Oh, this is a cooking blog too?

So, when I first got the idea to start a personal blog, I didn't think my life would be NEARLY interesting enough to base entire entries on. Who wants to read about my children? I mean pets! Are there people out there who like hearing about stressful/awkward situations that could ONLY happen to me? I think not. So that is precisely why I wanted to base my blog around cooking and interior design and home projects and landscaping. Things that really ARE fun and interesting! I even bought a snazzy new camera several months ago to document these activities, step by step. The only problem is I always forget to actually document these activities... What's the point in a birthday cake having been made for me by scratch if I don't have said baker (Sar-bot) take photos and do a guest entry on my blog? Why should I have a giant hill of dirt and 3 massive boulders removed from my yard if I forget to stand out in the rain in my galoshes and hoodie and take pictures of the muddy soil being hauled away? After said mountain of dirt was gone, what was the point in bringing in two truckloads of brownish-black lava rock to make my front yard a little more interesting without some kind of documentation? What's the point in slowly getting around to paint every room of my house if I don't capture the memories of the plain, ugly whiteness? But, in all honesty......WHY DO I KEEP COOKING AND FORGETTING TO TAKE PICTURES?!

Blah.



Ahh! There's something that looks edible. But, what is that? And what does it look like underneath that top crust? And why are there no pictures detailing the actual baking process? And good lord...why is it SUCH a terrible picture? Exactly! Failure.

If you go to www.thepioneerwoman.com/cooking you will see precisely what kind of standards I intend to live up to...mark my word.

I'll be back...

My new black stallion...

Stresses in life sure do make it hard to blog regularly.  I have so many ideas running through my head on great ideas to write about......but I'm a semi-perfectionist.  So if I'm going to do something, I have to do it RIGHT, and that usually sounds way too exhausting to even attempt. 

BUT...in reference to the title of the blog.........

Okay, okay......not THAT kind of stallion!!  (hehe...)

Since my last post, I've added a new member to my family!  Please give a warm welcome to Mr. Pax!  

Supposedly he is about four years old, a Great Dane/Lab mix.  Poor guy was removed from an abusive home and transported down to the local shelter.  I had initially been looking into actual rescue groups for Great Danes or Greyhounds, but they are soooo expensive!  Several hundred dollars, and then you have to pass all of their screenings to make sure you are the PERFECT fit for the dog.  He has such kind eyes, I just couldn't pass him up.  

He and Sienna have so much fun together...

Uhh.....oops!  I meant THIS kind of fun.

They just can't get enough of each other.  Double the fun...but also double the trouble, and poo, and food expense, and dirt, and toots....but double the love!!  Pax has a thing or two to learn about the proper technique of begging (Sienna has mastered that nicely) and how to keep four on the floor, but he luckily already came with "sit" and "lay down" in his repertoire.  

He has even traveled up into the mountains for a night of camping.

And got in a nice little snooze en route back home.

All in all, he's a sweet boy, but just needs a little bit of discipline.  We'll see if that's something I'm capable of.  More to come on the taming of the wild black stallion.

--C