It’s strange when you’ve been the baby-sitter/dog-sitter/house-sitter/plant-waterer/mail-collector your whole life when all of a sudden you find yourself sitting at the kitchen table writing a 4 page novel on how to clean your dog’s muddy paws if it rains. This is what I found myself doing on friday before we went away for the weekend and I realized I had crossed the a threshold. We were now the ones leaving and having someone ‘dog-sit’. One of our friends stayed in our house to look after Milton and as I wrote ‘The Note’ I tried to be as normal and undemanding as I possibly could. It’s so hard though, when your dog has so many quirks and you have so many tricks up your sleeve as to dealing with said quirks.
I think I wrote a whole paragraph explaining how to get Milton in from the yard, only for the whole thing to backfire. Let me explain. Milton is a stubborn fellow and has chosen not to come inside when his name is called. This can be quite annoying when one is rushing and needs to leave the house. Therefore one is forced to result to bribary … yelling “TREAT” as loud as possible until one sees his little white-tipped tail emerging from the shrubbs and running at full speed to the back door. Once he is inside, the door must be closed immediately for the plan to work. Then a treat is given.
So, I wrote this whole thing out because I knew it would come in handy, and lo and behold Brian (the poor soul who watched milton) needed to leave the house on saturday and milton was not responding to his name. So, Brian got a treat, yelled “TREAT!”, and milton came running. This is where the mistake was made. He didn’t shut the doggie door behind milton when he came inside. So, milton being the oh-so-obedient dog that he is, grabbed the treat from Brian’s hand and pelted out the doggie door back into the yard yelling “sukaaaa” before brian could even blink. All that to say, I think we shall have to look up some kennels for our next trip…
We had a wonderful time in Savannah, Georgia visiting Rebecca. It is so novel to be able to drive for 6 hours and pass through North Carolina, South Carolina, and into Georgia. Such a difference from living in Texas. The town is a really cool place with lots of rennovated old buildings, lots of art everywhere, and lots of quirky restaurants and coffeeshops. It’s only 30 minutes from the sea too. Wonderful. It was great to hang with Rebecca and get out of town for a couple of days.
white chocolate rasberry creme brulee
And, for those of you that don’t know; I got a nanny job a few weeks ago. I start in a couple of weeks and am very excited. I will be caring for a 9 month old boy named Tej and he is adorable. His dad is British, and his mom is South African but they moved from England in 1999 (same year as me : ) ). I went over to meet them two weeks ago and stayed for over two hours having English tea and hob nobs. They are such lovely people and I was able to talk very candidly with them. She is an Oncologist at Duke Medical center, and he is a Physicist. They seem like very interesting people and I’m so happy that we share such a strong tie already, not being naitve-born Americans! It has all just worked out so well after so many weeks of frustration and looking, God is indeed good.
New recipes that I tried last week:
1. Polenta with zucchini and sausage
2. Eggplant casserole
I’m so excited that Jess is coming to visit on friday!!! I’m trying to think of lots of fun things to do when she’s here. Can’t wait : ) Also, congratulations to our good friends the Henries who had their little girl Ananda a week and a half ago! She is so beautiful.
And to finish.. here’s pic of some of our friends here in NC at our house watching the office
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