{"id":1746,"date":"2010-03-10T11:50:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2010-03-20T20:17:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T00:17:16","slug":"dogs-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Dog&#8217;s Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British slang dating to about the 1930&#8217;s, meant to convey an unholy mess of dribs and drabs, a hodgepodge.  Although<br \/>\norigin is uncertain,  it seems likely to have dated from the morning someone, possibly slightly hungover, dumped last night&#8217;s<br \/>\nfried rice and then  their breakfast of left-over scrambled eggs into the dog&#8217;s bowl, uttered those fateful words, and then<br \/>\nheaded back to bed, their place in history now secure.<\/p>\n<p>See where this is headed?  Yes, it&#8217;s that kind of post, dribs and drabs.  But there will be a dog making an appearance, a<br \/>\nrather in-need-of-a-bath dog, who in keeping with our theme has actually eaten the cats&#8217; breakfast.  Here he&#8217;s taking a deep<br \/>\nsniff of some basil Pesto Perpetuo, possibly as a chaser to the bland kitty pate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=wedmarch10006.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/wedmarch10006.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that deep draught of basil, he will elegantly back up out of that tight spot without knocking over a watering can,<br \/>\nand then immediately scan the garden for the whereabouts of Joseph, the alpha male cat, his nemesis, seen here making<br \/>\nready for ambush.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=wedmarch10001.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/wedmarch10001.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My garden is the perfect size for corgis and cats, and it&#8217;s always satisfying to watch them meander down its paths.<br \/>\nGarden paths are ideally able to accommodate two people walking abreast or one person pushing a wheelbarrow.<br \/>\nIn my garden, a person and one corgi can comfortably navigate <i>some<\/i> paths.  Other paths are for solitary use<br \/>\nonly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=feb12jade010.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/feb12jade010.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every morning we fan out into the garden, each in pursuit of something unknown to the other.  Our paths criss-cross<br \/>\nas we respectively track color and spoor.  For me, it was the cobalt blue of Salvia cacaliifolia.  What did they find, I wonder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=wedmarch10023-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/wedmarch10023-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=wedmarch10011-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/wedmarch10011-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/s52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/?action=view&#038;current=march710008-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/march710008-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British slang dating to about the 1930&#8217;s, meant to convey an unholy mess of dribs and drabs, a hodgepodge. 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