Chetspeak (3): Horses and Stakeouts
There was one palm tree on the street in front of the motel, a small one with dusty leaves, and we were parked behind it. That was part of our stake-out technique, hiding behind trees. Maybe it was our whole technique: I couldn’t think of any other parts at the moment. Beyond the palm tree stood the motel, horseshoe-shaped – just one of the many strange things about horses, that they wore shoes – with parking in between. Two cars in the lot, parked far from each other. One, a red convertible, belonged to the woman we were tailing. The other, a dark sedan, had been there when we arrived.
We gazed at the motel door closest to the red convertible. The woman – short, blond, curvy – had jumped out of the car and gone straight inside. Since then – nothing. That was one of the problems with divorce work: no action. We hated divorce work, me and Bernie – our specialty was missing persons – but with the state of our finances we couldn’t turn down anything. How our finances got this way is a long story, hard to keep straight in my head. Early on, there’d been the Hawaiian pants.
– from To Fetch A Thief.
Welcome Citrus, Dermott, Mr. Bird; Chaz, Vanna, Trinket; Jackson; Zoey & Artoo; big-boy-dog fan; Mr. Bun; Bear; Bella and Cyrano, please retry. Today is the last day of eligibility for April’s Friend of the Month contest.
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7:57 am on March 31st, 2013
Ah, yes. The Hawaiian pants.
Love our Sundays with Chet!!!
Today is going to be a Great Day!
8:08 am on March 31st, 2013
Love Chetspeak!
Good morning all, and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it. If not, Happy Spring and Happy Egg Day!
8:11 am on March 31st, 2013
Just one of the strange things about horses…I’m laughing all over again.
Good morning all.
8:17 am on March 31st, 2013
Horses and birds – Chet is not overly fond of either.
8:19 am on March 31st, 2013
Happy Easter Egg Day!
Chet doesn’t like cats either. We here are with him on all 3. Mom? She loves her horses, her cats, and her soon-to-come birds. Gah!
8:24 am on March 31st, 2013
Dima is over to the side right now.
Have to admit we didn’t quite get the Dima going into the bar and the barteneder saying why the long face? We thought it was supposed to be a horse going into the bar. Explain, Oleys?
Oh, and we just had some sausage from our organic Berk pig. Yummy!
8:25 am on March 31st, 2013
Masquers: I liked your photo comparison yesterday. We have a saying in Michigan: “You blinked!”
8:38 am on March 31st, 2013
Morning all. Hoppy Easter! Does that make today a double egg day for some lucky dogs?
Yeah! Love Chetspeak! Speak. Speak again.
We’ve never met a horse but bark at them going down the road and cats stay out of our back yard if smart (ha, ha). One does live in the front yaard, though.
Why,oh why, were those blasted birds there? The peck of parrots saw them and are going to drive us all crazy squawking. They want to be included 🙁
9:00 am on March 31st, 2013
A sure sign of spring.
9:07 am on March 31st, 2013
Old Fart here says Easter is one day early. He wants it to be the 1st of April so he can invite the grands over to look for eggs then say, “April Fool’s Day”. He is one sick puppy, oops, piggy.
9:55 am on March 31st, 2013
Why does Easter fall on different dates?
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/astronomy/2010/03/01/why-does-easter-fall-on-different-dates/
9:56 am on March 31st, 2013
Very cute New Yorker photo. LOL
Gus goes home this evening. Sob (from Maggie)
10:03 am on March 31st, 2013
Happy Easter and Happy Egg Day!!
10:15 am on March 31st, 2013
10:15 am on March 31st, 2013
Happy Easter Egg Day!
W-L : my heart was warmed hearing the good news about Bev and your mama. I love when good things !
RIO! Please check your SDD when able!
10:17 am on March 31st, 2013
SnowBella: As Wose said, Very Good News from Whitey-Lance last night!
Gus&BooBear: LOL.
