tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7628004537514050142024-03-13T00:16:36.029-05:00OutnumberedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-74085499943302080562011-07-16T22:56:00.001-05:002011-07-16T22:58:08.896-05:00Kansas<div>We've been on a bit of a fostering hiatus lately since we've been really busy and adjusting to new work schedules (despite the economy both the hubs and I have managed to to transition to new jobs in the last several months without any down time). Anyway, I couldn't say no anymore when I got an email, sent specifically to me that said<br />
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PLEASE ANYONE EUTH DAY MONDAY<br />
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So even though we're still crazy busy (even busier, actually, we just started doing a boot camp class this week), we decided that we've got things under control enough to take Kansas in (my conscience wouldn't let me do anything else).<br />
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Sunday afternoon the one year old Aussie named Kansas made the trip from Pittsfield, IL up to Chicagoland along with a Dalmatian and Chocolate Lab. And on Monday instead of being put down he got put under to get neutered and got to wake up afterward and come home with me. He already got a bath and once I finish brushing the burrs out of his fur he'll be good as new!<br />
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Kansas has been great so far. He is super, super sweet and gentle. He's been great with Lenny and Waldo - Waldo actually isn't afraid of Kansas and will come into the same room as him to hang out instead of just watching everything from the top of the stairs.<br />
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Kansas is already house trained; he's not quite crate trained yet, but every time he's crated he cries and barks for shorter periods of time before calming down and taking a nap. Right now he sticks to my leg like glue when we go out in the yard or for a walk, but I think as he gets more comfortable he'll become more confident and start exploring on his own a bit more. I'm really excited to watch his personality really start to come out. <br />
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This morning I found myself face to face with a mostly full carton of blueberries in my fridge. Now, I like blueberries as much as the next guy, but the hubs and I aren't such blueberry fanatics that we could eat 2+ cups of them on our own before they go bad. Dash woke us up extra early this morning, so I decided to take advantage of the morning and bake some blueberry muffins.<br />
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I got this recipe from my mom and modified it a little; this recipe also works for chocolate chip muffins or pretty much whatever else you feel like tossing in there. You can increase the amount of whole wheat flour or eliminate it all together depending on what you're in the mood for - the proportion doesn't really matter as long as you end up with 2 cups of some kind of flour total. This makes about a dozen muffins, but I doubled it so I could use all of my blueberries.<br />
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1 1/2 cups all purpose flour<br />
1/2 cup whole wheat flour<br />
1/3 cup sugar<br />
1/3 cup brown sugar<br />
1/2 tsp salt<br />
1 Tbs baking powder<br />
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1 egg<br />
1/3 cup oil (I used olive oil - melted butter would also work instead of oil)<br />
1/2 cup milk<br />
1/2 cup plain yogurt (or sour cream)<br />
1 tsp vanilla<br />
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1 cup blueberries<br />
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Preheat oven to 400F. Blend the wet ingredients together. Blend the dry ingredients together and then combine with the wet ingredients. After rinsing the blueberries, sprinkle about a teaspoon of flour on them to coat - this will help the blueberries stay suspended in the batter so they won't all just sink to the bottom. Mix the blueberries into the batter.<br />
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Grease a muffin pan and add the batter (I put about 1/3 cup into each muffin).<br />
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Bake for 15-20 minutes.<br />
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Allow muffins to cool for a few minutes and then turn out onto cooling rack.<br />
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Try not to burn your mouth with the molten blueberries as you shove the muffins into your mouth!<br />
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About a month ago we wrapped up an agility class for Dash. It was so fun and Dash was a total rockstar! It's definitely something we want to try and continue to do with him. Dash is a smarty pants with lots of energy whose main goal in life is to be with his people and make them happy, so it's a perfect fit. Check out some videos from the last day of class!<br />
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Awesome, right?! And pretty much all of the mistakes that he made were really my fault. Turns out there's almost as much to learn as a handler as the dog does for agility. You have to know what path to take, how to direct your dog, what to say and all that jazz. Good times were had by all.<br />
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Not to toot my own horn, but I'm pretty proud of the fact that we don't even have room to showcase all of our foster dogs, even with 20 frames. <br />
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</div>This project was really inexpensive and easy to do. I bought all of these picture frames at the dollar store, Ikea and Hobby Lobby and didn't pay more than $3 for any of them - most were only $1. I got no more than two of any one frame and didn't really pay attention to the color of the frames because a can of spray paint solved that problem.<br />
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</div>To get all of the frames to hang neatly on the wall and avoid putting a thousand holes in the wall, I carefully laid out a pattern. I traced each picture frame on a piece of paper, marked where a nail would go to hang the frame and labelled it so I would know which was which. <br />
