The face he makes when I forget to give him a piece of my breakfast banana.
“You know I can smell banana on your breath”
Looks like we could use an open thread.
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The face he makes when I forget to give him a piece of my breakfast banana.
“You know I can smell banana on your breath”
Looks like we could use an open thread.
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PsiFighter37
Rainy gray day in NYC as a Nor’easter blows through – think the folks in Massachusetts are getting some snow today. Otherwise, a snoozer of a day for me. Need to spend some time doing some fantasy football research later, along with reading more of Obama’s memoir.
Jerzy Russian
Is there a photo? I can’t see it at the moment (using Chrome on a Mac laptop)
ETA: And now it is there.
Jerzy Russian
We have had Santa Ana winds in San Diego the last few days. Very warm and dry, sort of the opposite of your situation I guess.
laura
That face – the disappointment is writ Large and the nose Knows. Dogs have a keen sense of injustice. Please right this wrong and give a big boi a banana
Spouse scored a case of canning jars this morning so I’ll be making meyer lemon marmalade. Our two wee trees are heavy with lemons that will not wait.
debbie
That’s some schnozz!
TaMara (HFG)
@laura: The funny part is, this was a couple of days ago and it was the LAST banana. I made amends after shopping yesterday. I may or may not be forgiven. LOL
Nicole
Pooch strained her leg this morning, probably from an overenthusiastic couch dismount. I googled to see if the Petsmart on the East River Plaza sells wrist braces (yes, they’re a thing for dogs; I just learned that today) and discovered it closed… in April. Boo. She’s not limping too bad; we’re going to keep her quiet and if there’s no improvement I’ll call the vet on Monday.
jimmiraybob
What an idiot! He left out the most incontrovertible and absolutely convincing part. The captain and crew were reptilians from the galaxy XplupQ! And why haven’t any front pagers here revealed this yet!? I smell coverup!
Jackie
Not to rain on Bixby’s parade but my vet says that bananas are particularly a problem for cavities. Expensive advice after we thought we had found a healthy treat. In less than a year we suddenly had dental issues.
raven
I make “ice cream” treats put of bananas. yogurt and peanut butter.
raven
@Jackie: Bodhi and Lil Bit(rip) have been eating sweet potato dog food for 15 years
“Dr. Beebe explains that when cavities occur in dogs, they are usually caused by sweet treats such as bananas or sweet potatoes.”
Spanky
@jimmiraybob: “A harbor in Maine”? North Koreans? Maybe somebody should tell him there’s more than one Portland.
Or maybe don’t bother.
zhena gogolia
@Jerzy Russian:
And quite a photo it is!
Zinsky
I haven’t posted much recently, as my wife had a very mild case of COVID and I had to assume all household duties for ten very full days. Thankfully, I never got it and my 28 year old son who lives with us didn’t either. Anyway, I don’t understand why Democratic Senators, Representatives, and just citizens with common sense are not being more vocal about this farce\canard\charade that this juvenile dipshit in the White House is pulling on the American public. Everybody needs to call out the real fraud here – and that is a bedwetter geriatric old narcissist who can’t admit he got the shit kicked out of him by Joe Biden. The gutless, nutless coward would rather drag the United States through this divisive horseshit and poison the Biden Administration than admit he is a laughingstock and a loser, both of which he has always been.
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AND TELL THEM THAT TRUMP’S ATTACKS ON THE ELECTORAL PROCESS NEEDS TO STOP OR THEY NEED TO BEGIN IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT CHARGES AGAINST THIS BLACKHEARTED MAN!!
TaMara (HFG)
@Jackie: Extra large dog, small piece of banana every once in a while…no problem. Big dogs have their issues, but some things that plague smaller dogs (OMG, chocolate*) has little effect on them.
Though he does have a plaque issue on his back upper molars, but like a boss, he lets me scrape them.
*not that I give them chocolate, but it would take A LOT to damage their organs like in small dogs.
TaMara (HFG)
@Zinsky: Hope she’s well on the mend!
I think other than keeping an eye on the criminal-in-chief and what’s going on at the DOD/Pentagon, he should be ignored. The attention is what he craves and an impeachment would let him go out and whine for more money.
waysel
LOVE the Bixby face!
Matt McIrvin
@jimmiraybob: His lying has reached the Ralph Wiggum level. “I saw Miss Krabappel and Principal Skinner in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!”
TaMara (HFG)
Okay, off to walk the dogs – separately. The retraining is going well. I’ve been able to focus on the bad habits each of them has picked up over the last few months and quickly correct them. A full month of separate walks should really reinforce the new, proper behavior.
Besides, I’m loving the extra exercise. Even in the cold…that extra walk is lifting my dark December mood.
narya
Gonna try a zoom yoga class today. It’s with a teacher I went to YEARS ago (now that I think about it, probably first started going to her 20 years go . . . I feel old). I’m doing a December challenge w/ my Run for Beer folks that involves 20 minutes of activity/day (8 days consecutively or 20 days total or both; I’m doing both). I’ve been running a LOT–88 miles in November–so I thought an activity day that involved no running would be a good thing. And it forced me to tidy things up a bit. Also: seasoned the new carbon steel pans yesterday–looking forward to trying them!
