2 days of Exciting Mastacani - it's never boring (in the Summer)

So what happened these last two days? Big choices.

First, I decided to become a vegetarian, or just not each chicken for the next few months. We'll see how long I can hold out.
Why?

I had to behead another rooster last evening. It was beating up the other roosters (I had 3) and it was being very rough with the hens.
Seriously the choices were: 1). the cute one that comes when I call it that cooes at me, 2) the gentle, but biggest and toughest rooster that has the best crowing skills (crowing every 5 minutes all day), or 3). The one that would fertilize the best eggs and is pent on raping every hen it can find.
As I ate the meat, I could taste the meat, and I didn't feel all that hungry eating it...so I think I'm going to pause from the chicken eating.

Next, today I was doing the same old stuff at work (socializing, sitting at a computer, and searching for the mayor to discuss projects) I found out that the Red Cross was coming, so we all took a class and got certified for First -Aid.

We also got a first aid kit, that will be stored in the shed so no one will steal it....though I tried hard to convince them to leave them in easily accessible areas. They (librarian, and that dude who watches me weirdly) told me people would steal the gauze and bandages if we left it out....whadda we gonna do *shrugs shoulders.*

Then I continued to work at the mayor's office, but stopped at my emailing to eat 2 watermelons and a whole lot of bread (some guy gave us watermelon).


Then I went home at about 4pm.
After I had rewatered my chickens (I have 5 left), I decided to hang out with my neighbors and we talked about Bijoux, and what an awesome cat he was: loving to all people, good mouse hunter, eats everything, soft and playful, and how we missed him.
I was then playing badminton with my neighbor Yulla, when her dad honked his horn and Tina went and found a kitten in his trunk that looked like Bijoux. Tina loved her look (she has a nice long tail and big eyes) but they don't want a baby making kitten, so ...I took her in. She was scared and shivering, but we hope she'll get over that.

So I decided to adopt a cat (lots or responsibility, and money, and I think then, she'll come back to the US maybe, when I go...we'll see) and Yulla will name her and Tina will teach her some manners.

There will never be one the same....Bijoux died in a car accident 2 weeks ago. We (my neighbors and I) were only able to talk about him starting today. I miss his ears.

So those have been my last two days, and I've done other stuff too, but you got the highlights.
(30 minutes later)
The kitten has escaped from the shed, so we'll find out tomorrow if she's still around. Later.

Happy 4th of July!!!

It's a new meaning this year (because those of us overseas, in general, are feeling a new sense of pride this year).
I didn't host a giant bash, but I did go out of my way to organize a small BBQ that involved Bull's Eye BBQ sauce on ribs (which were hard to find, but we found some) and hamburgers =)
We also got some watermelon because WATERMELONS ARE AMAZING IN ROMANIA!

Preparation of meat outside.

Bogdan the Great was in charge of the grill because he's Great at it (apparently an expert on the grilling of all foods and clatites too). We took the table outside and it was nice.

I cut my hair again cause my bangs were bugging me and I messed up =(
I look ugy, but oh well, it will grow out.

I remembered I had something in my apartment, that would be awesome and American and perfect for a 4th of July BBQ = marshmallows!
The older people were confused, but the girl: Simona was a pro cause she had seen it done hundreds of times on TV. =)

I like Dan's marshmallow campaign picture: "Only you can prevent marshmallow fires."


Yes, this hamburger was the first for many of the guests. You can see the apprehension in Bogdan's expression, but then he took that bite and he smiled. Maybe in the first picture, it wasn't apprehension, but maybe the hamburger was talking to him.


Nuti seemed to like it too. Here's the close up: beef and pork mix, Romanian tomatoes, and iceberg lettuce with mustard and ketcup. (Buns were hard to find! We found some "American buns" but they were 10x the cost of a pack of bread the same amount!!!)

And we bought a Romanain Watermelon off the side of the road to complete this National Summer celebration.

I also managed to find some ribs and we used some BBQ sauce katie brought me and it's a bit blackened due to the sauce, but it was Yum yum tasty!

Someone came by to visit our table and then decided to nap 10 feet away, then 8 feet, then 5 feeet and then soon....

Then 2 feet away... (the chickens decided against attacking the humans and tried for the unguarded grill).

Silly cat. He was very friendly to all my guests though. He's a very agile cat too, and Dan doesn't have very swift foo

Then we cleaned up and we were all done. Dan left a bit early to catch his ride (which we found out he missed, but VERY LUCKILY he did make it back to his place before mid-night).
He's leaving for the states very soon (within 3 days), so I'm glad he could make it here to visit before his trip home.

HAPPY FOUTH OF JULY!! Hope you guys all had great weather!!!