Right now I'm sitting in the kitchen catching up on blogs and emails and having a nice cup of breakfast tea. This is my morning routine, it would possibly be better without my lovely wee netbook as company but that's a habit I just can't break and it is pretty much the only time I go online these days.
Badger also has a morning routine. He leaps from his bed as soon as I come downstairs, runs out the back door for a wee, runs back in for his breakfast, bombs around the living room with Henry and then joins me in the kitchen while I have my porridge. This is the bit I never realised was happening until I actually watched him this morning. He walks around the kitchen floor with his nose almost on the floor, as he does this is is audibly sniffing for anything vaguely edible. When he finds that vaguely edible thing he either licks the floor or gobbles it up and goes on his way step by step. It's one of those things that you don't really notice as it's a pace here and a pace there and he's very quiet while he's doing it, today I only realised as he was licking a patch of sticky sauce that had gone on the floor for ages. It's really quite disgusting but there is an upside to it, there is never a reason to ever sweep the kitchen floor, Badger eats every crumb that lands on it so I only ever have to mop it - Badger the self cleaning dog in more ways than one!
Friday 29 January 2010
Saturday 23 January 2010
Badger the Chicken
I've been sitting here eating my breakfast and reading blogs for half an hour or so, enjoying the peace and stillness of the early morning. Well maybe not so still, after a while I became aware of constant movment from accross the kitchen. It was one of those vague movments and sounds that is constant and your brain cancels out until it begins to irritate you. So I looked up to see Badger with his head in the chicken feed sack tucking in to mouthfuls of organic mixed corn!
Why?
First Henry and now Badger. At least Henry had the sense to stop immediately and close his mouth and pretend he hadn't been raiding the food, Badger just carried on regardless trying to scoff as much as he could.
I'm sure mixed corn is not the sort of food dogs would naturally eat so I can only assume this is a case of dog in a manger as all the dogs know the chicken feed is for the chickens and follow me out every morning to feed them so I think they are on a mission to eat all the chickens food just so the chickens can't eat it.
Dogs eh?
Completely mad.
Why?
First Henry and now Badger. At least Henry had the sense to stop immediately and close his mouth and pretend he hadn't been raiding the food, Badger just carried on regardless trying to scoff as much as he could.
I'm sure mixed corn is not the sort of food dogs would naturally eat so I can only assume this is a case of dog in a manger as all the dogs know the chicken feed is for the chickens and follow me out every morning to feed them so I think they are on a mission to eat all the chickens food just so the chickens can't eat it.
Dogs eh?
Completely mad.
Tuesday 19 January 2010
Free and Simple Pleasures
Inspired (stolen) from MBNAD's blog here are my top ten free and simple pleasures.
1. Laying in bed first thing in the morning or last thing at night and listening to the sheer and utter silence here. It reminds me of when I used to wake up on my first morning on holiday in Scotland and feeling that exquisite peacefulness and total escape that only this place can have.
2. Lounging on a comfy sofa reading a book, magazine or watching telly with a dog curled into you, bliss.
3. Laughing at and with your dogs, especially when they know they are being funny and they are grinning at you.
4. Radio 4. All of it, except the comedy in the evenings with the exception of Count Arthur Strong.
5. The expectation and running around getting the house ready and making up rooms for people to come and stay.
6.Realising how much I love my collie dog, even though I never expected to have a third dog.
7. Spending an afternoon in the garden doing non back breaking stuff with Radio 4 on and hearing the birds.
8. Sitting outside in the balminess of a summer evening.
9. Absolutlely loving my car when I've spent half a day cleaning and polishing it and realising how great it is depsite it's age.
10. Being happy with me.
There you go, that lot made me feel good just typing it. I think I could go on and on though as there are more than 10 free and simple pleasures to life, like getting all the laundry washed and ironed, espeically if it's been hanging on the line, going for long walks with the dogs, going for a trip back south to see my folks, growing plants, making compost, sweeping paths in the garden, listening to my chickens clucking when they are happy, basking in the sunshine, being warm and toasty indoors when its blowing and rainy outside, and probably one of the very best, looking at dogs layig about exhausted after they've had a long happy walk.
1. Laying in bed first thing in the morning or last thing at night and listening to the sheer and utter silence here. It reminds me of when I used to wake up on my first morning on holiday in Scotland and feeling that exquisite peacefulness and total escape that only this place can have.
2. Lounging on a comfy sofa reading a book, magazine or watching telly with a dog curled into you, bliss.
3. Laughing at and with your dogs, especially when they know they are being funny and they are grinning at you.
4. Radio 4. All of it, except the comedy in the evenings with the exception of Count Arthur Strong.
5. The expectation and running around getting the house ready and making up rooms for people to come and stay.
6.Realising how much I love my collie dog, even though I never expected to have a third dog.
7. Spending an afternoon in the garden doing non back breaking stuff with Radio 4 on and hearing the birds.
8. Sitting outside in the balminess of a summer evening.
9. Absolutlely loving my car when I've spent half a day cleaning and polishing it and realising how great it is depsite it's age.
10. Being happy with me.
There you go, that lot made me feel good just typing it. I think I could go on and on though as there are more than 10 free and simple pleasures to life, like getting all the laundry washed and ironed, espeically if it's been hanging on the line, going for long walks with the dogs, going for a trip back south to see my folks, growing plants, making compost, sweeping paths in the garden, listening to my chickens clucking when they are happy, basking in the sunshine, being warm and toasty indoors when its blowing and rainy outside, and probably one of the very best, looking at dogs layig about exhausted after they've had a long happy walk.
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