Here we are and the year is speeding along. Garden is dieing. POO is on the mend enough to be playful again. Car starts...most of the time.
My refrigerator problems have been fixed. It will take me the rest of the year to replace the food I lost.
The grocery store where I shop doesn't understand what small sized pasta is and my efforts to help the manager haven't gotten me what I want. In the past I could go to another large store and get all of the shapes and sizes I wanted along with yogurt and specialty items. That store changed management and went bankrupt in short order. I didn't like the new and last manager and that is why I stopped buying from them exclusively.
So I guess I will start making my pasta here at home.
In the mean time POO and I are enjoying summer fruit ( he decided watermelon is tasty ).
I'm very happy for him because he has lost 2 lbs. He is at 14 lbs. but the best I've been able to get his weight down to is 11 lbs. He is 10" at the shoulder but because of his breed defects he is 15" long. In other words he does not come close to conforming to poodle standards. And every time he suffers because of his breed defect problems I get really mad and think mean thoughts about puppy mills and the mindless merchants who support them.
Got myself a blender to go with my food processor and I'm off to find some ways to make pasta.
Oh, oh, here he comes again and he is after me for something.
I'm off to see what he has done this time-
towwad
2 comments:
From what I've seen, a significant number of purebred dogs have breed defects. Heck, our cocker-spaniel-esque mutts have them. One had hip issues and constant ear infections, and the other has similar issues with ear infections.
But we love them anyway. :-)
It is true that purebred dogs and other animals have breed defects specific to their class and individual lines.
AKC list a number of them in their conformation requirements.
Hip problems are common among many breeds and some purebred cats have a problem with their eyes. One type of dog has a problem with deafness.
On an up note about ear infections, POO had a problem with that and his Vet. and I decided to put him on (R)evolution.
Love is a value judgment and I care about POO. It is his job to have my back and I am going to continue to have his until he let's me know he is ready to cross the the "Rainbow bridge". I hope that is a few years from now.
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