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The William Sonoma Turkey Scandal

The first time I heard about Thanksgiving was when I came to the United States as an exchange student. Therefore, I may not have an as deep appreciation for turkeys as other Americans. However, I know that Thanksgiving is celebrated on one specific day, the fourth Thursday of November, which is November 28th this year. This means that if you order a turkey, it cannot arrive November 29th. Usually, we buy the turkey at the grocery store, but to save time we decided to buy the entire thanksgiving dinner on-line this year, including the turkey. This turned out to be a very bad idea.

A majestic Turkey looking into the camera
Photo by ASHISH SHARMA on Pexels.com

A few weeks ago, my wife ordered a thanksgiving dinner, including the turkey, on-line from William Sonoma. There were two options, immediate delivery or delivery for Thanksgiving. She chose delivery for Thanksgiving. The turkey comes frozen, and it needs three days to thaw, so she assumed that was taken into account. Soon my wife realized that the delivery date was set to November 27th, which wouldn’t work, and they couldn’t change it, so she cancelled it. We were told that before they could cancel the order, they needed approval from the merchant. This was around three weeks ago. However, my wife went ahead and ordered the Thanksgiving dinner for immediate delivery instead with a delivery date of November 22.

November 22 came and went but no turkey, so she called William Sonoma. She was told that the delivery date for the immediate delivery had been changed to November 29, the day after Thanksgiving. By the way, they still had not heard back from the merchant regarding canceling the first order. She made a few more phone calls to William Sonoma but it was clear that the new date was indeed set for November 29 and could not be changed. So today she cancelled that order as well and we went to the store to buy a frozen turkey and the other things you need for Thanksgiving. We don’t know if we are going to end up with three turkeys, two arriving too late for Thanksgiving. It is certainly the last time we order Thanksgiving dinners online and certainly not from William Sonoma.

A photo of a frozen turkey wrapped in white plastic.
This is the turkey we bought at Central Market here in Dallas today.

In Sweden, my native country, Thanksgiving is not celebrated, and turkey is not a very common dish. However, Turkey (Kalkon in Swedish) has a second meaning, “a fiasco”. For example, a bad movie would be a Turkey. You could say that the William Sonoma Thanksgiving dinner online business is a “Turkey”.

Update

The two William Sonoma Thanksgiving dinners with turkeys arrived this afternoon, in time, which we did not expect. We gave one of the turkey dinners to a friend who happened to be here when the turkeys arrived. We have one extra but we’ll use it for another occasion. In the end it wasn’t so bad. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

25 Photos of Leonbergers with Other Dogs

In the past I’ve made a few posts featuring 25 photos of Leonbergers around a certain theme.

This is another post featuring 25 photos. This time it is photos of Leonbergers in the company of other dogs. Most of the photos are of our late Leonberger Bronco and the dogs he grew up with (our Labrador Baylor, German Shepherd Baby, Japanese Chin Ryu, Pug Daisy, and mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo). However, I have also included photos of other Leonbergers. A few photos from friends and two stock photos. I hope you will like them.

