Of Hellhounds, Broken Cars, and Food (of course)

Hellbound Hounds

Or one in particular. Daisy, our neighbour's scary bitch, took a chunk out of Darwin as Niko walked by yesterday (See Anagram for Ink). Luckily Mr D is OK, just a 4 inch line of stitches across his flank (Daisy is a big, nasty piece of work, so it could have been a lot worse). We'll be going down to the neighbours to present them with the vet bill tomorrow.

My Car

Went in for work, about $800 worth. //hack, cough, wheeze// Almost the whole cooling system was replaced - radiator, thermostat and water pump - due to leaking. More like hemoraging (sp?). They tried to fix the wipers, but of course they worked when the car was in the shop and it hasn't really rained since so I haven't tested them yet. Also I have a hole in my muffler and will need a new one soon. //sigh// She seems to be running well now though, fingers crossed.

Food

This week in Culinary School . . . Let's see, I was saucier, which means I cooked the meat for the main course. We had pork tenderloin, stuffed salmon in puff pastry, lamb shanks, beef bourginonne, and veal blanquette (the latter 2 are types of stew). It was a lot of fun and I only burned myself once. //grin// Next week I'm on veg and starch, so I get to learn how to make risotto. Mum & John, Gramma, Niko and Ryan came in for lunch on Wednesday. They seemed to enjoy it. We did a takeout box for Selena so she wouldn't be mad that she missed it. Ryan was on exam week, so he was not in school. And the best news of all, the dead weight has been pruned from our team - Casey left or was booted, depending on your interpretation. He was sick again, 2 days this week plus 4 days a week or so ago, and he was told he wouldn't graduate as he'd missed too much time. Ya think? So we are getting Angelina from the other team and will now be even with 5 each team.

There was something else I was going to add but I've forgotten what it was. Apparently it was not that important . . .