no fences make for great neighbors!

i may be lonely, but i’m definitely not without company!

all day today, there have been two moose hanging out in my back yard. its amazing. i’ve had quite the week, a rollercoaster you may say. and nothing is morning calming or grounding and nothing takes me away from whatever i may be dealing with then these two moose, just lying there.

i went to go into town today, to get some errands done, and to get dog and cat food. i ran out this morning, ironically! but last night it poured rain and this morning it was -4, so i should have put two and two together, but i hadn’t  really thought about it until i started the car and went to back up. i didn’t move. or i did, but sideways. my driveway consists of mostly hill and a little bit of flatness, but mostly hill. i had a bag of sand, which i emptied. i tried again, in reverse, but to no use. i would make it halfway up the hill and spin out. so after a couple tries i gave up and parked.

after getting my car inspected yesterday we found out that i have a cracked rad. which had yet to give me any trouble, but it was warm out today, and therefore the build up of pressure inside my rad was greater. i’ve been keeping tabs on my fluid levels and there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary until this last time. so i popped the hood and checked. i was clear out of rad fluid. not good. so between the ice on the road and my rad fluid soaking into the road, i wasn’t going anywhere. by car.

i was out of dog and cat food, remember? i had to go to town. i had to do something. i’m just kind of stewing in all this and weather or not i’m going to fight this to the bitter end or not, its still kind of depressing. kind of, is a matter of option. well, anyway…

so I walked the 4 kilometers into town. it was a totally lovely day, warm, partly sunny, breesy and every once in a while, it would snow. it was quite lovely. itook schooner, and he thought it was the coolest thing ever. so many different smells, and then when we got to town, there were people, and dogs…and oh the excitements! lovely. lovely. lovely. so dog and cat food obtained, i hailed a cab (not as romantic as it sounds) and told him to drop me off at the top of my driveway – i didn’t want to feed him dinner!

this is when i first saw the moose, for today. i walked down the driveway, animal food underarm, and up the steps and right in front ot me, there they are, two moose, just lying there enjoying the carefree afternoon. i run inside of course, shutter happy as i am to grab my camera. i snap 10’s of pictures thinking that they be gone before i know it. but this is not the case at all…there are still there now, 5 hours down the road. i just think its amazing. schooner has gone and checked them out a few times, they just lye there, he sniffs, poops and comes back to the house. mission completed i some way i imagine.

i made “baby’s got the blues brownies” its from a cookbook mum got me on a trip to idaho she took last year, and the same book the soup came from.  it’s a fabulous book, and a fabulous restaurant i am told. and if you’ve got the blues or not, these brownies definitely do the trick and paired with cup of tea and a hockey game they do well to rid the blues. 

baby’s got the blues brownies

4 oz unsweetened chocolate (or 3/4 cup cocoa)

½ cup butter ( or ¾ cup butter)

2 teaspoons vanilla

1 ¼ cup sugar

2 eggs

½ teaspoon salt

½ cup flour

preheat oven to 350. grease and flour an 8x8 square or round pan.

melt chocolate and butter together. take off heat and cool. when cool vanilla, sugar, eggs and salt to the chocolate mixture until thoroughly combined. add flour and stir until completely mixed. pour into prepared pan. bake for 40 minutes (this seemed a little long to me, i’d bake for 35 next time). cool on wire rack, then enjoy and feel the blues vanish away!