Scattelogical ramblings and desultory humor - Frostfree?

Golria You did everything you could, sometimes it's best to says omething and walk away.
I am out of the Midnight raids to save plants, and plant seeds where they belong, stage.
When I was younger and bolder my boss and I sewed "bread and butter poppies" you know the pink ones, sometimes double salmon with blue green leaves.?
Anyway, my boss had a 1gallon baggie full of seeds. I drove the interloop and threw them out the window by the handfull sometimes I parked and threw them really far off the road,where the state and county had just scrapped the earth bare around an interchange.This was at 5AM no traffic.
I was dissapointed in the outcome. Not many germanated where I wanted to look at them en mass .

It took 3 years to get the local (Its still 25 miles away) Walmart to carry bareroot roses in the early spring. The garden manager still tells me every time I come in: were getting a shipment of Knock Out roses.

I just mumble - I hate them. I hate them. I hate them.

Poor guy. He doesn't under stand. He has no idea what a rose is, or what one might look like.

the deal is: somebody somewhere is growing these plants. There might be something worth buying if you can get it when they unload it off the truck. two days later it will be dead from the heat and no water.

My own fault. I did choose to live in rural Alabama. And you can buy plants on the internet, or grow them from seed if you really really want them.

My Keeshond is a proffessional THIEF. Candyce will know this. Bought 4-six packs of Hershey Chocolate bars. Went into another store came out and 5 of the six were proffesionally unwrapped and ate. Of course it was the package with almonds not the regular. This rubber neck dog did not feel well yesterday but is still kicking today.

Oh how well I understand that, Sherrie!
Our Kees would eat anything mint flavored. He absolutely loved raiding an entire bag of York Peppermint Patties .... and then, one day he even ate my brother's menthol cigarettes! Too funny ~ and he was never sick from eating the cigs!

The first two I had I could get them to eat olives, pickles, Jalapenos and hot red cherry peppers! Oh they would lick for a long time. The funniest was a gummy bear, it glued the jaws shut for a few seconds but they wanted another.

Here's an article on chocolate toxicity for dogs. It can be deadly.

http://www.essortment.com/all/dogschocolate_rcbr.htm

Even for chocolate labs??

Victor is just too funny.

Your right Pirl I always wait for the punch line---lol

Especially chocolate labs - they already have an excess.

If you want to give your dog a treat - get him saw raw meat in the meat department.

Yuk. I hate raw meat and I am vegetarian. But I buy my dog a pack of stew meat or chuck steak when I go to the store.

Last fall, my sister made giant(10 inch) jack-o-lantern cookies for sister day, individually wrapped. I put mine next to my jacket in the living room. It was missing, plastic wrap, crumbs and all. My sister has 2 labs. I don't know how they didn't leave frosting smears.

I had 2 dogs....Jasmine weighing in @ 65lbs. and her son Bandit weighing in @ 130lbs. They ate a 13 X 9 pan of Scotcheroo's and didn't die...didn't even get sick.

But didn't sleep for 18 days...

I think chocolate poisoning has to do with nerve damage which may or may not result in sickness or death.

Chocolate should be saved for me!

Well I WAS P. O. when i came home and found it all gone without getting to taste it!

So the dog came close to being murdered anyway!

Nope....all they had to do is look at me a certain way and I melted and they knew it. Was only mad because I knew it could of killed them and they didn't save me one.

Long ago I made a huge Paris Brest (no, Victor, don't say a word) and had no room in the refrigerator so I put it on the porch table so it would be nice and cold for a New Year's Eve dinner party we were having. The one and only time our Collie touched any food that wasn't his was that night. He ate half of it.

I sped to the kitchen, before company arrived, and made it from scratch for the second time that day.

So many possibilities...

Sweet relief!

Years ago I had a wonderful red dobie who was a real joy and sooo well behaved. He knew that he could not have any food, even food left on the floor unless it was in his bowl. During a family get together when we were playing cards sprawled out on the floor - he gave a big yawn and then lay down on the floor and his head just "happened" to fall on to a plate of apple pie! He was such a smartie!

A photo of it: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/64/13/23051364.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jupiterimages.com/itemDetail.aspx%3FitemID%3D23051364&h=250&w=195&sz=28&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=AzNsFqtbsdZ0uM:&tbnh=111&tbnw=87&prev=/images%3Fq%3DParis%2BBrest%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Wow, that looks yummy!

Brest is the name of the city in France that it honors.

C'est une yummy confection, oui?

French Confection? Wasn't that a movie?

My keeshond stole a pork chop right out of the broiler.

Ouch! It must've been hot.

My friend's mutt stole a huge leg from the Thanksgiving turkey. She didn't want to give it up, so she kept running around the house with it, dropping it every couple of seconds because it was so hot. In hindsight, it was hysterical. At the time, we were very mad!

Like in Christmas Story!

My mom went off to church and left a roast (covered with foil) on the table and realized they left the dog in the house. She expected it to be gone when the family returned but there was the dog, sitting near the table and a pool of drool in front of him. He was rewarded.

Oh yeah! I forgot about that scene in A Christmas Story.

Oh, gosh! A pool of drool! What a good doggie!!

Several years ago our doorbell rang and a neighbor had our escape artist, lab retriever in tow. While I was being neighborly and contrite at the door our three legged Shepherd mix was chowing down on a marinating tenderloin he pulled down from the counter. We had guests due within the hour. What was supposed to be a major meat fest turned in to one of those hors d oeuvres and wine evenings. The dog looked like a barrel for a couple of days.

Laurel

Oh, oof! He ate the whole tenderloin?

It helps to have a dog that's too short to reach the counter.

Does anyone remember the dog in the old TV series, The Avenger's? It was an Irish Wolfhound and his head was even with the kitchen table and shown in the intro each week.

The uncut bakers chocolate is deadly to dogs. Hershey candy bars are milk chocolate and cut in pure chocolate percentage wise. Don't matter Keeshonds are thieves.

Everyone's dog stories are so funny, and bring back so many memories! Is it any wonder that we still love the pooches, no matter what? Even when they are not behaving well, we just love them and love them some more.

yes. Isn't it amazing that these animals have the capacity to wind our hearts around their little paws - and they don't even speak our language or have parents that look like us.

Recently I had to fill out a form, and there was a question of whether I had an Interracial Family. No, I said. I have an Interspecies Family.
So far: two canines, 1 and 1/2 felines and 1 lagomorph. They don't get along with each other - any two of them would have the other for lunch.
But they all love me. Just amazing.

No mater how misbehaving they are, you look at them with those little sad eyes and give in. I got bit by a little black fly #$%#@@ My ear lobe looks like a red Christmas Bulb lit up. Ear on Fire!!!!!

Ice and benedryl - quick!