This has been going for a half hour. Thurston pulled all the blankets down on to the floor, placed a bone between him and Rosie, and has been goading her to play.
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This has been going for a half hour. Thurston pulled all the blankets down on to the floor, placed a bone between him and Rosie, and has been goading her to play.
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RoonieRoo
That squeak bark!
raven
Here’s another article and video of the doggie parade.
debit
Hahahaha!! I love you, Thurston!
eclare
My dog is on the couch with me, her ears perked up when she heard the begging!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@srv: Dogs have pretty good night vision.
ETA: They also have really, really good noses.
Mnemosyne
@RoonieRoo:
I was going to say, was that Thurston’s bark, or did he jump on a squeaky toy?
Two nights ago, our middle cat Annie (9 years old) decided to run at top speed all around the living room and dining room, jumping on all the furniture. She spent most of yesterday sleeping on the couch, like most middle-aged people would.
phoebes from highland park
“For Fuck’s sake”? Cole, watch your language, those are tender dog ears there.
And, Cole, where’s the cat?
Adam L Silverman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29G4jj6YGY8
scav
Whiney but physically polite is Mr. Thurston.
Eric U.
my daughter took the opportunity yesterday to assure me that the dogs couldn’t understand me when I say stuff like the threat to take the dogs to the pound. Which is good, because I often tell them I’m going to beat them like a rented mule.
debit
Also too, John, you could have smuggled Thurston in with Walter and I would have been totally fine with it.
Kristine
@Eric U.: “Beat you with a puppy stick” is my threat. It has zippo effect.
MomSense
Thurston’s squeak is the cutest thing ever.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Eric U.: Mine seem to understand quite alot, in English and Korean.
geg6
Lovey does that exact same shit and sounds exactly the same, too. Both little instigators.
MomSense
@raven:
Uh oh, that cat at the end is trouble.
TaMara (HFG)
That was awesome. We must be having a similar night – except playing here is out of control. I’ve had to break up a few much too rough play sessions because puppy Bailey is much too rough with her biting. But then this happened and I just posted to FB:
Mike J
@raven: And how are things in Stars Hollow? The previous article you linked to even had the town troubadour.
raven
@MomSense: All was well.
Elizabelle
Love it.
@srv: LOL. This vid was easier to hear than see.
raven
@Mike J: That’s my wife in the video, she was all fussy about how bad she looked. I said, “give me a break”!
Pogonip
@debit: Well, NOW you tell him!
How is Walter?
Humdog
Why won’t Rosie play?
MomSense
@raven:
Your wife is beautiful.
guachi
There is a special place in hell for people who take vertical video.
debit
@Pogonip: He’s great! I sent John a link to a couple videos but I suspect it was buried in his inbox.
raven
@MomSense: And she works like a pack mule. Good thing I can cook!
LAO
@raven: the parade looks awesome and your wife did an amazing job.
I would love to get my puppy in a costume but in the almost 3 weeks she been with me, she’s chewed through 2 harnesses and 3 leashes, so I figure, next Halloween.
raven
@LAO:My wife made a thing that was supposed to hold the crown on Lil Bits head but it kept falling over her face.
TaMara (HFG)
@raven: That looks like so much fun. We have a dog parade here every year to benefit the local shelter. Just another reason to close down main street and party.
raven
@TaMara (HFG): Yea this was the first one and they are happy as hogs rootin in manure about the $ they raised!
debbie
@raven:
Every tail’s a’wagging!
gogol's wife
@raven:
So cool! I loved the husky.
barns
Not a single post about Obama roasting Trump and Republicans today? It was awesome. Google it.
All we have is the usual fearmongering and horseshit from the likes of wrong way Cole and DougJ.
Mike J
@raven: She has nothing to worry about.
inventor
He forgot the funny.
Starfish
Has the internet not taught you to be ashamed of taking vertical videos with your cellphone?
petesh
If a JRT doesn’t want to play, a JRT does not play. This is simply a fact. We have one JRT and one Beagle/JRT cross, who is younger (7 vs 13) and after two and a half years with us has still not given up on her hopes of playing with the old boy. Who also pretends to be deaf whenever it suits him. And to need a helping hand onto the bed.
Omnes Omnibus
@barns: Fuck off, derf.
raven
@gogol’s wife: Oh, left shark!
inventor
Holy crap….this is epically bad.
inventor
He’s getting booed.
