It's probably time for an update, but there's nothing all that new to report. Barney has been eating both (a) poison mushrooms and the yard (which made him throw up) and (b) poison excrement from the cat box (which made him throw up from his back end, if you know what I mean...wait for it...wait for it). So that's been exciting. And smelly.

On Friday (and into Saturday), I spent seven or eight hours putting together our new dining room table and six chairs--in the midst of cleaning up after said dog--also exciting. And yesterday, I made what I think was a sponge cake from scratch. It was a surprisingly good cake; based the recipe on something I saw on TV.

For a smallish cake:
Beat three eggs for about 4 minutes on medium speed.
Add 2 tsp vanilla, beat for about 30 seconds.
Add 3/4 cups sugar, 1/4 cup at a time, beating about 30 seconds for each addition.
Using a spoon, stir in 1 cup flour, sifted, 1/4 cup at a time until all is dissolved.
Do not over-stir (you'll lose volume).
Bake at 375 until a knife comes out clean (15-17 minutes for a cake pan; 25 minutes for a bread pan).

I topped it with a peach and apple reduction (with brown sugar and cinnamon), but I think it would have been better with raspberries or Nutella.