Over the last several weeks, our one female guinea pig had been having some health problems. We took her to the vet, and he gave her some stuff to make sure she was getting her nutrients. After a long struggle, she finally died on the morning of Saturday, May 24. There has been much sadness in our house as a result. We will miss her dearly.
Author: nosilver4u
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daisy farewell
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new home
We just moved into a new house (rental), and the view is nice. Quite.
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syrup
Yup, you guessed it, this post is all about syrup…of the maple variety. I went to the store today to buy some maple syrup for pancakes. Simple task one might think. Find the ‘syrup section’ and you have at least a dozen different choices. Then, something caught my eye. Western Family (the generic brand at this particular store) had a ‘premium’ syrup with 2-percent real maple syrup. Of course, then I was curious what percentage of real maple syrup some of the spendier brands contained. I checked them all, because I was incredulous at what I found. None. No other brand had any real maple syrup in them. One actually contained a little artificial maple flavoring, but that was as good as it got. That amazes me. Only the generic brand even bothered to sell a single bottle with maple syrup in it.
So, what did the others put in their syrup instead? They all contained the same exact two ingredients at the top of the list: corn syrup, and high fructose corn syrup. Needless to say, I don’t need that junk in my body (recent studies indicated that hfcs is linked to diabetes and other disorders), so I found the one sugar-free variety and bought that (it still has 12g of sugar-alcohol, however that works). -
flying
Well, it’s been a couple weeks since I started my new job, and even longer since I wrote my last real blog post. The new job has been fun, with a few new challenges, and lots of new software to learn about. We had rented a small house originally that turned out to be a bust. The landlords don’t keep the place up real well, and aren’t too picky about who they let in, so it had a lovely cigarette smoke smell, and several other quirks here and there. At any rate, they were gracious enough to let us out of the lease, since our eyes were burning, and my wife wasn’t even able to spend the night there due to associated sinus problems.
Since then, things have been looking up. Amanda got a job at a flower shop last week, and today was her first day. We also received an offer on our house, which puts us in the same boat as my cousin, oddly enough. It was kind of funny to read her post, and say, hey, me too! At any rate, it’s very encouraging to have received an offer on the house, and there has been a lot more interest in it than we really expected, which is very nice. -
birthday
Today marks four years since my first blog post. That is all. I do have more to write, but that’ll have to wait for a bit.