10:29 am on March 31st, 2013
YEEP! I love when good things happen!
Clothe the Giant News: Using my own RNG, we now have a total of $671 dollars! Wooooooohooooooo!
W-L: we are getting closer to the Giant not having to freeze his patootie of in 2014!
10:35 am on March 31st, 2013
Good Morning All!
I don’t like horses, birds, or rabbits either. They are all fair game.
Perhaps Bernie could sell the Hawaiian pants to Walmart shoppers. They would be an improvement over the pajama pants some of them wear to shop in.
We were glad this morning to read Whitey-Lance’s good news.
10:42 am on March 31st, 2013
Gus&BooBear, Thanks for the cute photos.
Pretty Easter card, Masquers.
Happy Easter to everyone!
Sun is shining…75 degress here today, but I would rather be with Staff. Mom is happy.
10:44 am on March 31st, 2013
ChetSpeak cheers me up. I have a memory like Chet. 🙂
Wose: Hope AJ gets his trousers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDJflQfNUE8
Good news from Whitey-Lance about Bev and SnowBella.
HOH: Glad you are back, squawking parrots and all.
Double egg day!
10:51 am on March 31st, 2013
Hey everyone – Happy Rabbits and Peeps to all.
Did we ever tell you about the time Mama took us for a long car ride on the back roads. Gilly loves to look out the window and tell us about what she sees.
We drove by a horse farm, and Gilly said, “Bark, bark, bark – those are horses!”
Then we drove by a cow farm, and Gilly said, Arf, Arf – those are cows!”
Then we drove by a llama farm, and Gilly said, “Yipe! What the h e l l are THOSE?” Then she got under the seat and stayed there for a couple of miles.
tee hee
10:54 am on March 31st, 2013
Heh, heh. Dawson, That’s Great. Love the Scottish accent!
10:54 am on March 31st, 2013
Wose, Check your SDD
I want to hear the AJ losing his pants story.
10:56 am on March 31st, 2013
Tupper: With the Herds of llamas around these here parts Silly Gilly would be hiding under the seat for a Long Time.
11:07 am on March 31st, 2013
When Barb first moved to the country she looked into buying Alpacas. Soon learned that they were out of reach financially shoe she got Shetland sheep instead. Looked just as good in the pasture.
Rio, Did a little research on tomatoes in containers. The bigger the better, but 12″ deep would be minimum. If you don’t care about fancy looks those big 5 gal paint containers work well. Big box stores sell those for about $2.50. Gotta drill some drainage holes in the bottoms. As far as good heirlooms for containers, Japanese Black Trifele and Black Krim both do well. Don’t know if they are hard to find, but in checking the list of a small local garden center here, both of those were on their list of 2 doz heirlooms that they grow and sell.
11:11 am on March 31st, 2013
Forgot the Hawaiian pants. Thought they were tasty. Much more meat than the Scottish ones!
11:23 am on March 31st, 2013
Rio, Couldn’t resist. ^..^
11:24 am on March 31st, 2013
May the good news and warmer weather continue today. 😉
11:25 am on March 31st, 2013
Hey, just an idea, would AJ wear Hawaiian pants? We know where he could get some CHEAP!
Wow! Barb is very impressed with Bev walking a mile. That is our goal here for 3 months from now.
Rio, After telling you about that Japanese Black Trifele tomato (which is really Russian in origin), Barb now has it on her short list for this summer. If you have trouble finding heirlooms in your area, which you probably won’t, Barb found a website that has more reasonable prices than White Flower Farms. They charge $3.75 per plant with a flat $7.50 shipping charge. Not cheap, but if you really really want a particular variety it ain’t bad!
11:36 am on March 31st, 2013
Easter!…Happy Easter everybody!…snort!snort!
11:36 am on March 31st, 2013
Loved the pants video.
