For dinner last night I made homemade chicken noodle soup with dumplings on top in an effort to help cure Sylvia's cold/virus/bacterial infection. She's been a sick girl lately. I boiled some chicken legs to make the broth and after they were done I took them out to pull the meat off the bones. As I was throwing the bones out I was reminded of my mom. She likes to throw bones and food scraps into the woods outside her front door.
So she can listen to the racoons fight over them.
As an aside, I was going to label this post "The Fightin' Coons" and make a reference to how that would've been the worst football team name ever but I thought better of it. Sort of.
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Ahh. I miss raccoons. No raccoons in the Yukon. However, when I was in Vancouver on Monday we went to Stanley Park and there was one showing off for the tourists. They sure are cute. When I was a teenager I would feed them eggs outside of my door which drove my mom crazy. We are grown ups now though and must think about the neighbourhood cats. Probably best not to feed the raccoons.
Ps. Do you remember the Raccoons Christmas Special? I'm not sure exactly what it was called but it was a big thing when we were kids and always my favorite.
PG- I'm happy to do it for her. Just to make you more jealous, I do all of the cooking and most of the house cleaning as well. She takes care of me in other ways...
S&L- I don't remember the special you mean but is THIS it? Looks like a heart touching tail. Get it? Tail? Oh, Forget it.
Some people will do anything to get laid.
Has she called Dr J yet? This ick that she has been hanging around for quite a bit.
THAT IS SO IT! lol. That brings back memories.
Man, that's awesome for her. Got any brothers? Who are single?
Um, I'm a little dim, how does she 'take care of you in other ways'? Can you clue a girl in?
(wink)
PG- I actually do have a brother who is single. However getting him to cook and/or clean would be more effort than it's worth. Although having read your blog for a while I have a feeling you have certain techniques which could prove very persuasive to a single, 30 year old male...
That indirectly answers your question about "taking care of me in other ways" as well.
Whatever that football team name was, could it really be worse than the "Vancouver Canucks". I never understood how they got away with that.
I can top the chicken bone thing. A couple of nights ago I hauled a dead deer off the road in front of our house and into the field on the other side. Now we hear the coyotes out there.
I think it's cool that your mom did that. My dad always went through great pains to make sure the garbage cans outside were as secure as Fort Knox so that the racoons couldn't get into them.
I'm all about techniques of persuasion.
Send 'em my way. You'll have a new and improved brother in no time.
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