Another great day today

So we started the day out for breakie with our friends. We got to the restaurant and were shocked to see half their neighbourhood sitting at the table! Okay, maybe half the neighbourhood is stretching it a bit, but there were 12 people sitting at the table already. The food was great, and for $2.75 for bacon & eggs with homefries and toast, you can't really go wrong! I also had a freshly squeezed orange juice for $1.49, which was great! It came in a parfait glass, and that impressed me! Yep, we'll be back to Ali Baba's Cave for breakie again!

We didn't end up going for a drive out to check for apple blossoms. I wanted to do some work around the yard, so we just came home. I fired up my chimenia and burnt some twigs and dried yard matter from over the winter. My mother in law and I had bought some new solar lights for our back garden, so we put those in. I love the ones we picked out. They're a brushed steel finish. Here's a couple of pictures of them...

I also took a picture of my very dirty white cat. She was nudging herself on the branches of my rose of sharon bush. Probably letting me know that I still needed to prune it! I'll get around to it this week sometime, because our weather is supposed to be gorgeous all week. It's almost time for her shave down for the summer. I'll buzz her fur off her and then give her a nice bath. She loves her less furry body for the summers, and it's much easier to keep her clean, since she likes to hang out in dirty places, like in my chimenia for one to get herself all covered with soot and ashes! Crazy cat!

So that was my day today. I love this time of year! :-)

Olivia

Pet Food Recall

If you are a pet owner -- dog or cat, you will want to check this out. I got this information from a forum I belong to.

An alert to all the dog and cat lovers here of the pet food recall (announced late Friday) of over 60 MILLION containers of canned and foil pack dog and cat food. The recall involves nearly 100 different brands -- all manufactured by a Canadian company called Menu Foods who contract manufactures for 17 of the 20 major retailers in the U.S. as well as for some larger and/or premium label foods. The food has been implicated in causing an unknown number of dogs and cats renal failure, some of which have died. Some of the labels/brands involved are:

Science Diet, Nutro, Iams, Eukanuba, Purina, PetSmart's "Authority", "Sophistacat" and "Award" labels, and the house brands carried by Target, Wal-mart, Safeway and Krogers.

Check out the website to see all the different brands and types of pet foods affected by this recall. I was totally amazed and shocked to see so very many different kinds. Thankfully, none of the dry foods that we feed our pets seem to be on this massive list. Here's a link to the website this person has so graciously put together for all of us pet lovers out here.

Pet Food Recall

Olivia