Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
We live in the country. We have dogs on purpose. The rest of the critters lived here first but are always entertaining…. Well, sometimes.
The Daily News: “She who gives cuddles and pets” has been summarily replaced by “He who gives toast and sandwich crusts” in the hearts of our devoted canines. They never really bought into the whole diet routine I put them on…. Fat bitches! Mon mari has gone from lounging in a hospital bed to rampaging … Continue reading…
Salad with Avocado and Feta Snakes do not taste like chicken. At least, ours don’t. I’ve lived in this house for more than 4 years, and, though mon mari has always told me there were snakes, big ones, more than a meter long, I never saw them. That error in my education has now been … Continue reading…
Pickled Beets The problem with not having mosquitoes is that without them, there is no compelling reason to have screen doors. One still leaves the heavy, wooden doors open when the weather is nice but, without screen doors, the outside has a disconcerting habit of coming inside. Last summer we had a snake in the … Continue reading…
Go directly to recipe We had snowy white carpeting in our house in Minnesota: for 6 weeks. Our house had been on the market for a year and the Realtor convinced us that, for it to sell, we had to rip out the old carpet and re-do the entire house in brilliant white. We argued … Continue reading…
Go directly to recipe Fox Hunting is no longer legal in Britain. It is, of course, still perfectly legal to put on the pretty red jackets and go madly galloping across the countryside on horses, blowing horns. And, of course, it's still perfectly legal to bring your pack of dogs along for the exercise. It … Continue reading…
Sedi, aka Sweet Pea, my little, brown, German, pointy-nosed bitch, has another name added to the ever growing list: Sedi, the Bunny Slayer. Yesterday, as I was taking the girl-dogs for their morning constitutional, we had AN EVENT! The girls were running ahead as usual. As I came around the bushes towards the lower part … Continue reading…
I just heard our pointy-nose, German dog struggle up the stairs. Time to come up and nap in the warm office. She has arthritis in her back hips and, on these damp days, the stairs are a challenge. Six years ago her vet in Andorra told us she shouldn’t be allowed to go up stairs … Continue reading…