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Greetings and happy Monday all! Yesterday, I finally had a little downtime so I decided to put away all of my winter decorations and bring out my spring stuff. I have been ready for spring since before winter actually began ... LOL!

I also made a quick dinner in the air fryer of pierogies and cooked up some chicken rice on the side.

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And just a quick update on my sweetie Leo. First of all, we both thank all of you for your get well wishes and kind words. It would seem that he can not or will not tolerate taking the pain pills that our vet gave him for discomfort. Since we began giving him the pills three days ago, he has had a gag-type reaction and keeps throwing up any food he had in his stomach. The pills never even made it down his throat even thought they are so very tiny. So, we are planning on contacting the vet today to find out if it is actually necessary for him to take them - if not, we will not bother as he seems to be using his box okay so far. In the meantime, he is happy making himself comfy on my new, warm cardigan sweater. :)

Have a great day!

Fire and Ice Festival ~ 2019

Happy Sunday, my friends! Yesterday, I attended the annual 2019 Fire & Ice Festival in Lititz, PA with my friend Deb, her twin sister Barbara, her daughter Rayann, her grandson J.J., and J.J.s aunt Nessy (Vanessa). It was an absolutely gorgeous day with the temps in the mid to high 40's and the sun was shining.

Deb and I started out our day enjoying some goodies that she made for Valentine's Day ...

 Chocolate-covered strawberries ...

 Frosted heart-shaped cookies ...

The Fire & Ice Festival is a yearly winter celebration which showcases all kinds of ice-sculptured art, food, music, and plenty of cool places to eat and shop. I took some pics from our day ...

As you can see, many of these ice sculptures have holes carved in them so people could have there pic taken with them and even sit on some of them ...

Rayann posing with a gnome.

J.J. on a teddy bear.

Barbara standing with a tooth fairy. Notice the tooth on the bottom right.

Me sitting on a heart-shaped ice throne.

A cool gazebo on the park grounds.

 A heated walk through tent ...

On the way home, we had dinner at the PJ Whilehan's in Lancaster, PA ...

Nessy and Rayann.

J.J.

 Deb 'n' me.

As most of you who have been following my blog for quite a while know, I am a HUGE fan of Led Zep and I am a member of a super cool group called "MASTER, Jimmy Page" on FB. One of my friends who is also a moderator (and creator) of this site sent me this reply to one of my post comments yesterday:

Member of MASTER, Jimmy Page since April 29, 2018

 Jimmy Sakurai's comment to being accepted into the group on April 29, 2018: 
 'Thank you very much for adding me!' 



 

 

So, imagine my elated surprise when MR. JIMMY Sakurai himself accepted my friend request on FB and personal messaged me back a reply thanking me for my kind greetings! Jimmy has now left the tribute band Led Zepagain and has currently been playing and touring with his own new group called, "Mr. Jimmy Led Zeppelin Revival." I hope to one day get the chance to see him play live.

I tell ya, this awesome group and our members are THE BEST ever! Have a wonderful Sunday everyone!

Saturday This and That

Well, it's Saturday and what a busy week it was. Among the things which came up was an unexpected trip to the vet for our kitty Leo. With his F.U.S. (Feline Urological Syndrome), we have to keep him fed on a special prescription diet from our vet and keep an eye on him for the rest of his natural life. On Monday morning, I noticed that he was crying while in his litter box urinating. Afterward, he was washing himself  down there (something that cats diagnosed with F.U.S. typically do in order to stimulate themselves when they are having trouble peeing). So me being the frantically protective cat mom that I am, I panicked and we called up our vet's animal hospital and they said they could not get hm in immediately, but to drop him off right away and they would examine him as soon as possible and give us a call before the end of day. So, long story short, they performed some tests on him and said that his bladder was empty and that he was not blocked. However, they gave him some water and kept him until they were able to get a urine sample from him for testing. They discovered that he had a mild intestinal cystitis (basically, an inflammation) and so when we picked him up later, they instructed us to give him one pill a day for the next 21 days of 10mg amitriptyline for his pain and discomfort. Keeping our finger's crossed that he recovers soon.

On Sunday, while my mom and I were out grocery shopping, I picked up one of Giant Grocery Store's monthly food magazines. They have some pretty good healthy recipes I wish to try and there is always something in it for everyone ... gluten-free, keto diet, vegan, vegetarian, heart healthy snacks, juices and other tasty drinks, salads and dinners, etc.

I love to throw meals together (something I was raised to do as we were taught to never waste any food what-so-ever in our house), I cooked up some spaghetti and added a bag of small Italian meatballs and leftover grilled chicken strips with spaghetti sauce and Italian bread on the side for dinner the other evening ... 

The following night, I used up some of the leftover meatballs (I made a lot of them!) for meatball sandwiches/hoagies and the leftover grilled chicken and meatballs mixed with spaghetti can be eaten as a little side dish. Quick, easy, done!

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I also came across this really cool book at Barnes & Noble while out shopping with my sister two weeks ago. I absolutely LOVE playing around with my brand new Power Air Fryer that I got at Yule and this book has lots of awesome recipes in it to try. You can cook pretty much anything in it including roasts. So far, I have only made pork and chicken roasts in it, but I intend to experiment a lot more. Last night; however, I used it to make small pizza bites and waffle fries ... so delicious!

In other news, we had some snow and rain mixed with sleet this week. Fortunately though, the temps were unusually warm for winter here, so most of it tuned to slush and melted fairly quickly by the end of the day.

Merlin enjoyed watching it come down from our living room front window ...

Have a good one friends!!