I write this having just gotten home and given my poodle an emergency butt-bath. This is a thing that can happen with dogs, but particularly with ones that need regular grooming and are at the end of their grooming cycle. TMI? My apologies, here’s your money back.
While this is a situation I’m familiar with, 10 years plus into poodle ownership, it was the first involving a stroller, bassinet, and porch stairs. Did my baby cry in the bassinet while I dealt with that which required dealing with? Yes, but the whole thing was swift enough, and there is now a poodle whose backside positively sparkles, hiding under the furniture I can only assume.
This whole situation could have been avoided if I had taken my husband up on his suggestion to take the baby in the carrier while bringing the toddler to the playground. I was like, but no, poodle needs a walk! I’d had this notion of who’d be where at which time, such that I would be able to duck into a few local food shops with just baby-and-stroller before dinner. I have not done this. It did not seem possible to just drop off poodle and head back out with baby, given… that. And by the time the that was dealt with, baby’s feeding cycle was at the point of no heading out. It is now after 5pm and toddlers need to eat dinner as close to 5:30pm as possible or they can’t be in bed by 7:30pm.
So what will dinner be? I have no idea. The most recent toddler cold brought with it a negative Covid test (the 10th since the pandemic began), so we’re all technically allowed to go grocery shopping, but the circumstances that would allow for just, like, picking up a few groceries this evening, in time to do something with them, strike me as approximately as fantastical as flying to Kyoto on a whim.
A curse on every food writer who suggests a mortar and pestle, and does so in a way that suggests the recipe requires it.
Spice grinder with Dual / Quad Blades > mortal and pestle, unless you need that apothecary vibe. I use mine much more than the full blown (PITA to clean) cuisinart. Both wet and dry ingredients.
Kyoto on a whim is the stuff of dreams. Possible, if not the least bit practical.