Whut I did on my Sumber Bacation

Nuttin. Well I guess dat is not entirely true. I helped dad around da yard doin his work a lot, Tug and I play in da mud where da unner ground pipe thingy leaked. It got real soupy muddy and dat was really fun. We played in our little swimmy pool when it was soooooo hot… Out AC was broken for most of July and August so we had to stay cool any way we could. Dad let me tastes his beer, (don’t tell the authorities, cuz I am under age). I knocked one over on da outside table and licked a lot of it up before dad found out. Hehehe…We played chase da Wubba wif Maximus a lot, He is really fast and strong. He had a really hard summer, he got Ticks in the spring, then Cheat grass thinginys in his foot and had to have surgery, twice. Then just last week he got sprayed by a skunk…Pweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew…Dat was stinky. We got to take a coulple of little trips wif dad to da boat, but it was broken most of da summer so we did not go anywhere in it. So I guess we gots to do lots of stuff dis sumber but it shore went by fast…Well see you all at school…
Lubbies
CJ

We made a new friend

We met a new friend this weekend while we were at our boat. His name is Louie and he is an 11 year old Golden Lab. We were coming back from breakfast at one of our favorite places called the Calico Cupboard. Dad always brings us a bite from his breakfast. When we were driving back into Shelter Bay, dad spotted Louie walking up the road. He just had that lost dog look to him, like he was looking for something familiar. No keep in mind this is July 5th and last night there was non-stop fire works on this side of the channel. Dad stopped the car and Louie came right over to us. He was wet and muddy and had apparently been swimming in the bay, or channel. Since dad speaks fluent “Dog” he was able to communicate with him, and he told dad his name was Louie, he told dad he was indeed lost and gave him his phone number. Well dad whipped out his cell phone and called Louie’s owner. He said he must have wandered away last night during the fire works. He was almost 3 miles from home. We stayed with Louie until his person came to get him, and boy he sure was glad to see him when he got there. We went on back to our boat and had the rest of the weekend to play…Louie was glad to be home too…

Hornswaggled or whut...

This is a story about how the Cowpug got Hornswaggled…Once upon a time dere was dis cowpug… He was a champion bull rider…He entered a Rodeo (like he usually did) and started to get ready to ride da bulls..One of da Clownpugs came ober to him and said “I am here to protect you if you get bucked off da bull” Da cowpug replied,,” I am not going to get bucked off cuz I am really gud” Da clown said “yea right we will see”.. Well as the rounds went on da cowpug kept riding all da bulls and da clown was amazed… He told his clown buddie,, “Dis Pug is gud”..Well the finals were up and da cowpug was in da lead in points…He was so sure of himself he told da Clownpugs “ you guys can go home now… I have this handled”…Well dis Texas long horn bull’s name he was to ride was “Puppy Chow”… He thought to him self,, whut a name for a bull….hehehe.. well what he didn’t know is da bull was named dat not because he was puppy chow, but because he like to chow down on da puppies…Our brave cowpug mounted Puppy Chow and made sure he was all laced in perfectly… Da Clownpugs had stayed around to watch cuz dey knew dis bull was bad to da bone…Well Puppy Chow broke with a mighty buck and a big jump and kick… He flew into da air and den landed wif a thump… he turned and twisted and bucked all over the ring. The ride was supposed to last 8 seconds, well at 5 seconds all was fine… den it happened,,, our cowpug got bucked over da bulls head and flew into da air… Da bull took aim on da cowpug as he was headed to land,,, he turned his head so his horn lined up wif da cowpug, (who happened to be facing da odder direction)…When da cowpug landed.. da bull did too and proceeded to send his horn right into da cowpug’s…(well you know where). Dat cowpug jus stood dere wif a really funny look on his face cuz he couldn't figure out what wuz happenin to him. Well da clownpugs jumped into action and got da impaled cowpug off da bull horn. One of dem turned to da odder and said,,,”Dat cowpug got hornswaggled.”
And dat his how Hornswaggling came about...dats my story and I'm stickin to it...
CJ

Dat’s my story and I’m stickin to it..

