The first days of March bring another loss. Dexter D. Doobers had to go live with a new owner a few days ago. When my roomie and I left for work, Dexter would howl all night long. We had no idea he did this until our crazy neighbor to the north told us a few days ago. Allegedly every neighbor on the block can hear him and has complained to her, which seemed doubtful considering her reclusive nature. Well, Joelle video taped him when we left and found out her claims were sadly true. Poor guy just missed us too much! He barked and howled until the memory card ran out of space and couldn’t tape any longer. After realizing she had a huge problem on her hands she couldn’t really remedy, Joelle decided to give her dog to one of my mom’s friends who has 2 dogs, a kid and a live-in grandma… much more company. I think he’ll be better off there. He spent most of his time doing this:

Looking out on a world he couldn’t experience.. He was forced to sleep all night (or stay up all night if one of us was off) and sleep all day. Our space is tiny and he had to suppress all of his energy and desires to run. He was a good pal and such a “lover dog” as my mom would say. But, he’ll be happier somewhere else.

Great question.

I was all set to post about some killer sweet potatoes I made (from a made-up on the spot totally original recipe). …and I decided not to.
Example A:

The photo I took with my phone makes this masterpiece (if i do say do myself), look like cafeteria food at best. In honor of the food and the money I spent on a DSLR, I’m going to try to take better photos of my food from now on. My buds Catie and Spud are doing amazing work on flickr and I’m super ashamed that my last 2 uploads (hell, all my uploads really) to flickr have been so ugly and myspace-ish compared to their stuff.

PS: I decided to call this week’s recipe adventure “Mom’s Sweet Potatoes”.. Cause I’m weird like that.