Povey Prattle

Racing Dog Rescue Page "Official" photo/. This is what I wrote on the Racing Dog Rescue Project's Face Book page. Petey (now Ben) has settled in so beautifully. You'd think that he had always lived here. Wherever I am he wants to be! He slept at the foot of my bed last night. He is very responsive to me, and is learning commands such as "stay" - I use this so that after a walk I can be sure to enter my home before he does. He is the talk of the neighbourhood and is greatly admired. He has been so very good with the many dogs and people he has met. Ben's favourite activity is riding in the car. That's tough, 'cause I have a car-port not a garage, and every time we walk out and then come back home he wants to get into the car. Ben and my cat Adelaide are ignoring each other. I suspect that they will become friends (Adelaide adored my previous rescue, a terrier/retriever blend) I've had to cage Ben just twice, H...

He was whelped on 28th August 2013. As a racing dog his name was BW BALLYS BOY. At the Racing Dog Retirement Project in Myakka, FL  he temporary name was PETEY   (Americans please note  the old TV series  "Little Rascals" for the Petey Reference). He came to share my home today.  His name is now BEN  (Partly because it is a good strong name in its own right, partly in honour of our dear and good friend Ben Morse who died last December). Ben and I had a home visit last Wednesday.  That was a great success, so Geri from RDRP brought him to my home today to complete the adoption. When she left my home poor Ben whimpered in distress.  I took him outside, and the poor child kept looking for her. Later in the day I took Ben for a ride in my car, and as soon as we got back home he settled down with me and ceased to whimper. Here's what I know on  day one. He is a handsome lad! He and  the cat are ignoring each other. H...

At the Chart House, Longboat Key, FL with my friends Fred and Diana, and their guest Randy Dailey. Beef Carpaccio*   with arugula, shaved parmesan & fried capers and crostini. Darn good if I may say so. Great table company too.

Yesterday  (3/14)  was not a day for Pi  (which I scarcely understand), nor for Pie (which I rarely eat). Instead it was a day for lunch at Sarasota's fabled Mediterraneo Restaurant on Main Street in SRQ Mediterraneo is a fabulous (northern) Italian Restaurant  where my sister Ruth and her partner Dennis treated me to a slap up meal at the end of their visit from Bristol (U.K.) last November, I was there on Pi/Pie Day to enjoy lunch with one of Sarasota's finest, the estimable Barbara Ford-Coates Most Sarasota County residents know Barbara as our elected Tax Collector,    As such she runs the most efficient and "user friendly" operations you could hope to encounter. Get this O Ye of Benighted Counties.  Thanks to Barbara Ford-Coates, it is an unalloyed pleasure  to do business in her Tax Offices in Sarasota, FL See this: https://www.sarasotataxcollector.com/about/about-barbara ---------------------------------------...

I was a total duffer at mathematics in High School, I do not know how to bake. Today has been utterly wasted and lost on me.