Playmates

Today's Beautiful Thing is having someone to play with--even if he's a little immature, hyper and drives you a bit crazy. :)

Welcome Ace!

Waiting

Today's Beautiful Thing is anticipation. Ace will probably be here in an hour or so. In a couple of hours we'll know if he's ours or not, but for now, I savor the joy of anticipation.

Atticus buddy, Lulu may have a stand-in for you in the friend department. I know you wouldn't be jealous because it wasn't your way. I think of you and smile tonight because I know the new little guy would make you happy too. In fact, I picture you with your guardian angel wings, possibly being the one who orchestrated the match. I miss you and I hope you are well.

Good deeds

Today's Beautiful Thing is is doing a good deed. The people who run rescues, work at shelters, train therapy dogs, etc, are the best kind of people. One particular lady named Liz, is doing the work of angels with her wonderful dog and cat rescue.

Ace!

Today's Beautiful Thing is a little French Bulldog named Ace. Thursday night the owner of the rescue is going to come by, check out our yard, talk to us, and see how Lulu and Ace get along. If everything goes well, we'll have a new member of our family Thursday night. We are very excited!

Chicken Salad

Today's Beautiful Thing is a great big chicken salad. I had a huge pile of romaine lettuce, chopped tomato, cukes & onion, along with 1/8 of an avocado (one fat exchange), 3 ounces of chicken breast, some non-fat salsa, non-fat sour cream and 5 baked tortilla chips for the crunch. It was dee-licious!

Diet Update: 23 pounds in 18 weeks. My pound-a-week goal is working just fine.

Knitting Supplies

Today's Beautiful Thing is new knitting stuff. My friend Rox (1st row-second from left) taught me how to knit at the conference in Ohio/Kentucky last month. Joann's just so happened to have a sale this weekend, so I bought new #7, 13" bamboo knitting needles and two packages of matching green, blue, teal, beige and brown variegated (is that what they call it?) wool yarn. I can't wait to start practicing. This week is busy. Probably next weekend.

Sweet!

Today's Beautiful Thing is a handful of spiced gumdrops. I'm particularly fond of cinnamon-red and yellow--I have no idea what flavor they are--spicedrops.