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Using painter's tape to hold them in place, I took all of the paper cut out frames and laid them out on my dining room table, rearranging until I came up with a pattern I liked. I measured the size of the rectangle the frames created all together.<br />
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Using a level, yard stick and more painters tape I marked the edges of the large rectangle on the wall. Then I moved all of the cut outs from my dining room table to the wall. I put the nails where I had marked on the cut outs and then put the frames up - this is easiest if you put in all the nails through the cut outs and then remove/replace the cut outs/frames one by one so you don't get confused about what goes where. I think I only ended up having to fix one or two of the placements when it was all said and done - not bad if you ask me! I put all of the extra pictures I had printed in a photo album to keep on the entryway table (which you can sort of see in this less than stellar photograph).<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I like seeing all the fun pictures and adorable faces. And I think it looks great on the wall and is a nice conversation piece, too.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-39018422264758574522011-04-24T20:00:00.000-05:002011-04-24T20:00:59.150-05:00Hippity HopHappy Zombie Jesus Day, everyone! <br />
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Dash is rocking his bunny ears but stole and ate his adorable bunny cookie before I could get a picture. Oh well. Here's to another great day to get delicious, seasonal candy on sale and eat ourselves sick. Happy holidays!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-67312723172808112802011-03-25T20:51:00.002-05:002011-03-26T20:21:19.874-05:00Keep an Eye on Your Olive OylBecause Bluto is swinging by! Almost four weeks ago I picked him up after work. Bluto is an Australian Shepherd and I would guess about a year old. Even though he had just been neutered when I got him he was go-go-go! I knew he and Dash would be buds and we'd probably have to stop them from wrestling since Bluto was supposed to stay quiet for a week or two to recover from surgery (yeah, right!).<br />
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Bluto is a confident dog; not fearful at all. But he was really stressed the first few days with us. And I can't really blame him. On Sunday he made the trek from Pittsfield, IL to the suburbs of Chicago. On Monday morning he was neutered and got a few remaining vaccines and in the evening I picked him up and brought him home. It's a lot to take in! So even though Bluto was wanting to play with Dash and exploring the house he would.not.stop.panting. At all. Or sit still. For four days. The e-collar he was wearing was just soaking wet with drool from all the panting, so we were constantly refilling the water bowl so he wouldn't get dehydrated.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Aside from the frantic panting I could really see Bluto's potential. He was very smart and generally well mannered (except for the thrashing when you'd try to crate or leash him - ha!), not to mention gorgeous! By Thursday Bluto started to relax a little bit and he was doing great by Saturday. Which worked out well for him, because he got adopted that day, just a week after arriving to us. It also kept us out of trouble, because I think if we had Bluto for too long we would have a <i>really</i> hard time letting him go. I mean come on, then we'd have matching orange/grey sets of both our cats <i>and</i> dogs! That would also make fostering trickier though, so it really was for the best.</div><br />
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Bluto, now named Harley, has a shepherd mix doggie sister and a teenage human sister, both of whom he's going to have lots of fun playing with!<br />
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Side note: Okay, so Bluto is the name of Popeye's nemesis. Basically Bluto has a crush on Olive Oyl, Popeye's girlfriend, and keeps trying to kidnap her. Um, what?! That's practically cartoon date rape! Anyway, I was kind of surprised by it because I never noticed when I watched Popeye as a kid. So weird!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-37260990169628339702011-03-18T19:25:00.002-05:002011-03-18T19:25:00.592-05:00Look out!There's a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>GIANT CAT</b></span> in that box!<br />
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The humans ate corned beef made the same way as <a href="http://pawstofeet.blogspot.com/2010/03/corned-beef-and-just-little-cabbage.html">last year</a>. Brainstorm for next year is to use sweet potatoes!<br />
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Happy St. Patty's Day!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-28964997304846223912011-03-02T21:46:00.000-06:002011-03-02T21:46:46.879-06:00Decoration InspirationThe other day I finally decided on a color scheme for our guest room. Something that has plagued me since we moved in 2.5 years ago.<br />
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Anyway, I happened to find myself at <a href="http://www.homegoods.com/index.asp">Home Goods</a> just a few days later and as I was walking around I saw some bedding that I liked. I took a picture with my phone so I could keep it in mind.<br />
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Then I found an awesome vase that complemented the bedding. I had to have it. It spoke to me. It said, "Carolyn, I am awesome. And there is only one of me. If you leave me, I might not be here when you return, and you might regret it <i>forever</i>. Seize the moment and put me in your cart!". So I did.<br />
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With vase in cart I made a decision. I was going to redecorate the guest room <b>right.now.</b> I scurried back to the bedding and put it in my cart. Of course, I would want some other accessories besides the vase. I found 2 fun picture frames and into the cart they went. <br />
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It would be nice to have a lamp by the bed for reading. Several trips up and down the lamp aisles later I found the perfect one, hiding behind two other lamps in a corner. I even found some cool art to hang on the wall that goes with my idea for a collection that I've been thinking about for quite some time now.<br />
