My Dog is Chelsea

I’ve been doing this blog thing for nearly 4 years. My Dog is Chelsea, in all, contains just over 400 posts. That’s roughly 100 posts a year, or about a post every 3 days. Which means, obviously, I used to keep this thing updated on a near-constant basis, considering that these days we’re lucky to [...]

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Hello. Here are some items to help you procrastinate: 1) First and foremost, the most exciting YouTube video in the history of YouTube videos, starring MDIC’s very own dog Calla and Calla’s best friend, Hanu: Hanu does, in fact, catch his treat—it just doesn’t look like it because he immediately begins scouring the floor for [...]

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Why is it that bad parents who ignore their children are allowed to bring them to restaurants, but a well-behaved pup can’t sit at my feet while I eat? I’ve never understood that. Anyway, yesterday I was eating brunch with some friends on the dog-friendly patio of our favorite coffeehouse while Calla quitely snoozed underneath [...]

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Took two days off in the middle of a short work week (tactical error: should’ve taken the whole thing off) to go backpacking in Goat Rocks Wilderness (in the Wenatchee National Forest) with a couple of friends. It was perfect: a leisurely 7-mile hike with excellent company to a beautiful basin, where we pitched our [...]

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Most exciting thing ever: I GREW THOSE EARS. And they were d-fucking-icious! (sorry for the poor image quality—took these photos with my cell phone.) Behold the other vegetables of my labor: You can’t really see them very well, but I’m holding a giant cucumber in one hand and a bunch of carrots in the other.  [...]

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