How to make dog biscuits for pigs

“Well!” I hear you say! “Treats for Pigs?”. But every good pig deserves a treat – Especially Our Sheila who survived the Big Chill with A Plomb and the easiest way to train a pig is with treats. Sad but True.

I am the same.

Here is the recipe:

• 2 cups wholemeal flour
• 1 cup oatmeal (everyone likes oatmeal)
• 1 egg (because I have plenty)
• 1/8 cup flax seeds (I put flaxseeds in everything because they are a happy seed)
• 1 tablespoon of honey (HONEY!)
• 1/2 cup of peanut butter and some loose peanuts for fun.
• 1 cup of hot water

Mix, roll out, cut, bake at 320 for an hour, then turn off the oven to dehydrate in the cooling oven. Then turn the oven back on to roast Misky’s roasted potatoes at 400*, (you must try them, they are sublime) but I forgot that the piggie treats were still in there cooling. But all good.  By the time I rescued them they were  just crunchier.  This is what Ton told me anyway.  He likes peanut butter. And he loves these treats.

Life is SO forgiving.

But Boo (Blue) Bad Boo always wins.

Or at the very least – wins a Stick. ( I have to say, that this boy is looking less and less like a pure bred Blue Heeler by the day) .. ah well.

It was a hard day yesterday . A good day. Very cold.  But we were digging out. Each door and each gate had to be released from its frozen bondage. Everyone was returned to their Pre-Storm quarters with their gates to the outside.  Slowly we all resumed: At-Ease. The cord you see running behind Boo (above)  is to the lamp above the tractor trying to warm the mechanism so it would fire.  That did not work. So Our John took up an old fashioned shovel, and like his forebears, dug himself out all the way down the lane.

It took a long time. A long long time. But one man and a shovel can accomplish an awful lot. If he wants to.

And a sensible woman leaves a man to his work at these times. As a sensible man will leave a woman to her work when she is on a mission. Men need to be men too. As much as a woman needs to be a woman. This is where our strength lies. In allowing each other their strength.  In supporting and lifting the strength of others. Picking up where the other falters. This is how a team is built.

Even a team of two is very strong. And a team of one is honed to a point. Have a wonderful day.

Breathe

celi