dogs, dirt, and music Gardening and colliething pups...
... do not mix well. It's fun to have a pup hanging out with you while digging, but when he thinks the hose needs to be attacked whenever it sprays, and the sage you just planted just happens to be in the way... or he thinks it'd be 'fun' to chew up the peat pots you just planted with zuke seeds, well, that's not-so-much-fun. But it's still such a novelty to have a playful youngster around. Oh, and while I was yakking on the phone and hanging laundry, he ran into the neighbor's yard and started tearing through the newly-planted patch of potatoes. Whoops! I smoothed that over with a nice chat (I'm sure I drove the guy crazy with my over-caffeinated enthusiasm for gardening:) and a half-dozen eggs of various colors and hues from the hens, but still... PUPPIES! Ah, I'm sure I will be sad when he -stops- being a pest, so I should enjoy it while I can.

'Shrooms:
Speaking of gardening, I got a Oyster Mushroom kit from Fungi Perfecti, and it's fruiting madly now. I'll have to remember to get some pics. I will harvest and cook up the first batch this evening or tomorrow. I hope to get into more economical cultivation, but thought it'd be good to start simple, thus the kit.

Local music:
We went to hear the Durham band Future Kings of Nowhere in Raleigh last night. Second time we've seen them; they did a nice long double set and every song was excellent. Adorable drummer (of course:) Every song depressing, but also strangely light-sounding in an odd TMBG-sort-of-way.
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  Colliething 2.0

Meet Toad. Colliething-in-training. Expect a flood of pictures soon :)

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  Today's quote Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.  ¶ 1:21 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Frivolosity These nail sticks rock! Unfortunately in my haste I got the stupidest color possible for me - a Barbie-esque pink. I'll have to go back for something lighter and something darker. They're pretty expensive ($6-ish), but worth it I think.
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  Some memories of Ed and Pete

Pete - the magnificent colliething from whom this blog takes its name - died from melanoma in mid-February. Pete has been with me since puppyhood, when my neighbor's child found him in the woods near Manhattan, KS. Ed - the dear, sweet old beagle I kept as one of my rescue projects - died in early March from some cause we did not fully understand. Both lived long and full lives - but not long enough for me.

a few more pictures of my boys are here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/hogarth/EdAndPete
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  Crazy six weeks The colliething lost his battle with cancer. New
colliething-in-training is onboard. Then Ed died. Lost the roo to a
hawk. Got a new one. Updates forthcoming.  ¶ 12:36 AM 0 Comments Links to this post