A cooking kind of mood settled on me this afternoon and I checked out the kitchen for inspiration. My eyes fell upon a bag of serrano peppers grown by a coworker and gifted to me. A quick check of allrecipes.com (one of the best recipe sites Evah, I am convinced!) yielded a delight that has flat out made my evening.

( What's Cookin'? )

"A difficulty is a light; an insurmountable difficulty is a sun"
- Paul Valery, French poet and philosopher

...and found it such a beautifully succinct summation of how it is that I would like to approach and keep perspective on all of life's difficulties that I wanted to make sure I could easily find it again. Also figured it was definitely worth ( Read more... )

To the ever-stunning
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 Ripped apart, she was finally whole. 

...when my schedule gets all thrown off.  Its not that I do poorly really, its just that I like my little routines.  I enjoy getting my schedule tossed around a bit too, but then I have trouble kind of settling down again and getting caught up.  I feel like I've kind of been behind on everything ever since returning from CA.  Its all good though - ( Read more... )

All the comments are very much appreciated.  Kayla died at around 3 am Saturday morning.  I moved her onto her bed when I arrived home a little after 4, covered her up and let her pack come to her.  Rocks laid up against her, one paw over her body.  Later in the morning I took her to the humane society, where she will receive a private cremation.  ( Read more... )

My oldest dog, the Mama-dog of our little pack, is dying.  Not in the abstract sense, either.  She has been diagnosed with lymphoma after a couple of trips to the vet.  At first, I thought she would be one of those dogs we heard about that would do alright on steroids and rest.  If that were the case, we could have as much as a few months with her ( Read more... )

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Thursday, before work so inconsiderately intruded on my evening, I headed over to the Indian River Inlet where the Center for the Inland Bays has its headquarters. They were holding an informational meeting about how to volunteer to help out the diamondback terrapins. ( Terp Patrol )

Tonight I invested a very modest amount in this. I am going to be a'compostin'! A coworker and I have been batting around different ideas for composting lately and he is in the process of constructing his very own barrel composting contraption. Not being so handy as he is, I decided to jump-start my composting efforts with this store-bought ( Read more... )