Peticure & 'Bread of the Dead'

I have a couple of things to talk about, things that have come into my home in the last couple of days. Reviews of stuff, really.

Mom ordered that Peticure off the TV. You've seen this, it's like a Dremel with a guard to sand down your pets' nails. Holy balls, this thing works GREAT!! It took a few minutes to get Hailey used to the noise of it, she's the most skittish of our 3 girls. Comet was so calm and chilled, it was like she was just relaxing with mom and I on the floor. The really great thing is that the sanding rings, that you 'need' to order refills of off the website.... no, you don't. Go to Lowe's or Mendard's or Home Depot, find the Dremel tools, and get them there. Cheaper AND no shipping and handling.

Best thing about it is how nice and clean it does the nails. Our dogs' nails are so big and thick, that we couldn't use dog nail trimmers sold in pet stores etc, we were having to use a side cutter! Splitting and splintering the nails, not a nice clean cut at all. This is so much better, and virtually NO RISK of getting down to the quick, either. I am really happy with this thing.

Secondly, Alex brought home a paper from his Spanish class with a recipe on it. Saturday is the day of the dead, or something like that, in Spanish culture. They have this bread that they make, usually shaped into skulls and bones and skeletons and such... to celebrate the dead, you know! Seems as though making this bread and bringing it in to class on Friday is worth 25 extra credit points. Alex NEEDS those points.

Since tomorrow is his birthday and my mom is taking him out for dinner, AND Survivor is on tomorrow night, there just wouldn't be time to do it tomorrow night. So we did it tonight. Just Alex and I. We made two loaves, well, not loaves, they're in 9" round pans. And technically, only one of them is still round.

What?
We had to make sure it was edible. And woweee, was it ever edible!

So, I highly recommend the Peticure AND dead bread... yeah, the kids and I started shortening the name from "Bread of the Dead" to just

dead bread.