Canines, containers, and cows

My daughter has given me some inspiration, or perhaps I should say motivation, a couple of times lately.  
I used to buy Hill's Science Diet for any dog I owned.  I assumed it must be the best because veteranarians sell it, although I bought mine at various farm stores.  Rachel told me about a website that compares the various brands of dog food (click HERE), showing that Science Diet only gets a one-star rating, the lowest possible.  Not that Iris has been getting that brand for the past couple of years; I received a free sample of Purina One, dumped it in the dish beside Science Diet, and Iris obviously preferred the sample.  That's what we've bought for her ever since.  That one gets two stars.  
There's a list of the best dog foods (HERE), but on that very long list, the only one I've heard of is Diamond.  That's the brand my grandson was getting for Titan; it made him have terrible gas, and he was losing weight.  So they switched him to Iris' brand.  
What I'd like is a sample of Diamond before I buy a big bag; It's available on Amazon.com for about the same price I'm paying for Purina One.  Shipping is free.  If Iris seems to like it OK, we'll switch.  I'm hoping Titan's gas problem was just some sort of food allergy.  So much for canines.  

On to the containers:  Rachel mentioned a while back that she went through all her containers like these, and the ones that had no matching lids, she tossed.  That jogged me into action, and I followed her example.  It seems she found more containers than lids.  It was opposite for me.  Now I'm wondering whether we had one another's containers and lids!  Food has been known to travel between our houses, in both directions.  Anyhow, after the purge I had very few containers left, so I bought some new ones.  The Glad freezerWare in the picture is the size I use the most.  I got attached to those because they would fit in Cliff's lunch box.  Of course, when he retired, so did his lunch box, but I'm still partial to that size.  The multi-use-but-semi-disposable sort of container is one of the better inventions to come to pass during my lifetime:  Cheap enough that you aren't afraid of losing them, but durable enough to use over and over.  

It was fairly decent weather this morning, so I spent a little time with the cows, giving Jody her daily bite of feed.

from the side

from the rear

With only two weeks until her due date, Jody continues to "make bag", as my dad and mom used to say.  

 Crystal, Bonnie's calf, has always been on the shy side.  When a calf runs at Mama's side all the time, it's hard to gentle her down.  Thank goodness her curiosity makes her want to inspect things and people.  Today I could see she wanted in the barn when I let Jody in, so I stood back and watched her slowly enter.  Then I shut the door.  She panicked briefly, but when I put some sweet feed in front of her she lost most of her fear.  At one point I was sitting on a stool less than three feet away from her, watching her eat.  This little girl has her mom's personality.  

Crystal was born in November, two months later than George and Gracie.  She has almost caught up to them in size, and I imagine she'll pass them up before long.  All that milk makes her grow fast.