#but the other is in a pill jar with like 50 of the suckers

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I finished The Crown and I have many thoughts:

I love this show obviously but it’s nowhere near as good as it thinks it is, The Crown is made for a) people who claim to be left-wing but see the Queen and go “yaaaasss she’s a cute gin-swilling old lady throwing shade” and b) people who hated Downton Abbey but still watched the whole thing, I fall into one of these camps

what’s with Margaret’s friends calling her “Margot”, you KNOW she wouldn’t allow anyone to call her anything other than “Your Royal Highness” bc she was a horrible snobby person

Lol @ Dickie going on about patriotism and the good old days and everyone in the audience (presumably) being like “you’re not even British you idiot”, he is the worst (Charles Dance is at his imperious best in this but I preferred Greg Wise’s more avuncular take on Dickie as it masked his self-serving nature quite nicely). Anyway, only a few more years before he gets blown up by the IRA, people!!!

Jason Watkins always looks as if he’s about to vomit or pass out and I love it, truly one of the greatest character actors out there

The soundtracking for this season is really exceptional, they’ve toned down the “music swells dramatically as Elizabeth makes a Big Decision” aspect of the show and I’m grateful (shoutout to my boy Martin Phipps)

I cannot BELIEVE Dickie is planning out a literal military COUP, I refuse to believe this actually happened

Sure hope Netflix are shilling out for some physio sessions for Tobias Menzies and Josh O’Connor, my neck hurts just watching them hunch their shoulders in like that

Would like more scenes between Charles and Philip, not because I actually care about the characters, I just want my two number one boys acting out emotionally charged scenes

The worst thing is that Peter Morgan genuinely does want us to believe that there is a similarity between a nation that’s been dominated by the English for centuries - had its culture and language suppressed - and a sullen posh twit with his head in the clouds

I am such a sucker for “tonally different but thematically appropriate” songs being used over episode credits, and the use of “Carlo” is sooooo good, ep 6 is my fave thus far, I love Josh so much

Oh god those poor fucking astronauts, imagine coming back from the moon, embarking on a worldwide press tour, you’re exhausted and rundown and all of a sudden you’re corralled into a side room of Buckingham Palace so Prince Philip can ramble at you about his midlife crisis

They’ve overcorrected with Philip this season, he’s way too nice (as if he would sit in front of a bunch of clergymen and be like “oh I’m sad I need help”), but Tobias’ performance is so endearing and charming that I’m just enjoying it for what it is (still gonna party hard when the real Philip dies tho)

The Margaret finale is exceptional but I’m really disappointed we didn’t get more of her this season, you don’t cast HBC and have her as a glorified extra for half the season, also where was the time Snowdon wore a paper bag over his head because “he couldn’t stand the fucking sight of her”

The scene where they interrogate Anne over the whole love quadrangle thing in the middle of the power outage is incredible but I found eps 8 and 9 to be fairly bland

Also did they completely forget Edward VIII being a literal Nazi collaborator orrrrr

Did everyone have a fave rando British actor appearance, mine was Andrew Buchan with apologies to Sam West (I’m not including Emerald Fennell in this category)

Great that we’re getting some good needle drops, if we’re submitting requests for next season I want The Jam’s ‘The Bitterest Pill I Ever Had To Swallow’ for the Charles/Camilla/Diana love triangle

Concerned that season 4 is going to feel very rushed (given that it sounds like they’re going to go all the way through the 1980s) but brace yourselves for hot Thatcher I guess. I feel like Peter Morgan kind of shot himself in the foot when he devoted so much time to the first ten years of Elizabeth’s reign and now has 4 seasons to whip through the remaining ~50 years, it’s going to be very jarring when they cast much older actors for the final 2 seasons when everyone here’s only 10 years (give or take) older than the first cast

Overall - better than season 2 but not as good as season 1, Olivia is fantastic but I find myself wanting to revisit Claire’s performance (she was just THAT good), I like that the expanded cast of characters turns it into a family drama even if the downside is that it can feel a bit disjointed. Ep 6 is definitely my fave but eps 2, 3, 4, 7, 10 also excellent

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The Magic Of Pumkpin

The magic of pumpkin, that should say it all. I love pumpkin. The dogs go nuts for anything I make with pumpkin. They even love it straight out of the can. I can't emphasize it enough though, it should be plain pumpkin! Not the stuff for pie. The pumpkin mix in the can looks like the same thing, and might even smell better, but all the spice and things that they add in that make our pies yummy, are not great for the dogs.

So getting normal pumpkin in the can, can be expensive and in some places hard to find. It does last a while though. I get mine at the superstore by my house around thanksgiving. I can normally find it for a little more than a dollar. Any other time of the year it is anywhere from $2.50-$4. So I stock up.

On to why pumpkin is so great! For one (and for me it's the best reason) its great for digestion! I recently had to change dog food, and I had to specially order it from a store. It wasn't going to work out where I had enough of the old food to mix for transition. Zoey has a sensitive tummy on somethings, mostly she gets diarrhea. So for this instance, I made some bowls with pumpkin, enough that it coats all the kibble. My pups will eat this like they haven't had food in days. No upset tummies. I mixed this for about 2 days.

They also love a spoonful as a treat. For them it is a very yummy treat.

Also it hides pills great. Kitsumi is having complications with her insides after her spay, and is now on antibiotics which she won't eat in a pill pocket, or any other way. I don't like to even think about forcing it down her throat. The trust you thought you had, yeah gone. The vet said I could take the medicine in the capsule and mix it in something. "As long as she gets the medicine, it doesn't matter" said the vet.  

Kit also loves peanut butter. With pumpkin, it can be watery, so I mix 50/50. I dump her pill with pumpkin and peanut butter and mix in a small bowl. I spoon a small bit at a time to kit, and she takes it. Success!!

It is also watery, as I said above! That's great, because dogs can get dehydrated from any number of reasons. Pumpkin (and wet food) is a great way to get extra water. You can also freeze it then in the summer they get a great treat!

I have mixed flour (you can use any variety you like), peanut butter, pumpkin and made a dough. Roll it out and make shapes or however you want to cut it up. Bake. 350 degrees, how long depends on how big your shapes are and how think, as well as how crunchy or soft you want them. You really can't go wrong.

Don't be afraid to cook for your dogs. They don't care if you left something in a bit too long and it's a little browner than normal (at least dogs that don't have sensitiveties). They also don't care if it's chewy, or dry. Some of my best recipes for my family have come from practicing on dog biscuits. My cinnamon rolls are a bigger version or the small ones I make for the dogs.

A bit of advice for people on budget: Don't get the transition pumpkin canned food that they offer for $4 at the pet stores!! All it contains is pumpkin!! I got suckered into buying a jar. You know how someone puts you into a position where if you don't get it you look like a turd, or a cheapskate? Yeah that's exactly what I mean! When I got home I was so disappointed. Have your own pumpkin recipe? Let me know, and we can swap!