Here is an interview with Mike Ellis and his lead dog Stump at the ceremonial start of the Iditarod this year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gno7cbM-u4
11:37 am on March 31st, 2013
Sneeze!….The Lord is Risen!…sneeze!…Happy Easter all youse guys out’der….snorkel!
11:39 am on March 31st, 2013
Ham!…We smell the ham and the garlicy potatoes baking…wheeze!… I can hardly contain myself. Beau and I have planted ourselves in the middle of the kitchen floor…chuffle!…The perfect spot.
11:41 am on March 31st, 2013
I also am glad for all the good news on the blog lately.
Last night I tried to make Egg Drop soup for my father and he said he liked it better than the soup from the Chinese Restaurant! Yeep! I am very happy. If anyone wants the recipe I made up from about 6 different recipes I can put it on Dishlickers.
In the past I have tried to make it but failed the egg drop part. This time I watched two youtube videos about the drop and after that it was easy.
11:46 am on March 31st, 2013
Sammy was very happy. She talked me into taking her out for a walk without her boots.
11:47 am on March 31st, 2013
Staff: Anything that has to do with Food gets my attention.
Yes, please post to Dish.
Good interview with Stump and his musher.
11:48 am on March 31st, 2013
Sammie!…All I see is a black coat…snort!…Aww, well it is time to go check on all the food…sniff!sniff!
11:50 am on March 31st, 2013
Without the coat, Sammy would be invisidog!
11:55 am on March 31st, 2013
Sammie: Except for the black jacket it’s a total white-out!
11:59 am on March 31st, 2013
Thanks for the video, Staff. Mike is my favorite Siberian musher. I hope he and the dogs can return next year.
Sammy needs s-n-o-w-s-h-o-e-s…hot pink ones.
12:09 pm on March 31st, 2013
Masquers,
Easter comes on different days because it falls on the first Sunday after the first
full moon after the first day of Spring. Hope all of you have a great day.
12:16 pm on March 31st, 2013
The first full moon after the spring equinox is the date of Passover on the Jewish
calendar and the Last Supper was held on Passover the night before the Crucifixion.
12:19 pm on March 31st, 2013
Tyb: You’re the dawg!
12:24 pm on March 31st, 2013
TYB That is a very cute photo. I like the blue bunny
12:46 pm on March 31st, 2013
Tyb – you’re a very good dog. I doubt many of us, including kats, would lie quietly with bunnies near.
Beau – Amen.
Wookie’s family – next year in Jerusalem.
Happy Easter and Spring, Everybody. Blog good news is sweet, almost like chocolate 🙂
12:48 pm on March 31st, 2013
Lucy Lou the labredoo loved a bunny like that, only beige…burp!
1:07 pm on March 31st, 2013
Happy Easter! Happy egg day!
About AJ losing his trousers, I was there. What I remember is one point he had his snow pants on and the next moment he was there in almost his altogether pulling his pants up. I forget the how and why details. My mama knows them but she was in the kennel yesterday and overdid it so she is resting her back.
1:15 pm on March 31st, 2013
Tenz: You tell that mama of yours No Overdoing It!!!
Sit on her if you have to.
1:29 pm on March 31st, 2013
Glad we played with, er…hunted, our eggs earlier. The sky just opened up here and mom would never let us bring in mud AND eggs. Her rule is one kind of dirt at a time.
1:57 pm on March 31st, 2013
BSD: I had to make a choice between sitting on her and being a pillow. She insistend on me being a pillow. I didn’t put up much a fight. Being a pillow easier and more restful for all involved.
My Giant and Mama are going to Mick and Jodi’s, the people not the puppies for Easter dinner tonight. I am so very jealous. Mick and Jodi—they’re my kind of people. Plus, Mick’s work shop has so many intersting, new-to-me kind of smells I could get lost in there.
1:59 pm on March 31st, 2013
Easter Egg Chickens?
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/home-garden/2010/05/24/what-are-easter-egg-chickens/
2:29 pm on March 31st, 2013
BSD, we are getting one of those chickens. Aren’t those eggs pretty?