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Thomas and I decided that if I was going to go to the effort of redecorating the whole guest room, we should really put in a queen sized bed. The twin is fine when our guests are flying solo, but often they come in pairs...kind of like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clownfish">clown fish</a>... <br />
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The twin bed we have now has a ton of storage underneath it, which I am not about to give up. I'm eyeing this storage bed from Ikea.<br />
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Tons of space to put stuff under the bed. And the headboard has shelves and the top is really wide, so the cats can still have a perch to look out the window (yes, I am a crazy person who chooses furniture based on her animals' hobbies). I might paint the whole thing brown so it will sort of match the dressers we already have in the guest room, which we plan on keeping there. Not 100% decided on that yet though.<br />
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I'm hoping to have the room mostly done for when my parents come visit in the middle of March, and totally done by the end of the month. So we'll see how that goes!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I also found this a-freaking-dorable cat bowl at Home Goods. Lenny and Waldo don't really have their own water bowls, we just use some bowls from an old set of dinnerware. I had to get this for them. Two, actually. I mean, come on, it looks just like them - how could I not?<b> </b>And at $4 a piece it seemed like a deal to me!<br />
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When Mike and Patty arrived at our house Alice warmed right up to them and gave out lots of her signature kisses. <br />
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An hour or two later and the new family headed home way down south (okay, it's more like halfway down Illinois, but still quite the long haul to get a new pup!). Mike and Patty were super nice; we know they're going to spoil Alice and that she'll have a fabulous life with them.<br />
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On their way home Mike and Patty even sent me some pictures of Alice sleeping in the backseat of their Corvette (um, awesome!). <br />
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Later on they called to say that Alice and her big (and I do mean <i>big</i>) sister Holly the Great Dane were getting along nicely. And Alice is now named Savanna.<br />
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The house is a little quieter; we had Alice nearly 2 months and she and Dash wrestled nearly every waking moment of that. We're really happy that Alice is going to have a canine companion in her forever home! And of course we know she's going to get loved to pieces by her humans!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Snowmaggedon</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">The Snowpocalypse</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Snowprah Windfreeze says </div><div style="text-align: center;">"You get a shovel! And <i>you</i> get a shovel! And <b>you</b> get a shovel!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Snowapalooza</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">A Gigantic Clusterflake</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Inglorious Blizzerds</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Motherflakin' Flakes on the Motherflakin' Plain </div><br />
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I've heard so many of these I don't even know who to give credit to for all of them (although my favorite is still Blizzaster). We even had ThunderSnow! I don't know if you've ever heard thunder during a crazy snowstorm (or any snowstorm) but it's pretty bizarre.<br />
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Someone on a snowmobile at the park across the street from us (usually reserved for little league and soccer games)<br />
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<div style="color: black; text-align: left;">The street in front of our house (see the tip of the fire hydrant peeking out?)</div><br />
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Our driveway - it took Thomas over and hour of shoveling and at least 3 hours with a big snowblower to finally get the driveway and our sidewalk cleared. The piles of snow have actually grown from this as a result of subsequent rounds from the plow trucks.<br />
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A car parked in front of our house while they helped some people down the street dig out their driveway<br />
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Now we'll move to some views of the yard. Keep in mind that our fence is 5 feet high.<br />
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The backyard by the kitchen<br />
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The front of the screen room (I love the swoop of snow on the roof)<br />
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Our garage and driveway<br />
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The front of the fence<br />
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The front corner of the house<br />
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Inside of our front fence gate<br />
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The inside of front fence gate from different angle<br />
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I love this shot of the siding on the garage<br />
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Thomas' Miata was parked in the driveway for the storm - see the side view mirror?<br />
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I think the official count has us finishing up around 20" of snow, making it the area's third largest snowstorm in recorded history. A storm in 1967 with 23" and one in 1999 with 21" eeking out ahead of this year's snow storm.<br />
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It's pretty fun to see all of the snow drifts. Starting Tuesday afternoon you couldn't see much of anything. Almost all of our windows were at least 80% covered in snow and aside from that there was almost zero visibility outside, so either way about all you could see could only be described as <i>white</i>.<br />
