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Showing posts with label Concord grapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Concord grapes. Show all posts

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Picking up the seeds

This morning I served Bow a new type of grapes for breakfast. The Town & Country supermarket had them displayed so nicely and priced so reasonably, that  I couldn't resist, even though I know new things are risky. New things are risky, because Bow doesn't always like new things. He might refuse to eat them. After all, we all remember the incident a while back with the Concord grapes. It took me forever to convince him to eat them, on account of the seeds.

Today's new grapes were not Concord grapes, but they did have seeds. They are red grapes, but larger than usual. I think maybe some people call them "globe grapes". I served Bow, had my own breakfast, and then went to work on my CreateSpace blog, not paying much attention to Bow, who was still eating on the other side of the glass.
He was eating very loudly, with smacking sounds, but as long as he was happy, I was happy. (Sword was still asleep, as it is a weekend, and we had a late night.)

When I came in to take away the metal colander in which I served the grapes to Bow, Bow started busily picking up seeds from the floor and putting them into the colander. I didn't have to tell him! I might not even have noticed the seeds on the floor, because there were only a few of them. The majority of the seeds were already neatly piled up with the stems inside the colander. When he had finished picking up the seeds, Bow picked up the colander by its two handles and gave it to me.

"Thank you, Bow!" I said. He is such a help.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Concord Grapes for Breakfast

I served Concord grapes for breakfast. Big mistake. You would think Bow would enjoy a change from the usual green or red table grapes. But no! They have seeds.   He won't eat them. He goes without eating breakfast and is planning on being grouchy and impossible to deal with for the rest of the day.

Where is it written that a common chimpanzee has to have seedless grapes every morning? Why does he think this is worth ruining the day over?

"Bow, aren't you hungry? Why won't you eat your grapes?"

He spells: "They are so very bad!"