My Sister Sierra

This is my Memorial Day assignment for the Onry Onyx Academy. I did not ever get to meet my sister, she was rescued by a nice lady from a very abusive home about 60 miles from her in another county. Because of the history of abuse (this was the second time she had been taken from the bad people) she was removed from the county that she lived in and came to ours. She had been dipped in bleach in an attempt to kill all the fleas she was infested with. They sere so bad she had almot chewed her own tail off because of the itching. She went to a very good vet that had to shave her and began to treat her for the poisioning and fleas..she had to wear a cone to keep her from chewing her tail. She began to have seizures every time she got the least bit excited, so we knew she could not come live with us until that was taken care of. It appeared she had been used as a breeder, but the people said she had not. (liars) they said she had never had puppys, but the vet said she had...any way we were trying to get her better so she could have the surgery to get her fixed and for her palate that had to be trimmed.
She began to show signs of getting better, but any stress caused seizures... then she started showing signs of PDE, walking in circles, falling down, more frequent seizures...Then one day she had a very big seizure and never came out of it. She died in her post seizure sleep...Even though she never got to live with us, we loved her and she will always be our sister.
We are glad now she no longer suffers. PS the county where she lived was going to prosecute the people for abuse but they got out of it somehow.

CJ

BBQ Assignment Tater Salad

Potatoes (a new world food) were introduced to Europe by Spanish explorers in the 16th century. By the end of the century many countries had adopted this new vegetable and integrated it into their cuisines. Preparation methods and recipes were developed according to local culinary traditions. About potato history.
Arnold Shircliffe, primary chef of Chicago's legendary Edgewater Beach Hotel, traced the origin of the potato salad to the 16th century. These are his notes:
"Early potato salad: John Gerrard in 1597 writes about potatoes and their virtues and said that "they are sometimes boiled and sopped in wine, by others boiled with prunes, and likewise others dress them (after roasting them in the ashes) in oil, vinegar and salt, every man according to his own taste. However they be dressed, they comfort, nourish and strengthen the body." This is one of the first potato salads mentioned in any book."
---Edgewater Beach Hotel Salad Book, Arnold Shircliffe [Hotel Monthly Press:Evanston IL] 1928 (p. 231)
Potato salad-type recipes were introduced to America by European settlers, who again adapted traditional foods to local ingredients. This accounts for regional potato salad variations in the United States. Potato salad, as we know it today, became popular in the second half of the 19th century. Cold potato salads evolved from British and French recipes. Warm potato salads followed the German preference for hot vinegar and bacon dressings served over vegetables.
Print evidence confirms recipes for potato salads were often included in 19th century American cooking texts. These recipes had many different names. The Cassells Dictionary of Cookery [London:1875?] contains three recipes for potato salad, one without notes [presumably British or American], a French recipe and a German recipe.The French recipe is very similar to the first and is also served cold. The German recipe required bacon. Early cold potato salad recipes often called for "French dressing" (Our notes on French dressing here ). Some recipes specifically indicate this is an economy dish, "a good way to dispose of leftover potatoes." During the 1940s mayonnaise began to supplant French dressing as the congealer of choice. It is interesting to note that during both World Wars recipes for German-style potato salad did not bear that country's moniker. They were simply listed as "hot potato salad."
This is what the food writers have to say:
"Potato salad. A cold or hot side dish made with potatoes, mayonnaise, and seasonings. It became very popular in the second half of the nineteenth century and is a staple of both home and food-store kitchens. Hot potato salad, usually made with bacon, onion, and vinegar dressing, was associated with German immigrants and therefore often called "German potato salad."
---Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, John F. Mariani [Lebhar-Friedman:New York] 1999 (p. 253)
"There seems to be no dogma concerning the origins of potato salad, but Germany is a good place to begin. As a country with lots of potatoes and lots of recipes for potatoes, Germany almost certainly was among the first to look at cooked small new potatoes or cut chunks of larger spuds and imagine them blanketed with dressing. The dressing they came up with was a classic. Kin to the heated dressing used to wilt spinach salad, this one thrilled German taste buds, raised as they were on sauerkraut and sauerbraten with vinegar bite. Some versions featured a little coarse mustard, others cut the sour with a little sugar, and most added bacon and even its flavorful drippings. By the time the notion of potato salad reached France, vinegar wasn't quite good enough. The French demanded full-scale vinaigrette, and it was no sweat to satisfy their demands. Whenever you see something called "French potato salad," it's a safe bet you're in for potatoes (and probably other vegetables, too) in a light vinaigrette, with Dijon mustard and sweet tarragon.
When potato salad caught on in the United States, in the second half of the 19th century, it was probably by way of German immigrants. To this day, most people who know how to cook, or at least know how to eat, understand that "German potato salad" will be served warm, will feature no mayonnaise, and will be pleasantly tart with vinegar.The American idea of making potato salad with mayonnaise has no recorded history - but then again, neither does the idea of mayonnaise itself. Clearly a sauce created in France using egg yolks, oil and either lemon juice or vinegar, little is clear after that. Virtually every French bible of cuisine explains the name differently, ranging from a link to "Magon," the Carthaginian general who helped his brother Hannibal battle the Romans," to a possible misspelling of "Bayonnaise," hailing from the town of Bayonne in France - and later, less romantically, New Jersey.