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Some snow made its way past our storm doors and stuck to our front and back doors. If you opened almost any double hung window in our home you could make several respectably sized snowballs from the snow trapped between the screen and the glass. There are drifts of snow in our backyard that are over 4 feet tall. When Dash and Alice run around in the yard they sort of hop around like bunnies because I think they just sort of top out at their bellies in a lot of places and aren't actually standing on anything solid.<br />
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Thomas took a picture of his feet while standing in one of the drifts of snow<br />
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The dogs had a blast running around outside in the aftermath on Wednesday<br />
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On Tuesday night we kept wondering why whenever the dogs would come in from a quick potty break in the yard Alice would look fine and Dash looked like the Abominable Snowman. Then on Wednesday we realized it was because Dash was spending his time doing this...<br />
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Alice is on the lookout while Dash searches for buried treasure in the snow<br />
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And of course they wrestled in the snow. I assure you there are two dogs in these pictures, but I can't really tell where one begins and the other ends.<br />
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Dash pulling himself out of the deep end of the snow<br />
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This is one of my absolute favorite pictures from the Blizzaster - Alice leaping through the air like some kind of ninja puppy<br />
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Thomas couldn't resist jumping into the snow, and Dash couldn't resist trying to rescue him (from what I'm not sure, but he was bound and determined to rescue Thomas from something)<br />
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So we survived the snowstorm with no casualties. We didn't even lose power. And we both got a day off of work!<br />
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Also, Thomas gets credit for most of these pictures. I came outside for a few minutes to admire his handiwork of clearing the snow and to check out the historic weather, but that was it. I would have much preferred going sledding, but instead I spent almost ever other moment last week laid up in bed with the flu. In case you've been considering getting the flu yourself, I do not recommend it. At all. Without a doubt one of the least pleasurable experiences of my life. Get your flu shots, kids! I put off getting mine this year and that is not a mistake I will soon be repeating.<br />
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Oh, and we got a few more inches of snow today! With all the fuss of the snow last week I guess the weather people figured their jobs were done and as far as I can tell, completely forgot to inform us of this weekend's impending snow. It's nothing compared to what we got on Tuesday and Wednesday, but we're kind of running out of places to put all this extra snow. The roads don't even have all of the lanes cleared yet, which is a problem I doubt will be resolved anytime soon. But at least everything looks like a lovely Winter Wonderland.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-85690131364580049832011-01-26T22:13:00.000-06:002011-01-26T22:13:15.804-06:00Winter TreesThis post may seem a little late, but I'm a fan of winter time decorations, not just stuff that I have to take down after Christmas or else it will look out of place. Although I will readily admit that my tiny fake Christmas tree is still proudly displayed by our window. What? It's festive and happy looking! You can never get enough of that here in the gloomy days of winter.<br />
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I've been seeing all these cute ornament trees on the interwebs and wanted something similar for myself. The only problem is that those ornaments are usually breakable, and breakable doesn't fly well in this household. I swear, we're not going to have to do anything to baby proof the house when we have kids after all of the animal proofing we've done.<br />
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Back to non-breakable stuff. Right around Christmas I was in Michael's and saw they had beaded garland on super clearance; I think it was 80¢ for a 6' length or something like that. The idea popped in my head that I could use this to decorate the trees; it's shiny and not breakable, which were basically my only requirements. <br />
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I snagged a handful of the garland in silver and green, picked up 3 different size styrofoam cones (paper mache would be better but they didn't have any at this store and I was all excited to get started) and made my way to the register.<br />
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I started by covering the cones with paper using Mod Podge to give myself a better surface to adhere things to and to make the tops a little taller and pointier.<br />
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After that dried I painted them silver since you would be able to see some spaces between the beads.<br />
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When that dried I busted out my hot glue gun and got to work. I started at the bottom and worked my way around and up. I recommend putting a strip of hot glue and then sticking on the beads for the entire thing. I tried to do a short cut on my smallest tree and only glue the strands on one side of the cone and it turned out a little wonky and didn't feel very sturdy afterward. I made sure each bead was glued down on the bigger trees and it turned out much neater and feels very solid. Later I filled in the gaps on the smaller tree with hot glue to make sure everything was held in place.<br />
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So that's it! My shiny winter trees in pretty winter colors.<br />
