A Lot of Activity at Our House

Sometimes, it's really hard to get Janet going in the morning.  She has to have her two lattes, read her two newspapers (used to be four, but she has scaled back!), eat her breakfast, read the internet, have a bath....well, you get the picture.  Left to her own devices, we could be leaving the house at noon!   I'm doing my best to get the dog show on the road.

Come on, Janet...let's go for a walk.  I've had an upset puppy tummy for a couple of days so have had a special diet of cooked ground beef, cooked brown rice and cottage cheese.

After we get back from our walk, there is a huge flurry of activity.  Gwen and Wendy have arrived with veggies, pots and packages of food and are here helping Janet cook which is so not the norm around here.   They were very busy indeed.

There was lots of chopping, slicing, dicing, measuring, pouring, swearing (well...maybe only Janet on that front), ladling and in general having fun.

We doggies are often left out on what is going on as we can't read...did you know we have to get Janet to do the blog for us as we can't type either?  Turns out it was for a block party at Wendy's house on Sunday.

Wendy and Gwen were the driving force behind the Souper Sunday party.  Janet helped cook and Phil made the invitations.

 Janet made her contribution early Sunday afternoon.  She made Chili with Ground Beef and Italian Sausage from the Silver Palate Cookbook.  The chili is garnished with green onions, grated cheddar cheese and sour cream.

Here are Phil and Rockers helping out with the cooking and cleaning:

Phil loves to think he is the inspiration behind every meal cooked at our house, but we heard Janet warn him that he had better not be dispensing cooking advice to Wendy and Gwen from the TV room!