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Scott and I spent a romantic anniversary dinner in the E.R. with our darling pneumonia riddled daughter.  We noshed on cold take out pizza, and washed it down with… oh wait, we forgot to get beverages.

Meeps had a chest X-ray two days ago and was prescribed some liquid ABX to take by mouth.  I tried explaining to the doctor that my daughter has an impressively overactive gag reflex and cannot take medicine by mouth.  She barely takes food by mouth.  Being a doctor and having been in the presence of my kid for approximately 5 minutes and therefore Clearly Knowing Best, he brushed off my insignificant insight and told me surely she’d keep it down.  Well, she did as she always does, which is either spit it right back on contact with her palate, or commence gagging and vomiting until her stomach is completely empty.  And then wretching and puking bile for a few minutes after that just to be sure the contents are all gone.

So covered in vomit and with an increasingly sicker baby, we returned to the ER.  (My GP takes a few months to get in with, and did not return my phonecalls).  This time we got a doctor who listened and put in a little leg work to find us a solution for Meeps.   And so Miss Maggie got her very first injection; a teeny 1 mL shot of ABX in saline into her little thigh.  The howling was fierce, but she quickly forgave us.  We return tonight and tomorrow for the same.  She’s feeling a bit better already and is presently feeding her puffs to the dog.

My girlfriend Brandy and I are going to be selling some chevre and feta at the local Farmer’s Market the first weekend in July.  We wanted our brand name to be unique, something other than Boringville Farms Fromagarie.  Inspired by Russian prison tattoos and with the help of my hubby, we came up with the following:

A cheese cave has been offered up to us which is awesome.  I had been aging my cheddars in my unheated laundry room, but it is useless in the warm months.  Very much looking forward to new adventures with cheese!

Made a nice batch of soap earlier this week too.  I used olive, coconut and palm oils, and added honey, cedar and tea tree.  I can’t wait for it to age so I can try it out.  I’m hoping it’ll be a nice antiseptic soap for washin’ new tattoos with.  (Of which I presently have and am waiting for a new card reader to come so I can blog about it!)

In other news, we have recently fallen off the local food wagon.  It’s all thanks to my friend Chrystel, who started this totally awesome organic food box program here in Kincardine.  It’s called Ideal Organics, and it’s great.  We’re getting lots of local veg now from industrious greenhouse gardeners, but I just can’t say no to the fruit box.  If you live in Bruce County and are looking for organic produce at a great price, you should get in touch with her!