Arrr! Eat up yer tomateys, me hearties!

YO HO YO HO, a Pirate's Life for Me!

In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day here is a photo of me from a few years back when I dressed up like one for Halloween. I'm ready to pillage and plunder!

It was really fun and at work I won the costume contest for the ladies (even though I was dressed as a man, lol). This was one of my fave costumes in recent years. Mike let me use his "real" ceremonial sword from his time in the Marines, though he calls it his "pig sticker," don't ask me why, we're probably better off not knowing! Arrrrr!

Also, in honor of the day, we ate tomatey-sammies for lunch 'cuz there be tomateys on the vines, matey, and this way there won't be no scurvy on-board THIS pirate ship!

Oops, actually, that was yesterday's sammie in a pita pocket. Today I had my tomateys on sourdough bread with lots of lettuce, and Mike had his on rye bread with saurkraut. Yeah, kinda prissy, and not very pirate-y.

So to make up for that little lapse of culinary judgement, this evening I went digging for buried treasure:

Arrrr!! Found some, too!

Junk Food Junkie

Mike at the Solano County Fair on Saturday, July 12, 2008.

So, since I've been "bragging" about excercising every day, I feel I have to make a confession. I have had a lot of junk food lately! Mainly at the Fair last Saturday. This is just something I do; whenever we go to a fair or carnival I eat junk food. Mike knows he will have to buy me corn dogs, ice cream, popcorn, caramel apples, cotton candy, whatever I get a hankering for. And I always get a hankering for pretty much everything! Chocolate-dipped, half vanilla and half chocolate soft-serve ice cream. Melty but luscious.
Seasoned curly fries. With lots of catsup and, yep, a little pickle relish just for the fun of it.
A caramel apple sprinkled with chopped peanuts. I actually took that home with me to eat later (after a relatively healthy dinner). I like to cut them up and eat it in slices. Scout was happy about that, too, because she likes peanuts so she had a little treat as well.

There's no photo of my corn dog and I decided against cotton candy because all we could find was the balls of colored stuff already bagged up. I don't want it unless I can watch it being made. I love to see the workers swirl that paper cone around the huge circular vat, turning it constantly to sweep up the spun sugar. And it smells so good, too. I felt a little kinship with these piglets that we saw in the livestock barn, heh heh. There were nine piglets total, the other four are underneath these five! Boy, were they pushing and shoving. Mama Pig seemed to hardly notice; she was snoozing. The piglets were sure cute.

There's always a cool reptile exhibit at our county fair. This year they had a female albino Burmese boa constrictor that was friendly enough to pose for a photo with us! I was surprised how warm the snake was, and how heavy! Her handler said she probably weighed around 30 to 40 lbs.

I'm glad she didn't have a hankering for "junk food!"