I have bread rising and stock simmering. Very domestic! The stock is mostly veggie, but I had one chicken breast bone in the freezer. I hope the stock comes out good -- I've never been happy with stock I've made at home, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. We'll see -- worst case scenario, I use canned broth to make the planned broccoli soup.

Is there a French exclamation roughly equivalent to "Oh, what the hell," only a little more polite? Like, something a gentleman would say in front of ladies he respects. The context is that he's agreeing to a somewhat reckless plan.

The only thing that comes to mind is something involving "pourquoi pas?" I thought there had to be something else, but when I googled both phrases it came up a lot as a translation. The form would be:
"Alors, pourquoi pas?" or "Après tout, pourquoi pas?"

If that seems too mild, you could make it stronger (and 19th century sounding), by adding something like:
"Nom de diable, pourquoi pas?"
but I don't know about the relative gentlemanliness of using that expression in front of women.

Perkins, no, this is the same New Gal I got last fall. I'd been leaving her out of her crate more often lately, but yesterday I noticed a suspicious yellowish stain on the living room carpet... So, we're back to crating when alone in the house.

Might have something to do with not leaving her lots of water while I'm out.

I just heard Adam Savage on Wait Wait answering questions about Bram Stoker. Perfect buffista moment y/n?

I had my hair cut this morning and then I went our public garden's open house. I got oh so many differnt types of seeds, and little tomoato and butterfly bush plants. Now my cat Pico is sniffing me up and down because I was playing with my hairdressers dog while I was waiting, and I seem to have the dog stink on me.

The dog poo bin is actually just septic starter with some water, and it "digests" the poo, and there's no smell.

I wonder if I could do this with cat poo. I would have so little garbage if it wasn't for the kitty litter.

amych reminds me that I haven't listened to Wait Wait in approximately forever. I need to do something about that.

More babypic spam, from this morning: bucket full of Boo!

Thanks, megan! I think I'll go with the "Nom de diable" one, at least for now.

ION, did we know about this? Soldiers being cremated at the Friends Forever Pet Cremation Service? [link]

More babypic spam, from this morning: bucket full of Boo!

Hee!

I forgot about going to the libary when I started all this cooking. Oops.

Awww, lookit those eyes!

I had my hair cut this morning and then I went our public garden's open house. I got oh so many differnt types of seeds, and little tomoato and butterfly bush plants. Now my cat Pico is sniffing me up and down because I was playing with my hairdressers dog while I was waiting, and I seem to have the dog stink on me.

I also got my hair cut this morning and was playing with my hairdresser's dog! Well, not so much playing. She was sitting on my lap because she is Obsessed! with her owner, and wants to be as close as possible. She trots behind her when she walks through the studio. It's cute.