Thursday, March 18, 2010

Over the past 4 days...

Riley and I have been hanging out a lot due to school closings in Stamford (where I work). The storm over the weekend caused many power outages, fallen trees, etc. and the crews have been working to restore the power. It has been an unexpected, but nice break with some gorgeous days to enjoy!

Monday was still a yucky day, so we mostly hung around the house and cleaned up a bit. I hung some pictures in Riley's room because it was looking a bit plain. A little bit of scrapbooking paper in frames was just the thing to add some color to the room.

Tuesday, we finally used the Perfect Brownie Pan...which by the way I love! Follow the directions (i.e.- spray down each part of the pan) and you will have perfectly cooked and cut brownies! (see picture below) I also met up with Kim and the kids at Starbucks for a little bit of catch up since we haven't seen each other in a while!
Wednesday, I got a much needed oil change in the AM and then Riley and I headed to the local dog park. Well...it was in Southbury, but it's the closest one to us. Unfortunately it is not fenced in, which made me nervous, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by Riley. She actually listened when I called her name and told her to come. Of course, cheese was on hand because that is her treat for coming to us (yes, we still need to use this bribe). She wanted nothing to do with the water! She put her front paws in and then truned around to go back up to the play area. We stayed for probably 45 minutes or so and then headed home. It was enough for her first time there.

Today there was more playing with her ball (like everyday) and we headed to Norwalk to walked with Shana on her lunch break and Cranbury Park. It's a very nice park and dogs can be off leash (we kept Riley on leash). We walked the trails and tried to play ball, but Riley wasn't interested in the ball. She wanted to play with the dogs instead! All in all, this has been a great week! It was definitely unexpected, but definitely a break that was needed in this month of March that seems to always drag on so slowly!






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