The Enchanting Adventures of Renard Roux

Well since I recently dyed my hair pink I figured I needed to be out letting the last bit of Summer dazzle off of my lovely pink tresses, so I hit the park a lot with Stacy, Amanda and our pack of dogs. I swear, we all got the pick of the litters because all our canine companions are great! Renard and Chevalier and I have grown a lot closer these last couple of weeks because it's just been us living together in the big house. You can tell we love to cuddle!


I'm no meteorologist, but I'm assuming the days of Summer are gone now, and the recent rain showers have been supporting that theory! Stacy, Laura, Amanda and I took shelter from the cold weather at a local Japanese restaurant and did a whole bunch of sake bombs (and walked responsibly).


However, a few sake bombs weren't going to satisfy us on our day off so we walked to the local market and picked up some plum wine, Brut champagne and a peach to create Plum Peach Perfections! It's actually a very sweet drink and sneaks up on you so make sure you're not planning on...moving...much.


The girls and I decided to have a nice sit down dinner last night so I threw on my apron, filled up my bags with ingredients and platters and whisked myself away to their condo to do some heavy duty pasta cooking. On the menu was chicken and sage sausage pasta in a rose sauce, plums with chevre and cracked pepper and an heirloom tomato mascarpone salad. My mom also happened to entrust four delicious cupcakes from Mrs. Delish's bakery in my care so I brought those over as well. Let me brag about my cooking skills here-- the meal was fantastic. Nothing makes food taste better than good friends, jazz music and griping about men!


I think that covers the last three days pretty well, but there's never enough time or room to blog when you're always adventuring. Hope you're all having a lovely time enjoying the last days of Summer!

Au revoir,

Today I took Renard and Chevalier to the park and we played with some new dogs, and my boys were so well behaved. They stayed out of fights and were very polite around the other dogs. I'm glad my little bastards are learning to be civil gentleman since they're representing me at the park too!


Afterward I went to get a delicious coffee drink at Dutch Bros, a local coffee chain, and was prepared to spend at least $4 when the woman at the counter told me that today my drink would only be a $1! Score! Not only was it frosty and sweet, but a quarter of the price, so with drink in hand I knew my day would only get better...

And it did! With two dogs and my drink in tow I walked through my entire town (which isn't a feat considering my town is kinda dinky) and only received smiles from everybody. I deposited a nice fat check, got complimented on my good taste in hosiery, and even had some tourists take pictures of me and the boys! The dogs and I had a nice little nap in the park and the weather was so fair that I thought about staying there forever...

...Until I got a really bad phone call. The kind of soul-crushing, makes you want to bawl in public kind of calls. Yes it was just one of those days where you have to take the good with the bad. Unfortunately, there seems to be some unwritten law that if you have too much good then life just has to throw some bad at you to even it out. But like they say, "when life throws you lemons you make lemonade," and I'm hoping these lemons aren't the bitter type, so we'll see how tasty I can make this situation.

In any case, the weather is still beautiful and I'm surrounded by good people who love and cherish me, so life really isn't bad at all. I hope you all had wonderful days too, and if not just remember that good comes with the bad too!

Au Revoir,