http://picklesanddimes.com A blog featuring a disturbing amount of bacon references. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:56:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I step off the deck, carefully avoiding the ice patches as Shorty sprints to sniff recently left rabbit prints. My face is covered with a scarf, my feet with boots, my head with a hat, my hands with gloves. The wind, thankfully, is absent. Shorty continues sniffing on his preordained ... http://picklesanddimes.com/2009/01/05/the-beach/ So, here’s another last-minute masthead I did, after weeks of laboring over another masthead that ended up looking like a two-fingered, cross-eyed zebra designed it. And do you know where I got the creative inspiration for this? Buffalo Wild Wings. Yeah, some people’s muse is music or art or poetry. Mine ... http://picklesanddimes.com/2009/01/02/masthead-27-%e2%80%93-smoke-signals/ Hi guys, I hope you all have fun New Year’s plans. Speaking of which, what are your fun New Year’s plans? Do you have any NYE traditions? Tell us! Tonight, we’re going out to eat somewhere and then popping open some champagne at either midnight or 9:30, depending on how ... http://picklesanddimes.com/2008/12/31/adios-2008/ Did everyone have a nice holiday? We did. I got a box of bacon from my parents as one of my gifts, and Jason got a huge set of decorative toothpicks (to commemorate this). Fantastic. We also managed to forget our camera at my aunt’s house and Jason’s wedding ... http://picklesanddimes.com/2008/12/29/pictionary-this/ So. It has been snowing here, much like the rest of the country, and that is just fine. It has also been cold. How cold is it, you ask? Well, because of below-zero temperatures and -30 to -40 degree windchills, you now need your full body weight combined with a ... http://picklesanddimes.com/2008/12/23/a-snowballs-chance-in-hell-pretty-good-actually/