Day: December 4, 2010

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Another Way to Heat Up the Rig

My rig smells like heaven right now.

Dinner was awash with the taste of north Africa thanks to rice, veggies, and chicken cooked with Taboo’s Moroccan spice blend. It wasn’t my first time breaking out these spices, purchased the Kelowna art show, but it was my first time adding them to rice. The scent was diffused into steam by the rice cooker and has wafted into every corner of Miranda. I added browned chicken, veggies, and raisins to the rice cooker to make a pretty decent imitation of a tagine.

The spice blend has only a faint touch of heat and is mostly sweet, but it is evocative of the desert and a scorching sun. It had a profound psychological effect on me tonight. It wasn’t really that cold and damp in here before dinner, but all of a sudden, it feels like there’s a blazing fire in here. Lovely! And YUM!

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Trying To Wear Down the Dog

Midnight has been really excitable today and no amount of puttering around outside with me seemed enough to soothe him. So, I finally pulled on his sweater and took him for long walk up the ridge into the desert, out to the main road that leads to town, and back, a distance of several kilometres. When we got home he curled up in his bed by the heater, so I think I succeeded in tuckering him out! Little does he know that a long afternoon walk does not mean forgoing the longish after dinner walk. He wanted exercise today and he’s going to get it, bwa ha ha!

(I’m not enjoying having a dog around. Not at all. 😀 )

It was pretty warm around noon, enough for me to be able to fill up the fresh water tank, but it’s since gone down considerably. We’re entering a stretch of very cold nights and above zero days. Suits me just fine!