Weekend Update: Friends, Weigh-Ins, and Cocktails

Boy, that was a quick weekend!  Not terribly focused this morning, so today it's a mish-mash of stuff from the weekend.

On Saturday, it was a long overdue dinner and drinks with Scott & Buckaroo.  As they said in ancient times... Tempus Fugit!... hard to believe that the last we saw them was the very first (or so) weekend we had Rocky!  We had not seen Karter since Christmas... so pretty much both pups were/are unrecognizable since the last visit to each other's homes!  Our kids are growing up!   We had a good time catching up and talking about our "favorite" bloggers and Scott appeared rested from his current blogging hiatus... but I will keep my lip zipped on the  future of O-Rama... stay tuned!

Speaking of Rocky, I decided to check out his weight.  He hit his 6-month birthday while we were away ... and in that one week he certainly seemed to have a good growth spurt.  The last time he was at the vet they said he was 10 lbs.  I had my doubts since he was about 10 lbs the previous visit... and puppies just grow and grow each and every week... so I just chalked it up to him not being the model of "calm" on the vet scale.  So, I innocently enough tdecided to do the "weigh yourself first, weigh yourself holding the dog" formula for figuring out Rocky's current weight.

As you can probably guess by now, I was a bit shocked by the number that popped up... before picking up Rocky!   Now I was clothed, but given that it was 110 degrees outside, I was not exactly burdened by heavy clothing.  Now this weight is likely what I should be for my height... but it was 10-12 lbs more than I have ever been... and a good 20 lbs more than the I was stuck at for a good 10-15 years of my adult life.  I guess I don't need to be looking at the calendar to know I am approaching the big 4-0! 

Oh, Rocky weighed 15 lbs... so double in size (plus a bit more) in the four-ish months he's been with us.

Finally, a couple of cocktail recipes to share with you... three ingredients and equal parts of each... how easy is that?

Scott served up a new one for us, he spotted the recipe somewhere... I thought I had seen it somewhere as well... but neither of us had any luck remembering what it was called and I couldn't track anything down on the Web this morning... so if there's a name for it, let me know... but here are the ingredients:

Absolut Pear
Pineapple Juice
Sprite soda

Equal parts of each... so make as much or as little as you want!  Pear-y delicious!

We grilled some burgers for Sunday dinner... and what's better than washing that down with some beer!  But I spotted this recipe in the BevMo! monthly newsletter and it seemed worth a try... the name of this one is... a Coochy-Coochy!

Tequila
Beer
Squirt/Fresca Soda (or any of that cloudy-ish grapefruit soda)

This one also said equal parts of each over ice (and with a lemon or lime wedge)... but this is what I did... in a very big beer glass, I put in two shots of tequila, a few glugs of the soda, and a bottle of beer... not one-third each... obviously it was mostly beer... a bit of soda... and a pretty good dose of tequila.  No complaints, was quite good and pretty darn potent... was set for the night (especially a Sunday/school night!) with just one Coochy-Coochy!