TaMara (HFG)
@Jerzy Russian: Sorry, it is loading very slowly – probably because I ran it through paint and the file is stupidly large. My bad.
Steeplejack
@narya:
What kind of pans did you get?
Doc Sardonic
Depends on the dog I think. My late mother’s dachshund when she was a puppy ate an entire bowl full of Butterfinger minis off the coffee table one day. Vet gave her a few doses of activated charcoal, and 13 years later dachshund is still going strong.
J R in WV
@jimmiraybob:
But haven’t we heard from fearless chairman Trump over and over that he and DPRK leader Kim love one another for the past 4 years?
Doesn’t that mean that any ballots delivered by North Korea would be marked for Trump?????!?!!!!!!
And how would North Korean printers know the design of ballots from multiple US states so as to print them marked for Trump OR Biden?
So many questions Roger Stone can’t answer…
trollhattan
@TaMara (HFG):
Ours is not normally a thief but one day a chocolate croissant magically disappeared (“Did you eat it?” “No, didn’t you?”) and the dog had slinked off so as not to present guilty face.
What to do, knowing that he at least was at risk of being sick. I did the spoonful of salt down his throat and took him out back, where within five or ten minutes we had the croissant back.
Dogs.
narya
@Steeplejack: Made In. They looked to be of decent quality, and–though I normally am not big on celeb endorsements–several big chefs (Colicchio, Izard, Achatz) are advocating for them. They seasoned nicely–a 12-inch skillet (probably could have gone one size smaller) and a paella pan.
trollhattan
@J R in WV:
It’s not word salad so much as Peak Roger Stone. He’s the L. Ron Hubbard of Baghdad Bobs.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Once every few years I’ll try a tiny piece of banana. I think they are gross. I peeled one just last week thinking maybe this time it won’t taste like squishy vomit. Nope.
Steeplejack
@narya:
I’ve seen the ads; they do look tempting. Let us know how it cooks.
gwangung
@Old Dan and Little Ann: Hah. You’re like my brothers.
Me? That’s a go-to fruit. Cheap, tasty and it settles my digestion.
zhena gogolia
I wonder how many receptors there are in that nose.
zhena gogolia
@gwangung:
I have to have one a day (or at least half of one — pandemic sometimes requires), or I don’t feel right. I’m sure Bixby feels the same.
Miss Bianca
Oh, that’s so funny that Bixby craves bananas – they are one of the few things that *neither* of my dogs will touch, not even canine vacuum cleaner Watson!
CaseyL
Yesterday, had a Cat Medical Emergency that turned out not to be one.
Jeannie seemed to be badly constipated, straining and growling/hissing – which is never supposed to happen to cats, and is a big red Danger! flag. So I signed out of work and ran her off to the nearest Blue Pearl emergency clinic. (Where you sign up in the vestibule, go back to your car, and wait for a tech to come outside and get the carrier.)
Turns out she had a case of Poopy Butt that was, um, blocking the exit. Tech cleaned her off, shaved her, and brought her back outside.
Jeannie has become arthritic, therefore inactive, and not as good about personal hygiene as she used to be. This could be a problem going forward, since she’s a medium hair and very fluffy round her nethers. She may well be rocking the shaved-butt “I’m-wearing-chaps” look from now on.
One really nice thing Blue Pearl did was not charge for the visit.
TaMara (HFG)
@CaseyL: Can I suggest a good CBD oil…it completely took 18-year-old Emma from being stiff, sore and unable to groom herself to a spry young thing again.
It may or may not work – I’m finding out it depends on how many receptors they have – but for her, it’s been like the fountain of youth.
geg6
Hahaha! Love the Bixby accusatory face.
Koda does that to John when he eats toast. She loves anything that crunches.
WaterGirl
@laura: I started salivating – literally – when I read “lemon marmalade”.
Zeecube
Well, it’s a lovely crisp Fall day in South Louisiana. Plan to finish outside holiday decorations, get tree and decorate that, which takes hours (we have accumulated LOTS OF ornaments and nicknats over the years.) But first off to get a Covid test. A coworker we had a meeting with on Monday came down with the rona on Wednesday, and the other person in our group tested positive yesterday afternoon. I followed CDC guidelines, and I presently feel fine but I and Ms. ZC are high risk. Plus, I want to visit my 90 yr old mother who just got out of the hospital and is recuperating at home.
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca:
One of my cocker spaniel’s nicknames was Hoover.
CaseyL
@TaMara (HFG): Great idea, and many thanks – the Cosequin doesn’t seem to do much. Do I put the CBD in her food or rub it into her skin?
Benw
@trollhattan: we had a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that ate an entire 1/2 lb box of Sees dark chocolate. Took him to the vet who gave him mineral oil. He barfed at the vet and then outside. Once we though it must be all out we brought him inside and he barfed an unbelievable pile of dark chocolate on the carpet.
Dogs.
