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Queen Moe

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Our dog Moe sleeping on the couch, on her back

Moe, stretched out on her couch, sleeping

Here is Moe, queen of our house. Moe was an abandoned street dog we took in over 12 years ago. We think she was about 1 year old when we rescued her, making her 13 now. As queen, Moe sleeps wherever she wants to.

(Fortunately, she’s too short to jump up on the bed, or that last sentence wouldn’t be true. I let a dog sleep on the bed — once — and that was one time too many.)

Our dog Moe, sleeping on the dog pad in the dining room

Moe, on her dining room pad

She looks to be part Australian Cattle Dog, maybe. The other parts, who knows.

We actually took in three abandoned dogs at the same time and named them Curly, Larry and Moe. Curly and Larry were brothers (black and white mixed breed) but weren’t related to Moe. Curly and Larry have died, leaving us with Moe as our only non-Labrador.

Moe hanging out on the carpet

Moe hanging out on the carpet

Moe in the kitchen, looking for crumbs

Moe in the kitchen, looking for crumbs

Weekly Photo Challenge: Create

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What a coincidence! I finished Session 3 of my Longhorn appliqué wall hanging and WordPress chose “Create” as this week’s photo challenge. And here he is, Dippity-Do after Session 3, where I finished the Longhorn body. I see that I need to tweak one of his back legs, where it looks like a pirate’s peg leg.

The body of an applique, a Texas Longhorn

The headless Longhorn

I still have to arrange the grass, sky and clouds. The pattern is by Susan Cranshaw.

The Longhorn applique, all pieces shown together

Now he has a head and horns!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Create

Peeling Kiwi

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Alert the media. I peeled my own kiwi.

Buying already-peeled fruit is one of my guilty pleasures. It costs more, but I consider it well worth it to be able to sit down and eat mushy fruit without getting my hands all, well, mushy.

But yesterday, yesterday I decided I would just try to peel the kiwi myself. This time I used a peeler. (I’d call it a potato peeler but I cook potatoes without peeling them now. It’s the kitchen utensil formerly known as a potato peeler.) Last time I used a knife and did not get the peeled results I wanted. Peeling kiwis with a knife took a lot of the fruit flesh with it.

Using a peeler, I did okay. The third kiwi gave me some trouble. The peeling part was fine, but then I tried to slice it. The center was hard and resisted my cutting efforts. I stood the kiwi on end and tried to cut it like a pineapple. And got mostly mush.

I ended up eating that one standing over the cutting board. Two out of three isn’t bad, so overall I consider it a success.

Maybe the trick is in knowing which kiwi to buy, knowing how to pick the ones with soft centers. I haven’t figured out how to do that, so that secret is safe with whoever knows it.