some chili
auggggggggggggg!
That’s me for the first minute of icing my ankle each time.
Drizzle and gray skies welcomed us this morning. It was one of those days when you are happy enough to snuggle with the pup for a few more minutes – especially since you can’t run out for a hike in the rain due to a bum ankle. Perfect timing to make a double batch of chocolate stout chili! The jalapeno peppers had some zing to them this time.
onions, peppers, and garlic are good for you
bowl of steaming hot goodness
The first bowl is always a little soupy, but when I ladled the whole batch into tupperwares this evening, the consistency was thicker. Yay for crock pots!
We had planned to go to Boulder for sushi tonight (MIL gave us a couple of gift certificates to some of our favorite restaurants in Boulder for our bdays), but a heavy fog rolled in this afternoon, or rather, the ceiling dropped below 8500 feet – same thing. I love the stillness of the air when that happens, and the way sounds are sucked into the damp. Even better than that is right after a fresh snowfall when all echoes are absorbed by the snow that is padding everything, and the clean feeling you get when you draw in a sharp, cold breath of air and exhale as if you are a tea kettle. Anyway, we ordered pizza, which we haven’t done in a while – but there are some days when I want to eat something I didn’t cook for dinner. The whole wheat crust was particularly well done today. Sleepy now…
