Tummylicious

Guilty As Charged?

Continuing the dog theme

email of the week

No I have not seen your lipstick, 

why would you even ask me that? I'm insulted! Every time something goes missing around here, everybody looks at me! For your information, I don't even wear that shade.
It doesn't flatter my complexion and it tastes terrible. oops.

Do I need a lawyer?   

Man's Best Friend? Bad Dog!!!!!

You chewed on my brand new shoes!!!

Poo and Pee everywhere!!!!!

You know you are not supposed to sleep on the couch!!!!!

You are not supposed to chew the brand new baseboard!!!!!

You never listen to me!!!!!

What an I going to do with you??????

What do you mean your sorry?????

Oh, never mind.........

A Silent Cry For Help

When words fail to convey the atrocities being committed against nature and mankind by man, the pictures show the hopelessness and the suffering and should end the speculation how large the oil spill disaster has become and the wide spread effects should leave one with chills on the future of our planet.

AP photos by Charlie Riedel

click on title for more pictures and story.

 P Photo/Charlie Riede

So You Like Your Nacho Cheese Doritos, Do You?

From the good people at Men's Health-Eat This, Not That

Read on and maybe think about it.....
Click on title for link

What's Really In … NACHO CHEESE DORITOS

NACHO CHEESE DORITOS (11 chips)
150 calories
8 g fat (1.5 g saturated)
180 mg sodium

The concept is, well, sort of brilliant: Nachos and cheese without the hassle of a microwave. Or even a plate, for that matter. You just tear open the bag and start snarfing. And as a parting gift, Dorito's leave your fingers sticky with something that looks like radioactive bee pollen. Now here's the question: Do you have any clue what's in that stuff? Here you go:

To create each Dorito, the Frito-Lay food scientists draw from a well of 39 different ingredients. How many does it take to make a regular tortilla chip? About three. That means some 36 ingredients wind up in that weird cheese fuzz. Of those 36, only two are ingredients you'd use to make nachos at home: Romano and cheddar cheeses. Alongside those are a cache of empty carbohydrate fillers like dextrin, maltodextrin, dextrose, flour, and corn syrup solids. Then come a rotating cast of oils. Depending on what bag you get, you might find any combination of corn oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil, and sunflower oil. Some of those will be partially hydrogenated, meaning they give the chip a longer shelf life and spike your heart with a little shot of trans fat. (The reason you won't see this on the nutrition label is that FDA guidelines allow food manufacturers to "round down" to zero.)

And then, after the fats and nutritionally empty starches, there's a seasoning blend, which includes things like sugar, "artificial flavoring," and a rather worrisome compound called monosodium glutamate. Monosodium glutamate, or MSG, is the flavor enhancer largely responsible for the chip's addicting quality. The drawback is that it interferes with the production of an appetite-regulating hormone called leptin. A study of middle-aged Chinese people found a strong correlation between MSG consumption and body fat. What's more, the FDA receives new complaints every year from people who react violently to MSG, suffering symptoms like nausea, headaches, burning sensation, numbness, chest pains, dizziness, and so on. Talk about radioactive bee pollen.

Should I Be Thinking?

Sometimes as one jumps from blog to blog, I feel or get a sense of wondering and questioning of one's self. The inevitable why am I here? What is my purpose in life? Is there an afterlife?

I do not think this is a dress rehearsal, this is it. The test comes first, but it is an open book test. Millions of people have done it before you, know matter what you try to do. Most plan more for a vacation than the rest of their life. To be fair, two weeks is easier to grasp than forty or fifty years. So you can sit around and contemplate life, make sure you try your best, no matter how it works out, be satisfied.

or you can heed the words of the great philosopher Homer who once said

Remembered on Father's Day

Reprint from
June 21st, 2009

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Remembered

Remembered today
thought from Kat
maybe missed
enjoyed for now
did something right
that they care
not just one day
or two

some presents
cards given
one made me laugh
one made me smile
one almost
made me cry

thoughts when young
holding hands
watching out
show them how
teach what I know
hope its enough
bumps and bruise
hugs will fix
help the hurt

try this and that
one plus one
soon they pass
grow on their own
talents hidden
rise to the surface

bigger faster stronger
maybe taller
beautiful
handsome
had a part
in the making

boy friends
girl friends too
some nice
some hurt
learn to trust
deserved ones

smart in school
smart in life
fundamentals
no short cuts
do it right
right thing to do

almost time
leave the nest
holding breath
hand always out
help on the way

can't do it all
tried my best
be dad forever
good times
bad times
be remembered
best times

happy
father's
day

My Pain Is Hiding, For Now.......

I had suffered knee damage to my right knee on April 13th. I was on crutches for almost 2 months. I had written about it in this post, Do You Feel My Pain, about what I was going through. I know for many, it pales in comparison, and that was not my intent. It was just to express what I was going through. The chronic pain seems to be in remission now, and I am currently in therapy to bring back my strength in my knee. I am trying to make sure that it stays pain free. I know deep down inside, it will be back. My meniscus is torn and I have advanced arthritis in both knees.

 It is waitng for the right moment. tick tock, tick tock.

She Is Simply Irresistible !

Sometimes a man is powerless

Is There Anyone Out There, It's Getting Harder and Harder To Breathe.....