Mnemosyne
I know some writers here have been iffy about buying Scrivener, and I have to say that I’ve been loving it, especially now that I can work on the same files from my laptop and my iPad (though the iOS app is an extra $20). I like that I can write chunks of the story as they occur to me instead of being forced to write in a linear way. And being able to keep research URLs right in the program is cherce when you’re working on a historical novel.
Feebog
Holy crap hat rump is horrible. Al Fraken’s dissecting him on MSNBC.
Omnes Omnibus
Hoyer is in getting x-rays. That leaves the Bears with their third string QB as their only option.
schrodinger's cat
I am in the market for a washer and dryer, I need suggestions and/or recommendations. Any one have experience with LG washer and dryers?
Thanks!
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: How bad is it? I’m watching the Hokies.
DanR2
@guachi: low light AND vertical. Double awesome.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: 3-0 Pack. 3:00 to go in the half.
raven
Here’s my cover kids with the cover!
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: What a barn burner!
Geeno
OMG that poor puppy just wants to play so bad.
THAT’S Entertainment!
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: 3-3, just at the 2 min warning.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: My luck the Bears will win and I’ll be in the rack.
JordanRules
I’ll play Thurston!!!
So stinking cute.
Miss Bianca
@LAO: Oh, boy…my Luna does the same thing routinely and she’s almost 5! I’d love to stuff her into a costume for Hallowe’en, but I just don’t see her holding still for it. (altho’ I’d love to try another Husky shark!)
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Lynx and Sparls going back and forth in the final game of the WNBA season.
Pogonip
@Mnemosyne: What soes Scrivener do?
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Your Packers are not very good. I would be worried if I were a Packer’s fan.
redshirt
@barns: Crikey you’re dumb. You just got banned, don’t use the exact same phrases you always use! Jeez!
NotMax
@Scrivener
Would tell you, but prefer not to.
/Bartleby reference
Mnemosyne
@Pogonip:
At base, it’s a word processor, but it lets you do some really cool stuff when it comes to organizing and researching your novel. (It also has a screenplay template and some nonfiction writers use it, too, but it’s aimed mostly at novelists). Basically, my chapters don’t have to be a bunch of separate Word documents or (even worse) one giant Word document that gets easily corrupted and then I lose the whole damn thing.
You can even export your completed work to an ebook format that can be uploaded directly to Amazon or B&N for sale. Neat stuff.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Call me when your team has 13 league championships.
CZanne
@schrodinger’s cat: we bought an LG 1501 (top load, high efficiency) washer for the old house and had it for about a year before we sold the old house. The new house came with a washer and dryer, which are in the basement, and I didn’t feel like schlepping a washer up and down stairs to swap the ones in the house for the LG. (We don’t hire movers. Especially not for a 2 mile move, and not when we replaced 90% of our furniture due to allergies.)
As for the LG, I didn’t hate it. But I didn’t love it, either. It was really quiet, except when it wasn’t. I loved that it used a little tune for its alerts instead of a squawk or buzzer. I very much appreciated that it had a troubleshooting app. (It is not an Internet of Things device, though if there’s a Bluetooth enabled one by the time we need to replace what we have, I may be tempted, because I am the sort of absent-minded that can forget a load of wet laundry for 24-48 hours.) If I loaded it correctly, I had no issues with it, but get it out of balance and it freaked the eff out. It did not need service in the year we owned it. It had a steep loading learning curve – big things (sheets and blankets and fabric yardage) should be swirled into the tub rather than dumped. Our woven cotton blankets hold so much water that they were likely to unbalance the tub no matter how careful I was, but we did not have this problem with our quilts. It was very water efficient (which matters, because the CO Front Range is at the top of the water stack, so we depend on snow melt and it’s an arid climate) and it got regular dirty clothes clean, but anything extra dirty really did require a pre-soak. On that last, that’s always true, and the best way to deal with serious grime, but coming from a front-loader, I had gotten out of the habit. The 1501 was also not at all useful for vat dye jobs or wool felting, though those are in my specific playground and may not apply universally. On the very bright side, the thing could spin dry so well that our dryer use dropped by 1/3. Also, our buyer was either dumb as a stump, had serious issues with reading comprehension, or could not be bothered to RTFM, and had major issues figuring out how to use the 1501, despite the instructions being on a factory supplied, handy laminated sheet suction-cupped to the front of the machine. (I do not doubt any of the three qualifiers are true — I saw multiple instances of all three behaviors in the selling process — but if someone needs a highly intuitive machine, the 1501 may not be the right choice.)