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But what really let me know that Alice was feeling at home was that after a few days her left ear starting sticking up. Like, straight up. So now she has one ear up and one ear tipped down and it is a-freaking-dorable. <br />
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Totally quirky to match her personality and looks. Speaking of which, Alice still loves looking in the mirror. I have never seen a dog spend so much time staring at themselves and the rest of the world through a mirror. She's not obsessive or anything, just once in a while she'll wander by the mirrors by the front door and pause for a moment or two. I always wonder what she's thinking. Okay, let's be honest here, I wonder what <i>all</i> of the animals are thinking <i>all</i> of the time.<br />
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Side note: Tonight I got some snuggle time in with almost all of the animals. I invited Dash onto the couch with me and then Lenny decided to join us. But before this could be captured on film, Thomas thought it would be even more hilarious to try and toss Alice in, too. We don't usually allow fosters on the couch, so this was a special exception. Once Alice was added to the mix Lenny decided it was no longer safe to lay on my tummy and moved a little further up on the couch.<br />
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Anyway, back to Alice. Her new favorite toy is whichever one Dash is playing with. She'll constantly walk over to him and literally take a toy out of his mouth and walk away with it while poor Dash just watches - he's so good at sharing! Here's how it usually goes down:<br />
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Last night Dash had a toy but Alice couldn't quite reach it because he was next to the coffee table and she actually <i>cried</i> before finally squishing herself in and taking the toy. To be fair, Alice isn't a thief all the time. Dash will often take toys from her and she's fine with it and they also like to play tug of war. I think it's just that baby phase where the most interesting thing is the thing someone else has.<br />
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So that's what's going on with our critters; can you handle all that cuteness?!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-64529788487969797112011-01-12T19:33:00.000-06:002011-01-12T19:33:30.883-06:00Cyrene Update<div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;">I got an update on Cyrene from her forever family - woohoo! Her new name is Saphire and this is what they had to say:<br />
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Just wanted to send you a quick note on Saphire.... She is an awesome dog that has fit in well with our family, she is very well behaved in all situations and has developed excellent leash manners - she has made friends with my running group and she loves tagging along in the morning for the kids' school drop off... Saphire is very good with the kids and very caring and watchful of the baby. </div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;">She is just a great dog and we are happy to have her... thank you.</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br />
</div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> Saphire's family sent along a few new pictures, too!<br />
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I'm so happy for Saphire and her family; they're just perfect for each other. We wish them all the best!<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-64051158614134842922011-01-10T21:25:00.000-06:002011-01-10T21:25:14.647-06:00Hello, Alice!Just a half a day after Hunk got dropped off to go to his new foster home I picked up Alice. She came up on Saturday on a transport all the way from Kansas in a series of ten legs to get her from there to here. Alice and her brother Alex are purebred Aussies that someone who lived on a farm bought as puppies. After a few months they realized that two young Aussies are kind of a lot of work and decided they didn't want them anymore. <br />
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In early December a good samaritan took them in until they could be placed into a rescue. So now at 8 months old Alice is with us and her brother is in a foster home, too.<br />
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Alice was a little nervous and a little stinky when I got her home, so after a quick run in the yard I took her upstairs to the bathtub for a quick <s>torture session</s> bath. After that, some food and a good nap she was already a totally different dog. <br />
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Now she's picking up every toy she can fit in her little mouth and either chewing on it, rolling it or proudly parading it around the room. Mirrors are fascinating to her; she keeps walking past our floor to ceiling mirrors by the front door and pausing. And when I first got her home she spent about a minute just staring at her reflection in the oven. I'm not sure if it's because she hasn't really encountered mirrors before or if she thinks it's her brother since they look alike, so to me it's both cute and a little sad, because I wonder if she misses Alex when she sees her reflection.<br />
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Alice loves to give little kisses and is enjoying exploring the house. By now I think she's sniffed nearly every square inch of space that she's allowed to be in. Dash and Alice even started wresting and playing a little on Alice's first night with us. The two of them are having so much fun running in the yard and playing in the house.<br />
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We'll learn more about Alice's personality after we have her a little longer, but we do know that she is super sweet and super adorable. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Welcome, Alice!</div><br />
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Hunk and Dash had a blast playing and wrestling together. The most challenging part of having him was just trying to keep him quiet since the two of them were in play mode almost non-stop! Aside from that he was a perfect foster. <br />
