2 schnauzers, 1 blog

(almost) Wordless Wednesday

Oliver: I'll take all of Bertie's photo time. I'm nice like that. Generous, even. Besides which, I love the camera. Very photogenic.

And not at all acting like a Ham.

Get Well Soon Bertie

Bertie: I had to go to the vet today.

Oliver: I got to go too!

Bertie: Yes, but it's always fun-er when it's not you who has to go. I got weighed - 12.4 kilos which is ok, 'cause I'm so tall.  And then the vet lady looked at my sore foot, which had a lumpy bit on it and was very itchy. The hoomans had already bandaged it up for me the night before, so I couldn't scratch it.

Oliver: You did look funny!

Bertie: Yeah, thanks. Anyway, the vet lady said it was some kind of benign tumor (eek!) but she said it would go away in a week, and if it didn't, I could have a small operation. So I have some ointment and I have to change my bandage everyday.

Oliver: I think I'll get a cookie every time you have to have ointment put on, so it won't all be bad.

Bertie: Anyway, although the bandage is interfering with my fluffy, it doesn't interfere with my eating, and I won't have to have a bath for a couple of weeks.

Hairy Hairy

Bertie: I need a hair cut.

Oliver: I don't.

Bertie: If I do, you do. Don't think you can get out of it that easily.

Oliver: Maybe I can pass myself off as a Hungarian Puli.

(almost) Wordless Wednesday

Bertie: always with the flashy flashy camera, aren't you? Trust me, it's getting old...

(almost) Wordless Wednesday

Oliver: I hate baths. No more needs to be said.

winter dinners

Bertie: Because it's winter here in Australia, we've been eating what we affectionately call Goop.

Oliver: I love goop!

Bertie: It's more warming than cold vegetables, and we get to have potatoes and lentils and things that need cooking.

Oliver: The potatoes are my favourite.

Bertie: here's the recipe, such as it is. We don't do measuring.

Goop Recipe

process in the food processor some or all of the following:

potato, sweet potato, carrots, broccoli, beans, spinach, beetroot, parsnip, any herbs, tiny bit of garlic

dump in a casserole dish

mix in two or three eggs (process the shells up small and put them in too), 1 tablespoon of blackstrap molasses, 1 tablespoon of linseed seeds, 1 tablespoon coconut oil, some lentils or split peas, or other kind of pulse, or pasta (if it doesn't make you itchy like Bertie)

Now pour in some water, or veggie stock or chicken stock, for the pulses or pasta to cook in, put the lid on and put in a moderate oven until you remember to take it out. About an hour or so.

Bertie: And that's it. You can't really muck up goop. We have it with raw turkey mince.

Oliver: Turkey Mince!

Bertie: And soon it will be summer, and we won't have goop. Instead we will have turkey mince with raw veggies and maybe some fruit.

(almost) Wordless Wednesday

Oliver: JD & Max asked me how big my elephant was now (I pointed out he had mysteriously shrunk since I was a baby puppy)

So here is me and my elephant. He has also changed colour too, this must be some kind of camouflage thing elephants do.

 

and in case you've forgotten the picture of me and elephant on the day I arrived from Queensland, here it is again, because I am so cute, who can get enough of me?

(almost) Wordless Wednesday

Bertie: I can see a problem here...

Oliver: Sasha is a PHOTO HOG!!!!