dog days Vox 2010-01-01T00:05:24Z anthrogrrl http://dogdays.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e398e7a3c80005/ life after Paradise... Christmas project complete! tag:vox.com,2009-12-29:asset-6a00e398e7a3c8000501240b8b8777860e 2009-12-29T23:33:55Z 2010-01-01T00:05:24Z anthrogrrl http://dogdays.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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I gifted everyone their scarves for Christmas, and they all seemed to like them very much. Whether they like and wear them or not, I learned a lot about knitting in the process of making them, and tried out several new techniques that I had eith...

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]]> Photo Quest -- Christmas tag:vox.com,2009-12-29:asset-6a00e398e7a3c800050123f18ee64e860f 2009-12-29T23:07:01Z 2009-12-29T23:13:43Z anthrogrrl http://dogdays.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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As everyone has grown older, gone to college, and moved out, our family Christmas traditions have changed some over the years. But the center of those traditions is celebrating Christmas with my mother's family on December 24th, Christmas eve. W...

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So, I know that not everyone will care about this post, but I kinda feel like I need to write it anyway. I have been compulsively watching wedding shows on TV for about a year now, and I thought I had an ok handle on what was needed to put a wed...

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]]> Snow Dogs tag:vox.com,2009-12-08:asset-6a00e398e7a3c800050123ddc72d64860b 2009-12-08T20:51:54Z 2009-12-11T16:23:53Z anthrogrrl http://dogdays.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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A few weeks after we started dating, T and I went to the mountains with a large group of friends to go Christmas tree hunting. Cara was about a year old, Diezel a little over two, and I think it was the first time that either of them had seen sn...

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]]> Weekend knitting project tag:vox.com,2009-12-07:asset-6a00e398e7a3c8000501240b821349860e 2009-12-07T19:30:30Z 2009-12-08T20:55:47Z anthrogrrl http://dogdays.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Well, it has gotten cold enough that the hat I made for T just wasn't cutting it anymore. So he asked me to knit him something that would keep his ears warm in the wind without requiring dorky ear-flap ties. I went online and found a pattern fo...

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]]> Instant heirloom tag:vox.com,2009-11-30:asset-6a00e398e7a3c800050123ddd930ad860c 2009-11-30T19:34:26Z 2009-12-20T21:02:39Z anthrogrrl http://dogdays.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

button sheep tail view

Several years ago, I inherited my grandmother's button collection. This was not a collection of rare buttons or anything, just her large chocolate box filled with buttons of all shapes and sizes. I organized them, finding all the buttons that w...

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]]> Walking in a wintry wonderland tag:vox.com,2009-11-19:asset-6a00e398e7a3c800050123ddc044e6860b 2009-11-19T19:29:32Z 2009-11-22T22:53:00Z anthrogrrl http://dogdays.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Took a bunch of shots with my phone yesterday while the dogs and I were walking in the hills. I know, there are only scraps of snow left in these parts, hiding out wherever the sun can't get to them, so people probably won't think this is much o...

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]]> A picklin' fool tag:vox.com,2009-11-16:asset-6a00e398e7a3c800050123dde71807860d 2009-11-16T21:52:02Z 2009-11-16T21:52:02Z anthrogrrl http://dogdays.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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After watching a couple episodes of Good Eats with Alton Brown, I decided to try my hand at making pickles. Not real kosher dill pickles, which are the kind I actually prefer -- those require actual fermentation and that scares me a bit. No, ...

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]]> Photo Quest: Pet Photos tag:vox.com,2009-11-16:asset-6a00e398e7a3c800050123ddbe6d6d860b 2009-11-16T18:23:31Z 2009-11-16T18:23:31Z anthrogrrl http://dogdays.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

cowlick feet ears backyard boot chillin'

I have about a million photos of my dogs, and I think nearly all of them have already been posted on my blog, so I won't go through my old photos. But, oddly enough, just a day or two before this challenge posted I decided to take a bunch of ext...

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]]> Post Secret #78 -- Diagonal Lines tag:vox.com,2009-11-10:asset-6a00e398e7a3c800050123ddbbbf80860b 2009-11-10T20:54:50Z 2009-11-15T06:07:12Z anthrogrrl http://dogdays.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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I went through all my old archaeology photos for this challenge. I found that I use diagonal lines quite a bit. Here are several of my favorites. There has been no editing, with the exception of a little contrast/color intensification and some...

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