I’m on the edge of my seat! pic.twitter.com/tn2MbABmZe
— Gillian OShaughnessy (@GillOshaughness) January 31, 2020
Even more than the two goldens working in tandem, I love the border collie happily ‘shepherding’ them, to make sure they’re Doing It Right. Such good dogs!
Chief Oshkosh
Great video, but they’re working in parallel, not tandem. Tandem would be if one was fore and the other aft on the tree branch. Here they are side-by-side. And very cute.
MomSense
The border collie is probably thinking they are a couple of dummies and impatiently waiting for them to figure it out.
Hermann Fegelein
@Chief Oshkosh: They’re a team. Well, sort of a team.
http://www.equineheritagemuseum.com/uncategorized/driving-configurations
The article says:
A pair of horse are typically hooked to a vehicle (usually four wheeled) with a pole between them.
Here the animals have the pole but not the vehicle.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
is that puppy bowl thing happening this year? I might have to watch that
trollhattan
Very ambitious of them to fetch a dang tree. “It’s what we do.”
Sab
We used to have six (yes, six) goldens and one german shepherd. She regarded them as her own personal flock of urban sheep.
schrodingers_cat
@MomSense: That’s how I feel when I see students fumbling with algebra.
John Revolta
These guys must be sibs. Any goldens I ever had, this would’ve turned into a massive tug-o-war.
Sab
@schrodingers_cat: You would have loved my algebra teacher. He was German, and we could almost see the steam coming out of his ears on slow days.
In our defense, I think a textbook with actual examples might have been helpful. That wasn’t his fault. Blame Texas Schoolbook commission.
Omnes Omnibus
Respite? I’ve been watching a lot of Post-Modern Jukebox lately.
And whoever was aware of Tank and the Bangas for more than a couple of weeks and didn’t tell me is in trouble.
chris
Respite? How about cruising around Svalbard? Hurry, it ends in seven days and it’s wonderful.
https://www.nrk.no/svalbard/
Ohio Mom
I see the white one is the pretty one and the tan one is the smart one.
Isn’t that obnoxious? That’s how my MIL’s parents referred to her and her sister, with life-long consequences. Some of which regularly rain down on me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ohio Mom: To be fair, all goldens are the pretty one.
Mnemosyne
I love how pleased they are with themselves. ?
billcoop4
@Sab:
Including having a Book Suppository.
BC
Sab
@Mnemosyne: Retrievers gotta retrieve.
Sab
@billcoop4: Yep.
O. Felix Culpa
@Omnes Omnibus: Truth.
Anya
Since Trump is the first impeached President to deliver the State of the Union address while his Senate trial is still in progress, his prosecutor, Adam Schiff should deliver the Dem response. Naturally, he should make the case against Trump and his enablers.
Baud
Man, I’ve been remembering my dogs a lot lately.
Mary G
Sab
@Ohio Mom: One of the things I love most about goldens is they have no idea that they are beautiful, or that they even need to be or should want to be.
Sab
@Mary G: That is the best thing I have seen today, and probably through the end of the month.
Dang I miss my shepherd.
debbie
@Sab:
They and black labs are the best dogs!
debbie
@Mary G:
Very sweet, reminds me of the little dog who liked to skateboard.
Barbara
@Mary G: Wheeeee!
Quaker in a Basement
What’s gonna work? TEEEEEEEEAMwork!
WaterGirl
@Baud: I keep getting confused about whether you still have your dogs.
Mnemosyne
My bad back is continuing to improve and I should be fine going to the Happiest Place on Earth next weekend. Yay!
Omnes Omnibus
@Sab: I really shouldn’t compare my family members to dogs, but I will anyway. I have a 16 y/o niece who is a classic All American blond, but she is completely unaware of it. She is a good student and an athlete, and those are the things that are important to her. Right now, she doesn’t have any body image issues, and I hope like hell that no one starts that shit with her.
Mary G
@Mnemosyne:
Yay!
schrodingers_cat
Sarah Kendzior appeared on my Twitter timeline predicting rigged elections for 2020 and casting aspersions on Nancy Pelosi over impeachment. What’s her deal anyway? Here is the relevant statement.
Baud
@WaterGirl: No. They are gone.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
Are you going to hit the new Star Wars ride?
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
She is lost. Let her go.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
You’re headed to Finland?
:)
Sab
@debbie: Goldens are just longhaired blond labs.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: I don’t seek her out, someone I follow on Twitter mostly for Indian politics (they are in India) retweeted this.
Good advice though, she looks crazy in some of the recent photographs. Like a woman possessed.
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
If we can get into a boarding group, yes. You basically HAVE to sign into the app from inside the park between 8 am and 8:05 am to have a chance in hell of getting on, but we’re also staying on property, so we should be there in plenty of time despite having 2 teenagers in tow. I hope. ?
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
I do understand why Kendzior is losing her mind since she was living in Russia during Putin’s rise, but I also don’t think she understands Americans and American politics as well as she thinks she does.
Frankensteinbeck
I am delighted by the strong inspiration I’m experiencing and how the new book is flying along. I had a period where where I was trying to write the wrong book, but once I switched to a new project it’s doing wonders for my mood. The release of You Can Be A Cyborg When You’re Older also went well enough to be solid evidence that I can eventually get my career back.
Ohio Mom
Sab, are you still here? Please refresh my memory: I know we are planning to have a meet-up in Columbus sometime in late spring/early summer when WHO was driving through Ohio?
i’d like to ask a front-pager to put me in contact with the mystery travelers.
Thanks!
Mnemosyne
@Frankensteinbeck:
I’m afraid of my new book because it’s dealing with tough themes of betrayal and forgiveness in a women’s fiction/historical romance setting. But scenes keep coming into my brain, so I have to write it.
Sab
@Ohio Mom: Months away, but I very much want this. Summer sometime. zMay, june July August. Seems kike a big window. Maybe we can do this.
Californians good at networking. Ohioans not so much. Appatently we never actually tried. We are actually a big state, as in lots of people.
Ohio Mom
Sab: I think we can get a good turnout of Ohio Juicers — most of us live within easy driving distance of Columbus.
We just have to remember who it was — I think it was a couple — who said they’d like to meet us Buckeyes when they passed through this summer.
My mind is a blank and I’m doubtful it can be googled.