Daisy's diary: on gardening
April 23rd 2009 23:27
It is on sunny days, like last weekend, that the difference between dogs and their humans is most apparent.
When it's sunny, as any dog knows, it's Vitamin D time. This essential ingredient in the recipe of life is formed in the skin when it is exposed to sunlight. It helps absorb calcium, which is needed for healthy bones
As you can see, I am an expert on Vitamin D. The D, by the way, stands for dog.
But back to last weekend. Would you believe that, with all that sunshine around, Little Boss decided against maximising her Vitamin D intake and instead chose to garden.
Gardening is something our humans like to do. Well, Little Boss does. Big Boss is always, quite rightly, in the study writing about me. Anyway, we think gardening is an instinctive human activity. It involves a lot of scrabbling around in dirt — a sort of elaborate poo-covering ritual. Possibly pagan.
So for all those humans out there wondering exactly how they should maximise Vitamin D intake on sunny days, I've decided to offer a pictorial guide.
May your bones be always healthy.
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Comment by Heidi/Clyde
To get the full benefit of the vitamin D treatment it is imperative that you train your Boss and Little Boss to create a dust bowl for you so you are not disturbed as you concentrate on those health giving rays (eyes closed of course for maximum absorption). You made a good attempt at starting on the training course during your digging phase but I am afraid you weren't persistent enough. Clyde and I had to create our own open cut mine in the back lawn before the Boss and the Missus got the idea. Of course the downside of this is that once you have your own dust bowl you have to leave the lawn, the orchard and the herb garden alone - otherwise they threaten to take the dust bowl back again.
The Missus says I can't send you a picture of us in our dust bowl to demonstrate its benefits, you'll just have to imagine how good it is.
Best wishes from your G.A.P. friend, Heidi.