Bruno Goes to Washington

The weekend before Thanksgiving, Bruno headed out to Washington, DC to see his master, my sister Molly. He was lucky enough to ride in Sarah's new RAV 4. Mom headed along as well so they could surprise Molly with a visit. He has been to the groomer, smells nice and is even wearing his bow so he looks nice for Molly.

Driving from our home in Illinois to Silver Spring, Maryland took about 13 hours. (They had to take some more frequent breaks for the Bruno...and his eating and...um, potty business.)

Bruno did not get car sick at any time during the trip!

He stayed in a pet-friendly hotel, received a new mat, food bowls and more than one "goodie bag" from the hotel.

Here he is pictured as he rides up the elevator to the hotel room.

Sarah reports that he only barked twice, but that was because he heard another dog barking and some man was making a great deal of noise himself.

He did not sleep on the hotel bed...he slept in his "den."

He went to visit Molly on his first night.

Fail

Another funny link encompassing a variety of failures...

http://www.failblog.org

Successful Baking...?

I was staying over at Will's house one night while Steve and Jen went to dinner. Will carefully selected a special pizza for us to have for our dinner and yummy peanut butter cookies with chunks of peanut butter cups in them.  Jen has a new oven and a pizza stone, and unfortunately I was unfamiliar with both.  

Will and I were so involved with our dinosaurs and trucks that the pizza was burnt well done.  The cheese had to be scrapped off, but luckily I found some shredded cheese in the refrigerator.  (It was for tacos, but it just added a little south-of-the-border flair!) Once the new cheese melted on the pizza, we put the cookies in.  Not wanting to repeat the same disaster with the cookies, I took them out early.  They were raw slightly under-done.

I decided to attempt baking the same cookies again at my own house.  I hadn’t used the over before, but how hard could it be, right?

It seems I have gone from one extreme to the other...

Well, apparently I had turned the temperature of the oven up (with my belly) when reaching to set the timer.  *sigh*

Piping

I've been seeing so many fancy cupcakes with nice piped icing on the tops of them lately.  Well, I decided that if the bakers of walmart could do it, then so could I.  My cousin Jen's birthday was last month and I decided to give it a whirl.

Yeah, well....it is harder than it looks.  The consistency of my icing was off.  I think I had left it in the mixer too long.  Plus, it was hot in the kitchen, so I put it in the refrigerator, which also made it difficult to squeeze out of the bag.

My dream was chocolate cupcakes with light, fluffy pink icing piped on top and mini-chocolate chips sprinkled over them.

Here is was my reality.....

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Bruno - Ready for Football