The Coffee Frappe

This afternoon we had to take Oscar to the vet. I've told this story before on the old blog but when we had Speck, he HATED going to the vet. When we were still in Kentucky, I took him in one day for his annual. He was screaming and squealing and making the most awful commotion. I kept trying to calm him down and he was not getting any calmer. The vet tech called another lady to go back with her dog and the lady very nicely said to me "Why don't you go ahead of me. My dog isn't injured!" I was rather embarrassed to tell her my dog wasn't injured either . . he was just rather vocal about being there.

Taking Oscar to the vet is way worse than taking Speck ever was. We give Oscar a tranquilizer on an empty stomach 2-1/2 to 3 hours before vet visits. Today when we got in the car, I told Vince . . this is NOT going to be a good vet trip. He is not calm at all. We walked into the vet and Oscar was screaming like he was hurt. Vince checked in and one of the front desk ladies came over and said "Is he here for his appointment for a skin problem?" I said yes. She said "I wanted to make sure he hadn't been injured!" Oh, my goodness . . memories of Speck at the vet.

Oscar was squealing in such a sharp, ear piercing sound, one of the ladies a few chairs down from us put her hands over her ears. People were looking at me like "some people shouldn't have pets if that's how you control them!" Ughh! There are three vets where we go. One is a man who has Dachshunds so he can handle Oscar (with a muzzle on). One is a lady who is obviously afraid of dogs that act like Oscar (I would be too) and one lady (who is from Louisiana) does ok with him. She isn't afraid of him and Oscar seems to calm down the most with her. She looked at the spot on his chest, checked his ears, gave us some cream and we were on our way..

On the way out, one of the ladies who had been waiting when we were was also leaving. She looked at Oscar, calm as could be now that it was all over, and said "That can't be the same dog!"

We got in the car. Vince said "I wish there was a place near here to get a GOOD hamburger." I said "I wish there was a place to get a glass of wine at the drive through!"

We got home and I decided the coffee frappe would be just as good as a glass of wine. I didn't exactly follow the recipe (because I didn't have it upstairs). I used probably used 1 cup of milk where the recipe calls for 1/4 cup. It calls for 1/2 cup of cold coffee and I probably used a bit more than 1/4 cup and that was plenty of coffee for me. I did use the ice and vanilla. I added a bit of cinnamon. I didn't have whipped cream so I used a bit of heavy cream (not whipped). I also used the brown sugar - didn't measure - maybe just a bit more than called for but not much more. I'll definitely be making this again.

This is the recipe I loosely followed.