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Great house manners, already house trained, quiet in his crate and of course Hunk is also incredibly sweet and adorable. Okay, at some point on Thursday he did chew a hole in his cast which landed him in the cone of shame. <br />
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But the vet said it should be fine and after a day of pretending to be the saddest dog in the world while wearing it he decided that life was still worth living and perked up again. We're all going to miss Hunk, but we know he's in good hands with a great foster who will make sure he ends up in a great forever home.<br />
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A fighter pilot! <i>Obviously</i>.<br />
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Eric got them their very own fighter plane. We put it together and it.is.awesome. It was really easy to build; it all fit together into itself so we didn't need any glue, tape, staples or anything like that.<br />
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Behold!<br />
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This is seriously a super cool plane. The attention to detail on it is amazing, too. Every inch of the plane! The outside has the airplane pattern on it, with things like CATS R GR8, FLYING KITTEN, and 9 LIVES written on it. And the inside looks like the interior of a fighter plane with little controls and everything!<br />
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Thanks, Eric! The kitties love their new hangout and say you're the coolest uncle ever. Lots of snuggles coming your way from Lenny, and to a lesser extent, Waldo.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">If your cats are insanely jealous, and why wouldn't they be, you can get them their very own fighter plane (or tank or fire engine or car) from </span><a href="http://www.suck.uk.com/product.php?rangeID=96&search_text="><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">this</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;"> very cool website.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-62769705359703345342011-01-04T18:51:00.001-06:002011-01-04T18:52:41.653-06:00What a Hunk!<div style="text-align: center;">New year, new dog!</div><div><br />
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</div><div>This is Hunk, our latest foster. He'll probably be temporary since we already committed to taking a dog from another rescue, but she won't be here for another week, so Hunk is staying with us until we can find him another foster family.</div><div><br />
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</div><div>Hunk is about 8 months old and seems to be a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catahoula_Cur">Catahoula</a> mix. I think he was an owner surrender and he obviously has a broken leg. That cast will stay on for another 4 weeks, but it sure doesn't slow him down! It's been wrestle-mania in the house with Dash and Hunk since about 10 minutes after I got home with Hunk. The two of them are total buds (not to mention look-a-likes!).</div><div><br />
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</div><div>We've been super lucky with Hunk; even though he's still a baby, he seems to be house trained and he didn't make a peep in his crate last night. From how he and Dash get along it's apparent he loves other dogs and he's more or less left the cats alone (okay, he tried to lick Lenny a little, but in a "we're friends!" sort of way, not an "if you taste good I'm gonna eat you!" sort of way).</div><div><br />
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</div><div>The biggest challenge with Hunk is trying to keep him somewhat quiet because of his cast. We keep telling him to take it easy since he has a broken leg, but he just kind of looks at us as if to say "a broken what?" before continuing what he was doing. So we're just keeping him on a leash and trying to keep the wrestling matches as low key as possible.</div><div><br />
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</div><div>Here's to a speedy recovery and speedy journey to a forever home for Hunk!</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-51438380921251106042010-12-27T21:56:00.000-06:002010-12-27T21:56:03.208-06:00Happy Holidays!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Since we have a new member in the family this year it was time for another photo holiday card. I think we all know that these can be a little cheesy at times, so we decided to just go with it. We got reindeer antlers for everyone in the family and I picked up some snowflake decorations at the dollar store for a more scenic backdrop.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Obviously, getting all three critters to cooperate for a picture would be hard enough, but while also wearing funny little hats was going to be quite the challenge. We knew a timer wasn't going to cut it for this, so we asked our friend Blake to come over and help us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I moved all of our bedroom furniture to one side to clear a space so we could have a blue background and then taped up the snowflakes. First we put our antlers on since we knew that once the animals were wearing them we wouldn't have any free hands. Then Dash got his since he usually forgets that he's wearing things like this after a few minutes. Next was Lenny; although he's certainly not a fan of any outfit, overall he's pretty cooperative. Waldo was last and the toughest, so we made sure everyone else was ready before he got dressed. Then I found where Waldo was hiding, plopped him on the bed, put his antlers on and rushed into our room since we knew he wouldn't tolerate this cruelty for long.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Blake snapped away as we tried to keep all three animals in the frame and looking the right direction. Luckily he was able to get some good shots before Waldo made his exit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So without further ado, I present to you our holiday card picture for 2010:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And of course, a few of the pictures that didn't quite make the cut:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Earlier in the day we took Dash to the dog park and afterward when he was passed out on his bed I couldn't resist putting his antlers on him.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And a million thanks to Blake, we couldn't have done this without you!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-17769954031558805202010-12-11T10:45:00.000-06:002010-12-11T10:45:06.534-06:00Snowy Play DateLast Saturday our old foster <a href="http://pawstofeet.blogspot.com/2010/11/blitzed-out.html">Blitz</a> (now Ronin) came over with his big brother Henry for a play date with Dash. We were happy to hear that Ronin is settling into his new home. He gets along well with Henry - they even lay together sometimes! Aside from chewing a stair railing and the odd accident he's been pretty well behaved. <br />
