:Kathy on…How To Frost A Lhasa Apso

Posted: December 20, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Apso Aficionados | 5 Comments

1.  Put bowl of powdered sugar on the counter
2.  Phone rings, go answer it.
3.  Return to kitchen…Gasp!
4.  Find Lhasa Apso on the counter with head stuck inside the bowl, joyously licking, snorting happy sounds.
5.  Note that the gray Apso’s beard has turned white as snow…as a matter of fact so has the muzzle and the cute button nose.
6.  I don’t plan to repeat this recipe for frosting anytime soon!!

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:Debby on…Nate’s engagement

Posted: December 19, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: DRambles on Black Mountain | 5 Comments

Last night over a great Italian dinner in a busy (!!!) family owned restaurant Nate and Kelly announced their engagement. I’m delighted! They’re a great match! This photo was taken on a hike near the Flatirons in Boulder. Kelly is holding Buckley. And that’s Chuck – a dog they adopted together – in front.

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:Vickie on…Aprons

Posted: December 16, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Apso Aficionados | 6 Comments

Ya know…I love this blog. Years ago, shortly after we got our first computer, learning how to surf the net (never mind dial-up speed!!!) I came upon a Cafe. Don’t remember what the Cafe was about – could been the Blues. I returned and returned trying to figure out how people connected there. Realizing what I probably wanted was a real cuppa joe, sitting at a table in a quaint cafe with friends, I gave up the cybercafe quest. Years later, connecting in our own little place called What’s New, I find myself back in a Cafe. This time the Cafe is full of friends. Real-time friends. Cyber friends. You guys have made friends here. Cyber friends have met in real-time. Awaiting me this morning, sent for sharing here’s :Vickie on…Aprons…

Last December, Kathy shared her apron and a couple publications on aprons.  When this came across in the mail today, I thought of her. 
 
The History of Aprons …
 
I don’t think our kids know what an apron is.
 
The principal use of Grandma’s apron was to protect the dress underneath.  Because she only had a few, it was easier to wash aprons than dresses and they used less material.  Along with that, it served as a potholder for removing hot pans from the oven.
 
It was wonderful for drying children’s tears and, on occasion, was even used for cleaning out dirty ears.
 
From the chicken coop, the apron was used for carrying eggs, fussy chicks, and sometimes half-hatched eggs to be finished in the warming oven.
 
When company came, those aprons were ideal hiding places for shy kids.
 
And when the weather was cold, grandma wrapped it around her arms.
 
Those big old aprons wiped many a perspiring brow, bent over the hot wood stove.
 
Chips and kindling wood were brought into the kitchen in that apron.
 
From the garden, it carried all sorts of vegetables. After the peas had been shelled, it carried out the hulls.
 
In the fall, the apron was used to bring in apples that had fallen from the trees.
 
When unexpected company drove up the road, it was surprising how much furniture that old apron could dust in a matter of seconds.
 
When dinner was ready, Grandma walked out onto the porch, waved her apron, and the men knew it was time to come in from the fields to dinner.
 
It will be a long time before someone invents something that will replace that ‘old-time apron’ that served so many purposes.
 
Grandma used to set her hot baked apple pies on the window sill to cool. … her granddaughters set theirs on the window sill to thaw.
 
They would go crazy now trying to figure out how many germs were on that apron.  I don’t think I ever caught anything from an apron.
 
And, surprising enough, this was in my mail two days ago from my Tzu buddy in Oklahoma …
 

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:Vickie on…potpourri strychnine poisoning

Posted: December 15, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Lotsa Lhasa Info | 13 Comments

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I just posted the following on the rescue blog …
 

There have been at least two confirmed reports in the past ten days of dogs dying of strychnine poisoning after ingesting potpourri. 

A case in Indiana involved potpourri imported from India by a company in California and then sold by the owner’s local Walmart.  The owner of the deceased dogs (two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels) is working to have the product removed/banned.  Case studies by an English lab on toxic potpourri from India note that the tree, Strychnos nux-vomica, is native to India and is the chief commercial source of strychnine. 

The primary effect of the toxin is on the neurological system. The toxin interferes with inhibitory transmitters, which produce a state of muscle rigidity and stimulation. Death is often caused by the effect on muscles that stimulate breathing.

What to Watch For:

Violent seizures
Rigidity
Muscle stiffness
Fast heart rate
Difficult or slow breathing
Cessation of breathing and death

If you have any kind of potpourri in the home, please make sure it is inaccessible to both children and pets.  Even if your potpourri doesn’t contain strychnine, it can cause an obstruction in the pet’s intestine.

:Super *Stars*

Posted: December 14, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Apso Aficionados | Leave a comment

The internet…ain’t it great! Here’s a photo of Fernando winning Best of Breed yesterday.

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And here’s our good friend Shirley Clark with her Paris, officially known
as American and Canadian Champion Apsolutely Desiderata Party Girl.

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As Susan Vaughn, now living in Colorado, at the Meet The Breeds booth.

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Recognize the outfit??

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That’s Julie wearing it in St.Louis where we presented the Gompas to the
American Lhasa Apso Club for the first time. The program was called
Tibet – Revisiting Our Past. Here’s an article I wrote… She’s holding
Ponya, mother of Margo and Dawa.

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