Chocolate and Cabbage

Walking to the shops today Stitch thought he was quite the thing until he hears the barking of the dogs contained in their shed that is, they are obviously hunting dogs, and there must be about 10 of them, all living together in a shack behind peoples houses, thankfully they are not that close to us because truly I would have to shoot everyone of them, every time a car goes past, or we walk past them they sound like something out of a horror movie, hounds of the Baskerville comes to mind. So after taking a wide berth around the dogs we made it to the shop, and across the road without incident. We took the long route home through the plantations and then headed into town, Stitch no longer hangs himself from his own leash and walking with him in town is becoming quite pleasurable.

I have now begun click training which is taking me a minute or two to get my head around, its a co-ordination thing, click and treat I have to remember which hand is doing what, but now Stitch will sit when required which only took about 5 mins of training, I have yet to master getting him to his bed when we are cooking but I will be working on that over the next few weeks, he is quite the hoover and although we don't give him our food it doesn't stop him sniffing, don't get me wrong he is not a pest when we are eating or cooking more like dangerous as you don't hear him and invariably fall over him.

Now most of you know I don't share food, although over the years of being with My Beloved my sharing habits have become a little more guest friendly, but yesterday was classic, I didn't really have a choice, but what I do have is a very quick thinking dog.  My Beloved and I have decided to spend Valentines night tomorrow at home and cook together, now when I say together I mean My Beloved went shopping for his ingredients and I will be going tomorrow, so neither knows what the other is cooking, My Beloved is on starter and main and I'm on the dessert, so when My Beloved went out to the shops for his supplies he came back with a beautiful bouquet of flowers for my valentines, he was going to hide them until tomorrow but said there was no point as I was bound to find them, so I have a bunch of flowers which consists of red roses, Gypsophila and an ornamental cabbage, I remember the first time I came across an ornamental cabbage, I was working at the physiotherapy department with Valerie and we were out visiting a client, at the client's doorstep were these beautiful ornamental cabbages, green and purple and I fell in love with them.

My Beloved also bought a bar of Bournville chocolate my absolute favourite and placed it in the freeze, the only way to eat chocolate is frozen, unfortunately being frozen makes it difficult to break, now normally I smash it before opening it but I must have been a little too excited and opened it before smashing, I was then left with the task of trying to break it without making a mess, I decided in my infinite wisdom to put it in a sandwich bag and smash it on the chopping board, the result was chocolate everywhere as the sandwich bag doesn't have the strength of a freezer bag, so whilst picking up the pieces I noticed the dog had disappeared and on investigation we discovered the dog had absconded with a piece of my chocolate, even I wasn't about to wrestle with Stitch to get it back who obviously liked it as much as I do, so we left him to it, luckily for him though it was a big bar.

Our Sausselled Saussell