If the machine that had come with this house, I wouldn’t replace it. When the one we have goes to the great scrapyard, I may buy another LG, but it won’t be that model.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: What does that have to do with the current weakness of your team?
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: They are currently 3-2 and winning this game. The rest, you said the team isn’t good. I put a marker down for a good team. Next?
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Good luck friend.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Please don’t call me friend.
rikyrah
That video was so cute.?
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Sure thing Champ.
rikyrah
@raven:thank you.
The doggies were adorable.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Are you trying to start an argument? It’s 20-10 now.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: The Bears are not a good team.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: And?
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Your analysis is shallow. Revel in your victory over a terrible team, not-friend.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Teams play the teams they are scheduled to play.
Gravenstone
@barns: oh look who’s back and trying to dodge. Adam’s ban hammer. Bye derf, et al
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: You’re not even a master of the obvious.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Current score: 26-10.
Durindal
@TaMara (HFG): :-)
Patricia Kayden
@raven: Very sweet. Love the costumes. My dogs will not tolerate any clothing though so they’d have to march in the nude.
P.S. Hope this doggy parade spreads to more cities.
BruceFromOhio
@schrodinger’s cat: Not familiar with LG appliances, though if the w&d pair is anything like the LG electrronics, they are just fine.
When we moved to casa de Ohio in 1999, we brought the top-load washer and its dryer mate. I don’t even recall the brand. What we hadn’t researched as part of the purchase process was the cost of water. By some heinous series of bad decisions, our local water utility was purchasing fresh water on fixed contract from a neighboring municipality at exorbitant rates. Our water bill nearly doubled in comparison to our former address. By this time, the TeensFromOhio were not yet teens, but growing in leaps and bounds; there was more to wash and more often. MrsFromOhio proposed a set of Kenmore Elite HE3 front-loaders to replace the adequate-but-aging w&d set we moved in with. I balked at the price, but she insisted in the long run it would be worth it. And she nailed it.
Just rough back of the napkin guessing, these machines have probably paid for themselves three or four times over in the 16 years we’ve had them. Only one service call in all that time, along with some self-help maintenance fostered by YouTube. They are workhorses, and extremely efficient. I expect the contemporary models are even more so.
If you’re planning to stay put for awhile, splurge on the good stuff, it is totally worth it, and LG fits that category. (OK, that’s REALLY splurging, however there are less costly models in the LG line)
Durin Dal
The video was too dark for me to make things out, unfortunately. Sound was too low as well. Not a great connection at the moment… :-(
Patricia Kayden
@barns: shomi, is that you?
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Congratulations on this victory, fellow sports fan.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: You are weird.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: You are very literal it seems.
BruceFromOhio
@Omnes Omnibus: @redshirt: Gaia, you two, get a room already.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Oh, wait, you aren’t on the spectrum?
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Your team still trying to score a TD is crazy. Beware injury.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Who won?
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Heh. You did Omnes! Yay!
Sarah, Proud and Tall
When did Thurston and Rosie get adopted by John Goodman?
dww44
@schrodinger’s cat: If I had to buy a washer right now, I’d only buy a Speed Queen because it’s old school. uses enough water to clean, and lasts way longer than the HE front loaders and the agitator free top loaders. The best information can be gleaned from the comment thread at the end of this Consumers Report article.
If one googles”best washing machines” and reads the comments from actual users you’ll probably decide that older washers are better.. That’s what my repairman told me this afternoon after repairing my 14 year old Maytag. Keep the old one running as long as one can. Use the most water possible and wash smallish loads. Extends the life of the washer’s moving parts. With the new computerized washers, the washer tells you what to do, not vice-versa.
Aleta
#Trumpbookreport is here.
Aleta
#Trumpbookreport is here.
Sorry, can’t get the link to stick.
mskitty
I have an LG “True Steam” front loader, and I won’t get another. It doesn’t get rid of cat hair, and if anything you’re going to wash will soak up a lot of water, it’s necessary to use the bulky/large cycle, otherwise it gets unbalanced and stops midcycle. It uses so little water that I have occasionally poured a couple of big pitchers in to top it up. Unsatisfactory and expensive.