No, it’s not Tasty Tuesday and I’m not sharing a recipe today! We have been overloaded with beans though….I got a little carried away planting green and wax beans in the garden this year. Luckily for us, Luke LOVES beans, raw or cooked. (Sheba will eat them cooked but she’s not as excited about it).
For those of you who love mysteries, you might know what a red herring is, when it’s not a dried smoked herring that has turned red from smoke. It is a clue in a mystery that is intended to mislead or distract you from the real issue.
How does all of this tie together? Almost two weeks ago I held a contest for one of my readers to win a box of assorted treats. You had to guess what treat Luke was eating in this photo:
I gave you this photo as a hint:
However, one real clue was in the first photo: the fact that I was cooking (pan on stove). The second photo included the second clue, and inadvertently, the red herring: Luke with a stick. Only the stick was not intended to be the clue. The clue was in the background: our bean plants on the other side of the fence. I swear, I did this totally by accident. When I was headed down to take a photo of Luke with the bean plants, I needed something to get him to go where I wanted him. The stick was the closest thing at hand, so I threw it towards the bean plants and then took some photos. The fact that he was chewing on the stick in that photo made everyone think that the treat he was getting was a bully stick. That was perfectly logical, but just not right!
Our follower Edie Chase, however, guessed closer than everyone else. She guessed that Luke was eating vegetables, and even though she went further and said carrots which was incorrect, she still came closest so I’ve declared her the winner. Congratulations, Edie!! (I am going away for a couple of days but I will contact you when I get back for your information so I can get the treats on their way to you). Thank you to everyone who played our little guessing game! Sorry about the red herring!
In the next photo, Luke is sitting outside the fence waiting patiently for me to throw him a bean as I’m picking them!
We also want to congratulate Jenna, who writes the blog Love is Being Owned by a Husky. She won our giveaway for a Fido Float life jacket, which we gave away as part of our Summer Safety Series last month.
I felt a little mischievous about the red herring, so we’re joining the Monday Mischief blog hop. Thank you to our blog hop hosts Alfie’s Blog, Snoopy’s Dog Blog, and My Brown Newfies. Please visit them and the other participants through the links below!
LOL I had no clue even to guess. Congrats to the winners!
Who knew you had to be a detective to figure it out? LOL
I guess that fence keeps your veggies safe from Luke! When I first saw the photo, I assumed the fence was between your yard and the neighbor’s. My dogs love vegetables (raw or cooked).
We have a pretty big fenced in yard, and we did purposely leave the vegetable garden outside of it, for it’s own protection! 🙂
Congratulations, Edie. The red herring was too irresistible for me.
It was hard for everyone to pass up! 🙂
hahaha great post and contest. Beans beans the musical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot, so eat more beans with every meal! 🙂
Thanks….I’m not so sure we’re too thrilled about the tooting part though….LOL.
Green beans are a favorite with Harley. It used to be carrots – he’s funny with snacks, he will eat them all the time and then instantly change. Silly Doodle!
The girls are more like that….they’ll eat something one time, but not the next. Luke will pretty much eat anything and everything all the time!
Hey Luke,
You eat Beans? But they’re green!! I won’t have anything to do with most green veggies, yuck! 🙂
I hope you’re having a fun day,
Your pal Snoopy 🙂
Hi Snoopy!!
I love all kinds of green things….and other color veggies too. My sisters won’t eat them much either though. That’s OK, more for me then!
Your friend, Luke
we never had beans either XD
You don’t know what you’re missing!!
What a great kitchen helper you are Luke. I bet my rats would like some of those beans too!
Luke is definitely my kitchen assistant (he inherited that job from Kobi) If we thought they would last, we would ship some beans to you for the rats! 🙂
Congratulations to Jenna! Thank you, my dog will be thrilled to try that bone and of course the other treats as well. My dog loves fruits and vegetables too, we should have grown some beans ourselves. We get our stuff from our local farmers market. I am going away this weekend so I won’t get on the internet again until Mon Aug 25.
The local farmer’s market is the next best thing to growing your own (and a lot less work, trust me).
I will shoot you an email and you can just reply when you get back. Our time away went longer than planned too, so it’s going to take me a while to catch up on everything.
Love that unintentional red herring! And the photos are precious!! Congrats to the contest winner!
Thanks! I just love how hopeful, happy, and excited Luke looks about his beans. 🙂
Nice red herring! Mr. N is opposed to vegetables so we have pretty much stopped trying to give him some.
Luke loves so many fruits and vegetables, but the girls won’t eat hardly any at all. Luke is just as happy to get them all to himself!
OMC!!!! I was not paying attention to the background at all when I guessed for fun!!!!!! Beans! Beans beans beans…
❇Mikko and Jax❇
🙂
Ohhh, fresh green beans!! That sounds wonderful. Congratulations on your bumper crop and your contest winner.
Thank you!! I think we’ve finally run out of beans though….the summer has been so cool here, I think the bean plants think it’s fall now!
Ahhhhh!!!!!! I should have known. I totally thought it was a bully stick!
ღ husky hugz ღ frum our pack at Love is being owned by a husky!
You probably didn’t realize you’d need detective skills to figure that one out….LOL!
I love beans! I wonder if Kilo would be into them too? Thanks for the post.
You should definitely let Kilo try some!
Excellent red herring! We have to keep the dogs out of the garden because they think its a buffet. They love the green beans!
Thanks! Luke isn’t allowed in the garden either, but more because he tramples over everything….he hasn’t gotten a chance to figure out how to steal the veggies yet (when he’s calmer we will let him in there). Don’t you love that you can share your fresh grown veggies with the dogs though?
We aren’t fans of beans but heard they are very good for you! Great photos!
Thank you! We have also heard how good they are for you, so we’re glad that Luke likes them so much.
We have never had beans. Mom doesn’t eat them, so we don’t have any around. Clever photo clue idea, though! Congratulations to your winners!
Thanks, Emma! I never would have thought any dog would like beans quite as much as Luke does.