Here is Bixby doing Bixby. Squeezing into the smallest place on our huge sectional. This is where he likes to curl up. Silly pup.
Can’t believe I picked him up three years ago, yesterday. And Bailey has almost been here a year. Anyway, it looks like we could use an open thread. How are you wrapping up your Sunday?
efgoldman
Watching nail-biter extra innings Sox vs Yanks, hating on the second an third people in the booth.
Christ these two teams are excruciating.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Sitting on the couch gazing into my laptop while M. Colette makes penne with homegrown chard and cherry tomatoes for dinner. I’m four months into a broken foot that seems like it will never heal, and the inactivity is driving me crazy.
craigie
Contemplating the end of the universe. I would really like to be able to come back in 100 years or so and see if there is still and United States, and if so, what it has become.
rikyrah
Anne Frank CenterVerified account @AnneFrankCenter
No one gets to be a Nazi and a proud American. We fought a war about it. The world was involved.
Yarrow
I had ice cream for dessert. It was delicious.
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Wow, four months of a broken foot? It must have been badly broken to be going on for this long. I hope you get back to some activity soon.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I know very well someone who badly broke her ankle in Feb. It is just in the last week that that she walked without using, at least, a cane. She still carries it. It was months before the Docs let her put weight on it. Hang in there.
efgoldman
@Yarrow:
I have four or five pints of BenJerry’s in the freezer, which I can’t touch for the next several weeks because dialysis diet. Also no cured meats. :::sniff::: Woe is me.
ArchTeryx
@rikyrah: Tell that to Prescott Bush, Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Smedley Butler conspirators. Being an out and proud Nazi is as American as apple pie, despite fighting a war over it.
jl
” Not Ready for Monday Open Thread ”
Thank you. Finally, this supposedly full service blog reaches out to let me know it feels my pain. Thank you.
Now I will go try to avoid the harsh truth about the horror of Monday for a few meager hours.
Omnes Omnibus
@ArchTeryx: Get a grip. And explain the Smedley Butler thing.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Ben & Jerry’s salami ripple isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
jl
@NotMax: B and J’s liver and onions swirl is big in SF!
NotMax
@rikyrah
Shades of George Lincoln Rockwell.
NotMax
@jl
Sold better when the name was Cold Man Liver.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
Two scoops?
Major Major Major Major
Just finished a GoT screening (eh) and dinner. Bought an It’s-It from the corner store and now I’m going to eat that and watch Psych.
efgoldman
@jl:
There’s a scoop shop (NOT B&J!) somewhere in New England that sells flavors like that, as well as the traditional favorites. I understand garlic sells particularly well.
frosty
I’m sitting in my camper at the Mammoth Cave campground, sipping a cooling beverage and reading by flashlight, trying to conserve the battery for the water pump. And hoping the new solar panels get enough sunlight through the clouds to stretch our battery life.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Shades of Dolt 45’s dessert one-upmanship.
efgoldman
@frosty:
If gawds meant us to go camping, they wouldn’t have made Holiday Inns.
Yarrow
@efgoldman: Ohhh…that sucks. I’m sorry. I have a loved one who is on a very restrictive diet and it means no chocolate. Torture. Hang in there. I hope at least you are feeling better with the dialysis.
@SiubhanDuinne: I could have had two! But, sadly, I had just one. I got a small ramekin out and put the ice cream in that. I don’t feel good when I have too much sweet stuff before bed so I kept it small.
efgoldman
@Yarrow:
Actually, there are ways to compensate for occasionally (not a steady diet) of bad foods. But I have to convince mrs efg that the dietitian said so.
But no sausage-like substances and cold cuts five nights a week any more.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Yes, that’s what I was thinking of.
Mary G
This picture is everything. A feline yin/yang symbol.
Yarrow
@efgoldman: Well, that probably wasn’t all that good for you in general anyway. It’s hard to give up a favorite food, though.
Major Major Major Major
@Mary G: To be fair, my gray cat is the best.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Don’t make me stay up late enough to quote Mao.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: Wasn’t that Deng Xiaoping?
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: You may be right. Get back to me with it, okay?
