My little bunny man is sick so we’ll be offline for a few days.

Diva Kitty & the Fluffies and Uncle Mo would like to invite you to join us for a fun celebration of the season by participating in Winter Secret Paws. It’s kind of like having a secret pal or secret Santa.

Last year we had over 400 participants from 10 different countries! 

Secret Paw – How it works

You send us your information, we’ll swap it with another secret paw and you’ll receive a goodie from your secret paw in the mail by December 31st.

The Rules:

If you are not in the US – That’s OK. We’re going to try to match up Secret Paws in appropriate countries.

• Please keep the gift to $7-$10 max. Our hope is not to make people feel like they have to purchase something big. A card, homemade item or can of Stinky Goodness will work. We just want to have FUN!
• If you cannot send your paw – PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE let us know by December 15th so we can arrange for your paw to get a gift. We’re going to have some back-up paws this go around.
• Please email us at secretpaws@gmail.com the following information:
  1. Your Name- you can participate as a family for multiple pet and human homes or as individual pets. If you play as individuals then each pet in the house is a participant. For example we can either be (1) group as Diva Kitty and the Fluffies or (3) individuals as Sophia, Fiona and Orlando
  2. Your Mailing Address – Mom will keep this information and will only share it with your selected secret paw. She promised me not to sell them to the highest bidder
  3. What type of fluffy are you- Cat, Wolfie, Rattie, Bunny, Hammie, Horse…
  4. Your favorite color – swap buddies will be sent your favorite color as a guide for getting your goodies!
  5. Swap Preference – If you want to swap with your own species please let us know. So if you’re a cat and you want to swap with a cat – tell us.
  6. Anything special you’d like your Secret Paw to know. It helps you paw know what to shop for if you let them know what you like and dislike!

So if I were submitting mine it would look like:

Fiona Bun
PO Box 1621 Benicia CA 94510
Bunny
Green
Will swap with anyone
I like banana chips, dried mango and tearing apart Mom’s baseboards. I don’t like having my nails trimmed!

Deadlines:

• Please send Mom an email with the above information by November 24, 2008 AT 11:59PM P. T. DKM & Mo will partner everyone up and send you via email your Secret Paw by December 1st.
• Please send your Secret Paw a small fun item (cost $7-$10) by December 31, 2008.

Blog:

We’ve also set up a NEWSecret Paws Blog. Once you send me or Mom you email address we will send you the log in information. There you can post messages to your Secret Paws, post a picture of your goodies or whatever.

The blog address is http://secretpaw.wordpress.com/

Meow and Binkies All!
Sophia, Fiona, Orlando, DKM & Uncle Mo

5 more days until the Super Secret project is revealed. I don’t care really, I’m chillin’ and waiting for bananas.

Oh and Secret Paws is back! For those who’ve never played – secret paws is like secret santa, but for fluffies.  We match up fluffies from all over the world.  Click here to learn more - it’s a lot of fun.

More Monday Bunday at:

• A Houseful of Rabbits
• Andrew Bun
• Bungelina and Mabelline
• Cadbury
• Rupert
• Carlton Jamal
• Cinnamon
• Fez, Queen, Bambi, Norbert & Abbey
• Fluffy, Miss Binks, Ella & Scooter MaGoo
• Freckles
• Fresh Parsley
• Furry Butts
• Fury & Frost
• Gerald, Bambi, Cinnamon & Clint
• Gloria
• Gretchen Bun
• Gus & Betsy
• Lola
• Mario
• Miss Eve & Hugo
• Mrs. Sniffles
• Pink, Peaches & Elvis
• Pumpkin & Patch
• Sammy
• Tyler and Sydney
• Zinger

Let us know if we are missing you in our list

Scenting is hard work…

DKM is sad – so I’m going to snuggle with her ~Lando Bun

Buns say CRANBERRY SEASON!

Whiskers in the box

Hoppy Birthday Derby!

Thanks everyone for celebrating with us!

Help us celebrate Derby’s birthday by posting
a ‘Tocktober photo on Monday the 20th.

Show us your best back-side this ‘Tocktober. 
~Fiona and Orlando Bun, Derbs’ NOMSSF

Need some help knowing what ‘tocks are… here are samples

I made another pot of stock – yes again.  It’s soup weather!

Time for some Bean Soup.

• One of those 15 bean & barley soup bags from your local store (I used the Trader Joe’s version).
• One medium onion, chopped
• Two carrots, chopped
• A few celery stocks, chopped
• Three cloves of roasted garlic, minced
• 1 red bell pepper, chopped
• 2 cups of diced tomatoes (or a can of tomatoes)
• Herbs (I used thyme and parsley)
• 6-8 cups of stock (depending on how much broth you like)
• 1/2 cup of sherry (optional)
• Pinch of red pepper flakes (optional)
• Salt and pepper to taste

Soak beans overnight, 8-10 hours (I actually soaked them during the day so I could cook the soup overnight in the slow cooker)

Sauté onion 5-7 minutes, add carrots and celery and sauté 5 minutes more. Add in garlic, red bell pepper & tomatoes and cook for another 5 min. or so. Dump beans, cooked veggies, stock and herbs in your slow cooker and cook on low for 8-10 hours.

The following morning, add in the pinch of red pepper flakes, the sherry and season with salt and pepper. Cook for an additional hour in the slower cooker and then serve. It’s delish.

Oh and serve all scraps to the organic garbage disposals.