It’s the hellhounds’ birthday!
And we’re having duck and champagne.*
Well, they get a little. Or would. If they ever get around to, you know, eating. Sigh.
. . . Later. Okay, they’re eating. So, one more day down and 5475 to go (seventeen is a pretty good age for a dog. Or maybe they’ll suddenly DISCOVER EATING when they get old). SIGH.
However, I’m telling you the duck is lovely. And the champagne. Maybe they were waiting for the champagne. If they’re holding out for champagne, it’s going to be a long 5475 days.
* And stuffing and gravy! And I’m not going to weigh myself tomorrow!
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Happy Birthday, Chaos and Darkness!
Maybe they only like duck cooked with champagne?
COOKED with champagne?!?? The decadent swine. :)
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> COOKED with champagne?!?? The decadent swine. :)
** Naturally, this led to some research about appropriate recipes to tempt their appetites.
I think the Duck Breast with Champagne and Grape Sauce sounds promising:
http://astray.com/recipes/?show=Duck%20breast%20with%20champagne%20and%20grape%20sauce
There’s also the Roast Duckling with Champagne and Orange Juice, but that one has 2 cups of heavy cream:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/duckandgooserecipes/r/bl40312k.htm
YAY!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Chaos and Darkness! :)
PS. And EAT YOUR DINNER! LOL
Happy birthday to you,
A mad whirl of just two,
Impossibly gorgeous!
Happy birthday, hellhound crew – - YAAY! YAAY!
bring in the wrapped boxes – pass the parcel style, let the destruction begin! YAAY!
I’m afraid I’m mean, cruel and heartless, and I passed on the wrapped boxes for SHREDDING.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAOS AND DARKNESS! Smoochies and belly skritches and squeaky toys (where Robin can’t hear their death cries, of course)!
No confetti today. Maybe…rain of puppy treats!
Off to look at the other pictures…
Thank you for sparing me the squeaky death rattles! (The things you remember! :))
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(The things you remember! :))
Well I have to remember some odd bits of information…to make up for all the really obvious things I forget immediately. If this is selective memory, it doesn’t select very well.
Or maybe I looked at the no squeaky toys as a character point that might come back later in the book and be important. In case you’re actually the Big Bad and the only way to defeat you is by giving squeaky toys to the hellhounds.
Hey, that explains the hellgoddess thing….
**Snork.** Careful you don’t burn yourself on that overheated imagination. :)
If this is selective memory, it doesn’t select very well.
******* Yes. I’m there. Sigh. And it selects less and less. . . .
Happy Birthday, Chaos and Darkness! Hooray!
Glad to hear they ate the birthday dinner. Yaay!
–Julia
Salut! Nice champagne! I like the flowers too. This calls for the classic Irish toast: “May the roof over your house never fall in and the people (and hellhounds) under it never fall out.”
LOL! Thank you!
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Yes, happy birthday, and hopefully the next year will bring better things. The duck looks lovely. Makes me think I should cook a whole duck once the weather cools down. Do the hellhounds go for duck? I get a canned dog food that’s made from duck and it goes over very well indeed with the Alpha Bitch.
They get fresh chicken and stock over an organic ‘complete’ kibble-type dog food. The dog food has various flavours, and I always wonder if that’s a marketing device or whether they actually taste different to the dog. Duck is one of the choices. and they did get a little real duck last night, and probably will again tomorrow. Hellhounds don’t go for ANYTHING. Although Chaos actually came out of his bed and hung around for lunch today. WHAT?!? He’d recovered himself by supper however. Sigh.
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“Hellhounds don’t go for ANYTHING. Although Chaos actually came out of his bed and hung around for lunch today. WHAT?!? He’d recovered himself by supper however. Sigh.”
Now that the digestive troubles seem to be identified as being the campylobacter, is it known if that type of bacterium does make the guts sore? I was wondering – and everyone here who knows about dogs will probably be smacking their foreheads about now and saying ‘boy is she dumb’ – whether this makes the hellhounds associate food with soreness, thus putting them off said food except when they are really hungry and/or the soreness is slightly less.
No, I think it’s very likely, and it also fits some of the symptoms–sore and/or queasy. But the additional problem here is that sighthounds are notoriously bad eaters ANYWAY. So it’s like how many ways can you LOSE. And apparently deerhounds are especially bad, even on the sighthound spectrum of Not Eating.
“But the additional problem here is that sighthounds are notoriously bad eaters ANYWAY. So it’s like how many ways can you LOSE. ”
Hmm, so their genetic make-up is saying something like ‘exist to chase/run down things = can’t do that if have full stomach/any weight = be a minimal eater’ ?
No, their genetic make up is saying LKI*&^BG$££}09M^MKKFMAKETHEHUMANCRAZY((@#~!!!!!
These ominous words appear on the deerhound Club web site: “They are light eaters for their size.” Some folks go in big for understatement.
LOL! Ow, ow, ow, ow, OW!!
Duck? (*drool*)
Judith
My feeling exactly. :) Duck was MY idea.
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Happy birthday, Hellhounds!
Happies of birthdays — all week long!
:)
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And I see you celebrated with the Veuve Clicquot, too! How decadent! I must thank Rae Seddon for introducing it into my life. That one line from Sunshine stuck with me until I saw the label in a wine shop and realized for the first time it was not fictional. Had to buy it right away to try it for myself.
Beware. Expensive champagne is a SERIOUS vice. :)
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Mmmmm… Mouth-watering at thought of poultry, stuffing and gravy. Methinks there is a craving about to happen…
And happy birthday to your puppies!