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We got about 4 inches of snow the night before which made the event all the more exciting for the pups. Dash and Ronin got right to wrestling; it was like Ronin never left at all!<br />
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Once in a while they'd take a short break from chase and wrestling to just play in the snow. Dash liked to lay on his belly and pull himself along the ground with his front legs while dragging his back legs behind him.<br />
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Ronin and Dash would sometimes have a little starting contest before leaping at each other. A lot of the time they would be standing on either side of a tree so they couldn't see each other.<br />
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I just like this one because it looks like Dash is telling Henry a secret about Ronin.<br />
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The dogs also found a really big stick in the yard to play with, so that kept them occupied for a good long time!<br />
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At one point Henry got a hold of a big stick, too, but in true little brother form, Ronin came over and stole it<br />
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So Henry ended up chewing on a tiny stick, even though he was the biggest dog.<br />
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By the end of the afternoon all three of them were tuckered out and covered in snowballs!<br />
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We had so much fun seeing how Ronin has grown (he's taller than Dash now!) and letting the dogs have play around and get some energy out! The first of many playdates!<br />
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<b>Pumpkin Cupcakes</b><br />
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2 cups white sugar<br />
3/4 cup oil<br />
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce<br />
1 teaspoon vanilla<br />
2 cups canned or pureed pumpkin<br />
4 eggs<br />
2 cups flour<br />
3 teaspoons baking powder<br />
2 teaspoons baking soda<br />
1/4 teaspoon salt<br />
3 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice (or whatever proportional combo you like best of cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and maybe some ginger)<br />
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.<br />
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Combine the sugar, oil and apple sauce. Add the pumpkin and vanilla and then beat in the eggs one at a time. Mix all of the dry ingredients in another bowl, then slowly add the dry mixture to the wet ingredients.<br />
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Grease a mini muffin tin or use baking cups (I found some really cute ones at Michael's for about the same price as the plain white ones). Fill about two thirds of the way.<br />
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Bake for 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean and then flip the cupcakes out onto a cooling rack.<br />
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While the cupcakes are cooling make the frosting.<br />
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<b>Cream Cheese Frosting</b><br />
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16 oz cream cheese<br />
1/2 cup butter<br />
5-6 cups powdered sugar (can add more for thicker frosting)<br />
2 tsp vanilla<br />
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Beat the butter and cream cheese together, then gradually add the powdered sugar and finally the vanilla (and any food coloring you may want to use).<br />
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Frost the cupcakes and enjoy!<br />
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You'll end up with a lot of frosting, so unless you like gobs of frosting on your cupcakes, I recommend halving the recipe (I ended up with a bunch leftover; not that having some extra frosting in the house is a terrible thing!). This frosting is fairly soft, but if you want to firm it up a bit just add more powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. The frosted cupcakes should be refrigerated.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Inspiration for cupcake recipe found <a href="http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/pumpkin-cake-iii/Detail.aspx">here</a>. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-78975818080976056812010-11-04T22:17:00.000-05:002010-11-04T22:17:07.885-05:00Blitzed OutI guess first of all, it turns out Blitz isn't a Leonberger mix. A guy from the Leonberger rescue came out to meet him and said that he's not a Leo at all. So we're going to go with Shepherd mix. I still think he's got some Giant Breed dog in him, though. So my new best guess is that he's a Shepherd and Newfoundland mix. I finally got a chance to weigh him and at about 6 months old he weighs 60 pounds, but is definitely still underweight by 5-10 pounds. Really, it doesn't matter what breed Blitz is or isn't. What we do know is that he's going to be a very large, very awesome dog.<br />
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The weekend before Halloween we had a party where we invited friends to come over and carve pumpkins. We always carve pumpkins in our screen room, which is essentially in the backyard, so of course we let the dogs run around and play while we played, too. I knew our friends Meaghan and Eric would love Blitz because they love big dogs and his personality was right up their alley. While we were carving pumpkins Thomas and I could both see how taken Meaghan and Eric were with Blitz. <br />
