HEY! ~ Where's all my Tomatos?? ... {bURRp}

[lizbud]

WHAT????? Cinder likes tomatoes? LOLOL. I have never heard of such a thing. That is just soo funny. Poor farmer Phred. Who can you trust anymore, if you can't trust the dog mutts? LOL. Want me to send a few up to you? (tomatoes, not dogs).

That is strange. Never met a dog who liked tomatoes. Smokey likes honey
dew melons & I though that was unusual. Sorry bout your maters Phred.

[Corinna]

We had a yellow lab that loved green gauge plums she'd jump up to pick them all the time . But plums do the same for dogs as prunes for people. As the dog picker upper I really hated harvest time.

[gini]

You know Phred, that guy is just trying to tell you that if you would fix him a plate of spaghetti with sauce once in a while - he would leave your tomatos alone! (right!!)

Great story - a Phred Phable for shure!

[Rachel]

Oh, no, the *Good* boy got yelled at. Dad, aka Pharmer Phred, needs to understand that healthy eating is good for ebberbuddie in the whole fam damily. Right Cin & Smoke? But you all do need to remember to make sure some get saved for Pops.

[The_Duck]

After catching this story, I went and searched out some more Phred tales. And you know... there she be a book. I'd buy it if you threw it together, Phred. The way you tell 'em makes me feel like I'm there and they' are always sooooooooooo funny.

[Dorothy39]

I certainly agree, but, I think Phred is a "HE"

I especially LOVE reading Phred's prayers!!!!!

[The_Duck]

Meep. I meant to say 'there should be a book'. Of coarse Phred is a he. Heh...heh. I"ma go crawl in a hole now.

[luvofallhorses]

hehe thanks for the laugh, Phred!

[Cinder & Smoke]

That is strange.
Never met a dog who liked tomatoes.

It was an "acquired taste" ... cultivated by copy-cat-itis.
Cinder has alway been the 'adventurous one' and will try most anything
that will fit in her mouth. It might take a trial or two, with a couple of
spit-backs before she actually swallows something new ... but I'm hard
pressed to think of ANYthing that she won't eat and swallow.
She'll *sit* - *beg* - *shake for* - and *swallow*:
* Any red meat
* Chicken, Turkey
* All lunch meats
* Cheese
* Veggies: Broccoli, Beans, Corn, Lettuce, CARROTS, Celery, CUCUMBERS
* Pickles (with horrible facial expressions), Olives, Eggs
* Bananas, Apples, Oranges (more faces)
* Pizza crusts and slices (any topping), Spaghetti Sauce, and >>>
* TOMATOS!

SmokeMutt was a little *cautious* on some of these, and he STILL won't
even put a piece of celery in his mouth, but peer pressure from Cinder has
put all the rest of the above on his menu.

Heidi is a major disappointment: she rejected her first Cucumber Skin.
I fear she only appreciates Dawg Food & Treats.
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I can't believe we didn't have any Mater Pharm Tails from 2007 ---
It was a GOOD Year!
Donny delivered our Mater Pharm inna Buckit *WITH* a roll of Security
Fencing to reduce poaching. The Mater TREE musta been afraid of dawgs,
'cuz it kept all it's many arms & legs INside the fence ... we lost more
maters to "tomato blight" or a lack of calcium late in the season than we
did to the PoacherMutts.

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2008 is turning out to be another Bountiful Mater Pharm Year!

We've only had a few poachings - account of the dumm Mater Tree
turned out to be a Mater BUSH and grew low to the ground - and draped
a LOT of it's arms & legs over and through the Security Fence.
Harvests have been good, and crop loss due to black-bottomed maters
has been avoided by Donny putting in extra calcium in the Magic Potions
(aka dirt) that fills the Pharm (bucket).

I'm almost out up in the kitchen --- tyme for a Harvest Trip down onna
Pharm later tonight. LOTTA nice RED ones popped out yesterday.

/s/ Pharmer Phred