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Day: May 2, 2010

Sleepy, Wet, Dirty Roxie

Published May 2, 2010

Today I took Roxie out to some parks and now she’s tired, wet, and with some rather dirty fur from playing in the mud along the banks of rivers.

Here is a photo of her standing on one of the ramps on the dock into Lake Sixteen (yes, that’s really the name) at Orion Oaks Dog Park (Bark Park). Since I’m watching her while Danielle is in Europe I need to take her out for regular play and exercise, so I figured that some playtime outside with other dogs would be a good idea, and this is a particularly nice park. Amusingly, after she feels that she’s done at the park she will actually walk back to the main gate, stopping only to look back for me, waiting to get in the car.

On the way back home I decided that we should stop for another walk, so I took her to Holland Ponds and we walked through the park and out along the Clinton River, through Yates Cider Mill to Yates Park and back. With today being a rather warm and humid day (73°F, 78%) she kept wanting to stop and lay down in the river to cool off. I let her do this a few times, and she’d usually go wallow around in the water for a few minutes, lay there for a while, then stand up and shake off.

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Last Night’s Dinner

Published May 2, 2010

Here’s a photo of last night’s dinner; chili sin carne, Trader Joe’s cornbread (from a boxed mix) and New Holland’s The Poet stout.

The chili contains the following:

· One can each dark red kidney beans, black beans, pinto beans, great northern beans.
· One bag frozen chopped onion (it’s cheaper than buying a whole onion!).
· One bag frozen corn.
· One can each crushed tomato and tomato sauce.
· One bottle of super-malty beer (four year old Rochefort 10 Clone).
· ~4 tbsp chili powder (premixed stuff for making chili).
· ~1 tbdp cocoa powder.
· ~1 steeped and chopped chipolte.
· ~8 cloves garlic, sliced thin.
· Olive oil and butter (for sauteing the onion).
· ~1 tbsp chili powder (spicy indian stuff).
· ~1 tbsp cumin powder.
· One bag Morningstar Farms veggie crumble things.

I think that’s about it. I just realized that I left out the mushrooms, though. Now I need to find a use for half a pound of portabello mushrooms. Hrm.

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