How exciting can you get! Well, Alice does have directions for making guacamole. So I gotta make it. Three weeks ago I bought an avocado that would be ready to eat in one week. You do the math. It was certainly ready to be guacamole. This particular avocado was a low-fat type which, in my humble opinion, does not make a good guacamole. That nice rich flavor just wasn't there. Oh well. Not all culinary experiments work out well. I'm not sure what one could do with a low-fat avocado.
I made chili to go under the guacamole. Just hamburger, onions, canned tomatoes and seasonings. It was okay. Just okay. Good grief, I've gotten so spoiled. If my cooking isn't WOW!! I'm just not thrilled. And I want to be thrilled at dinner time. Now that is spoiled.
Another rainy day here. I miss the sun, but we need the rain. We still need the rain. I spent the morning doing the final phase of organization in my walk-through closet. Yippee! It's done! You might wonder how much organization a closet needs, but this particular closet is one of the busiest rooms in the house. It's a hall between the bedroom and the bathroom. It's Pearl's favorite sleeping spot (on the quilts on the top shelf, so the quilts have to be in pillowcases or wrapped in towels). It's where linens are stored and dirty clothes are dumped. My luggage is there. The bathroom scale. A small vacuum cleaner. A full-length mirror. All of our deceased cats' ashes. A couple of spare laundry baskets. And spare hangers. On top of all that, my clothes and other paraphernalia.
After a dash to Trader Joe's for some groceries I joined other staff and Board members at the shelter for Pet Point training. Pet Point is a very powerful web-based program for animal shelters that allows users to track absolutely everything about their charges in one convenient place. Making the transition to computer-based records isn't going as fast as we'd like, but what does. We'll get there. I continue to be just delighted with everything that's going on at the shelter and with the Board. Every day we make a little more progress toward our goals.
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