Crime scene created by Troubletown

We have campers here this week. The parents' left Belle and Trouble here while they are out of town...and they took Aunt Sue with them!!! I got to stay home and baby-sit.

I found this crime scene one day. Alfred's mom sent us this cute little octopus for the pugs a few years ago and Trouble decided to rip it apart and pull the stuffings out of it. Poor little octo is now a flat octo!


Here is the Trouble aka Troubletown...she is very sweet but likes to try to escape the yard. I don't take my eyes off of her outside. She is constantly looking for a hole in the fence or somewhere to make an escape. Sometimes she has to wear a cone from the vet's office if she wants to stay outside for a length of time at the parents' house because she has dug many a hole to escape.

SHOULDN'T THERE BE . . . . .

...A LAW AGAINST FRIED PICKLES?

photos of the weekend

Shannon at Bless Your Heart is having her photo blogging days this past weekend ... I didn't take pictures every two hours, but I did take some over Friday and Saturday. So here they are...

I woke up Friday and started working...a lot of my work involves court cases in South Carolina. I have really started enjoying reading books where the stories take place in South Carolina. I'm reading South of Broad right now, which takes place in Charleston.

Aunt Sue and I had lunch at Red Robin. Yummy!

Then we went to our favorite bakery and got these petit fours. Yummy!

We then went to Michael's and I got some items and took pictures of some floral arrangements...so springy right now.




Then we went to the local seafood market...always a treat to go in here and see what they have available and smell fresh bread baking in the deli/grocery area.

More of the fish market.

more of the fish.

Saturday, the habitat for humanity store came and picked up some items that we had that were in good shape that we thought they might could resell.

Saturday morning, I started a pork butt slow cooking in the oven for five hours. It turned out pretty good. I brined it first in salt/sugar/liquid smoke water for a couple of hours. Then put a dry rub with mustard on the outside. I had the meat dept. cut the butt in half longways so more of the meat got the crust on it. It was pretty good. the husband liked it a lot but I love real wood smoked BBQ..which is not so easy to find anymore.

I made a shrimp dinner using the shrimp that I bought at the seafood market.

And here are the pugs...we have campers this week at our house. I'll try to get a picture of them soon.

Books read in 2010

I just needed to update my link for my books read this year.

Stealing Magnolias: Tales from a New Orleans Courtyard
Rogues' Gallery: The Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rain Gods: A Novel by James Lee Burke
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
Here's the Story by Maureen McCormick
The Recessionistas by Alexandra Lebenthal
Cut Crop and Die by Joanna Campbell Slan
Paper Scissors Death by Joanna Campbell Slan
Promises to Keep by Jane Green
Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Fly Away Home: A Novel by Jennifer Weiner
Lowcountry Summer by Dorothea Benton Frank
On Folly Beach by Karen White
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Too Much Money: A Novel by Dominick Dunne
The Way I See It: A Look Back at My Life on Little House
Taste of Fame: A Novel (Potluck club)
Overnight Socialite by Birdie Clark
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Hell Gate by Linda Fairstein
The Bag Lady Papers by Alexandra Penney
Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
8th Confession by James Patterson
7th Heaven by James Patterson
6th Target by Maxine Paetro
5th Horseman by Maxine Paetro
4th of July by Maxine Paetro
3rd Degree by James Patterson
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown