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Know why I'm smiling?

Because yesterday for my day off it was a beautiful day. The temperature was up to 70 and I got a chance to play with my camera. I took a total of 142 pictures. Who was my first subject? Well Gibbs of course.

As soon as he came home from the groomers I pulled out the camera and we went out on the deck. He looks pretty grumpy for a guy who just got a spiffy hair cut and a new bandana.

I tweaked this picture just a bit 

How about a side by side comparison of the before and after.

Slow day

Sometimes when I have a slow day at work I use the extra time I have to experiment. Yesterday was one of those slow days. I was making cookies and decided to try a couple things out.

I made bunny sugar cookies

The ears are marshmallows cut in half on a diagonal then the cut side is dipped in pink sugar crystals. The nose is a pink jelly bean cut in quarters and the eyes are black jelly beans cut in half. The jelly beans were easy to stick down in the warm cookies. The ears didn't stick quite as easy as I thought they would but they did eventually stick to the cookie. I think I should have put a mouth on it too.

The other think I did with cookies was to bake them in a mini muffin pan. When they came out of the oven I pushed the center down to make a bowl shape. When they were cooled I filled them with some strawberry donut filling then dipped the top in melted chocolate for a chocolate covered strawberry sugar cookie. I had to sample one of them and they were D-licious.

Just for fun

I dug up a picture of some doodles I posted a long time ago

The reason for showing this picture is because it's the closest thing I could find do go with the link I want to share.

When I was visiting Ida's blog Wishes Dreams & Other Things  she shared a link to a website called Quick Draw
It's rather fun. They give you a word and you have 20 seconds to draw whatever it is. For example fence. You only have 20 seconds so it can't be anything detailed. When you are done with the 6 doodles it will tell you how many of them they recognized as being what was asked for. If it didn't recognize it, they will tell you what it looked like to them. Got a few minutes? Go give it a try. Be warned though, you may end up playing again and again and again.

No foolin'

It may be April Fools Day but there will be no jokes here today

Unless someone shorts Gibbs on his milk bones. Then there's no telling what might happen