Greco-Roman Wrestling The day begins with Precious Angel flexing her muscles and sprinting around the table at 6:15am. She then begins hurdling over the legs and then does a spring board onto the balance beam (the wicker laundry basket) followed by a head first dive into the litter box. Standing up and slowly shaking her head she becomes a target for her opponent, Pumpkin Spice also known as Pumpkin Noodles. Pumpkin slowly circles the laundry basket slinking close to the floor and keeping her eyes glued to her opponent. With a fell swoop she lands on top of Precious and pins her to the floor. Precious is down for a count of two before she takes her rear feet and upends Pumpkin. She then pins Pumpkin to the floor and holds her down to the count of three before they both spring apart and begin circling the mat(aka towel) and sizing up their opponent before the next take down. Precious lightly paws Pumkin's tale and then Pumpkin hunkers down and faster than a speeding bullet she lands on top of Precious and holds her for a count of five. Pumpkin is declared the winner and she leaps onto the nearest chair and then dives down on Precious' back and a new match ensues. This has become a normal morning adventure before they sit by the bed waiting for a response from me and declaring it is time for their morning feast. I have two spoiled to the core kittens who refuse to drink water from the tap. They sniff at it and then sit, stare acusingly at me and then sit near the counter where the Zepherhills water sits and refuse to take their eyse off the bottle until I pour water into their bowl at which point two heads begin lapping water like mad. The next move is to follow me into the kitchen and sit and watch until I open the Fancy Feast and then they beging dancing in circles when they hear the spoon banging against the plates. I place the plates on the floor and two flashes beging inhaling their food. Following their feast they take a few moments to groom their beautiful faces before they sit near my feet and watch every move. They are waiting for me to take the fishing pole out with their fake fish attached. Then it becomes gymnastic time as they stand on hind legs and bat at the fish, grab it and attempt to run before the elastic line reels them back in and finally they roll with the fish on the floor (by the way I had to purchase a second one so that they each have one). Pumpkin is the smart one. She has managed to free her fish twice now by chewing the rubber line into two pieces. Oh the terrorist. I was awoken in the wee hours of the morning yesterday when I heard a crash of stuff landing on the floor off of the table. I then felt a thud on the bed and finally on my head followed by a pat down massage of my fact. I had the television on and in the flickering light I slowly opened one eye and stared into the sweetest most innocent face you have ever seen. Precious stopped in mid-pat and became a still statue and while staring at me her eyes seemed to be saying I am not doing anything why are you looking at me and then she patted my cheek and her eyes seemed to say how can you sleep when something as cute as me wants to play. I just reached up, grabbed her and placed her next to me and slowly stroked her head as her eyes closed and her breathing became slow and regular. I shortly felt a second thud as Pumpkin jumped onto the bed and placed her little terror filled eyes under my hand. I slowly stroked her until she fell asleep with her head on Precious' stomach. They were still there when I awoke around 7. That is the first time tey have done that. I have misplaced the memory card to the camera after uploading images from a shoot and as soon as I locate it I will take pictures and post them. Thanks for the kind words as regards my writing *blushing* Pictures coming soon I hope. Linda

Thanks I'll watch it. I never got to see the mobile food competitions. We had a local entered in that one. Was that the food channel?

we have had food trucks at our small city outside of Orlando for atleast 3 years now. Food Truck Bazaar is a group that organizes hundreds of trucks to go to a different city or spot. Casselberry, my city, has food trucks at city hall park on the 2nd fri of each month, along w a live band and art & craft booths. every city around me has their own date, along w several other spots like Fashion Square Mall which gets about 50+ trucks. My favs are Monsta Lobsta, Cafe Rouge, Swede Dish, YumYum Cupcake, Tamale Co, Charlie's Bakery (famous in Orlando), the crepe company, Dixieland Diner, Midnight Sun Ice Cream Sandwiches. One our favs is also Sit & Stay Pet Cafe that had to go on hiatus, my furgirls love their organic goodies! ~ liz

Today was our block party, so all we did was eat. I made: hot cheese dip (served with corn chips); hoisin chicken with vegetables over rice, grilled pineapple, caramel apples, peanut butter oatmeal cookies, bread pudding with caramel sauce. Others had chili, burgers, pineapple marinated in coconut rum, salads, oriental noodles--the list goes on and on. We lucked out weather wise, it was a glorious day--in the 60's. The crowd was nice. Every home had some sort of activity planned for the kids (we made sponge balls with them, and supplied the pinatas). Other activities included: water balloon fight, face painting, musical chairs (in the middle of the street), crafts, a scavenger hunt. One of the neighbors sets up a sound system and DJ's. The street's blo9cked off, and the kids get to enjoy safely riding their bikes and scooters down the middle of the street. It was a great day, but I'm bushed. DH had to work (of course) so it was up to me to not only prepare the food, but set up the chairs, table, canopy, pull the grill out front (and it's the size of a volkswagon!) The party's still going, but we've packed it in and come inside. In the morning we'll pile the lawn stuff into the truck and take it back to the country house. Nice day, though--and DD and a friend came to share it with us.