Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for April 24, 2017

I think somebody is trying to get your attention. Somebody who is a better oenophile than you are, and wonders why you keep cheap Chardonnay in the house?

Ah Rufus is running amok with the Two Buck Chuck……………sorry I’m not as good at this as Susan.

Take it away Susan!

I thought that Rufus preferred Sauvignon Blanc with Sole.

Well, I do. But anyway I would be more annoyed if he was pouring out my good chardonnay! Who taught him to use a corkscrew, anyway?

Rose…. LOL!!

Thanks… I… uh… think?

Maybe you’re waiting for me to say ’

“He’d have better luck with a nice Cold Duck”….

or

“A good Cabernet’s made above a dog’s pay grade…

so a cheap Chardonnay still comes onto play.

If you don’t like the scent… that’s what Rufus meant….

Get out of that chair! Let’s walk somewhere!"

But I’m not going to write embarrassingly bad stuff like that tonight……

Let Rufus write his own “dog”-gerel…

I was only going to speculate that the poor dog misunderstood a lesson from his mother, way back in puppyhood.

She said "if you need something, try whining, my dear…

But he’s always remembered it as "Try wine.

What really upsets Chet is that Rufus is better at using the corkscrew than he is.

Rufus is wining to go out.

No corkscrew needed, those bottles have screw tops.

Which one is Chet?

Chet is very fortunate that Rufus is using the cheap chardonnay instead of the result of drinking cheap chardonnay.

And Susan , many a person has used wine to get something they wanted/needed. So Rufus is simply following that lead.

Champipple anyone?

I don’t know which is worse, what Rufus is doing or what other disrespectful dogs might do that would be the same color.

Funny.

Doggone it, Chet! If you’d buy better wine, you wouldn’t keep smelling the cheap stuff.

Drink it first then deliver the payload.As said at a funeral.Gent asked that really expensive whiskey be poured on his grave when he died.They asked if he didn’t mind them passing it through their bladder first.

is there any kind of chardonnay other than cheap…?