I bought a $150 Ninja juicer from Amazon. It does a good job on apples but it's slow.
This week's Howard Report is post #898 on the August thread. Copied here so you don't have to run it down:
Howard had a rough day yesterday. He got stung on the right hind foot by a red wasp as I was letting him off the deck. The dang things built a nest under the steps and I stirred them up as I was opening the gate. He yipped and yiped and hopped around on three legs for bit after that.
Later in the day he got into the electric fence around my tomato patch with one of his front legs while I was moving the soaker hose. I heard the arc snap from 50' away. He was mad at me for a little while afterwards. I tried to explain to him that he did that all by himself but he wasn't having it. He got over it eventually but I'm pretty sure he still blames me. lol
Aside from that he had a great week. He's 100% settled in to the daily routine now and is making steady progress with learning the boundaries. We've been working on learning which fences are ok to cross and which fences are FENCES. I think we've gone two weeks now without having to go to the neighbor's house to retrieve him. He still wants to go but he's figured out that it's best to come back when he's called.
Mrs. Augie still isn't thrilled at the idea of having another dog, but Howard loves her and she can't resist his big brown eyes so I think it's going to work out ok.
If my experience with raising hounds is ANY indicator, Howard is going to have a STEEP ‘Learning Curve’ in front of him.
Here’s one for ya! Beau and 9 dogs left yesterday evening for Bear Camp, 6 hours North.
He has one dog, ‘Shawnee’ (two years old) who is a total go-getter and has been VERY good on the training hunts so far this season. HOWEVER, she is not a hound (Plott Hound) that can be contained! She is a fence-climber, a tree-climber and always finds a way OUT of any dog box you put her in for transport.
Beau added additional metal strips to the dog box that she would be riding in yesterday to make the ‘windows’ that they can stick their heads out of SMALLER. Somehow Shawnee STILL managed to jump out of the dog box when he stopped at A STOP SIGN for a few seconds in Rhinelander. (Way-Up-There Northern Wisconsin!)
He got a call about an hour later from a lady who said she had his dog! (All of our dogs have collars with metal tags with Beau’s phone number on it.)
He turned around (about an hour away) and there was Shawnee, in the back seat of this lady’s SUV!
So happy she wasn’t hurt, and Beau NEVER would’ve found her again if that nice lady hadn’t found her.
Life with Hounds. NEVER a dull moment! EVER! Please! Could we just have ONE Dull Moment? Pretty Please? ;)
“I bought a $150 Ninja juicer from Amazon. It does a good job on apples but it’s slow.”
Thank you! Never thought of that! :)