Betty Cracker
Bixby is a handsome fellow.
frosty
@efgoldman: With water and electricity hookups this is nicer than some Holiday Inns I’ve been in. No moldy carpets at least! Wothout hookups, almost as nice but we have to pay attention to water & elec use and how fast the wastewater tanks fill up. We put in a Navy showerhead to stretch water and grey water.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: It was Deng quoiting a Sichuan proverb.
NorthLeft12
Trying to stay awake until 0600 on my first night shift of many. Not much going on right now, just waiting for some others to finish their work [it just takes time] before I will get busy. We sort of knew tonight would be slow. I am going to walk around and check out my area of responsibility. Its been a few years since I worked there and things have changed.
It is an absolutely gorgeous night so the walk should be pleasant. Well, as pleasant as walking around a chemical plant can be.
Mike in NC
On Netflix, watching “Desierto” with Harry Dean Morgan starring as an Americano psycho sniper killing poor Mexicans trying to cross the border for crappy jobs. Must be required viewing among Trumpeters.
Robert Sneddon
Sitting in Helsinki airport waving a hangover goodbye (pro tip: never try to out-drink a bunch of Finns). Home soon and my own bed beckons.
NoraLenderbee
Recovering from a long and strenuous and very beautiful hike in Henry Coe Park. Amid the tall burning mountains covered with dry grass and oaks, there is a beautiful little pond called China Hole that is as lush as an oasis.
And snipping mats out of the cat’s fur.
And i want ice cream.
frosty
@Robert Sneddon: Don’t try to out-drink a bunch of Kiwis either. Learned that the hard way in my 20s.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@rikyrah:
Excellent quote. Despicable people on display way too damn much.
rikyrah
Too cute…cuddling the pillow?
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Mike in NC:
I’ve heard of Harry Morgan and Harry Dean Stanton, but never Harry Dean Morgan. Weird.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Went on a photoshoot at a local dam, started off by dropping a lens on the concrete street. Fortunately, it survived the drop with just some cosmetic damage.
Ruckus
@frosty:
I found out long ago it’s more fun watching them try to out drink you, especially if you aren’t playing their game.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Argh, that story made me cringe! Phew!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: I immediately mounted it on my camera body, checked auto-focus and power zoom. All worked fine. Phew is right.
Yutsano
Had dinner with an old friend. He had knee surgery and didn’t tell me, so about a third of dinner was me nagging him about him not telling me.
“Well I’m still breathing!”
Fucking Teufelhunden.
Major Major Major Major
@Yutsano: …devildogs?
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Yutsano:
Your opening sentence made me recall: “I won’t call on you, Clarice. The world is much more interesting with you in it. I have to go now… I’m having an old friend for dinner.”
Yutsano
@Major Major Major Major: The German word for dog is Hund. The plural is Hunden. Usually when German agglutinates a noun the gender for the last noun is used, so yeah. I could be completely off base however.
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Oh good. I haven’t lost my slightly creepy edge there.
Also debating if I want chocolate or just sleep.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Not taken with the lens I dropped, but nice pic.
Major Major Major Major
@Yutsano: no I just don’t know what you mean. Seems like fine German though.
NotMax
@Yutsano
Guessing that at least one person at the table had underwear.
jl
@efgoldman: ” There’s a scoop shop (NOT B&J!) somewhere in New England that sells flavors like that ”
Thanks, I’ll look for it next time I’m in Rhode Island.
RM
@West of the Rockies (been a while): I’m pretty sure he was the dad in Supernatural.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks it is a nice pic. The site looks weird. Where did you take it. What’s that in the background? Looks like some
aangus
Not ready for Monday, also, too…
But, then I’ve been retired for almost a month.
:)
Yutsano
@NotMax: With a Marine, one should never assume.
Mike in NC
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Oops. Jeffrey Dean Morgan from “Walking Dead”.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: It’s behind Sepulveda Dam(intersection of the 101 and the 405). The structure in the background is the dam.
ETA: I’m thinking of doing the hike to Mt. Pinos tomorrow.
Ruckus
Just found out that my roommate had to put her cat down. Vets thought she had cancer, she was about 18 yrs old but you’d never have know it to look at her. Life goes on. Or not.
Mel
Sleepy Bixby!! What a handsome and photogenic pup he is. His pictures always make me smile.
opiejeanne
@NoraLenderbee: Is central CA on fire?
I need to check Southern CA. We have a little old cabin in the mountains there, near Lake Arrowhead.
