TonTon, stop posing. You are supposed to be choosing a winner. Three winners actually to win a package of farmy postcards. Pick a winner TonTon.
TonTon. Each folded comment has a name. Now take a wee paper out of the Pom Pom Hattie and bring it to me. Gimme TonTon. TonTon Gimme
TonTon this has to work you are supposed to be choosing the winners. (sigh) Get my hattie TonTon, Where’s My Hattie!
Gimme TonTon, Gimme. No, the paper. TonTon. Gimme paper. You know what that means, we have been practicing.
oops. 
Oh you brought my Hattie and dropped all the papers. Well. Hmm. Good Boy.
Thank you for my Hattie. Yes, I will put it on. No, we are not going outside now. Now Ton see where I am pointing. Try and act like a clever dog. Gimme Paper. 
Gimme paper. Good Boy
Now gimme. Good boy. Winner Number One is annashortcakes. Fantastic! ! She has fish on her pages today Ton. Did she send you some as a bribe?
Now another one TONTON! Oh he has it already.
No, that is for me…. no chewing on the family! TonTon, gimme. Wait, let me see. Oh this is Spree!! cooking spree you are winner Number TWO! Spree is making Sugar Snap Peas with Shitake Mushrooms for Valentines Day, so I am fairly sure there was no bribery there. That is way too healthy. 
Now Number Three TonTon. Gimme paper. TonTon gimme paper! 
TonTon you are supposed to lay it at my feet like a good dog, not eat it! But I suppose you brought it to my feet before you began to gnaw on the Third winner. Winner Number THREE is bridgesburning. Chris you WON! Though I have to admit that your comment has been a bit chewed but that better than being eschewed I suppose!!
There now. Congratulations to the three winners. Email me with your snail mail addresses and when the postcards come back from the printers I will send you your gorgeous bright packages of Farmy Postcards!
This morning has again dawned clear and cold. Not too bad, we are at 15F (-10C). You will not hear me complain about the cold. I am just so grateful for the mild winter so far. I knew we had to pay for it sometime!! It is winter after all.
I must tell you a funny thing that happened the other day. Quite by mistake after a certain tractor went through a certain gate and a certain tractor driver forgot to close the gate, the gate to the wee meadow that houses Queenie and Hairy was left open for the whole night. I only noticed it when I looked out the kitchen window the next morning preparing to go out to feed. As I raced to the barn I saw evidence of them wandering about the garden together, gazing down the lane, walking through the empty field and then returning themselves to their pen and obediently standing at their feeder waiting for their hay as I rushed in that morning. Saying very loudly to me, in a sanctimonious tone” We were good. We went nowhere. We never ever would go through an open gate, because that would be bad!! We are a good Flerd. Where’s breakfast!”
Good morning and congrats to you all for joining the fun!
celi
ps. A Flerd is a cross between a flock and a herd.
pss. If I point and say Gimme, TonTon will pick up the first thing he sees and give it to me. I trained him to find paper by name all week in preparation for the draw with varying results. Before we go outside I say Gimme Hattie and he goes and finds my PomPom Hattie and brings it to me. Then I send him for gloves and usually he will bring a pair one after the other. But straight gimme is whatever I am pointing to and it is not a game. It is a very useful command when my hands are full. I can say Gimme, he will pick it up. Then Bring it and he will carry it and walk with me. Of course all this is so that he can do the housework and I just walk about the house pointing!!
psss. I have a growing list of people who would like to buy postcards, so if you want your name pencilled in let me know in the comments anytime. Readers will get Mates Rates. I have also been asked if a few of the images can be sold as prints. I can certainly discuss that, so send me a message.
c
The Kitchen's Garden 
102 responses to “The draw: TonTon chose three winners for the Post Card Giveaway!”
I reblogged this post, but you probably already know this, because I wanted my friends to see how lovely and talented your TonTon is! This was a fun post, and I don’t even mind that I wasn’t a winner. 😉 ~ Lynda
Thank you for the reblogging, TonTon is such a star! This post has been UP for two hours and i just saw the ERROR on the header. How could I have had a spelling mistake up there and not noticed it until now.. (sigh) too excited i guess! .. fixed nowc
Hahaha! What mistake? Guess I missed it too… 😉
Lynda – thanks for reblogging so I could join the fun too!
Nancy
Morning Nancy and welcome!! wasn’t that great of Lynda.. celi
Hilarious!! I’d love a set of your cards. And you have inspred me to actually print off some f my pictures. 45 currently at the shop, waiting to be collected. I probably won’t get there until Tuesday though! I’m working on the other side of the county tomorrow….
Fantastic, I am All for printing your pics. Too often they languish in our computers getting pushed further and further back. c
YAY! YAY! YAY! Thank you! I am so excited!
Oh Oh..what is your email addy??
Normally I would scroll right to the winners, but I was riveted by TonTon, oh what’s that crazy dog doing now!
Congratulations TonTon! You are the best contest decider ever! They may be calling you from Florida!
Love that dog!!! So well trained and so happy to please! Good training, C. Congratulations to the winners of the postcards.
Well done, TonTon! And you, the trainer! He is alternating between looking sheepish and proud of himself in those pictures 🙂
Congrats to all the winners. Great job TonTon. I’d be very interested in purchasing set of the postcards.
Oh thank you LaTrice, I will be in touch in a few weeks when we get them back from the printers!! c
Good dog, TonTon!
Good morning, what is happening at your place today.. I shall pop over to see! c
Oh, that FACE…the photos are so endearing, I don’t even care that he didn’t pick mine!
Baby might like these ones!! c
“Shake a paw, Ton Ton” what a good boy doing all that training!! c I laughed my head off this morning.. I love the ones with Ton Ton shaking his head like crazy.. I was sure you were going to tell me he swallowed the third.. Congratulations to all!
Cecilia — Please list me among the eager prospective postcard purchasers! – Carmen
Morning carmen, Of course i shall add you to the list.. how exciting to see you out here in cyber space! and I see you caught a bit of celi language there too!! (laughter) have a great sunday! c
Oh man, Border Collies are les creme de la creme! They are so intelligent. I would love to have another one so much, but they need work to do. It’s almost abusive to have a B. Collie where there is nothing to herd or work at. I remember watching, at a New Zealand sheep ranch, the little guys running on the backs of hundreds of sheep to get to the other side of the flock.
Congrats to the winners and to you, Celi, for being so creative and generous with your gifts.
They do need to work, their brains and bodies need to be busy all the time or they get in trouble! I can just imagine Ton running across the top of Mama to get to the other side!! ha ha ha c
(Talking softly)
I waited for Max to fall asleep before commenting. Lately, he’s grown a little touchy about TonTon, though not so touchy as to emulate TonTon’s behaviour or at least try to improve himself. Anyway congrats to the winners and tell TonTon that he may want to beef up on his “nose touching” abilities. Vanna White won’t be on “Wheel of Fortune” forever. He can just as easily run up and down the board, touching the squares that are lit up, as Vanna can. In fact, he’ll save them a fortune in wardrobe costs.
I put the idea to Ton and he said he will only do it if he gets the wardrobe and makeup! He is going to practice the hells too I think (sigh) c