It's all Richard Wagner's fault

[robinmckinley]

 
It’s much later than it should be.  And it’s all Richard Wagner’s fault.  Tonight’s Live from the Met was Tristan and Isolde.  I find Wagner a little trance-inducing:  all those big voices going at one another hammer and tongs.*  And going and going and going, hammering and tonging.  And you know that, of course, what is the single thing everyone

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[akaibara]

My, admittedly much *smaller*, little guy gets a grain-free dry food. (Innova Evo, good stuff, I've found.) And then the little bugger gets a giant beef soup bone 2-3 times a week. Nothing is quite so entertaining as watching a five pound chi-hound (He's the product of the star-crossed love between a chihuahua and an Italian Greyhound) go at a bone nearly as big as his head with gusto.

This seems to result in content pup with shiny coat, good energy and clean teeth. I belong to a chihuahua LJ comm, and several of the regulars recoiled in horror when I told them I very seldom let Grady have rawhide and junk, and happily dole out the raw bones. You might try some again at some point, if only for the benefits it gives in exercising their jaws and keeping those teeth clean.

weather commiserations

[swedishbrunette]

The weather has done the same here in Switzerland and, according to reports from my family, also in Sweden. Spring was coming along so nicely with lots of flowers so much earlier than I am used to seeing them. Most of the CERN area is pretty ugly to be truthful, so I got a kick out of seeing the grassy areas positively strewn with violets and primroses, and even some cowslips (like the flower very much, the english common name for it, not so much). Then I woke up to slush this friday. It was really miserable weather and it kept snowing and raining, at the same time, throughout the day, the slush turned the roads into some sort of icy cold marsh and the trees kept hurling down slush gobs. I heartily agree, it's easter! The year should be old enough now to stop such childish antics.

Ah, candles, I knew there was something I forgot to buy.

[silme]

I'd thought that the organic delivery boxes only contain what the farms grow in season. Does yours supplement with imports -- or do they have a greenhouse? Curious! We buy our organic produce directly from a farm right by us (http://www.warbornefarm.co.uk/), but I know they only deliver in boxes what they grow there. Come to think of it, I've never seen bananas on sale at their farm shop. Pears, apples, figs and a wide assortment of berries are available there in season, but no bananas.

Just added you on as a friend -- hope that's all right. I'm the English teacher who was working in Chandler's Ford and had talked with you a couple of years ago about maybe coming to that school. I'm now a college lecturer much closer to home in the New Forest. The lack of a long commute is wonderful. :)

[robinmckinley]

Yes, mine supplement with imports. They'll import things that are 'fair trade' (as well as organic) and only by boat or train--no air miles. They say they can't provide enough variety without imports but they use as much local British as they can.

And hello! :)

[anonymous]

*****And you know that, of course, what is the single thing everyone knows about Richard Wagner? -That his operas, laid end to end, carry on almost as long as the Palaeolithic Era

[robinmckinley]

*****But you’re in this trance, and you think, the opera’s still on, it can’t be that late . . . oh yes it can. Tristan and Isolde lasts over five hours

[shakatany]

But in cold weather gosh does it leak Snow Queen Breath. It's an age old problem. I was watching the series on John Adams on HBO the other night and noted that in colonial times a blanket was hung right in front of the door and had to be pushed aside for the door to be opened in winter. I like discovering details such as this - someone's been doing research which often is unheard of in Hollywood.

Shakatany

[robinmckinley]

I'm from Maine! I ALREADY have the curtain over the door!!!