2:39 pm on March 31st, 2013
Mom’s brother has those little guys years ago. Smallish eggs but colorful and productive. Also had a couple of geese…1 egg omlette for 4 people. Made egg day fun.
3:23 pm on March 31st, 2013
O’Howlers: How many will (you) your folks have? One of each kind?
Herd of Hounds: One egg feeding four people! Quite Amazing.
3:54 pm on March 31st, 2013
Eggs!…I bet one egg would never feed one Bear…heh!heh!burp!…Oh my dawg, I am so full of ham I could explode. Lot of soft touches here today – I begged from all corners of the table while wearing my black bow-tie…snort!…I think dressing for dinner really improved my beggin’ abilities…heh!heh!
3:55 pm on March 31st, 2013
No!…Oh no! Someone is making grumbling sounds about taking us for a walk…wheeze!…Doesn’t she know I will splort all over the side-walk if I walk right now?…gah!
4:06 pm on March 31st, 2013
RIO! Please tell you friend a brutal walk now could get messy!
TYB: Good to see and hear from you! Of course, as usual, you are very handsome in your photographs!
Beau: Amen!
Tenzing: The Prof and I love Mick’s workshop too. In fact their whole house if full of cool stuff!
4:13 pm on March 31st, 2013
Rose!…Thankfully, she sat down and realized how tired she is so our walk might not happen for a little while…wheeze!…Thank dawg, I do not want to lose any of that ham I worked so hard for today…heh!
Maskers!…check your SDD and don’t be surprised….grunt!
4:21 pm on March 31st, 2013
Grump….I’ve been locked out of my SDD…sniff!…Yahoo says there was suspicious-goat-activity so they will not let me send anymore SDD’s today…grunt!..I can however receive SDD’s for some strange reason, just not send them….crap!
4:50 pm on March 31st, 2013
At my son’s apartment in Queens this afternoon. Still experimenting with my new camera. Yuji consented to this “In your face” shot.
5:01 pm on March 31st, 2013
Oh my Dog, Poor Rio. I expect there will be a lot of frustrated paper twirling this afternoon. sheesh. I hope you get back into your email soon.
5:04 pm on March 31st, 2013
Peace at last – hope you have all had a loverly day. The ham, sweet taters and as-per-gras have been et, and pineapple upside-down cupcakes were plopped with whipped cream. hoo boy – everyone is stuffed.
Rio – did your friend try the baked asparagus recipe? And how were the neighbor’s dinner rolls? And please check your incoming SDD in a couple of minutes.
Tyb and Yuji – great photos.
5:11 pm on March 31st, 2013
The Huskies of St. Cloud State are in the frozen four. That is about all I know. They are the last MN team left. Both the U of MINN and North Dakota State are out. Yale got them both!
5:35 pm on March 31st, 2013
The ‘rents just got home from our uncle’s place. They are looking mighty stuff. But Mom dropped 2 of her painted eggs when taking them from her pocket. So what did they do? Sat down and ate them
Today is a very crappy Easter, weather-wise. It is now rainy and chilly. This morning was just cloudy and breezy, so we went for a trail ride with them.
Bear, we are getting 6 chickens, each one a different breed.
Tyb, we love your Easter picture, and Yuji, you are becoming quite the model extroadinaire.
5:46 pm on March 31st, 2013
Yuji Looking good!
5:55 pm on March 31st, 2013
Yipppeeee!….It seems my email is working again….snort!wheeze!…Someone went on a very very long walk without Beau and I. Seems we were glued to the living room rug snoring and nothing short of more ham or slim-jims was gonna get us to move…heh!heh!
6:08 pm on March 31st, 2013
RIO! Glad your SDD is working once again!
Yuri: You were very ready for your close-up!
6:11 pm on March 31st, 2013
DAMMIT!….Now my SDD is blocked again….Grump!…Why oh why oh why oh why oh why today?….weep!sob!weep!