However it got the name, mayonnaise became the favored dressing for American potato salad for more "There seems to be no dogma concerning the origins of potato salad, but Germany is a good place to begin. As a country with lots of potatoes and lots of recipes for potatoes, Germany almost certainly was among the first to look at cooked small new potatoes or cut chunks of larger spuds and imagine them blanketed with dressing. The dressing they came up with was a classic. Kin to the heated dressing used to wilt spinach salad, this one thrilled German taste buds, raised as they were on sauerkraut and sauerbraten with vinegar bite. Some versions featured a little coarse mustard, others cut the sour with a little sugar, and most added bacon and even its flavorful drippings. By the time the notion of potato salad reached France, vinegar wasn't quite good enough. The French demanded full-scale vinaigrette, and it was no sweat to satisfy their demands. Whenever you see something called "French potato salad," it's a safe bet you're in for potatoes (and probably other vegetables, too) in a light vinaigrette, with Dijon mustard and sweet tarragon.
When potato salad caught on in the United States, in the second half of the 19th century, it was probably by way of German immigrants. To this day, most people who know how to cook, or at least know how to eat, understand that "German potato salad" will be served warm, will feature no mayonnaise, and will be pleasantly tart with vinegar.The American idea of making potato salad with mayonnaise has no recorded history - but then again, neither does the idea of mayonnaise itself. Clearly a sauce created in France using egg yolks, oil and either lemon juice or vinegar, little is clear after that. Virtually every French bible of cuisine explains the name differently, ranging from a link to "Magon," the Carthaginian general who helped his brother Hannibal battle the Romans," to a possible misspelling of "Bayonnaise," hailing from the town of Bayonne in France - and later, less romantically, New Jersey. However it got the name, mayonnaise became the favored dressing for American potato salad for more than a century. Its sweet, creamy mouthfeel served up just the right delight when wrapped around solid, dependable American potatoes."
---"A world of potato salads; Labor Day tradition gets global makeover," John DeMers, The Houston Chronicle, August 29, 2001 (Food: p. 1)
"Despite its popularity in this country, potato salad is not an all-American creation. Potato salad is said to be of Teutonic origin, prepared when boiled potatoes were tossed with oil, vinegar and seasonings, a dish known now as German potato salad. The French, Norwegians, Swedes, Russians and Italians all have their own versions. Germans make a marvelous warm potato salad to which they add tiny bits of fresh tomato and red and green bell peppers, then toss the whole concoction with a warm bacon and onion dressing. The Greeks also prefer warm potato salad, with garlic, olive oil and lemon. Italian potato salad is apt to have ample amounts of fresh parsley, often chunks of salami and is dressed with an olive oil and vinegar dressing. American potato salad is heavier and heartier than European versions. Some people like lots of additions such as onion, sweet pickles, celery, hard-cooked eggs, pimento, chives, olives and parsley."
---"Potato salad revisited," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 28, 1989 (Food p. 1)
Sample recipes:
[1633] Potato
---Herball or General Historie of Plants, John Gerard [London]
[1863] "The same [potatoes], in salad
Cook them [potatoes] without water in an oven, or hot cinders, if handy; then peel and cut them in thin slices; place them in a salad dish, season with chopped parsley, sweet oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper, and serve. You may used butter instead of pil if you serve warm; you may also add slices of beets, and of pickled cucumbers, according to taste."
---What to Eat and How to Cook It, Pierre Blot [Appleton and Company:New York] (p. 194)
[1878]
"Potato Salad.
When materials for a salad are scarce, this is a good way of disposing of cold potatoes. Slice them, and dress them with oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper, precisely like any other salad; adding a littel chives, or an onion, and parsley chopped fine. If oil is not agreeable, sue cream or a little melted butter."
---Jennie June's American Cookery Book, Mrs. J. S. Croly [Excelcior Publishing:New York] 1878 (p. 122)
[1884] " Potato salad (cold)
French & boiled dressings
---Boston Cooking School Cook Book, Mrs. D.A. Lincoln [page through site for complete recipes]
[1908] "Potato salad
The best potato salad is made from waxy yellow potatoes, cooked with their jackets on, the peeled, cut up while still warm and dressed before they become cold. Put the potatoes into a salad bowl, then pour over them a little hot water, or, better still, a little hot broth from the soup kettle. Season it at once with salt, pepper, and for every teaspoonful vinegar use four spoonfuls olive oil. Add as you like chopped onion, parsley, chives or celery, toss without breaking the potatoes, then set in the ice box to chill. When ready to serve put into individual lettuce leaves or a salad bowl lined with lettuce, and on top put a spoonful of boiled dressing as a garnish."
---New York Evening Telegram Cook Book, Emma Paddock Telford (p. 98)
[NOTE: This book does not contain a recipe for titled "boiled dressing." It includes a recipe for cooked salad dressing which is boiled (p. 93). Indgredients are: egg yolks, dry mustard, salt, butter, hot vinegar, and cream. This dressing is to be stored in a cool place. No suggestions regarding serving temperature. A separate recipe for mayonnaise appears on page 94.
[1946] "Potato Salad with Mayonnaise
Boil in their jackets in a covered saucepan until they are tender:
Potatoes
Chill them for several hours, peel and slice them. Marinate them well with:
French dressing
Soup stock or canned boullion.
Chop or slice and add:
Hard-cooked eggs
Onions
Olives
Pickles
Celery
Cucumbers
Capers
Season the salad well with:
Salt
Paprika
A few grains of cayenne
Horseradish (optional)
After 1 hour or more add:
Mayonnaise dressing, boiled salad dressing or sour cream or cream."
---The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer [Bobbs Merrill:Indianapolis] 1946 (p. 407)
New York style (aka deli style) potato salad
The general concensus of online recipes is that New York Style potato salad is served cold and has a mayo/vinegar dressing. Culinary evidence suggests this recipe has British or French roots. The Brooklyn Cookbook, Lyn Stallworth and Rod Kennedy, Jr. [Knopf:New York] 1994 notes Kosher deli potato salad never contains milk (p. 175). A recipe for Deli potato salad is also found on this page.
Recommended reading: The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World, Larry Zukerman [North Point Press:New York] 1998.

