This darling little (ha!) creature was hanging out on our screened door the other day at the crack of dawn because we forgot to turn off the front porch light from the night before. Holy moly. He, or she, was huge! Of course, I had to go wake up Sarah so she could take a look at it and do her normal researching to find out "what the world" it was. Hence the pictures that follow. Eumorpha pandorus, or otherwise know as the Pandorus Sphinx Moth, is it's correct identification. Pretty amazing creature. Even more mind boggling is that the caterpillar from whence it came is a bold red fat looking guy with white spots! God is amazing to detail, isn't he?
Then there was this guy:
We don't know exactly what in the world he was except really ticked off and very grouchy! Our cat tried to figure it out, but to no avail. It has monstrous looking pinchers and funky wings! It was on attack with those pinchers going crazy.
So, when Sarah is not doing her entomology, she has taken on a new venture!! Vegan dog treats! I would love to go into some wild story about wanting to get my dogs on a raw diet and what-not, but really it's just because I am too cheap to buy dog treats at the store and I had all of these ingredients in my cabinets!
So, here ya go:
1 1/2 cup water and 3 tbs vegetable oil in the mixer and mixed a bit.
Mix together 3 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour, 1/2 oatmeal, 1/2 cup of pumpkin seeds, 1/2 cup diced carrots, 1/2 cup diced celery in a separate bowl then add it to the water and oil and mix.
Roll out onto the counter after kneading it a bit. (Rolling it into the shape of the state of Louisiana is completely optional.) Roll about 1/4" thickness and cut into whatever shape floats your boat or butters your toast.
She was doing these for training bits, so small rectangles is what we were going for here.
The actual recipe said to cut into dog bones and she tried a few of those and was glad we did small rectangles for the rest!
And Virginia and Chantilly are happy campers so far!
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