Citizen Dog by Mark O'Hare for October 14, 2012

Poor Skip living in the garage.We have company this weekend and Penny’s residence has become under the diningroom table.

Good morning to all the registered Citizens of Dog.

This election has gone to the dogs.

Good Morning, cleo, sugar, Fellow Baby & the rest of the CD gang!

Good morning, CDers!

Greetings from Cape Cod!

(…where it’s grey, windy and raining right now…….. grumble )

Old Cape Cod by Patti Page

It’s A Beautiful Morning

Groovin

good morning people and pets.happy, happy, happy!!!dogs dont take bad photos.

Yes, StelBel. I found the style guide and printed it. I wonder how long it’ll take me to inadvertently toss it out this time.

this guide isn’t as in depth as the kind of things you do, but it’s sufficient for my needs. The only pictures I tend to post are smilies and those are easy, peasy.

Fellow Baby it almost slipped my mind to mention that I dropped by Sears on my lunch break on Friday. To my surprise, they were already selling Christmas decorations. I checked to see if they still had the Snoopy I bought last year. Unfortunately, they didn’t, but they did have this cute little Snoopy about half the size all decked out in his Santa suit. You may want to check that out. I may buy one myself. You can never have too many Christmas Snoopys.

Good Morning Grog, Dry, Cleo, StelBel, noicantspell & all CDers out there.

Good late afternoon Fellow Baby, cleo, sugie, and of course, JP Steve, Stel, Number Six, Woland, jesse and happy!

“Where do you live?” “In the garage mostly!”

Poor little guy!

Stel I wondered, I heard the weather forecast for there. It is gorgeous here. I suspect it is one of the few, if not last one, to be so for this year.

Fellow Baby, left you at message at Ollie.

no power outage here.just rain and gusts.i have a pot of bean soup on the stove, and a package of cornbread muffin mix, ready to mix.i love my home,i just wish i could get into the car and go down to the sea wall for a half an hour or so and watch the waves.

your power was off cleo? Bad storms?

happy, navy bean or Senate bean Soup? And cornbread? I’ll be there! :-) Do you use ham hocks or a piece of ham for the broth?

the weather says WE (im south of cleo, i think) can still get 25mph gusts tonight.

great northern beans.i use bacon or ham hock. this has ham hock.and its a GOOD ham hock. more meat than skin and fat.i started with onion, and carrots. then i added celery heart (including the tender green leaves in the heart).after i deglazed the pot with a can of chicken broth i added the ham hock, beans, some basil, a bit of oregano, some parsley, garlic, a pinch of nutmeg and black pepper.its bin simmering all afternoon.

im being lazy with the corn bread.its just a box of Jiffy muffin mix.

cleo, there’s nothing like having a power outage when you’ve got company. Hopefully you weren’t cooking one of your awesome meals at the time.

Hi Grog!

Hi, Shika.

Good Evening Citizens of Dogs and photo-I.D. dogs

Not to mention dogs with pockets.

Today, we had the blessing of the animals at church. Four dogs showed up. With people in tow. They had a ball playing during the service. I held the hostile little Westie who was the only one who wouldn’t play, the little bully. But he’s old , practically blind and deaf, so I gave him lots of ear scratching.

I hope that next year we have more animals come.

Poor fella!

You slowing down, Shika. I’m keeping up with you. However, I will be cooking shortly.

happy that sounds like A GOOD soup! When I use ham hocks, I generally cook them the day before so they can cool and then I take the fat and grease off. I love to use them for my ham pot pie. They give a good flavor to it.

Hey Jiffy mix is great!

I keep getting interrupted Grog. What are you cooking?

I think happy and cleo should get together and cook for us and we can bring our own treats, like wine, cheese, beer, crackers. You know? What do you think Fellow Baby, shika, and maybe if all the restaurants are booked, Stel and hubby can drop by? :-D

happy did you use canned beans, or dried?

I’m cooking shrimp and angel hair pasta, Shika.

Sounds good Grog! You like angel hair pasta, don’t you?

Hi, guys!

First day here, and I spent all afternoon in bed, not feeling well. Maybe I was overtired, since I feel a little better now, and I sure hope I will continue to feel better. “Ain’t got no time for that!”

I’m cooking my own sauce and whole wheat spaghettini.

Just take it easy StelBel.

Stel I hope you feel better. No fun being sick on vacation. happy’s soup would fix you right up!

And happy you are a gourmet cook, aren’t you? Using dried beans instead of canned, says it all! You take the extra time!

I put together the makings for lasagne today. I found a recipe for Slow Cooker lasagne, and as we all work tmr. I will put everything in the crock including the uncooked lasagne noodles, and we’ll see how it tastes. A friend of mine made it, and she and her hubby said it was very good.

Forgot to say, I will the stuff in the pot when I come home for lunch, as it only takes 3 to 4 hours in the pot. Then it will be ready when we get home.

@Dry

Yes, that soup sure sounds wonderful, especially this time of year!

@Dry

Let me know how that lasagna comes out….I’m intrigued! I would try it.

Good night, everybody! Enjoy your evening!

Shika we always have the Blessing of the Animals on or the closest Sunday to Saint Francis of Assisi’s Feast Day. It’s a pretty decent turnout. Our Parish started that some years ago because our then Pastor had a miniature Schnauzer named Socrates. Oh Socrates was just ADORABLE! I’ve taken dogs and cats of mine. We’ve had guinea pigs, mice, a pot bellied pig, and even a Minature Horse.

Fellow Baby I will check out the Sears Snoopy Santas.

Good Night StelBel. I like that doggy in the picture.

OMG STEL! THAT IS JUST ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE!

I just never knew it referred to a candy.