A black-brown German Shephard is playing with a young Leonberger lying on his back.
Baby (German Shepherd) is playing with our four months old Leonberger Bronco.
A young gangly Leonberger with a bandage on his knee is next to a little Chihuahua. The two owners of the little dog are a lady in blue jeans and a lady in white pants. The lady with white pants is also wearing a bandage on her knee.
Our Leonberger Bronco at the dog park at five/six months old. He is wearing a bandage on his knee because he got a condition from growing too fast. The two ladies are the owners of the little dog.
A Leonberger is sniffing a black dog. It is probably a black lab.
Our five/six months old Leonberger is sniffing a dog at the dog park.
Photo of our gangly Leonberger Bronco in the foreground with two Labradors in the background. A white Labrador on the left and a beige Labrador to the right.
Our not yet one year old Leonberger Bronco at the dog park. Bronco has not yet finished growing, he has not yet filled out and he is gangly. Not quite the Leonberger look yet. Our beige-brown Labrador Baylor can be seen in the background.
Photo of our gangly Leonberger Bronco in the foreground with two Labradors in the background. A white Labrador on the left and a beige Labrador to the right.
Again our not yet one year old Leonberger Bronco at the dog park. Baylor in the background.
Photo of our gangly Leonberger Bronco on the left. Our black-brown German Shepherd Baby on the right.
Our not yet one year old Leonberger Bronco at the dog park with our German Shepherd Baby.
Our Labrador Baylor on the left. Our Leonberger Bronco on the right but you can only see his behind.
Our Labrador Baylor behind our Leonberger Bronco at a dog park.
Our Labrador Baylor slightly on the left running towards the camera. He has a gray face from old age. There is another dog to left of him. Our Japanese Chin Ryu is also running towards the camera but slightly more to the right.
Our old Labrador Baylor running behind our Japanese Chin Ryu at a dog park. Bronco is not in this photo, but he was there.
Bronco our Leonberger is shown with a sunray over his head. Baylor our Labrador is on the left.
Bronco our Leonberger once sniffed out an oncoming insulin shock in Baylor and alerted us. Bronco was a hero.
An illustration showing me lying on the street. I am trying to pull up our German Shepherd Baby from a storm drain while holding onto our Leonberger Bronco who is jumping up and down and barking.
Once when Bronco was not so well behaved. He pushed our German Shepherd into a storm drain and I had to get her out while holding onto an agitated Bronco. Illustration by Naomi Rosenblatt.
Ten Leonberger puppies sitting on a sofa. They are brown with black face masks.
Ten Leonberger puppies. My guess is that they are about two months old. Shutterstock-ID:561107710 by Akbudak Rimma.
A pug running to the left with a Leonberger following. They are running through a wintry forest.
A Leonberger and a Pug running through the snow. Shutterstock-ID:1659034960 AnetaZabranska.
Two Leonbergers wearing festive hats and glasses.
Digory and Obi, two Leonbergers. Photo by Jen O’Keefe.
Two big Leonbergers next to each other.
Digory and Obi, two Leonbergers. Photo by Jen O’Keefe.
Six Leonbergers sitting in a row and wearing festive hats. A house with a big yard and a pond in the background.
Six Leonbergers from left to right: Caspian (Obi’s nephew), Austin (Obi’s son), Delfi, Obi, Digory, and Rilian (Obi’s son). Photo by Velvy TheLion.
From left to right; our pug Daisy, our Japanese Chin Ryu, and our Leonberger Bronco.
Our Leonberger Bronco with our Japanese Chin Ryu and our pug Daisy.
Two of our dogs in the kitchen. Our pug Daisy on the right and our Leonberger Bronco on the right. Pieces of a gingerbread house on the floor.
Our Leonberger Bronco stole and smashed a gingerbread house. He shared some with his little pug sister Daisy.
From the left to the right: Our Leonberger Bronco, our Japanese Chin Ryu, and our pug Daisy.
Our Leonberger Bronco with our Japanese Chin Ryu and our pug Daisy.
On the left, our Japanese Chin Ryu and our pug Daisy. On the right is our Leonberger Bronco.
Our Leonberger Bronco with our Japanese Chin Ryu and our pug Daisy.
On the left, our pug Daisy and our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo. They are in a dog bed. On the right is Bronco our Leonberger who is lying on the floor.
Our pug Daisy and our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo in the little bed and Bronco our Leonberger is lying on the floor.
The photo shows our Leonberger Bronco lying on a big read leather sofa and our beige pug Daisy is leaving.
Our pug Daisy and our Leonberger Bronco is sharing the big red leather sofa, but Daisy decided Bronco took up too much room.
The photo shows our big Leonberger on the left and our little mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo on the right. They are in the backyard. Bronco is sniffing Rollo.
Bronco and our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo.
The photo shows our big Leonberger lying behind our little mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo. There is also a dog toy in the photo.
Bronco and our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo.
Photo shows our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo biting our Leonberger Bronco’s tail.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo is playing with Bronco’s tail. Bronco did not like it but tolerated it. Well, when Rollo was swinging in the tail it was a bit much.
The illustration shows our Leonberger Bronco sitting in the middle. Our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo is on the left and our pug Daisy is on the right. Rollo says “They still talk about you”. Bronco answers “Yes I know”
One day Bronco left us, leaving Rollo and Daisy behind. Illustration by Naomi Rosenblatt.

