Horsing Around: Sundays in My City

UnknownMami hosts a scenic worldwide party on Sundays. Visit her site to tour the world. 

Welcome to California's true North. Today, we'll appreciate horses - a majestic animal of key importance to folks around these here parts. Chico's local Horse Store, appropriately named The Horse Store, decorates its model horse every month. In February, the horse looked like this:

In March, the horse was re-decorated.

I love the spirited intent, but have you ever seen such an ugly horse-bunny?
Still, it kind of makes me want to vote for Mr. Ed for President...

This car was parked at a local gym. I respect its owner's choice in bumper stickers.

Happy Sunday, new week, and new month.

May you not fall for any April Fooler's horsing around. 

Sending good thoughts to all my blog friends embarking on the A-Z Challenge. Have fun with it. I'll be visiting.

The Latest in Chocolate: Chocolate Cream Cheese

This one recently hit Safeway's dairy shelves: Kraft Philadelphia Indulgence, dark chocolate cream cheese made with real Belgium chocolate. Having just spooned the last of it, I can assure you it's yummy - sweet, rich, chocolaty, and similar to Nutella. Between the two, though, I'd stick with Nutella. It's lighter and works better as a spread. 

A spoonful of Indulgence makes for a tasty mini-dessert. It's creamy but not cream-cheesy, and so chocolaty it will drown out the taste of whatever you eat it with. This isn't a complaint, coming from me. I just wish to properly inform those of you who aren't as addicted to cocoa as I am. 

Healthy it's not, at 20% saturated fat and only 2% calcium. Of course, that's not why I was anxious to try, and keep trying this one. And I still highly recommend it for the "Yum" factor alone. 

I give Kraft Philadelphia Chocolate Cream Cheese Spread an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10. Go Indulge (say, on a cracker, bread, or plain bagel). Let me know what you think. 

Living the Dream, A Saturday Centus

 

Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus keeps us challenged in fun and interesting ways. This week, we're assigned to write a piece in exactly 100 words, including the 5 words of the prompt (bolded below). 

Please enjoy. Jump aboard, if you haven't already, and visit other centus posts here.
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Living the Dream

I’m living the dream, man.

But don’t get me wrong.

I work real hard

Dude pass me my bong.

I’m up before noon

Then act like a fool.

It’s a stretch for me, bro. 

Do I look like a tool?

The babes aren’t too smart.

But they’re stacked like IHOP.

When I just wanna nap

They whine “Dontcha stop!”

The lights are too bright and shiny and stuff

At eight grand per show

This work’s way too much...

*Bleep* they send me to Rome

I don’t even speak Dutch!

Say, wanna puff?

Reality TV -

‘Nuff said. It’s real tough.