Monday's Dinner

Well, I took that hot Italian Sausage from the night before and turned it into pasta sauce. I added the following:

Zucchini
Finely chopped carrot (for a little sweet)
sliced portabella mushrooms
capers
a can of whole tomatoes
a can of diced tomatoes
red wine
chicken broth

I also had a couple of Roma tomatoes, so I chopped those up and cooked them way down so they were really concentrated. Very NOM!

Today is my birthday, do you notice a theme? Sister Kathy is on a Sock-Minkey roll...



Poppy bought me these lovely flowers over the weekend. Iris' are my fav. They're Ferdinand's fav too!



Poppy also got me the original soundtrack and movie, Tommy! Let me know if you want me to sing a few tunes...

Time for another exciting episode of...THE HUNT FOR KASA KECKY! Yesterday we had the mold inspection. Upon arriving to our could-be-new-house we met the owner, Erik. Very nice guy. Also, Mr. Moldman, Graham. As luck would have it, the Surfrider Foundation had some people come and take out a lot of the concrete in the front of the house and then Erik put some mulch down and some pavers that go to the front entrance of the house. In the next couple of weeks, volunteers (who aren't us) will come and plant some California native plants. This is all very exciting. Poppy and I had some questions about the house so it was great that Erik was there since he's done all the updating. He is one talented guy! Most of my questions were about my AWESOME new stove, Betty. Check her out!



Mr. Moldman's preliminary mold testing went well. Although, he kept harping on Erik about the mold on the shower curtain. Oh, don't keep paper products of any kind under your kitchen sink. It's a hotbed of mold production. Keep your paper stuff in "dry storage". You should also put a rubber mat with holes in it (kind of like the stuff they have on the floor of a bar) on the bottom of the kitchen sink cabinet and keep all of your non-paper cleaning supplies in plastic tubs. If you have furniture up against an outside wall, make sure it's a few inches from the wall so it can breath cause that's another seedy-hotbed of mold production.

So, after Mr. Moldman did his inspection he asked if we wanted him to take air samples to see just what kinds of molds and allergens are in the air. Personally, I wasn't interested but Poppy being an allergy sufferer was very interested. That cost and extra couple hundred for that test. We get the results tomorrow sometime. Frankly, I think it's a scam...how can you really confirm that the air that this guy put into a jar is really our air or if in fact, it's really in the jar? Can you see it? Nope. Can you smell it? Nope.

After we finished up with Mr. Moldman, Poppy took some measurements. She's very spacial, you see. She's going to figure out where all our stuff will go. Needless to say, this is a daunting task. Where do you draw the line on stuff you want to keep and stuff you don't? For all of you that have given us little kitschy trinkets in the past, don't expect to ever see them if you come to our house and don't even think of giving us any more! We love you all, but we gotta make some cuts somewhere...

From the house, we went over to Petco to get Roger-The-Escapee a Cone-Of-Shame. Her paw looks much better, but she's still licking on it. We were going to put the Cone-Of-Shame on her last night but Poppy couldn't bring herself to do it, so we'll give Roger-The-Escapee one more day.

Guess that's it for today.