My Dog: the paradox

Facebook goes Red

Today is the day that the United States Supreme Court heard from the lawyers, pro and con, regarding Prop 8 in California.  Facebook was a flutter with red logos of the HRC = sign.  A few more creative symbols also found their way onto the page.  Tomorrow we listen to lawyers, pro and con for the Defense of Marriage Act.

Hopefully both will end up being struck down as unconstitutional!  We'll find out at the end of June.

HRC in red

TravelingDog Equality

Two Dog Equality

Peep Equality

Massachusetts Equality

Rothko Equality

Bacon Equality

Grumpy Cat for Equality

Ajaxx 63

Automatic Ball Toss - Win!

RIP Goldie

I just got off the phone with Tom who let me know of some sad news.  Amos' sister Goldie was put down today.  She was quite the bitch.  She didn't much like strangers or other dogs, but she was a faithful and loyal dog to her human family and to her brother, Amos.

Goldie and Amos in Wakefield

I first met Goldie on an outing to Wakefield, MA to help Dan & John (Tom's ex) clean out Dan's childhood home after the passing of his mother.  As mentioned above, Goldie did not particularly like strangers.  I approached Goldie cautiously who growled and showed her teeth.  Amos came trotting over and nudged her snout with his.  She instantly stopped the snarl.  I've always been in awe of that moment, of the two dogs communicating, without words, saying, "He's OK."  I would see her teeth many times after that but not in an aggressive way.  Goldie had a way of smiling by baring her teeth as if in attack mode, but with her tail wagging.

As Tom says, Amos and Goldie are back together again.

For that I am glad.

Ketchup!

Many variations of ketchup were created, but the tomato-based version did not appear until about a century after other types. By 1801, a recipe for tomato ketchup was created by Sandy Addison and was later printed in an American cookbook, the Sugar House Book.[4]

Get [the tomatoes] quite ripe on a dry day, squeeze them with your hands till reduced to a pulp,   then put half a pound of fine salt to one hundred tomatoes, and boil them for two hours.

Stir them to prevent burning.

While hot press them through a fine sieve, with a silver spoon till nought but the skin remains, then add a little mace, 3 nutmegs, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, and pepper to taste.  

Boil over a slow fire till quite thick, stir all the time.

Bottle when cold.

One hundred tomatoes will make four or five bottles and keep good for two or three years.

Tom is making Meatloaf Roulade.

Ketchup will be needed!