Ollie went to the vet today to become not quite the man he could have been, so we honored him with our Thursday night dinner theme:

potato balls
matzo ball soup
Ball brand mason jars (we always use them, but they fit!)
Rice crispy balls
Swedish meatballs (Ben had just been warned that they were very hot.)
and mozzarella balls....

Everyone had a ball! (ha ha ha)

MOST CUDDLY PUPPY EVER.

baked breaded zucchini and jalapeno poppers. pretty yum, but not the best ever. it was my first attempt. what can you do?

I wanted Ben to pay attention to me, so I scheduled it into his calendar.

Tried to get a good picture of the gorgeous sky on our drive from Cape Cod to Buzzard's Bay. A weekend of sad events.

Oh no! The ribs are DROWNING!!! (We finally made the ribs we got in our last share of beef from our CSA. They were yummy!)

Have you ever seen a zucchini this big?

Lunch made me feel like I live in France. Bread and brie and bread and nutella.

Ollie and I cuddle A LOT these days.

This is what I worked on for over 10 hours today. It only looks good because of Ben, though.

Ollie got his stitches out today, and so no more cone! Here he is being cute in his crate and feeling better :) Also - he lost two teeth today! I wonder if the tooth fairy will show up. He even has a pillow for her to put money under!

At about 11:30 last night, a huge ball of fluid formed on Ollie's shoulder and I rushed him to the doggie ER 'cause I was so nervous. They drained it, but said it was pretty normal and to let them know if it got a lot bigger or seemed to hurt him. It was scary and relatively expensive, and I'm glad he's okay.

Good long day of getting school work done at friends' house. Ollie found himself stuck under the table a couple times and needed help sliding out without getting his cone caught. It was cute.

Here's the self-portrait I took before Ben went away for the weekend on his sea kayaking class.

Ollie already misses him.

But Ollie and I stayed with friends tonight, so that was nice. Here's A cutting apart (or playing with) the chicken I picked up at the farm today.