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Later that week I talked to Meaghan about perhaps babysitting Blitz for us in the near future, that is, if he wasn't adopted the following Saturday. She said she'd talk to Eric about it, but to definitely, <i>definitely,</i> text her after the adoption show to let her know if Blitz got adopted.<br />
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Saturday morning rolls around and as I'm driving Blitz to the adoption show Eric calls me. Here's how it went down:<br />
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Eric: Hey, where's that adoption show you guys are at today?<br />
Me: It at such and such roads in such a city.<br />
Eric: Cool. We'll be there in a few minutes.<br />
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And so just a few minutes after Blitz and I arrived, so did Meaghan and Eric. They immediately filled out the paperwork; they said they just couldn't let anyone else adopt him. So that was that and I sent Blitz home with them.<br />
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Blitz is now named Ronin and is getting along quite well with his doggy brother, Henry. I'm so excited that Meaghan and Eric adopted Blitz. They are really amazing dog parents; few people would go to the lengths that they do for their pups. And on top of that this also means we'll get to see Blitz grow up and Dash will get to have play dates with him.<br />
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Here are two pictures of Ronin from his first weekend in his forever home<br />
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Pretty sweet, isn't it?<br />
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I mean really large. Here's the bowl with a can of pop for size reference. It was over 5 pounds of pumpkin seeds!<br />
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With so many seeds to toast the idea of laying them all out on a cookie sheet to bake them seemed arduous. So while I decided what to do I soaked the seeds in heavily salted water for a day in the fridge and then drained them and popped them back in the fridge for most of another day. <br />
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Instead of baking them I used a large pan on the stove. I used just a tiny bit of olive oil, just enough for a super thin layer to coat the pan, maybe 1 tablespoon. I put it over medium heat and once the oil was hot tossed in enough seeds to cover the bottom of the pan.<br />
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Every few minutes stir around the seeds to make sure they're getting cooked on both sides. Cook for a total 8-12 minutes, depending on how much moisture your seeds retained. Once cooked dump the seeds onto a plate with a paper towel to absorb excess oil and salt to taste.<br />
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They turned out really good; I don't normally like pumpkin seeds much but these were delicious and made the whole house smell nicely of pumpkin seeds.<br />
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Obviously we weren't going to eat 5 pounds of pumpkin seeds on our own, so I put them in cute bags to give our to our friends. <br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762800453751405014.post-75780802703785065672010-10-22T16:35:00.000-05:002010-10-22T16:35:00.482-05:00It's Blitz!On Tuesday afternoon I was supposed to pick up our latest foster dog, a six month old Golden Retriever. I called one of the foster coordinators to let her know I'd be late to get him when she told me that he'd actually been adopted out already by one of the surgeons at Chicago Animal Care and Control. I was thrilled that he'd already gotten adopted and this also freed up some time in my afternoon so I could relax a bit and eat lunch instead of rushing about like I thought I would have to.<br />
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Shortly after I got home the foster coordinator emailed me asking if I wanted to take a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonberger">Leonberger</a> puppy that had come in as a local stray instead. I was super excited; I had actually seen his picture in an email the night before with the other new dogs coming in that needed foster homes but couldn't take him since I was already supposed to be getting the Golden puppy. As a double bonus, this dog didn't need to be picked up for a few hours, so I had time to get things in order before picking him up.<br />
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So here's Blitz! He was neutered on Tuesday morning, so he'll be sporting the Cone of <strike>Shame</strike> Destruction for the next week or two. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>He's about 6 months old and is nearly as big as Dash, but his paws are bigger and you can tell that he's still got some growing to do. Blitz should probably weigh about 50-60 pounds right now, but when you pet him you can feel his ribs and spine (the fur is decieving!), so I'm sure he's far under that at the moment. Luckily he's a great eater so I'm sure we'll have some meat on his bones in no time. <br />
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One thing is for sure though, this puppy is cute! He has that innocent expression on his face that tells you he's still just a baby. <br />
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Blitz appears to be house trained, knows a few simple commands and is a ham for the camera. As soon as I started taking pictures of him he got up to pose for me; I had a hard time getting pictures of his full body because all he wanted to do was sit pretty and look at the camera!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Leonbergers are a relatively rare breed, so the fact that Blitz was found wandering about is kind of surprising. But at the same time, this probably means he'll be adopted quickly, because dogs like him usually get snatched up in a millisecond (supply and demand hard at work!). Leos are part of the Giant Breeds of dogs, in the same class with Saint Bernards, Newfoundlands and Great Pyrenees. The story is that Leos were bred from these other dogs to resemble a lion like the one on the coat of arms for Leonberg, Germany<br />
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I totally see the resemblance, don't you?<br />
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