Mommies Tato Salad.

Use Baby Red Taters, Boil in their jackets in a covered saucepan until they are tender:
Chill them for several hours, cube them.
Chop or slice and add:
Hard-boiled eggs
Onions
Olives
Sweet Pickles
Celery
Season with:
Salt
Paprika
After 1 hour or more add:
Mayonnaise dressing, Mustard, and Deli Mustard.

Mommies is da bestest in da world. (cept daddy takes da onions out fore we gets any)
CJ

My BAD....

Well now we have been talkin bout underware eatin and stuff and we like dem thong things too. But this morning well lets just say I out did my self. The good news is I feel better now...but I better back up a bit...last night I was layin on dad's lap as normal but he cud tell I was not up to my usual self tormentin Tug and da Airedales...so he went to bed kind of worried, well dis mornin. (Tug and I always wake up around 6am) we had dad pick us up and put us on da bed like normal, and I snuggle real tight wif dad right up on his shoulder like...Well jus after a few minutes dad had to get up and I puked in his spot (in da sheets). Well he wasn't too happy bout dat and I gots a trip outside for a few minutes, when I came back in I felt a little better so I got back up on da bed...well I started to puke again this time on da covers. Well another quick trip outside and I felt a little bit better.. We by now dad is up makin coffee and getin ready for a shower and stuff...well when he came back in da room, (the lights were low) he thought he saw a mouse on da floor, so he grabbed it by da tail and went to fling it into da baffroom when he realized it wasn't a mouse at all...I had frowed up a complete (girl thing) as dad calls em (mom calls em tampons) complete with string for a tail...hehehe.. I feel lots better now....dat is real BADNEZZZZZZZZZZZ
Yer pal
CJ

New Nick Name

Mommy gave me a new nickname the other day. She has started calling me "Humpy Dumpy". I don't know why, or what it means, and I'm not sure I like it, but she is bery kind when she say's it and huggys me when she is saying it, so I guess it's all right. I don't think I'm a humpy or a dumpy. Well I guess I will let mommy keep calling me that as long as she keeps giving me treats.......

