Wow. It's been a long time since I posted. I finally decided to give this blog a good shot at upkeeping. My first new post has to do with our "new" dog, Louie.

We adopted Louie from the local animal shelter on June 17th. He was found wandering in town and after a nice family found him and placed an ad in the paper, no one claimed him. I guess they couldn't keep him because the day we went to look for a dachshund, there he was.

Louie is a true treasure. He is a standard short-haired red dachshund and he gets along beautifully with our greyhound, Niko. I believe Bob and I are truly in love. Now if we can just get him to stop pooing in the house when we are gone!

Louie also gets along with my sister's dachshund, Maci. Bob and I adopted her for them back in April and after having her with us for 6 weeks, when she left, I had to have another dachshund. Louie and Maci are true girlfriend/boyfriend. Check out Maci's picture in her new shirt!

I'm sure things will only get livelier the rest of this year with Louie discovering Halloween and Christmas. I can't wait!

Welcome to My Family

Well, I hope that my sister and her better half are truly experiencing the joys of internet exploring, now that they finally broke down and went and got a computer/laptop. They also invested in cable internet service, and I hope that their surfing days have only begun. I've been sending as much junk mail as I could to them........

I'm now hoping that I will soon be receiving pictures of my favorite little girls quite frequently, as the new digital camera purchase is not far off for them. I hope they don't overdo their "technology" exposure!

Tonight is Neigborhood Cooking Club night at my next door neighbors, the Greenwich's. So where am I? Well, Bob and I forgot and I cooked dinner...shame on us. Plus, it's the opening game of the 2005 Football season for the University of South Carolina with new coach, Steve Spurrier. Bob and I have become big USC fans, even when Lou Holtz was here. We don't go downtown to any of the games, and we don't get to tailgate, but we do throw a nice little party at our house for ourselves!!

Go Gamecocks!!!!!

My new recipe for pasta!

The best part of today was making my new pasta dish for dinner. Now I didn't create it, but I did cook it and it was WONDERFUL! It's called Sweet Sausage Marsala, and can be found on Allrecipes online. Now I didn't have any marsala handy, but I did use my open Pinot Noir and it was great! I served it over angel hair pasta and Bob just raved over it. My house smelled wonderful. Click below for a link to this wonderful recipe. Try it yourself, and let me know how it goes.

http://pork.allrecipes.com/az/75705.asp

I'm on a goal to try new recipes each week, and trying to find more dishes to add to my monthly dinners. I really like to cook, and baking is what I LOVE to do, but I need to cut out my baking in order to lose some weight. Bob and I both need to drop some pounds.

Tomorrow is pork night and our wonderful neighbors, Kevin, Christin, Wyatt, and Grace plus Buster are coming for dinner. I so enjoy having them over, and they are always game for a new dish!

Coupons & the search for a good toilet paper deal..

Well, I've decided to join a coupon club after being introduced by a neighbors daughter-in-law to the "coupon hobby". I've been clipping some coupons and using them at the local stores, but I've never saved more than $10 at a time. I'm hoping that I can find a really good deal on toilet paper for free or for mere pennies as this seems to be the one item my house goes through quite a bit. Bob states that I'm the problem with toilet paper, and he's probably right.

I've spent most of the day on the website and online looking for "freebies" and any free coupons. I'm just concerned that some retailers won't take an online coupon that's printed off. It could be a duplicate of a coupon and not the real thing. I guess I'll just have to try.

Well, I'm off to buy some more newspapers and to get my coupon stash bolstered by all the new ones that came out today.