Hoochs Present
Posted: Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
The days are going to get a lot shorter soon and I can't beleive that this time last year we were suffering the floods that brought chaos to Kirkwall and a lot of other islands.
Today has been a grand day and I have managed to spend all day out in the fresh air ( well sort of fresh, the local farmer decided to burn a very large heap of bales and were suffering the effects of smoke inhalation yesterday, and probably will for the next few days ) but thats another story.
Our nearest neighbours have been away on a long earnt rest for a week and Hooch and I have been walking their black labrador Moss. They returned on Monday and as a Thankyou they gave Hooch the largest Hide Bone he had ever seen. I gave it to him this morning and from that time until now he has been carrying it around with him afraid that the cat might want it. Not a very intelligent dog is Hooch he doesn't realise that the cat prefers fish.
He has been tossing it up in the air rolling on it slobbering over it and as yet has only managed to make one end of it so disgusting that no one in their right mind would want it. It's his pride and joy
Its a Dogs Life (unless your a cat that is )
Today has been a grand day and I have managed to spend all day out in the fresh air ( well sort of fresh, the local farmer decided to burn a very large heap of bales and were suffering the effects of smoke inhalation yesterday, and probably will for the next few days ) but thats another story.
Our nearest neighbours have been away on a long earnt rest for a week and Hooch and I have been walking their black labrador Moss. They returned on Monday and as a Thankyou they gave Hooch the largest Hide Bone he had ever seen. I gave it to him this morning and from that time until now he has been carrying it around with him afraid that the cat might want it. Not a very intelligent dog is Hooch he doesn't realise that the cat prefers fish.
He has been tossing it up in the air rolling on it slobbering over it and as yet has only managed to make one end of it so disgusting that no one in their right mind would want it. It's his pride and joy
Its a Dogs Life (unless your a cat that is )
Comments
what is the huge paw in the background of photo one?? has FC been alerted? and how is the needlefelting going?
scallowawife from usin a magnifying glass
That's a piece of rock, Scallo. (Mountainman will give you the details if you ask nicely). # Dog and bone would fit right in with the State of Texas pumpkins.
mjc from NM,USA
Slobber, slobber ... enjoy, Hooch!
Jill from EK
Thank goodness your sharp eyes spotted the Paw of the Baskervilles scallowawife, I was almost on the ferry there to see could I wrest the Big Bonio from the Jaws of Hooch. Bejaysus! Honestly, you and your Irish hodilay, I can't get it out of my head. Miaow Hoochikins...
Flying Cat from Distance lends...
Hooch,me old mate,if by any chance (and i do say IF) you can't quite finish your snack,send it over here and i'll content myself with the leftovers! woofie woofies!
oor wullie from its a dogs life
Oor Wullie may get his answer in driblicate...
Flying Cat from dotting the i's and crossing the t's.
Yes it is a rock and not some huge animals foot. Perhaps Mountainman could tell me what type of stone it was that I found in my June 2006 blog ? Mjc we have neepy lanterns here not pumpkin ones
Barebraes from Shapinsay
Stromness flower shop has a pumpking lantern in the window...she's just come up from Edinburgh to take over...I think neeps are thought by Edinburgers to be a bit common...
Flying Cat from you'll have had your clapshot
yes its a bit like a Ford Cortina versus a Rolls Royce to an essex girl. I would pick the Cortina every time.
Barebraes from Shapinsay
Not the Capri?
Flying Cat from remembering a sh*gmobile
Don't ever again mention Ford Cortinas, Barebraes, not unless you want to give me nightmares. I had one (bought new) for three years: repairs nearly bankrupted us, and we literally gave it away at the end.
mjc from NM,USA
Yes neepie lanters were THE thing when I was a kid, but boy, did my hand ache after hollowing it out. So now I cheat and use the pumpkins from the supermarket. No pain and takes a fraction of the time.
Ruthodanort from Unst
Yo, Stromness Dragon: what gives? At times, chastizing a blogger for sheer laziness, on a blog which is not his/her own, works. Shout it out loud to the world, I say. How was the yield of the garden this summer, SD? Did you harvest oodles of beans? and tomatoes? # And what about you Barebraes? Did you have a veggie garden? Did you grow tatties for freedom fries (eh?!) or do you boil and boil the potatoes to death as is the wont of born and bred Anglo Normans? Do you boil the potatoes and neeps together (I don't see why not if you are going to mash and mix anyway)? How are the ducks doing? And is your clapshot any good, Barebraes (did you enter it at the fair?)? And your bannocks? I heard Scallo.'s are out of this world, the pride of Shetland. Do you have pictures of prized pumpkins? You can't leave the field to ArdnortR. without a semblance of competition. And, there you are FC, do your bipeds look down their long noses at vegetable gardening as being below their ken? # Next year, I am going to have a vegetable garden, a big one, a good mid-western one, and I shall certainly shoot any bl**dy deer that comes around looking for nibbles and appetizers. Gee, I am starting to get hungry ...
mjc from NM,USA
If you're going to shoot them, I hope you're going to gralloch, skin, hang and eat them too. You can boil the tatties and neeps together, but be careful to make the neepie chunks bigger than the tattie chunks, or the former will cook too fast and your clapshot will be soggy... liff's too short to grow veggies.
Flying Cat from Ford Prefect
Well mjc what a lot of questions , veggies will be grown next year hopefully as we didnt get time this year, the ducklings are very tasty and clapshot is far better cooked in my opinion in seperate pots, Cortinas were known as Dagenham Bustbins in my time and I was the proud co owner of a J reg WHite one but we didnt have a sun visor with names on it .
Barebraes from Shapinsay
Barebraes, don't tell me it was your Quality Control signature affixed to that Cortina lemon I bought years ago!?! You had something to do with that Dagenham crew years ago, did you not? Or was it the hulk?
mjc from NM,USA
Not the hulk he resided the other side of the water , both parent and granparent aunt and uncle worked for the great Fords emporium. The factory overshadows most peoples lives in Dagenham
Barebraes from Shapinsay
We moved here in September 05 and have met many good friends. What more could you want from life.
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