Great Pumpkin go away

On a cold fall afternoon there was nothing much happening in the Pugdom Dad was busy working in the little back room office, you know the one with the balcony that overlooks the moat. Tug was a sleep at his feet as he works on his computer. Skye and Max were out delivering bonies to da group so I was board. I decided to venture out to the garden behind the castle. It was the day before Halloween and I still had not carved a jack-o-lantern. I went through the pumpkin patch and found the perfect pumpkin. It was big, but I didn’t care cuz I was going to have Skye carry it for me anyway. I started carving with my multi tool/knife that I always carry. First I cut out the top, and started scooping out the yummy stuff inside. Have I ever told you how good pumpkin innards are? Well I degress, so I took out all the seeds and set them aside to toast up later. When I was done scooping I had a big pile of innards and I ate a bunch of dem too. I took careful look at the shape and size of my pumpkin and then started with the eyes. They were triangle shaped and one got bigger than the other one. Dang I wish I had thumbs. Anyway I then made the nose and started on the big grinning mouth with three teeth. By the time I got that far I noticed it was dark outside. I jus had a little bit more to do so I kept working. That is when I heard it…. It was a sound like I had never heard before….. WoooooooWoooooo it went. Well I can make a wooowoo sound too so it was probably another pug out there in the pumpkin patch. But it was loud and spooky sounding, I looked around and the lights from the Castle were so far away, and I didn’t know if the draw bridge was still down. I got skerred. I jumped inside my pumpkin / jack-o-lantern and hid. I was lookin through one of the eyes when I seen it. Da biggest Pumpkin I ever saw and it was glowing orange. But that is not where the sound was coming from. The sound was coming from a shadow. Not anyone in particular but a shadow, kind of looked like smoke. Well the pumpkin and the shadow or ghost started talking and I could hear everything they was saying. They were talking about looking for a little black pug to steal…. GULP…. Dey wanted to make him a ghost to haunt the castle so all the Pugdom would leave. Well we could not have dat. I started to think what am I going to do. They are right in from of me and I am small… Just then the lightning came down from the sky and there in the distance were my Sissy Sierra and my brodder Beaumont. They came running to each side of my pumpkin and whispered to me “don’t worry liddle brodder, we will take care of you”. The big pumpkin and the bad ghost looked at dem. Beaumont showed them his big teeth and they ran away never to return. Jus then I heard dad callin CJ,,,CJ where are you… Jack Man come here. I looked up and Sierra and Beaumont and they just smiled and said “Go to daddy and give him hugs and kisses for both of us”. I jumped out of my pumpkin and ran as fast as I could to dad and jumped into his arms. I kissed his face and told him what had happened. He said I had a “magination”. Well that’s my story you all have a safe and happy Halloween.
CJ

Pen Pal Letter

Dear Baba O'Riley (Riley)

We jus have a wunnerful time here on Pugapalooza, We had a great Rodeo one night and right affer dat we loaded on da plane (Pugforce One) wif my brodder Tug flyin and da whole school wented to Hawaii for a week. We went to an aquarium where we learnd da difference tween sea lions and seals. (not da Navy kind). We went to Volcano National Park and learned about lava and things, den we went to da Parker Ranch and saw more cowboys and cows. We den lernd about Tsunami waves too. We had lots of time to run and play on da beach (wif my betufil gurl fren Raven) and sip Pugaritas (non alchol of course). Herbie Derbie gots in trouble and was rested and had to go to jail. We had to use our Pugfluince to get him released to come home wif us cuz of course dis whole school is about "No Pug Left Behind"

Our school is called da Onry Onyx Academy and is named after a very spshul puglady who passed away this year. We miss her and her three pug grand children who also passed dis year. Spshully Pugnatious Pee Cuz he was black like me and you and we all cud have been real pals. His brodder Guido Luigi is still in our class wif us and we lub him.

Dere are lots of kewl pugs and non pugs too in our school. Our assignment today is a pen pal letter so I am writing mine too yew.

Yer Pal
Captain Jack

My Summer was great because:

Here is my first assignment for da school.. OK

My Summer was great because well it was summer. Gosh a lot of things happened, one at the very first part of the summer I got to come live with my forever family. I missed my brothers and sisters and mommy but my new family is great. When I first came home and was lonely especially at night, Maximus would come lay by me. He is so nice. We wented up to da boat for a little while and dat was really fun. I gots to join Tug on da Pupapalooza Fire and Rescue Dept. We did a rescue mishun to da flooded part of Oklahoma and Tx. to rescue OCC, Barn, Diamond, FizzGig, and lots of odder pups down dere, den had a party at Pugsident Irvings house. Den probly da bestest thing is when Raven said she would be my gurliy fren. We are two peas in a pod (dad says). I guess dat's nuff for now. Been real busy dis summer, looking forward to fall, I hear da leaves fall off da trees. Dat sounds delish. And what is dis um.....SNOW I keep hearing about. I will let you all know.
Lub
CJ