Happy Thursday!

Tommy had a happy Thursday!































Hope your Thursday was just as great!

Day Trips with My New Camera

Amy's mom bought her a fantastic new camera...Thanks Mom! Most of these pictures were taken with it while we were out and about.....

Peach Picking at Cider Hill Farm

Picnic in Newburyport

Davis Farm and Water Park

Tommy loved the water park. Here's a quick video....

ewwww, tillie smells

Here are the steps to get rid of skunk smell if you dog happens to get in a fight with a sunk then get sprayed by said sunk, then run into the house to roll around on the Oriental rug in your living room. Please note these steps are only to be used when the spray happens at 10:00pm on a Friday night.

1. Get very upset and say very bad words that start with the letters F, S, F and more F
2. Lock dog in three season room
3. Call your dog walker/ dog groomer to get "skunk odor remover kit"
4. Wash dog with dog shampoo
5. Wash dog with special sunk shampoo
6. Wash dog with dog shampoo
7. Wash dog with special sunk shampoo
8. Rub special skunk remover liquid into fur
9. Spray dog with doggie perfume
10. Leave Dog outside and go to CVS to buy $80 worth of cleaning and odorr removing products (i.e. pine sol, febreeze, glade plug ins, carpet deodorizer)
11. Clean three season room
12. Lock dog in three season room
13. Clean main floor of house
14. Realize upstairs smells
15. Clean upstairs
16. Place bowls of coffee grounds, baking soda, vinegar around house.
17. Go to bed (2:00am)
18. Wake up early because house smells like skunk
19. Go to CVS to buy more cleaning product
20. Re-Clean house
21. Go to birthday party
22. Go to bed
23. Wake up early to clean house
24. Go to Lowes to buy $300 steam cleaner (Lowe's worker recommends buying the most expensive unit because the most expensive is usually the best.)
25. Steam clean rug, couches, curtains
26. Send dog to groomer to get groomed

Please note that you will need to continuously spray Lysol during this entire process.

Yankee Homcoming and "The Boycott"

Amy and Joe went up to their old stomping ground, Newburyport, the other weekend to checkout the Yankee Homecoming festivities. It was a great time. They checked out some huge boats and old cars. They visited Grahm's ice cream shop and the local cheese shop. They hung out on the "green" and walked on the "mall". They also saw the Moyers (Ben, Katie and Ben's mom)...Super Cool. Tommy's favorite part was visiting the central playground. See pics below.

Amy and Joe really miss Newburyport. Someday they might move back to N-port. Perhaps they will buy this house

So the other day, Joe decided to boycott Ben & Jerry's ice cream. The reason for boycott is due to the fact that Ben and/or Jerry screwed over Becca (Tommy's friend Jonah's mom - see swing picture below). A few year's back Becca wrote into Ben & Jerry's to suggest a new flavor, Oatmeal Cookie Chunk. Ben & Jerry thought the flavor was such a good idea that they decided to put it out as "limited time" only flavor. The flavor was so popular that they kept it as a full-time flavor. See quote from the B&J website below.

"With the frenzy of fan mail we received when we introduced Oatmeal Cookie Chunk as a for-a-limited-time-only flavor in 2003, we couldn't possibly banish it to the flavor graveyard forever. With pleas from folks like you, we had to bring it back as a full-time flavor!"

So as inventor of this flavor one would think Becca would get royalties from the ice cream sales or at least her picture on the ice cream pints........you know what she got.....a FREAKIN T-SHIRT. The t-shirt is cool and all....for a temporary flavor, but the inventor of a full time flavor should at least get a trophy.

We are currently in day 2 of the boycott. We feel our protest is picking up traction as Tommy has recently joined in on the boycott. We are thinking of taking the protest to the next level. Tomorrow we might chain ourselves to the freezer doors at Market Basket.