25 Leonberger Puppies and Other Puppies for National Puppy Day

Today is National Puppy Day. Therefore, I am posting 25 puppy photos. It is mostly Leonberger puppies but there are also puppy photos of some of our other dogs. Most of the photos in this post are mine but I am including a few Leonberger puppy photos from shutterstock. If you want to check out the Leonberger book I wrote click here, or look to the right if you are on a desktop or at the bottom if you are on a mobile.

This is a black and white photo of our Leonberger puppy Bronco at three months old. He is sitting and staring at the camera. He is wearing a silk scarf.
Our Leonberger Bronco at three months old.
This is color photo of our Leonberger puppy Bronco at three months old. He is sitting and staring at the camera. He is wearing a silk scarf.
Our Leonberger Bronco at three months old.
Our black and white Japanese Shin Ryu is on our red sofa. You can see our pug Daisy in the upper left corner.
Our Japanese Shin Ryu when he was young.
Photo of our son David on the sofa holding a little pug puppy in his arms.
Our son David with our pug Daisy when she was a puppy.
Photo of our son David on the sofa holding a little pug puppy in his arms.
Our son David is holding our pug Daisy when she was still a puppy (now she is 15 ½ years old).
Two brown Leonberger puppies lying on a wood floor.
Two Leonberger puppies. Shutter stock Photo ID: 2294202331 by Olga Shusters.
A Leonberger puppy running in the snow.
A Leonberger puppy running in the snow. Shutterstock Stock Photo ID: 2056502327 by Nikky de Graaf.
A Leonberger puppy standing in the snow.
A Leonberger puppy standing in the snow. Shutterstock Stock Photo ID: 2390810457 by VeronArt16.
A Leonberger puppy sitting on a white floor next to pink flowers.
Another Leonberger puppy. Stock Photo ID: 561111403 by Akbudak Rimma.
Ten Leonberger puppies sitting on a sofa. They are brown with black face masks.
Ten Leonberger puppies. My guess is that they are about two months old. Shutterstock-ID:561107710 by Akbudak Rimma.
Leonberger puppy running through green grass. The puppy has its mouth open, and he is looking straight into the camera.
Leonberger puppy. My guess is that he is around two months old. Shutterstock-ID: 629624396 by TOM KAROLA.
Two sand colored Leonberger puppies playing in the snow. The play seems to be a little bit rough. Like all Leonbergers they have a black facemask.
Two light colored Leonberger puppies playing. My guess is that they are three months old. Shutterstock-ID: 2141564415 by AnetaZabranska.
The German Shepherd is lying on the floor and the Leonberger puppy is on his back.
Our German Shepherd Baby playing with our 4 months old Leonberger Bronco.
Our Leonberger Bronco about 9 months old is lying on his back on the floor.
Our Leonberger Bronco about 9 months old is lying on his back on the floor.
Bronco our Leonberger at the dog park. He is about one year old. He is maybe not a puppy but far from an adult. He is an adolescent, which is why he looks so thin and gangly. Our Labrador Baylor is in the background.
Bronco our Leonberger at the dog park. He is about one year old. He is maybe not a puppy but far from an adult. He is an adolescent, which is why he looks so thin and gangly. Our Labrador Baylor is in the background.
Our black and white Japanese Shin Ryu (left) sleeping next to our beige pug Daisy (right).
Our Japanese Shin Ryu sleeping next to our pug Daisy.
Our black and white Japanese Shin Ryu (right) licking our pug Daisy’s ear (left).
Our Japanese Shin Ryu licking our pug Daisy’s ear.
Photo shows a little mini-Australian Shepherd puppy on top. He is looking up at us. Right below him is an English Bulldog puppy.
The day we picked up our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo. He was nine weeks old. The other puppy is an English bulldog puppy.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo is lying on the grass.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo is lying on a blanket.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo.
The photo shows our pug Daisy on the right and our little mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo on the left. They are on the sofa.
Our pug Daisy and our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo.
The photo shows our big Leonberger on the left and our little mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo on the right. They are in the backyard.
Bronco and our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo.
The photo shows our big Leonberger standing behind our little mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo.
Bronco and our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo is playing with an orange volleyball on the green grass.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd puppy Rollo playing with an orange ball.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo (left) is biting Bronco’s tail and pulling on it.
Our mini-Australian Shepherd Rollo is playing with our Leonberger Bronco’s tail. Once he even dangled in it like a swing.

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Happy National Puppy Day