Urgent Petition to save Dogs and Cats in the USA

On Change.org I discovered this petition and found it disturbing to learn that in 44 states in The United States of America dogs and cats can be eaten for meat! With so many people outraged over the Yulin dog festival coming up in China, how is it we still have that as a possible reality here in the USA?

So, I am encouraging all who love and care about dogs and cats to go to Change.org and sign this petition.

https://www.change.org/p/ask-congress-to-outlaw-dog-and-cat-meat-in-the-u-s?recruiter=68162505&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition

Pumpkin Soup Recipe

Earlier today I was speaking with a friend that needed to make dinner for a whole family that was sick.  My suggestion was pumpkin soup as pumpkin balances the bodies digestive tract by loosening or tightening as need. That is why pumpkin is often recommended to give dogs when changing their diets.

Years ago I created a very simple pumpkin soup recipe that only has three ingredients and everyone in my family enjoys it. Thus I will share it here.

1 can of pumpkin
1 to 3 cups of milk of some sort (I use rice milk, but you could use cow's milk or soy milk)
1 fennel bulb

-Dump the contents of a can of pumpkin in a pot
-Add the milk: if you want a thin soup add up to 3 cups, if you want a thick soup add just 1 cup
-Chop up the entire fennel bulb into very small pieces (I toss mine in a chopper that attaches to my blender)
-Turn on the burner to medium
-Add the fennel to the pumpkin and milk mix
-Stir until bubbles and then server

Besides the benefits of the pumpkin, what I like is you get a great vegetable in the fennel and you get some calcium from the milk.

Enjoy

Random Thoughts

This past week I've been wanting to blog, but haven't settled on an idea to write about. Yesterday I thought about writing a few words about May the Force Be With You Day, but I think lots of Star Wars fans did so, so I skipped that idea.

Then I thought to write an update on my writing, but much is still the same. I'm writing one novel, editing another, and waiting on a third to be published.

I could write about this strange weather, rain, sun, hail, rain, sun, but I anyone who has a window to the outside can see the weather is off this spring.

As for the rest of my thoughts, they've been will the weather warm enough to steam clean the carpets? When will the rain stop so I can pull the weeds from the backyard? When will that novel be published?

Then my thoughts go to I could write about my birthday trip with my mother to Seven Feather's Casino (which was relaxing and fun), or about Easter. Yet, Easter feels so long ago now, though it is just a few weeks back, and the only significant event was the great dog cookie hunt in the backyard.

There are also all the petitions I sign in order to protect the planet and animals, but anyone who is interested in those can find them on my twitter account.

These are my random thoughts, and none of them really are worthy of a blog of their own.