Last week I posted about the neighbour's dog stealing my BBQ spit. The other day we lost a nice heavy duty lifter (spatula?). Neither of us remembered bringing it in from the shelf on the BBQ after grilling dinner and eating on the patio. It was a really nice heavy duty lifter with a wooden handle. This morning when the I saw the neighbour come in I went over and asked about it. Sure enough, it was there. She had recognized the prongs of the spit for what they were last week, but a wooden handled lifter with no handle was a mystery to her. So now I am going to have to go out and get a new one. She offered to replace it, but it's not her fault that we leave meat flavoured utensils where the dogs can get them. If it hadn't been their dogs it would have been a racoon.
So today I will have to find a nice new lifter.... and remember not to leave it outside, at least for the next two weeks until they move.
So today I will have to find a nice new lifter.... and remember not to leave it outside, at least for the next two weeks until they move.
Actually, it's a good thing they are moving. I know the dogs are nice and all that but it's rather inconvenient to have to remember to bring everything inside just because of them 🙂
Last week I posted about the neighbour's dog stealing my BBQ spit. The other day we lost a nice heavy duty lifter (spatula?). Neither of us remembered bringing it in from the shelf on the BBQ after grilling dinner and eating on the patio. It was a really nice heavy duty lifter with a wooden handle. This morning when the I saw the neighbour come in I went over and asked about it. Sure enough, it was there. She had recognized the prongs of the spit for what they were last week, but a wooden handled lifter with no handle was a mystery to her. So now I am going to have to go out and get a new one. She offered to replace it, but it's not her fault that we leave meat flavoured utensils where the dogs can get them. If it hadn't been their dogs it would have been a racoon.
So today I will have to find a nice new lifter.... and remember not to leave it outside, at least for the next two weeks until they move.
Fewer beers at dinner perhaps? I've never heard the term "lifter" before.
My dogs used to take the meat that was cooking off the grill if you didn't watch them. My cat took the basting brush that was being used to baste a turkey cooking on the grill with butter/spices. He ate the nylon bristles off of it. He had a thing for turkey.
So today I will have to find a nice new lifter.... and remember not to leave it outside, at least for the next two weeks until they move.
<sigh> In an ideal world, people feed their dogs and keep them on their property.
ObFood: 6oz of Salmon sashimi and some spinach/parmesean dip with crackers.
Quite a spread -- what kind of dog do you you have?
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Last week I posted about the neighbour's dog stealing my BBQ spit. The other day we lost a nice heavy duty lifter (spatula?).
I think it's kinda funny. I saw a picture at some news/photo site yesterday - this lady's cat kept bringing home garden gloves and leaving them on the doorstep as an offering. She had so far received 9 pairs of gloves and 5 singles. I've never heard of a retriever- breed cat.
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So today I will have to find a nice new lifter.... and remember not to leave it outside, at least for the next two weeks until they move.
Actually, it's a good thing they are moving. I know the dogs are nice and all that but it's rather inconvenient to have to remember to bring everything inside just because of them 🙂
Jill
Not where I live. If it's left outside it's fair game for the 'coons and opossums. Of course my dog is legendary for her grill snatchings but she's never swiped a utensil. I've even seen tree rats [censored] up a grilling fork once. He couldn't get a grip on it and dropped it but gave it his all. After dropping the fork he scampered back to the picnic table and latched onto a bologna sandwich and ran up a utility pole with it. The 'coons are the worst nuisance around here. They're greedy and really nosy. One never leaves the garage unattended after dark lest one of the little sneaks comes in to browse around.
Michael
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So today I will have to find a nice new lifter.... and remember not to leave it outside, at least for the next two weeks until they move.
Actually, it's a good thing they are moving. I know the dogs are nice and all that but it's rather inconvenient to have to remember to bring everything inside just because of them 🙂
Not where I live. If it's left outside it's fair game for the 'coons and opossums. Of course my dog is legendary for her grill snatchings but she's never swiped a utensil.
I only had one instance in 10 years of a raccoon coming sniffing around my trash can. My patio is fenced and so is the area where my trash can is. My trash can has a flip up handle that locks the lid down. I know raccoons are smart but by the time I heard one trying to get into the trash can I'd run outside to confront it and it ran away. It gave up and didn't come back.
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> So today I will have to find a nice new lifter.... and remember not > to leave it outside, at least for the next two weeks until they > move.
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Actually, it's a good thing they are moving. I know the dogs are nice and all that but it's rather inconvenient to have to remember to bring everything inside just because of them 🙂
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Not where I live. If it's left outside it's fair game for the 'coons and opossums. Of course my dog is legendary for her grill snatchings but she's never swiped a utensil.
I only had one instance in 10 years of a raccoon coming sniffing around my trash can. My patio is fenced and so is the area where my trash can is. My trash can has a flip up handle that locks the lid down. I know raccoons are smart but by the time I heard one trying to get into the trash can I'd run outside to confront it and it ran away. It gave up and didn't come back.
Not where I live. If it's left outside it's fair game for the 'coons and opossums. Of course my dog is legendary for her grill snatchings but she's never swiped a utensil. I've even seen tree rats [censored] up a grilling fork once. He couldn't get a grip on it and dropped it but gave it his all. After dropping the fork he scampered back to the picnic table and latched onto a bologna sandwich and ran up a utility pole with it. The 'coons are the worst nuisance around here. They're greedy and really nosy. One never leaves the garage unattended after dark lest one of the little sneaks comes in to browse around.
I am surprised that we do not have a problem with racoons getting into our garbage. It is kept in a bin behind the house. There are lots or racoons around, and the two carcasses across the road would indicate the local population is down by at least two. I still hear them across the street almost every night when I let the dogs out before bedtime, and I often see them along the road and I see lots of tracks in the field behind. It amazes me that in the 30 years I have lived here we have never had a problem with them. Maybe it is because it is a rural area and they can find enough to eat without eating trash.
They can ne destructive little buggers. A family of them moved into a friend's cottage one winter and really made a mess of the place. ..
