ellen came over on thursday to help me use more of my pumpkin stash. we made really good pumpkin muffins and shared them around a camp fire for house church. i found the recipe for them on a blog called smitten kitchen, and i have fallen in love with it. the food isn't all vegetarian friendly, but i have begun to recognize how to adapt recipes to make the veg-safe. there is a link to the blog on the left hand side of my own blog... but here is a direct link to the pumpkin muffin recipe.
i still have about two cups of pumpkin in my freezer and a small pumpkin sitting out on my porch... however, after all of the pumpkin food, and the two pumpkin beers (dogfish head punkin ale, and post road pumpkin ale) that i had at the heorot on friday night, i think i am getting really tired of pumpkin.
in other news, kevin and i finally got the courage to start crate training milo. last weekend, i went to visit my family, and had to leave milo in his crate for a few hours while we all went out. it actually wasn't a disaster, so all week, we have been leaving him in his crate while we are away. we have a bark collar for him, and it seems to keep him pretty calm... so right now, we are putting that on him when we put him in the crate... just so he can learn that when it is crate time, it time to be quiet and calm. eventually we will phase out the bark collar. he is so well behaved when he is in there... at first we basically had to stuff him in there, but now he walked right in with very little coaxing. i always hated the idea of leaving him in a cage, but now i see why crating is such a popular thing amongst dog owners. it is so adorable to come home and find him fast asleep in there using cheetah (a stuffed animal backpack turned milo's favorite thing) as a pillow.
also, kevin convinced me to let him buy a halloween costume for milo... ugh... i never thought we would be one of those pet owners that puts clothing on our dog... but we are! kevin found a bumble bee costume, and the minute we put him on it, milo was suddenly more adorable. my roommate katie doesn't really like milo very often, but she said, "i like him more when he's wearing it." we had a friend over the other day, and milo kept growling at him. it was so great because he was wearing the costume, and kevin saying, "what does a bumble bee say?" and milo would respond with a very passionate, "rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh" it sounded like a puppy version of a bee sound.
