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[crazycanuck]

X-I can send you chocolate from the Margaret River chocolate factory..or some friendly tim tams..

BM & X what are you two up to?

Must go find gift for SS...

c

[KnottedYet]

In my crock-pot right now:

Beef and Mushroom stew

1 cheap steak, cubed
1 1/2 heads of garlic, cloves left whole
1 pound or so of mushrooms, cubed
1 bay leaf (not as good as the fresh ones in California!)
1 handful of rosemary
water to fill pot to 2 inches below surface of ingredients

Edit: I just added a cubed potato because the stew was lookin' a bit wimpy

One of the very cool thing about cooking with mushrooms is the way they all of a sudden COOK and become cooked mushrooms and juice. I like cooking with mushrooms. Costco sells monster-huge bags of dried sh*takes, and someday I'll try them out. (Mmmmm, sh*take with chicken garlic ginger coconut milk cilantro and Thai hot sauce) (yup, almost Tom Kha Gai)

[Bikingmomof3]

X-I can send you chocolate from the Margaret River chocolate factory..or some friendly tim tams..

BM & X what are you two up to?

Must go find gift for SS...

c

Send the chocolate in care of me. I will make sure she get some.
Tim Tams (where is that drooling smilie?)
We are just having a few wine coolers.

[Xrayted]

BMo3 - I'll have you know I don't pout when I'm drunk... I wistfully reminisce with an edge of melancholy thrown in for effect.

CC - at the moment, I'm listening to AC/DC's Big Balls song and being scolded by BMo3 on the IM. What else did you expect? Oh, wait, just switched to Thunder Struck. A classic...

Turn it up!!!!!!!

[Xrayted]

I'm having Woodchuck Draft Cider - Granny Smith flavor. Very smooth. I could get used to this stuff. (BTW, thank you Kit for sharing.)

[crazycanuck]

no bm..not sending them to you..I know what you do with Tim Tams& Anzacs cookies but not vegemite..

X-did you know the original lead singer of AC/DC is buried in Fremantle..no i've never been to the grave...even if i do like historic graveyards..
Is Back in Black on that CD?

Off to think about what to have for dinner later on..

c

[KnottedYet]

Guitar night at Chez Knot.

My critter. (though mine is a lefty)
http://www.seagullguitars.com/products6.htm

My favorite guitar books (more music theory than "music" books)
"Guitar From Scratch" and "Music Principles for the Skeptical Guitarist" by Bruce Emery. www.skepticalguitarist.com

My callouses are *completely* gone. Ouch. ouch. OUCH.

[DebW]

Simply Barbaric!!!!

I'm eating my dinner (rice spaghetti) out of the SAUCEPAN because it fits on my lap while I sit at the computer!

Thank goodness neither SKnot nor my beloved are here to witness this.

Anyone would do that alone. It's who you'd do it with that counts.

Knot - the visual that invokes. *Ahem* Don't worry about it hon, I'm sure Trek would have no problem helping you eat dinner out of your lap. (yup, I said it. )

The location of the pot may be important too.

My mutt Mae, this is the dog who does not like any other dogs, that is she likes any other animal, even kangaroos but not dogs. She has found a friend. A neighbors young dog (also pitt mix) and she are buddies.

They played together on the lawn today, another first for Mae.

When will Mae meet Stinky Butt Dog?

[Trek420]

When will Mae meet Stinky Butt Dog?

The thought is at a neutral place, maybe meet in the middle like Oregon somewhere dogs are allowed.

www.traveldog.com

[Pax]

The thought is at a neutral place, maybe meet in the middle like Oregon somewhere dogs are allowed.

www.traveldog.com

Hope they get along, a neutral place is an excellent idea...much less posturing that way. Give Mae a snuggle for me 'k?

[kelownagirl]

CC - thinking of you today. Been in Edmonton for 4 days, heading home tonight. Weather's been good - only about -5 and clear. Supposed to have a high of -24 by Thursday so I'm glad we'll be gone by then!

[mimitabby]

-24?? that's COLD!
no matter what thermometer you're using.

[KnottedYet]

Mae is an alpha-dog female.

Stinky Butt Dog is an omega-dog neutered male.

His goal in life is to be bossed around. I don't think there will be a problem. Mae and SBD have smelled each other on my clothes and such, and SBD "gave" Mae one of his stinky ol' stuffed squeaky toys. (more SBD smell, and in a fun package, too!) She reacted just fine. And Mae likes me, even though I smell like SBD.

(Mae likes me cuz i "gave" her a *really* good chewy toy at my last visit: my $1,000 bite splint! Oh, boy! What fun! Crunchy and chewy and smelly! )

[Kitsune06]

X- That's just.... just... naughty. I am frankly just shocked by the things you say here. Shocked and appalled. Thanks for grabbing me by the ankles and hauling me back to planet earth last night, grounding me by force. I know I need to not listen and know better... I just ... need reassurance. Again. and again... and again.
Slept like the dead last night. xDH and his GF had me over after thai and we smoked their hookah, had sake and conversation. Quite soothing. Learned much about the use of the hookah. I can now appreciate the art behind it.
Got a little heady last night, the tobacco goes straight to your head (cooled the way it is, you take more in) went home and started unpacking a bit.
I then went to sleep and slept like the dead.
Woke up this morning and started playing with my wifi... thank god for geekdom.
need to start unpacking more eventually. Took a 'before' pic with all my stuff and the empty rooms... will take (and maybe post) after pics, too.
so at a wifi cafe now downloading programs, uploading pictures, chatting and trying not to fall asleep again

[Trek420]

sorry about that

Mae is a pound pet, lab/pitt/sumthin/sumthin/sumthin/sumthin....she looks like a yellow lab.

She has met and likes chickens, pigs, geese, horses, llamas, a kangaroo, cows, cats that she considers her cats and all kinds of people ... but right after DPITA adopted her I found she went ape shot, nutso crazy dog if she so much as saw another dog.

So Mae and I sat down and had a chat and I told her dogs on this planet are only allowed where dogs can go, so it's likely that she's going to see other dogs because she's not the only one in the world and has to get used to that.

And we worked and worked and worked, I took her to an obedience class (which she had to attend from an adjacent room) and continualy socialise her. I got custody of the dog at the break up, she's my dog.

She may never be a dog I can just set loose in the dog park but she enjoys going there, seeing the dogs, sliding on the kiddy slide there ;-) and getting treats for calm behavior.

And now she has some doggie pals: Presley who is probably the worlds homliest dog who she sees on walks here and likes, a shepard and two dalmations she visits through the fence on walks, something she'd never have before.

But this Mickey dog was an enormous step for her.