Good day fellow bloggers! This is The Daily Bone and I'm your doggie reporter
Chester L. W. Spaniel.
I am happy to report that the snow is all gone from my yard, and we finally have a few little flowers blooming!
Sorry I haven't been keeping up with the Saturday Yum Yum Report. But ghostwriter's been working a lot and most of the meals lately consist of scrounged up leftovers. Ghostwriter and Dad did go out to their favorite Thai restaurant Tuesday, the King & I on East Henrietta Road. Here's what they ate:
They also went to the Yummy Garden Hot Pot Restaurant a couple weeks ago after that big snowstorm. There, you can have a big pot of broth cooking right at your table. (It's great on a cold day!) You add things a little at a time, then scoop them out into your bowl.
The cooking pot.
Along with your pot of broth, you get a platter of basic things to add to your soup, like bok choy, broccoli, crab sticks, rice sticks, fish balls, an assortment of mushrooms, cubes of taro, and a raw egg that you can crack and swirl into the soup. Dad drops the whole egg into his soup and lets it cook in the shell. You can then order lots of other stuff to put in your soup, like thinly shaved meats, seafood, tofu, noodles, extra mushrooms or vegetables, and dumplings. There's also a condiment bar to further customize your soup. Ghostwriter always gets the herbal broth, and adds udon noodles, with oyster sauce and sesame oil on the side. Here are some of the combinations she made with her soup:
Shitaki and enoki mushrooms, fish ball, fish cake, lettuce leaf, noodles
Rice stick, bok choy, taro cube, crab stick, noodles
Ghostwriter say it's a very messy way to eat, but lots of fun, especially if you go with a big family and everyone can share! If you don't want soup, there' s a traditional Chinese menu you can order from too. There's something for everyone!
And now for the food watching themed funnies:
The Other Coast
Take It From the Tinkersons
Mutts
And now I'd like to present a collection of classic food watching photos of my esteemed late colleague Joseph (Joey dog) Spaniel, who crossed the Rainbow Bridge nine months ago.We still miss him terribly!
Please pass the meat.
Grilled chicken, rice, and vegies. Simple, yet elegant.
Now, THAT'S what I'm talking about!
Home made vegetable soup with beef and barley. Yum!
Pot roast with gravy. Heavenly!
Learning from the Master.
A Zweigle's hot dog with pickle, tomatoes, and corn.
A delicious pear from my back yard pear tree.
Carrying on the tradition.
Oh, and don't worry. I didn't fall off the couch yesterday.
Hello fellow bloggers. This is The Daily Bone and I'm your dedicated doggie reporter
Chester L. W. Spaniel.
It seems history has a way of repeating itself. For example, I'm going to show you what I wrote in The Daily Bone way back in 2013 regarding government spying on USA citizens. I think you'll find it funny.
The NSA is collecting your phone calls in order to screen out possible terrorist activity. Some people think this is an invasion of privacy. I'm of two minds about this. First, now that the terrorists know this, they'll find other means of communicating. Second, I can't think of anything more boring than listening to billions of phone calls! In fact, maybe they should start using them as a form of torture. Imagine how fast a would-be terrorist would spill his guts if he had to listen to your phone calls for hours and hours! To prove my point, you can listen in on my next phone call to my esteemed colleague, Special Agent Joseph (Joey dog) Spaniel, and here it is:
Fast forward to 2017. Now people are saying the government is watching you through your computer, television, cell phone, and other electronic devices, even the microwave! Yipes! Whatever will they see? Ghostwriter is blowing her nose in a kleenex, and listening to Russian pop music on her computer. Oh my! Dad is sorting through a bunch of pennies and watching a Chinese crime scene investigation series with subtitles on Netflix. How suspicious! Now, be honest, how many of you out there read your text messages while sitting on the pot? Multi-tasking, or toxic gas warfare? And the microwave will be constantly monitoring the fruit bowl on the counter for terrorist activity! Whoa, look out! Commando tomatoes and a suicide apple! Bwahahahahaha!
Instead of wondering about whether the government is watching you clean your ear with a q-tip, or chew a hangnail in front of the computer screen, relax and watch this hilarious video for a while. It'll get your mind off those worrisome things.
Oh, if you're really daring, go to youtube and type in "ello" to find all that Russian pop music. The CIA, the FBI, and the NSA will be knocking on your door within minutes!
Greetings. This is The Daily Bone and I'm your doggie optimistic reporter Chester L. W. Spaniel.
Our snow from the big blizzard last week is melting. We think it will be the last of the big snow storms around here. We can still get snow in April, and sometimes even May, but usually those don't amount to much. So it's time to say goodbye to the snow.
Goodbye blowing, drifting white-outs on country roads.
Goodbye parking lot mountain ranges.
Goodbye driveway monster snow piles, and car boogers, and dirty road salt haze.
Goodbye sniffing for mousies, and wading into snow up to my chest.
Goodbye snow squalls and icicles.
Hello garden Buddha, and puddles.
Hello giant flocks of shrieking grackles.
Hello dreary gray skies, and Canada geese who never really left the area this winter.
