Year of the Rodent, off and running (eek!)

[Chuy the cuy; chocolate mouse from L.A. Burdick; click to see larger]

Chuy arrived in our household on Tuesday evening. We're all adjusting. He's a little, um, smelly, though we have him and his palatial crate upstairs in a spare room we'd been using as a workout room. K installed a plug-in air freshener, so now it smells like plug-in air freshener more than pig. This is considered an improvement, of sorts. Ah, spring will come and windows will be opened...

Today, on this Friday before a long weekend, my work colleagues took an excursion to L.A. Burdick, recently posted about in connection with rat sightings (outside Burdick's) and previously described here. I couldn't join them, but gave them $10 and asked for however many "Year of the Rat" special chocolate mice they could buy (specifically the dark chocolate/tangerine... mmmmm). They were apparently out of mostly everything, it being the day after Valentine's Day. Instead, they brought me back a small assortment box with one chocolate mouse included. Good enough for me. (I even held off all afternoon so I could bring it home and photograph it for you, dear blog readers).

But wait, there's more... In science news, potential good news for lab rats in this Year of the Rat.

Comments

[mb]

Chuy el cuy -- too cute! Is that a licorice tail?

[maria]

Oh boy ... and yum, too. Spring should be here sooner than later, let's hope. Maybe when it gets a tad warmer, I'll use my accumulated JetBlue points and fly out to Boston again and then ask for a tour of Burdick's!

[leslee]

MB: Hm, let me check... No, it's a ribbon, alas. :-)

Maria: Oh, it would be well worth a trip! But come while it's still a bit chilly - the hot chocolate is to die for.

[mm]

Oh he's lovely. I'm guessing and hoping that charm will compensate for smell.

And I saw a news report over here re the lab rats. It can't come soon enough.

[zhoen]

They do have a smell. Sounds like a search project to me...

[Lucy]

He is rather sweet isn't he, and doesn't he match the box of chocolates nicely?

Enjoy your 72 hours!

[Lorianne]

Maria, even if you don't get back to Boston during hot chocolate weather, Burdick's iced chocolate is heavenly, too. So really, it's all good. :-)

[Leslee]

MM/Zhoen: He is pretty cute. And the smell gets less noticeable.

Lucy: He does sorta match the chocolate, all chocolate and white that he is. And I'm enjoying the fact that on this Sunday night I have yet another day free tomorrow.

Lorianne: Ditto. The iced chocolate is like slightly melted chocolate ice cream sipped through a straw.

[Jean]

Oh, I completely missed this! Chuy is sweet. I thought guinea pigs only came in that gingery colour. You could try him with incense and Indian chanting - nice smell and maybe soothing to his digestion too.

[Leslee]

Jean: Heh. Maybe we should try that. I suspect it still won't make the room suitable for working out in anymore. Though perhaps yoga...