Modern convenience

A short list of modern convenience that I am grateful to use:

1. Minced garlic in a jar.
* I am not a traditionalist, thus I do get alot of laughs on this issue in my kitchen.
2. Minced ginger in a jar.
* see comment above.
3. Laksa paste in a jar.
* nothing like a good bowl of home, without searching for "exotic" ingredients in Ohio.
4. Tomato sauce in a can.
* really, the home canning business is not for me.
5. Cruise control.
* ahhhh ... finally I can rest my lead foot.
6. Emails.
* I can pretend to listen despite the DELETE option.
7. All the news I can read.
* what else am I supposed to do when everyone else at home is playing their games.
8. Remote car starter.
* best $99 investment I spent on my car.
9. Automatic air freshener.
* best $5 investment I spent on my bathroom.

Survived another Holiday

Yes, we made it to and from Pennsylvannia, in whole bodies and maintained our sanity.

Phew! What a drive with 2 monkeys in the back complaining about everything under the sun while you are going at erhm more or more than 65 mph and there is no rest stop in sight!

We made it there anyway. A few places to recommend:

1. Living Treasures Deer Park. http://www.ltanimapark.com/

* filled with deer, kangaroos (really!), goats and peacock roam the streets with you.

2. Butler County Fair, where we met up with our favourite clown, BUFFO the world's strongest clown, http://www.buffo.com/. Wow Mrs Buffo was there too!

One of this kids is mine, unfortunately.

3. Pymatuning Lake, Spillway.

Fish, carp that are more than a foot long, here there and everywhere, but you cannot touch any. Sure looks like good eating fish though. Buy loaves of bread from the koisk and watch the slices disappear in seconds.

4. Of course Sushi Kim at Penn Avenue at the Strip, for all we (I) can eat Korean Barbeque Buffet.

A note to spread out here:

Hat tip and kudos to our dog sitter, recall we have 4 mini-horses.

Plugging here for True Blue Home Pet Sitting, http://www.petsit.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/302452/page/1

She survived our dogs, because they did not eat her, fantastic with the attention with them and very reasonable rates (considering what she has to put up with). Fully insured ladidadada... bottom line, 2 thumbs up! So the next time you need someone to watch your animals and cannot figure which of your friends to torture, please give her a call at (419) 427-2555.

Here is a section of what we do not recommend:

1. Motel 6.

** Sheesh, talk about basic accomodations. Good thing we brought our shampoo and soap. Erhm, we had to share towels!! (Next time we are head back to the Hyatt.)

2. Pymatuning Deer Park

** as compared to the Living Treasures in New Castle, this place should be shut down. The animals were left in the sun with no shade, and their enclosures were weed filled and smelled really bad. I am surprised that PETA hasnt camped out there yet.