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A coworker of mine sent me an email with a delicious idea. Meat turtles!  I threw together the simple ingredients and decided to surprise my wife with a prepared dinner she could just throw into the oven the next day.  Ground Beef, Bacon, Cheese, and hotdogs.  The basic staples of life.  Make a large beef paddy, throw some cheese on it, and then wrap it in a bacon weave.  Add hotdogs for legs/head/tail.  If you slice the end of the “leg” dogs with three cuts you’ll get nice looking toes for the feet.  I cut the dogs in half before inserting them but there’s no reason you couldn’t use whole ones depending on how big you want your turtles.  Loosely cover with foil and bake 20-30 mins at 400.  Eat!

Afterwards I had some leftover meat and didn’t really want to make another turtle so I decided to get creative and made a snail.  While certainly harder to cook I think it came out nicely.  It’s held on by two toothpicks.  Overall pretty delicious.  Would probably take a lot better if I had a grill  The last pic is the best where my wife suggested adding antennae!  She’s so smart.

My wife and I spent new years eve with her sister and husband. We slept over at their place and were enjoying a nice lazy morning in bed. My sweet spouse was playing with my goatee which has grown rather long since my trimmer broke recently.

Wife: Wow, it’s grown really long and fuzzy. It feels like a turd.
Me: Excuse me?
Wife: You know, a turd. Like fresh grass.
Me: Do you mean “turf?”
Wife: Oh, yeah that.

My wife and I were blessed to be able to take a vacation this last week.  Along with my sister-in-law and her husband we went on a 6 day cruise in the Caribbean on Carnival Cruise Lines.   This is my third cruise now having been on Disney and Royal Caribbean before.  Of the three I think my overall impression of Carnival is that it is the worst of the three but that shouldn’t be taken too badly.  I still had a great time.  I think it would be better if it was my first cruise.  Then I would have appreciated the extra quality of the other cruise lines more.  Overall it was a good trip but most of my pictures and memories are of my diving which is what most of this post is about.

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I had just finished washing my hands in the kitchen sink but there was no hand towel on the oven.  But my wife was standing there so I used her shirt   She was not pleased.

Wife:  Are you insinuating that I am a kitchen accessory?

Me:  You _are_ a woman.

Wife:  *SMACK*

I was surprised this morning to find a large box sitting on my chair from a morning delivery.  To my surprise it was an early birthday present from my client.  They got me a Butt Station from Kito Design along with a card that they all signed. It was quite unexpected and I am very thankful to be blessed with a client like them. Thanks guys!