Eating Ocean-Spiders

Our friend Monicaroni from Texas came to visit us! We thought the most fun we could have on a weeknight would be to stuff our selves full of things that normally crawl on the ocean floor. I showed Eustice a picture of crabs on the interwebs and he was very excited... he says that he likes the flavor of spiders. I didn't ask for details.

First we had to pick out what we wanted to eat. Here is Eustice enjoying the sound of a bubbler. Pretty arty for a camera phone... don't you think?

I'm sure that these are just as tasty as they are pretty.  Then we came across this...

It took us a while to get Eustice to calm down enough to understand that this is a type of fish... I'd never seen him so upset before.

Once he calmed down (and we stopped laughing at him) he agreed to pose with the sheephead. But you can tell from the look on his face that he was pretty annoyed with us for laughing at him.







While Monicaroni ordered fish, and husband got a beer, Eustice and I staked out a table and waited for our live crabs to be cooked. Eustice refused to pose with living crabs. I think maybe he thought they'd be smaller? Or maybe he was afraid of being pinched. Still, he looks excited about it all, doesn't he?

When I brought the bag of steamed crabs to the table, he wasted not a moment to get a good look...

This crab had one of the thickest shells I've ever seen. Even Eustice's hooves were not strong enough to break it! Much mallet whacking and flying debris ensued. Sure was sweet and tasty tho. Once you got past the dirt... I grumbled about the fact that they didn't rinse it before steaming it.  Eustice just stared at me. "What's wrong with eating dirt?" He asked. "MY MOM," he said "told me it's a great way to get your minerals." I'm not gonna disrespect Eustice's Mom.

Other things we ate included: 

And Monicaroni had to reassemble this one for the picture. It was so delicate that it fell apart (but boy oh boy was it tasty!)

It was about this time that I noticed while Monicaroni and I were busy talking and stuffing our faces with sweet delicious crabs, husband had been letting Eustice take sips of his beer...

Eustice keeps asking when we're gonna see Monicaroni again and when are we going back to the Redondo Beach Pier and if he can have more beer.

A little too close Eustice!

At the Sunday Farmer's Market Eustice wanted to visit with the little dogs that are available for adoption from Hearts for Hounds

Only he got a LEETILE bit too close...

and has suffered the consequences...

He says he doesn't blame the puppy, it was his fault for teasing. The puppy apparently thought Eustice would be a great new toy! (he is... but he's MY TOY doggie, grrrr! Mine! Bark! Bark!)

Saying so long to a friend...

This is Eustice and his friend, the Murloc I knitted as a baby gift for some expectant friends... Eustice helped me pack him up into a box along with some nice toys to entertain him on his long trip to South Carolina (Murloc can be very naughty if they're not kept busy). Hopefully Murloc will share the toys with the baby when he arrives.

Starting in the Middle

 What an unusually busy day for a girl and her sheep. A trip to the pharmacy...







Where Eustice kindly signed for my prescriptions so I wouldn't have to touch a pen handled by piles of other sick people (he's thoughtful like that at times!) 






His penmanship leaves much to be desired, but no one seems to care. Only his typing is worse!







 Later on we went to Chipotle for lunch. Did you know that everything they have is gluten free?! (Except the flour tortillas of course.) He insisted on checking out the nutrition facts. I think he was feeling unusually protective of me this day.

While the husband and I were distracted with our late lunch he wandered off. When I looked up I found him getting rather close to that crazy burrito eating Aztec they have there.


 He refused to say what he was up to. I suspect he narrowly avoided being a burrito topping.

  On the way home we stopped at Trader Joe's where Eustice is quite popular from previous visits..

I turned my back on Eustice and the Basket for just a minute to ask after a product I didn't see on the shelves and when I looked back...

 No, Trader Joe's does not sell step ladders. Which is probably a big part of why you can't take either of us anywhere.

To read about how Eustice and I met, you'll need to go here. Eustice has a fan page on facebook, just search for "Eustice The Big Horn Sheep" and you can find him on Twitter too! He's just EusticeTheSheep there. We're looking forward to sharing our adventures with you (well, maybe not so much my husband).