Shika, I’m not what you would call a pasta lover so I guess the fact that I can at least eat it is a plus.

I can’t say the same for mac & cheese or lasagna.

One of the dogs today was black and white Boston pug mix. Another was part collie and part something else, but he had gorgeous honey blonde fur.

Did you see my comment @ O&Q, Fellow Baby?

Oh and good night, StelBel

Bad Moon Rising

no recipe StelBel.i just put the right stuff into the pot.i don’t measure anything on this one.i poor the herbs into my hand until it looks like enough.i start by cleaning about half of a 16oz bag of beans.use what you like.i boil a pot of watter, take it off of the heat, and put the beans in to soak. 3 or 4 hours.i always start by chopping half of a onion and 2 or 3 or 4 carrots.today i used the last three carrots in the bottom of the vegetable keeper.: ) they were limp, to say the least.if im using bacon i start it first. cut about four slices into pieces about as wide as your thumb, and render the fat out. then you sweat the onions and carrots in that.i f i use ham hocks i cook the onion and carrot in canola oil.when i start getting some glazing on the bottom of the pot, i add my celery. i like to use the celery heart with all the green.dont cook that to long, or you will burn the leaves.add a can of stock for broth and get all the color off of the bottom of the pot thats called deglazing.when that starts boiling i simmer it for a few minuets.then i add the garlic, herbage, spices, ham hock, and beans.return it to a simmer, and cook it the rest of the afternoon.at some point before i serve it (a half an hour?) i take the ham hock out and take the meat off of it and put the meat back into the pot.sooo…as you can see, its not so much a recipe as it is a construction.

what date was the cookbook on?i think i will copy and paste that into the book.

@Citizen GROG!no.im to lazy for that.most of the time i use any low sodium, no M.S.G. caned or boxed chicken broth.i will buy and use a organic stock if i am making something special.

I have on occasion made my own seafood, chicken and beef stock.

Well as they say, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again..

I’ve done so on many occasions – with much better results.

i should learn how.im living in the land of fresh seafood now.

wild turkey?

x-Tech that’s a pretty cool looking Ground Crew you have there! Do they charge much?

Fellow Baby you don’t like lasagne or pasta in general? Man, you sure ain’t an “I Tie” like me!

Na, Fellow Baby, I’m an English/Irish mongrel with a taste for the Louisiana Bayou. I also dig the Asian cuisine with a kick.

JP Steve, where in the world did you find that little ditty? LOL!

And I can make a kick-a$$ Irish lamb stew.

I can’t believe I forgot that Spock died at the end of the “Wrath of Khan”. Thank goodness for the sequel! “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one. I was and always will be your friend, Jim.”

How did you know that I’m watching that movie right now on DVD, Fellow Baby?

From Hell’s heart I stab at thee!

And then they play Amazing Grace!

@ Grog. Sorry about that. My mom called and then I had dinner.

No, the dog was more like a blonde movie star, male, playing up to the ladies. He was the youngest one there at four years old, and still acting like a puppy.

Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most….human!

Pasta tastes great Grog, but it packs on the pounds if you are careful. I guess any food does that though.

I love food and I’m blessed with a high metabolism. Meaning I can eat lots even at (ahem) my age, and stay slim.

Was he a twin?

My internet has been acting up on both IE and FF.

I mean triplet? You posted that three times Grog! :-D

Sure.Sure. Blame it on the internet Grog! ;-)

I think it was there 4 times before I finally saw it post the first time.

And now my posts look silly. ;-(

That episode must be sad.

I liked Spock.

Then I’ll blame it on my ISP, since you don’t seem to be having that problem, Shika

Yes, Fellow Baby as they all were peering out at the vast universe. Just finished watching it on NetFlix. Now we are watching “American Battleship” a SciFi and the battleship is called “Enterprise”.

i onley see one of each…

Enjoy the movie Fellow Baby! I did after not having seen it in so long! That was truly a GREAT movie for any Trekkies! And Ricardo Montabon (sp.) did such a great job. The original series episode with him as Kahn, besides “Mirror, Mirror” was one of their best.

Well, I won’t be staying up that much later to pop in another DVD, Fellow Baby Funny how the even number Trek movies were the best while other movies that had sequels the odd numbered ones were the best,

Yes Shika I can eat like a pig and still stay svelete. Again, spelling, but I am not a fat arse for sure. Still wear a size 10.

Well, Sunday’s nearly done and tomorrow’s just another Manic Monday!

Sigh. The weekend goes to quickly Grog.

Good Night, CD dogs with pockets!

night dude.

im surfing my other favorite site.ill be in and out for a while…

Good Night Grog! Just hope they don’t have a stick of Blackpool Rock in their pockets.

JP Steve. Naughty little ditty according to the comments. But I liked the song and chose to think of it as simply a fun song about candy.

I liked “Granddad’s flannelette shirt.”

@ Six, George Formby had charm, that’s for sure. Isn’t it funny how personality trumps classic good looks often?

Grog, I hope your ISP stops repeating itself! :-D

Time to say Good Night.

happy, thanks for the wonderful soup recipe. That’s a keeper!

Have a good sleep everyone.

Good Night Citizens of Dogs with license to vote and, well, hold a license.

Shika I’m 5 foot 4 and a quarter.

And with that, I will say Goodnight! Hate to though, it has been such a NICE PEACEFUL ;-) DAY!

You too Six!

Out of here. Night!!

replied to you at BB Grog.

Darn you Number Six, you keep beating me to it!

When I’m cleaning Windowst

good night friends.good night people and pets.i got mom to bed, and darned if it didn’t feel like it was easer than normal.maybe all the weight lifting id helping me.now that i said that, im certain to pull something lifting mom sometime tomorrow.: /