POUND PUPS......PIZZA PIE AND KITCHEN TIMERS...

What do those three things have in common.....Why absolutely nothing.....

Unless your spending a day with Joyce....

Yes.....everyone's favorite ex-blogger and Ms. Flour Power.....

Last Monday me and Joyce got together for some shopping and lunch.....

we started out at the new Anthropologie in Atlanta and who knew the day would turn out to be

photo worthy....

Ofcourse it would be.....nothing is ever normal when the two of us get together.....

It's like spending the day with Lucy.....

Only instead of being an "Ethel" to Joyce's "Lucy"......

I happen to be another Lucy.....

Infact I like to call us "The Two Lucys"....

Rose.....I think you would be the first to agree with that..

We moved on to a new pizza place that she had heard of called

ANTICO....

somewhere near IKEA we had to stop multiple people to ask for directions....

And with each person....Joyce asked if they would like to join us for lunch....

even the Atlanta Cop that we stopped....

A little Dive of a Place we got there when they first opened to beat the lunch crowd.....

we are both Pizza Fanatics so we were excited to be trying what is called

the best pizza in town........

It was a recommendation from the Governor's Chef....

We first came across their dessert case.....right inside the front door....

They had these fabulous Sfogliatelle

An Italian pastry that has sweetened ricotta cheese inside....

All kinds of Cannoli.....

Made fresh every day and filled and dipped in your choice of

pistachio nuts.....pine nuts....coconut...white chocolate chips...or chocolate "jimmies"...

We opted for the pistachio cannoli and a sfogliatelle....

Joyce was told to get the real experience of the place you need to sit in the back room where the three brick ovens bake the pies right before your eyes.....A bunch of communal tables and a couple of unfriendly women who wouldn't budge to give us a seat at the picnic table....we gave them the "skunk eye" and moved to a table in the back of the room....

Here were the men preparing the pizza.....I couldn't get a good picture of them flipping the dough in the air....but alot of flipping was being done.....A real art...

This poor guy spent the whole time just pulling apart mozzarella...
They get their ingredients flown in fresh everyday....
I'm assuming from New York.....as one of the bakers was from the Bronx...

I said we sat in the backroom.....This is what we sat next to....
Hey.....it's Italian Ambiance!!

No plates....no silverware....Just pizza on a big old baking tin covered with brown craft
Paper....to catch the olive oil....
We opted for a Margherita pie...
Sauce....fresh mozzarella....and basil....
Nothing better...

We split two pastries....
I got nervous when Joyce asked for a straw when eating the Cannolli...
Yes that's right....she sucked the filling right out of the cannolli shell...
We were in "Food Heaven"....

Our tablemates.....They got one with the works...
But said that ours looked better....

Everybody's Italian Grandmother...

Everyone sits together.....

You grab whatever seat you can find....

Then it was on to the ASPCA of Atlanta......

This poor dog was not interested in whatever Joyce was selling....

"We just came from Antico where we had the best pizza.....You should have come with us....

It was right down the street....Maybe we can stop and take you next time".....

Talk about something that needs a hip and knee replacement....

This dog was so bow legged that you could have thrown a bowling ball thru his legs....

This little Guy was not impressed with his lovely accommodations.....He was howling up a storm....

The Atlanta ASPCA facility was unbelievable....

I couldn't get over how spotless it was....

A beautiful home for homeless animals.....Wonderful volunteers who were taking the dogs out

One on One for some play time in the yard.....

it was so clean that you never would have thought you were in an animal shelter.....

Kudo's to the Folks who run it!!

This was a Happy Guy....

Each dog has a large run with a little bed up off the floor to sleep on....plenty of fresh water and food......and toys to play with....

All enclosed with a Plexiglas fronts so they can see what's going on....

Ofcourse They had Puppies Too!!

This one was all head and legs.....

I'm a sucker for Black Dogs.......

This pup reminded me of my beloved Buster.....

He almost came home with me but he was a biter.....He tried to eat my purse!!

His label said he was half hound and half Schnauzer.....

Sandie asked why we stopped by the Shelter.....

We drove past it....I said...."Hey....do you want to go see the dogs?"

to which Joyce responded....

"Sure".....

It's fun to be spontaneous.......

Makes life interesting....
We left the shelter before one of us brought home a dog.....

So it was on to IKEA.....

Not much new going on here.........I stopped to look at this cute little glass and wrought iron

Table.....complete with 2 chairs for $99.00

If it wasn't so cold out I thought about bringing it home in the Bug with the Top

Down

For my Kitchen....

But it was too cold out....And while I was looking this over

Joyce was doing this............

Music was playing so with her two rolls of shelf liner.....

She resorted back to her High School days and starting twirling them

Like she was in the Marching Band....

Luckily the aisles were empty...if not we might have both been asked to leave the premises....

And this is the part where the "Kitchen Timers" make their debut.....

While wandering around down in the Marketplace....I hear her hissing me to come over

to the aisle she was standing in.....

As I approach I hear ticking.....and it's getting louder and louder....

Yes that's right.....

She turned on all the kitchen timers......

And then quietly

slipped away....