Spike the Incredi-Hamster

How lame am I? I took no pictures on Thanksgiving....I must head over to my hubby's blog to steal some.....here I go.


And here you go.....a shot of the lovely dutch oven stuffing.....something must be cooked in the dutch oven in honor of my dad, "Burn it again Kenn", the dutch oven master. (Really, he was excellent!) It also helps free up the single oven in our home, which helps immensely. :)


To go along with the photo...a little twitvid:


So, what do we use our oven for if not the stuffing? The turkey you ask?

Absotively not.

My hubby taught himself the fine art of Deep-frying the Thanksgiving Bird before we met. Our 1st Thanksgiving together, he shared this delicacy with us, and we've kept him busy since! (Okay, I did roast the turkey the last couple of years, but missed our deep fried wonder too much, so this year, Ron got put back to work!) For any of you that are wondering, yes, it is easy, no, it isn't at all greasy, and the added bonus is your turkey is cooked in an hour!

Another twitvid:


Now, I'm sure you are all asking, what the heck does this post have to do with a hamster?


After our tasty meal, shared with my mom, Aunt Carol, niece Cali, her hubby Danny, and his brother Eric (say that 12 times fast....) we headed out to spend some holiday time with Ron's family at his sister Shirlene's home. We played Bingo (for PRIZES!), Apples to Apples Jr., and the kids played Twister. We also met Shirlene's (or should I say the kids) hamster. She is a fairly new hamster to their family. Got her at the pet store just a few weeks ago. Imagine their surprise when two weeks after they brought the little jewel home that she dropped a load of 6 baby hamsters into her cage! Lucky us that the hamsters were the cutest little furballs the night that we met them and Shirlene announced that they were ready to go to their new homes.....we tried to arrange a trade for the dog, but they wouldn't go for that. Too bad I'm a sucker, and we happened to have an empty aquarium at home, so a couple days later, after purchasing a mesh top, wheel, water bottle, food and bedding, we brought home our new pet. Ellie kept calling it a raccoon, so we were thinking of "Bandit" for a name. One of the kids suggested Kevin, and Jared asked, "What about Carl?".....we aren't sure where that came from! In the end we went with "Spike".....a tough name for our little fuzzball.

Without further adieu, meet "Spike", hamster extraordinaire:



He's already a lot bigger, as he wasn't quite 4 weeks old when we brought him home. The kids think he's fun. Jared doesn't like to hold him. The first time he did, J had something on his hand that apparently smelled quite tasty so Spike tried to eat it....gave J a pretty hard nibble/chomp to the palm, so J likes to watch him best in his hamster ball. I swear the thing is more than nocturnal though, he sleeps all. the. time.