Signs of spring

[layla]

It's WARM. Well, 35 degrees, which is warm by the standards of the last month. *stretches luxuriously* Of course, we're almost out of coal and now the line from the house to the septic tank appears to have frozen up. *sigh* Helloooo, outhouse.

Speaking of signs of spring, whatever happened to chocolate-filled Cadbury eggs? I can't find them anywhere! I should've bought a few years' supply last Easter ...

You know, if Cadbury truly wanted to own my soul (and my waistline), they'd make dark chocolate eggs. I bought a few of the Russel Stover dark chocolate/raspberry-whip eggs, which sound kind of awful (fake raspberry filling, yum!), but they're divine.

One of the advantages to being a non-religious person is that every holiday is defined by what kinds of chocolate you can buy ...

I cleaned the fridge today. My informal spring resolution is to clean something every day -- doesn't matter what, doesn't have to be a big something, as long as I do something to clean and prettify the house.

We're a two-dog household again; I took Sparkus to the vet on Wednesday after he'd gone off his feed and was acting ill (I mean, more ill than usual) and the diagnosis was system-wide cancer. The lumps that he's had on his leg and chest ever since I've had him are tumors, and the vet thought that it was in his abdomen and spleen and heart as well. He wasn't going to get better, he'd only get worse, and as droopy as he was, there wouldn't be a whole lot of worse that he could get before his life wasn't worth living anymore. So I petted and held the poor little guy while they put him down.

The place is a lot quieter with only two of them.

I found myself looking at the FNSB animal shelter's website yesterday, browsing for kittens or puppies. DANGER WILL ROBINSON! Actually, while I think we might be able to accommodate another cat, three dogs is really too many. Two is just right; they keep each other company, but there aren't so many of them that it's difficult to give them individual attention, which was kind of a problem with Sparkus around.

Comments

[elainegrey.livejournal.com]

It seems that would be a hard transition to make, to a two dog house, despite the quiet. You have my condolences.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

It's more just startling. Even though we'd only had him for a year, we'd made quite a few changes of routine around him (e.g. we had to establish barriers to block him out of various areas of the house, since unlike the other two, he couldn't be trained to stay out of the bedroom, upstairs, etc). So I keep turning around and expecting the barriers to be in place, which they're not.

I'm sad but not really *that* sad, since he was old and not in very good health when we got him. I was expecting it. Still, thanks.

[j-luc-pitard.livejournal.com]

A coworker brought in some Nestle chocolate eggs and they were quite good as well. Here's a review I found (not mine, just someone who taste tested them) http://candyaddict.com/blog/2007/03/13/candy-review-nestle-chocolate-eggs/

We have plenty of Cadbury eggs here on the East Coast, maybe it's a regional thing?

Sorry about the dog. Cancer is the pits. We had to put down a golden we loved eight years ago due to recurring tumors. One of our favorite dogs was put down recently (we watched him for 3 years and on holidays and such for my brother). I was pleased that he went out as he lived, knowing that he was loved. We were sad, but at 16 years, it was time.

Kittens!!

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

It's the Cadbury eggs with the chocolate filling that I can't find. We've got regular ones, caramel ones, even orange-filled ones, but those wonderful chocolate-on-chocolate ones are nowhere to be found. *snivels*

The thing about pet ownership is that it's always very finite. In this case, I wasn't really that attached to him; I mean, he was a sweet little dog and I liked him, but he was never really "my" dog. I was sad about his passing, but I was also prepared for it, considering that he was 11 and in poor health when he came to live with us.

[polarbee.livejournal.com]

Cadbury did introduce dark chocolate mini eggs this year.

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

I was actually talking about the big eggs, the ones with the creme filling. But I didn't know they had dark minis. Hmmm ... I may have to go back to Fred Meyer...