Matsutake!

Hahah! Angie is so cool! She suggested Matsutake as a name for the dog (Shiitake having the obvious nickname problem), and I think Matsutake is perfect, ’cause the puppy is from the Mat-Su (Matanuska-Susitna) Valley! Hahah! Isn’t Angie *clever*? Ted, Ted, what do you think of Matsutake? The matsutake mushroom: The North American Armillaria ponderosa or White Matsutake is one of the best edible mushrooms and has a distinctive spicey/piney aroma. Traditional with rice or in soup, but great with almost any dish or grilled. This doesn’t mean we get…

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hmph

I think the animals have just defeated me in a battle of wills, or something. The puppy (Shiitake, she sayd tentatively) was snorfling around her food dish looking pathetic and hungry, so I filled up her bowl. Doing this made Zilli come runrunrunning into the kitchen. Rather than deal with Zilli eating the dog’s food and then pooping icky poop all over the house, I filled the cats’ dish, too. Maybe, she said, pathetically hopeful, if they’re all free-range and have enough to eat, they won’t eat each other’s food…

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accomplishments

Things I have accomplished today: yoga. walking the puppy. eating breakfast. fixing some bugs. showering. Things I have not accomplished today: making bread. writing up my review process stuff for work. Hm. Looks like I’m ahead so far. Making bread isn’t that much of a bother, except I have to wash the bread machine thingy, which is why I haven’t gotten that far yet. Writing up my review process stuff *is* a bother, and I’ll probably wash the bread machine thingy before I do the review stuff. o.o

Shiitake

We think we have named the puppy! We think her name is Shiitake. Because she likes hiding in cool dark places, but we thought Mushroom wasn’t a good name. :)

weekend writeup mark 2

Brownies are finished, puppy lady is called (and she was very glad I’d called, so that’s kinda nice), puppy is now wrestling a blanket to death. Grr, argh. :) Anyway, we went to the pound and there were a couple of very cute Rottie/lab mix puppies, and we thought about getting one, and we went to ask our landlord if we could have a puppy (and paid rent, and I talked to the landlady, actually, not the landlord, and explained that our stove burners don’t light when the oven is…

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