6:13 pm on March 31st, 2013
Golinka!…I had to use my friends SDD to send you a message about my SDD not working…sniffle!…Please go check yours right now…do not doddle…weep!sob!
6:22 pm on March 31st, 2013
Test!….Who is here that I can send a TEST email to right now?…grunt!
6:31 pm on March 31st, 2013
Rio – sob not, little Puglet. All will be well.
6:33 pm on March 31st, 2013
Tupper!…WoooHooo!…Someone heard me and came to my resue…sniffle!…I wasn’t really crying. No way!
6:33 pm on March 31st, 2013
Sounds like all had a nice day and Rio made a PUG of himself!
6:45 pm on March 31st, 2013
Hmmmphf!…I can read my SDD’s but I cannot send any to anyone again…sniff!…My friend does not like me using her “special” SDD unless it is an emergency – so I am SDD-less this evening…grump!
6:54 pm on March 31st, 2013
We are now going to watch The Hobbit. Woo Hoo !
6:55 pm on March 31st, 2013
Howlers!…Can you get The Hobbit on netflix? …snort!…Or do you mean CHobbit Harris?…heh!heh!
7:04 pm on March 31st, 2013
We are watching it on pay per view on direct tv.
7:11 pm on March 31st, 2013
I am watching the Iditarod Auction on Facebookie. The first pickup was won by someone from Texas. I wonder how they get the truck down there? They are listing each winner as they are drawn.
https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailCommittee
7:12 pm on March 31st, 2013
Glued!…I’m glued to something right now – can’t type….wheeze!
7:13 pm on March 31st, 2013
Us too, Rio.
7:15 pm on March 31st, 2013
Grrrrrr
7:22 pm on March 31st, 2013
BSD, Thank you for that link. That is the color of the Easter Eggers that we had. Well, two anyway, one had eggs more olive in color. Good article, except we are not sure what she meant about the inside color. Once you break the egg open, the part you eat looks like a regular egg.
Will check our SDD again in a bit.
Gus’s family is coming in a few minutes, as today is his 4th B-Day and they want him to go home and celebrate.
7:35 pm on March 31st, 2013
Well, bummer!
7:36 pm on March 31st, 2013
The fat lady has sung and it weren’t pretty.
7:38 pm on March 31st, 2013
Bugger!…It all…sniff!…That is how the dice rolls. We never should have let SiberH participate…heh!
7:38 pm on March 31st, 2013
These were posted by mom’s friend Kandy today. They are from her chickies.
7:39 pm on March 31st, 2013
Hey!…shake!shake-it-off!…Baseball officially starts tonight…snort!…I’ve checked but we do not get the pleasure of watching the first game…grunt!
7:39 pm on March 31st, 2013
Happy Birthday Gus!
7:41 pm on March 31st, 2013
The Texas Rangers and Astros game is on the MLB channel, Rio.
7:45 pm on March 31st, 2013
SiberH!…Hey, good to know!…snort!…We are watching “The Passion” of the Christ on the History Channel right now. Beau is glued to the TV…wuffle! sob! sob! sob!
7:56 pm on March 31st, 2013
We are going to take our one and only Cadbury crème egg and go sit in the corner.
G’night all. Tomorrow is a new day – even WITHOUT baseball.
hrrrmmmppphhh!
7:56 pm on March 31st, 2013
Hungry!…I’m thinking I might be hungry again…heh!heh!…Where are all those left-overs? The ones her sister-in-law did not confiscate…grump!…She took a whole cooler home with ham, potatoes, dessert and dawg knows what else…grunt!
7:57 pm on March 31st, 2013
Tuppence!…Did you know? Are you aware that MLB baseball starts TONIGHT!…heh!heh!wooooo!
7:58 pm on March 31st, 2013
Happy Birthday, Gus.
Good night all.
