Sometimes

Beau sings to me sometimes...this was one of those sometimes. Thankful!

Bringing in the shade

Beau and I spent the day digging up our bushes in the backyard so that we could plant these beauts! We were muddy and scraped and bruised when all was said and done but the trees are in the ground!

Our pet deer...Penelope

Carolina

http://youtu.be/igjH8hjF9Ww

Handsome

Beau and I are out in the boat headed to meet friends at Caper's for the day. Man is he a handsome one!!!

Fwd: Bouchon

Sunday night resulted in another Bouchon meal from the large red cookbook. Because monkfish was on sale and beets were in my CSA box, we made this!

A roasted beet salad with goat cheese and walnuts over mache.

Monkfish stew with crusty bread

Leftover lemon blueberry pound cake.

I love beets. Beau...he eats them...because he loves me. That salad, so yummy. The creaminess of the goat cheese, the pickle sweet flavor of the beets and pepper flavor of the mache. I've been eating it again and again every day this week for lunch.

The monkfish stew had little potatoes, squid, mussels and clams in it as well. I think this meal was our least favorite from the cookbook. Not that it wasn't good, but it didn't blow us away as much as the others have. And...I overcooked the squid, mussels and clams. It's so hard to time everything so perfectly. I'm learning the prep ahead of time is key. I need to be ready at just the right moment to do whatever it is that Thomas Keller instructs me to do.

And! I made aioli! My first time. Thought? Yummo. We're slathering that stuff on anything we can find!

Argos is 9!

Yesterday was Argos' 9th birthday! We got him a big rawhide bone, tied a Happy Birthday balloon on him and sang. I don think he enjoyed it nearly as much as we did!

Out for a Walk

While Beau and I were trying to catch fiddler crabs, Argos took a break in the shade.

Birthday Night

Beau surprised Friday night with a Moscow mule at the Rarebit, dinner at Stars and dessert at Peninsula Grill. Naturally, everything was delicious. And bit was a wonderful birthday celebrated with our wonderful friends, Josh and Kelly, and of courses fantastic husband, Beau. The big 3-2. Never dreamed....

The family tree of Pfizer

With all the speculation of a merger with AZ I ran across this graphic which was pretty interesting.