Here’s a nice shiny thread while I go take a nap with Lily.
These are my favorite naps. Thurston and Rosie are off doing thing, and Lily and I get to take a calm, no drama nap and explore the space.
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Here’s a nice shiny thread while I go take a nap with Lily.
These are my favorite naps. Thurston and Rosie are off doing thing, and Lily and I get to take a calm, no drama nap and explore the space.
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raven
Rolling Stones – I Am Waiting
Redshift
About to head out for my first canvassing shift of the general election!
Tracy Ratcliff
A show of hands: how many here are expecting the next post from our blogpost to be an incoherent rant about a disaster involving Thurston, Rosie, Steve, mustard, cat poop and car-in-the-yard as our next episode of “Cole’s Life.”?
chopper
on a flight to LA for the week. gonna take the critters to the Harry Potter theme park.
SiubhanDuinne
I may go see “Southside With You” this afternoon.
eclare
@SiubhanDuinne: Let me know how it is if you do! Movie for this coming week is Florence Foster Jenkins (tried before, only seats left were in the very front), next week is Southside With You.
Elizabelle
Happy nap.
Lucky enough to have seen loggerhead turtle hatchlings racing for the Atlantic last night, beach in Ponte Vedra (between St. Augustine and Jville), at sunset. Pink skies and active little turtles. Just happened upon it.
The instinct and determination of those little ones. And the quick learning curve: they’d get slammed backwards by the first small wave washing upon the beach, but learned to keep their little heads down and swim under the next wave. Then you’d see them between waves, tiny heads periscoping, but ducking once the next wave arrived.
Saw about ten make it successfully to the sea. Mickler Beach. Great turtle rescue team monitoring the nests. Hunting for the link for you now.
Turtle hatching season is May to October.
Elizabelle
@Redshift: Great to hear! Have a good one. Please let us know what you hear from voters at the doors.
I am seeing way too many Trump bumperstickers in the Jacksonville, FL area. (Which would be about ten, I guess, plus Trump! spraypainted on plywood structures and in yards along the coast …) Haven’t seen any Hillary stuff, but we fly below radar.
Don’t want the car to get keyed, or the ragtop slashed.
SiubhanDuinne
@eclare:
I saw FFJ last weekend.
raven
My house painter just brought gorditos that his wife made!
Monala
I saw Southside with You yesterday. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I had hoped. Part of it was that Tika Sumpter’s performance wasn’t as warm as I am used to Michelle Obama being. I know that’s partly because she was playing “This is not really a date” offense through most of the movie.
Still, I would have liked to have seen more of Michelle’s warmth and joy. It comes through in two moments – when she is talking about her dad, and when a little girl takes her hand and [no spoilers]. From the look Barack has on his face during the latter scene, you can tell that’s when he went from being attracted to much, much more.
The film also ended too abruptly. Most of the people in the theater just sat there for a while, probably wondering like I did, “Is that it?” Finally someone in the audience shouted, “And then they got married!” and everyone laughed and got up to leave.
Things I did really like: the Southside of Chicago portrayed as a beautiful, vibrant place. Barack as a combination of smooth charmer, hopeful visionary, and a man struggling to find his place in the world and wrestling with his father’s demons. Michelle helping him with that struggle. All the black art and culture highlighted.
raven
@Monala: Is Craig in it?
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
So inspiring! How lucky you were to see them in, literally, their first moments of independent life.
Aleta
I like the kind of sleep when the dog or cat and I shared a dream.
Monala
@raven: no. Her parents are, briefly.
gogol's wife
@eclare:
I loved FFJ. The New Yorker had a very positive blurb (in “Now Playing”) about the Obama movie, but the Times had a snotty review that called it a “hagiography.” But it was by the dreaded Manohla Dargis, who said that Tika Sumpter’s delivery of her lines was “near-metonymic” like Michelle’s. I don’t think “metonymic” means what she thinks it means.
Mnemosyne
@chopper:
We live near that one, so we’re waiting for all of the rugrats to go back to school before we do a midweek trip there to check it out.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Explore the space? Who are you, Bruce Dickinson (the Bruce Dickenson)?
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes. And I hope they are all still swimming and thriving.
Babies might have gotten helped out of the nest by the Turtle patrol volunteers. I did not see that part. No video by the organization up yet, but I will put it up when it’s online.
These little guys were vigorous. Makes a big difference on when they make it out of the nest; one volunteer was telling me that hatchlings that ended up remaining in the nest (aka being stuck) too much time after emerging and consuming their yolk sacs are far more challenged. The volunteers are keeping a close watch, but not disturbing nature too much. They’re under supervision of a turtle expert.
Hal
I know national dog day was yesterday, but in belated honor, this cartoon always makes me laugh.
http://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/deception/
jeffreyw
Nap Time!
Matt McIrvin
Sam and I just broke up a fight in our yard between an escaped dog and a freaked-out neighborhood cat. Neither seems to have gotten away with worse than general filth and a scratch on the dog’s nose. I managed to get hold of the dog’s collar and read his tag, and he calmed down a little once we started addressing him by name, but there was this tense standoff in which neither animal was willing to back off or look away. Dog’s owner was very grateful when he showed up–he’d been driving all around looking.
SiubhanDuinne
@Hal:
I had seen that once and forgotten it. Thanks for posting it — it is hilarious!
eclare
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (Formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Hahaha..I once saw a license plate, MORCWBL.
eclare
@jeffreyw: Awwww! I love when my Sophie sleeps belly up!
leeleeFL
@Elizabelle: Precisely! I have to say though, I have been far more vocal this cycle! This one is too important and there are too many people thinking incorrectly. I stick with women. Want to controll your body? How about your Daughters? GrandDaughters? That’s usually enough,but will go full bore anti-racist if I must! I can’t worry about offending ppl or losing anything( like my job)
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
@Tracy Ratcliff:
Plus broken furniture and an overturned vat of molasses.
SWMBO
@Tara the Antisocial Social Worker: I expect an update on the house. Where he is in the renovations and how many floors/decks he’s fallen through. Also, pics of the new house would be nice. He’s taken some nice ones of Walter, it should be easy peasy now to take pics of rooms. And I hope Cole treats himself to a big bowl of ice cream and all the pets get a bite of cheese. It has been a long, strange month for him.