cooking him some nice foodables since if you hear him tell it, on the road he lives on nothing but Ramen Noodles and Gruel. So Mom took some annual leave from work to spend a little time with him before he left again.

Buttermilk scones with a Tex Mex inspired meat-free veggie scramble.

I got kibble - I'm thinking this is a plot of some sort.

After cleaning up the breakfast dishes, the morning was time for the yard work.  The Purple Coneflower  is not only a pretty plant, but they are dried and kept as medical items in our emergency/natural disaster supplies.

Then Mom said it was time to go to the garage to to bump (ow!) and grind alongside the stripper.

The finished product. It's been in the room for a while, but the top was always  covered by a tablecloth as it was in such bad shape.

See - it once looked like this. No - a cat did NOT use that as a scratching post.

It was left on a local curb with trash, and the particleboard  top was trashed.  But the legs and lower shelf?  Solid hardwood and only lightly scratched, so Mom and Dad snagged it from the trash heap. They covered it with a cloth for a while and then decided to just redo it.  $40 at the home improvement store for wood for a new top and a little elbow grease and our little house had a table that would cost hundreds in a store.

Time for lunch.  Pineapple glazed ham sliced thin with baby Swiss, on thinly sliced homemade oatmeal bread, then toasted in a fry pan sprayed with a little non-stick spray and served with some sliced apples and carrot sticks.

Hey were's MY goodies to eat?

BARK!  It's the mailman!

 CHEWY!!

 OH BOY -  CHEWY!!

OPEN IT MOM!!

Yay it's my Blue Buffalo Basic food which I love - as it makes my coat all glossy and my stomach so happy.

Everyone fed, Mom and Dad disappeared to the garage. I will stay and guard the stuffies.

Miss Madeline - the TR6, was  happy the temperatures are warmer.

But, a drive will have to wait as  I needed some playtime and a walk to say hi to the neighborhood dogs.

You want a piece of me?

It was a busy day,  and Dad said it was  time to get out some adult beverages and start the barbecue.

This was a cheap dinner. The chicken "pinwheels" (legs and thighs) were picked up at a locally owned (not a chain) grocers, two bulk packages for the price of one.  Add in some veggies purchased at the farmer's market and steamed rice and some sauce made "from scratch" (no extra charge for chicken puns) with items on hand and dinner was on the table for less than a dollar per serving.

Mom made Korean Barbecue Sauce.  Sweet but not too much and slightly spicy, my paw-rents said it was wonderful brushed on the chicken after it had cooked about 15 minutes.

After brushing one side, the chicken was flipped, brushed with more sauce and covered up to finish grilling to 165 degrees F.  I watched carefully to make sure it was done right.

I am very lucky to have parents that work hard to make sure I have a nice home to live in and yummy things to smell.

I got kibble again.  I'm not quite sure what to say - but it WAS the Blue Buffalo Kibble from Chewy.

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