Sniff
8:02 pm on March 31st, 2013
That’s it for me.
Morning will be here soon and there is an Early AM Appointment to look forward to.
WBB in the afternoon.
Nite-All – Bear
8:05 pm on March 31st, 2013
But first…Tupper, throw one of those Cadberry Eggs over here. Sniff.
8:14 pm on March 31st, 2013
That is a beautiful basket of eggs. Oley, one of yours will lay those really dark eggs too.
On the other front, sob, sob.
That’s it for us too. Nighty noodle.
8:28 pm on March 31st, 2013
Crying!…We are not crying in our beer tonight because we have a whole year ahead of us to make things better…snuffle!…If everyone gives their all, this could be the best year ever!…chuffle!
8:52 pm on March 31st, 2013
Poor us. Our bball farm team doesn’t open at home till Thurs. We like them ’cause they have “dog night” several times a summer. Sounds like many of us ate well today and enjoyed Chetspeak.
8:56 pm on March 31st, 2013
Rich!…We are all rich in friendship and hopes for the future….snort!…Not one of us is poor here…heh!…I am saying this before I see how my baseball team looks this year…faith, ever faithful…snort!
8:59 pm on March 31st, 2013
Mom just looked at the clock and is shooing us off to bed (she’s the tired one). Nighty night
9:03 pm on March 31st, 2013
OMDawg!…It is a real baseball game…snort!snort!…We just turned on the Texas – Houston game…heh!…Real baseball…wheeze!…It has been so very long…gasp!wheeeze!…Oh thank dawg, we made it to Spring!
9:14 pm on March 31st, 2013
heh heh heh. Have fun Rio. We here are going to bed soon. I drove around today and there is a lot of melting going on. I think Dawson will find lawns instead of snowbanks when she gets here. Maybe even a bulb or two peeking out of the ground. In a few weeks.
Nighty noodle…
9:16 pm on March 31st, 2013
Yup!…Yup! Fun is the rest of Spring and Summer and part of Fall…snort!…Clean yer oven Stover and fire her up, the season is just beginning!…Wooooo!
9:42 pm on March 31st, 2013
FOM!….Is mine in April!…WooooOOOoooOOOOo!
9:49 pm on March 31st, 2013
Uh-Oh!..I did not put name on my FOM Foto…sniff!…I wonder if Spencer or Admin will recognize me…sneeze!
9:53 pm on March 31st, 2013
Rio –
We have joined the Rockies baseball team.
Heh, heh, heh
Signed,
The Marauding Goats
9:56 pm on March 31st, 2013
Goats!…This could be good news or bad news, I’m not sure yet…sniff!…All I know is if my team stinks this year, it is all your fault…grunt!…If they win and win and win, it will have nothing to do with you…heh!heh!
10:00 pm on March 31st, 2013
Winky!…Can anyone guess how damned tired I am of seeing his sad face day after freakin’ day?…grunt!…Good Riddance!
10:53 pm on March 31st, 2013
(((sigh)))!…Well I have been waiting up for the Giants to get home…snuffle!…I hope they had a good time at Jodi and Mick’s – boy would I like to try some of his Shine one day…heh!…Anyways, someone here is awefully tired because making a big dinner is hard work apparently…snort!…Who would have guessed?…heh!…Goodnight all!
11:25 pm on March 31st, 2013
The Rangers v. Astros was NOT a real game IOHO. Going to be a long season.
Nightly noodles y’all
1:32 am on April 1st, 2013
We just returned home from Mick and Jodi’s, the people not the pups. Our bellies are full and our sides hurt from laughing so hard. Dinner with the family you’ve chosen is always a good thing.
My feeling-good-in-no-time pills are going to kick in any second now so nighty noodles to all youse.
Baseball! Banana cream, please. 🙂
5:50 am on April 1st, 2013
Barb & Maggie, this is a dog blog if this was a horse blog I would’ve used a horse. But Dima does have a long face.