I finally got a photo of Grandma's new one-eyed puppy, Rudyard Kipling, known as Kipper for short. Kipper is a Malta-Poo, which I first misunderstood to be Multi-Poo, which apparently is apt enough anyway.Kipper is a rescued puppy, just like Tangerine and Wasabe were rescued, so we can all feel good about that. The kittens seem to have a different opinion about adorable one-eyed rescued puppies crowding the stage.
The story I heard about Kipper is that a dog breeder took his pups to a vet in Chilliwack (Bro, you have to actually follow these links sometimes). The breeder twirled his moustache and told the vet to put down the one-eyed runt puppy. The vet had a better idea and called Grandma's friend Claire, famed all over the Fraser Valley for rescuing animals and feeding them cooked square sausage. Claire put the pup in a picnic basket with some nicely broiled pork chops, drove by Grandma's place at 3am, put the basket on the porch, rang the door-bell, kicked the basket a couple of times so the pup would start yiping, and drove off into the night cackling with glee. Something like that.
I don't know if I go for that story. There are a few holes in it. Grandma keeps her gate nailed shut and I don't see Claire with a bumbershoot gliding over the gate like Mary Poppins, with puppy, pork chops, and all.
Also, I recall that Claire doesn't approve of broiled pork chops for puppies -- the rescued guppies get pork chops.
Also, when I look at that photo, I'm pretty sure I see two eyes on that puppy.
And wait-a-minute. Didn't Grandma break her right arm a month ago? How come the sling is on her left arm? And look how much firewood she's chopped and how muscular she's become. Hmmmm.
Grandma also sent me some other photos, including one of a wet cat that looks like Tangerine. I was trying to get the photos organized on my computer last night. The kittens sure aren't helpful when I'm trying to work (they chase the mouse on the screen), and the Mac isn't always so great at working with photos and movies. Anyway, the kittens were jumping around, the Mac fell off the desk into my special KD Broc and the photo below came out.
Honestly, if I'm going to doctor photos, I'm going to have to get a PC. Mac software isn't cheap. This package I used, Pixelmator, was okay. But because I'm using the 30 days trial, it put blobs right over Grandma's face and a big watermark across the front of the photo.
Actually, I think the problem was that I looked for software right from the Apple website, which is a big infomercial, not a good list of freebies. I think I'll look else where, like download.com next time; that's where I go for good quality, virus-free PC stuff.
