award, Banana pancakes, wayward cafe & SNOW

Thanks, Joanna and Tara for awarding me the proximity award. It's really nice of you. I think you're both awesome and caring people. Your blogs put a smile on my face.
I think it's a relative of the butterfly award, there is even evidence in the pic :).

Here's the scoop on this award:
"This blog invests and believes in PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award."

Here are the 8 bloggers I think you should check out, if you haven't already. I gotta give some props to VeganMofo for helping me find them! Of course you should know that everybody on my blogroll should be on this list PLUS the blogs that I haven't added to the roll yet. What can I say, it really needs updating.

1. chocolate covered vegan
2. Guava
3. Becks - I am not a Rabbit
4. Jeni Treehugger
5. wingraclaire
6. Seitan is my motor
7. Tofu mom
8. Thrifty Living

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We went to the Wayward Cafe on Saturday. It recently changed owners to the couple that runs Pizza Pi and the manager of Sidecar and her husband. The Wayward is in a neighborhood, which is really odd zoning wise. I would love to have a house across the street so I could eat there every day. I hope the people in that neighborhood know how lucky they are.

We got there at 3 PM, but hey, no problem. Breakfast is served all day. Can't argue w/ that. If you're like me, you've probably already looked for pictures. Hey, what can I say. sometimes I'm too blinded by food to remember silly things like my camera that was in the car.

I had the breakfast special (scramble, toast, hashbrowns). Andy had the seitanic philly. Both were really really good. They even had a shaker w/ nutritional yeast in it. Come on, you gotta love a place that has nutritional yeast as a condiment. Of course I slathered my toast with it. Too bad you weren't here Joanna, fellow toast slatherer, you could have done the same.

If you're in Seattle, YOU HAVE TO STOP BY THE WAYWARD CAFE.

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Numi Tea. I've been drinking lots of honeybush. It's been growing on me. I liked the Roobios Chai so much that I got a box. mmmmm...

Red Mellow Bush (Roobios). Really good. 'Nuff said. If you haven't had Roobios yet, what are you waiting for? It tastes sort of like a berry tea, but not really. Hard to explain.

Berry Black (caffeine - Darjeeling, hibiscus, strawberries, rasperries, rosehips, raspberry leaves). I liked this hot, but I think it would be really good iced. VERY fruity.

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This morning (well afternoon for the rest of you), Andy made pancakes with bananas on top and some Yves meatless breakfast patties aka snausages. ~~~~~

Wingraclaire, all your pictures of snow have put a spell on Woodinville and we got snow :). Well at least my part has snow. It snowed on and off for two days (Friday and Saturday). When we went out yesterday, the snow stopped a few miles from my house. yay, I'm so "lucky". With the amount I got last night, maybe the snow covered more area.

There is somebody in the house that LOVES snow. Kobie.

Here he is on the first night, Friday.
Today, Sunday, he spent a lot of time running around in the snow. He has it all over his face because he loves to eat snow.
Here he is in action. He's like a steam shovel.
The Judge is very nosy, so he came outside to see what was going on. Of course, he immediately wanted to be protected from the cold.

Here is the cat cage. You can see the tunnel on the left leading out from the house to the cage. The tunnel has a tarp over it so that the cats can hang out there when it's rainy and they won't get wet. Though some of them don't care about that. Behind the cage is a shed that I have been tiling for 3+ years now. When it's done, it will be connected to the cat cage. Why they need a clubhouse I don't know. I knew 3+ years ago.