British Columbia has been on fire for at least a couple of weeks now, and the smoke has been terrible in the Seattle area. It’s spread as far south as central Oregon and east to Wyoming. We got some rain in Seattle today so the smoke has been knocked down for a couple of days.
opiejeanne
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: There was a fire today between Riverside and Moreno Valley.
Mel
@Ruckus: That is so difficult. We lost our beloved girl Bru to feline breast cancer a few years ago. Still miss her every single minute. She was a huge personality, a goofy little clown, and a beloved friend. She was the ” hostest with the mostest” and absolutely loved having company. If the doirbell rang, she’d beat us to the door, and immediately start chattering and purring and squawking at whoever was on the other side.
One day, we found the teeniest little pinhead sized bump on her tummy while brushing her. It hadn’t been there four days earlier. Figured it was likely nothing more than a benign skin tag, but since she had been a later-in-life spay before we adopted her, we thought we’d better get it checked asap just to be on the safe side, since kitty breast cancer is often hormone driven and is thus more prevalent in female cats who are not spayed very early in life.
Unfortunately, it was a moderately aggressive cancer. Our wonderful vet and her consulting oncologist felt that we had a decent chance of a surgical cure since the tumor was so very tiny, the biopsy showed clear margins, her bloodwork and xrays were perfectly normal, and she was a youngish cat in otherwise excellent health. She had a radical mastectomy, healed beautifully, and was quickly back to her vivacious normal self. Our vet monitored her closely because kitty mammary cancers can often metastasize. The oncologist felt like if Miss B made it past the year anniversary of the surgery with no recurrence and no sign of metastasis, we could begin to have real hope that we had eradicated it b/c of the extremely early diagnosis snd surgery.
For 11.5 months it seemed like all was well. Right before the 12 month mark, though, a series of many, many tiny bumps cropped up seemingly overnight on her backside and tummy. Metastasis. Becsuse of the widedpread area snd aggressive nature of the sudden recurrence, surgery wasn’t sn option, and her type of cancer was one that had historically been very non-responsive to chemo in trials and studies, and the chemo side effects would have given her a very low quality of life during treatment anyway, so we made that hard, hard decision.
We try to always remind ourselves that she got an extra year of happy, healthy life because of that stroke of luck that helped us locate her cancer really early on, but grief doesn’t listen very well to logic.
My heart goes out to your friend and her late kitty. Thank you for being a caring friend to her. It will help her through this more than you can know.
sm*t cl*de
Did someone mention feline yin-yang?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MQSKNB8vzpI/TcnEhE_t5NI/AAAAAAAACB4/x8XtgYExH8I/s1600/yinyang.jpg
Ruckus
@Mel:
Thank you.
She’s had cats before. When I first moved in she had 4 cats. One was not very social so had to be separated from the others. She found a home. One bonded to a rather old friend of my roommates. Instantly. So she sent that one to it’s new home. The third cat was, and I know this sounds wrong, just a cat. Nothing particularly good or bad, didn’t really bond with anyone, just a cat. So she found him a new home. Left with her all time favorite cat, her friend if you will. She had the cat for over 14 yrs. I had one pet that was the same for me, my cocker spaniel. He was an ornery bastard, not friendly at all. But he was my companion when I needed one the most I’d ever did. He was old and cranky, and cost me money I didn’t have. He ate better than me, he got better medical care than I did. Because he was my friend. I had to give him back to the rescue org that I’d got him from because I could not afford to take care of him, hell I couldn’t even afford to take care of myself. People who have that kind of relationship with an animal are fortunate. That pet doesn’t care what color your skin is or if you are male or female, All it cares about is, are you it’s friend, can it trust you. Why is it so hard for some humans to understand how simple it is to be an actual human?
Van Buren
@Major Major Major Major: In the dark, all cats are gray. At least, that’s what Ben Franklin said.
Mel
@Ruckus: I understand exactly what you mean. I struggle with an autoimmune illness that has changed the landscape of my whole existence. it’s amazing and hearttbreaking how quickly people who you’ve known for years just vanish when a person no longer looks a certain way, has an income ar a certain level, or can be “useful” or “fun” on demand.
Pets don’t give a damn about all the shallow things that people use to judge other people. They just love you for being you, and let you love them in return.