TaMara (HFG)
@CaseyL: I just put a dropper full in her mouth. She’s pretty good about it. I figured with food, it’s too easy for them to reject it.
I use this woman, she’s local, knows her stuff, is always available by email and ships. https://lichenlivin.com/shop-cbd-products/
And now I really am off to walk the dogs. LOl
trollhattan
@Benw:
High achiever!
cain
I see Erik Prince is trending – it seems our shitlord president is busy fucking up the pentagon – won’t allow BIden and his team into the building while replacing troops in Somalia with his Russian contractors. There is going to be a lot of shit things that is going to be happening on the military front.
Gah.
cain
@cain:
The U.S. govt is likely for sale and anything you want in exchange for money will be given so that Trump can pay off his debts.
I believe they are also opening up the alaska thing as well quickly. So it’s a fire sale for sure.
Zinsky
@Zeecube: Hope it is negative! This is a dangerously infectious disease – my wife thinks she may have gotten it while shopping at Aldi’s for groceries with a mask on! It’s the only time she has been anywhere without me and she tested positive and I didn’t. I haven’t been in any public places except a doctor’s office since July. Thankfully, she had very mild symptoms (headache only), perhaps due to a very low viral load she acquired. Be safe everyone!
cain
@Zinsky:
Yikes.. were other people wearing masks there? Here in my neighborhood everyone wears a mask and I don’t touch anything other than the handle of my shopping cart which I wipe.
Yutsano
@laura:
*looks with longing eyes à la Oliver Twist*
Gib plz.
sab
@WaterGirl: We call our cocker Roomba. More modern.
Faithful Lurker
@cain: Where did you see this? Is there a link? We unhooked ourselves from TV world so don’t know what the cables are reporting.
kindness
My big dog used to be the same way when bananas were being eaten. He loved banana.
Matt McIrvin
@J R in WV: It was the perfect election crime except that all the ballots were marked for Kim Jong Un.
Jeffro
Lincoln Project dropped another doozy. This time they are noting that in the Georgia Senate races, even though he is not technically on the ballot, Mitch McConnell surely IS on the ballot.
smart. You don’t have to be a fan of Warnock or Ossoff or even know anything about them to be motivated to get out the vote against Mitch McConnell.
Baud
@jimmiraybob:
I hate having to check out absolute incontrovertible evidence.
mrmoshpotato
That face says “I’m disappointed in all of you.”
Sorry big fella.
Di
I used to have a cat who, whenever I peeled a banana, would come running into the kitchen to see what was going on. I don’t know what he thought would appear – a ball? A squirrel? Then he’d sniff the banana and very dramatically gag. Every. Time.
raven
@Di: Lil Bit was deaf and blind for at least the last year of her life but if you peeled an apple it didn’t matter where in the house she was, she appeared immediately!
trollhattan
@raven:
Hah! :-) Our first Dalmatian knew the sound of an opening zip-lock baggie and would appear from an adjacent county.
He was also a drooler and if sitting like a good boy in hopes of a taste, a puddle of spit would form next to him. And that’s why god invented linoleum.
zhena gogolia
@CaseyL:
I’m glad it was resolved so simply!
SWMBO
I have had dachshunds over the years that would eat anything. One of them ate rocks out of the yard. NONE of them would eat fresh banana or green olives. Black olives were fair game. Banana bread would disappear. But it was one pack NOPE on fresh banana or green olives.
mrmoshpotato
@Old Dan and Little Ann: LOL Not even just-ripe bananas that still have some firmness?
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
In the second day of a Zoom conference. My condolences to all who have suffered losses. I missed those threads.
narya
@WaterGirl: Yeah, I was trying to think of something I could offer to trade . . .
Tdjr
We’ve had the most delicious grapes available all season and I’ve been buying and snacking on them a lot (I was going to say a bunch). My dog Jasper sits longingly watching me snack with a little puddle of drool dripping. No grapes for the pooch!?
TaMara (HFG)
@laura: I am so jealous of the trees. The one thing I miss most of living in LA was picking lemons, limes and oranges off the backyard trees.
mrmoshpotato
This is open, so…
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Tdjr: Moondrops. Best ? ever.
WaterGirl
@sab: Ha! There were no Roombas back then. :-)
geg6
I am going to make some Chex Mix Crack to give out to my sisters and nieces. I always give a gift of something homemade, which is usually red or black raspberry jam and a jar of tomatoes, both grown and canned by my John. But this year, we didn’t have enough berries to can because John moved the bushes to another spot on the property. So I’m going with the tomatoes and Chex Mix Crack. It’s easy, you can make huge amounts as long as your refrigerator can fit the trays and people love that shit, which is why it’s called crack. Recipe makes 40 servings, so a couple of batches will fill all the cellophane bags I ordered.
4 cups Chex cereal
4 cups Cheerios
4 cups skinny pretzel rods
3 cups salted peanuts
11 ounces red and green M&Ms
24 ounces white chocolate chips
3.5 teaspoons shortening or solid coconut oil
Place cereals, pretzels, peanuts and M&Ms in a large mixing bowl and set aside.
Place parchment paper on a large baking sheet and set aside.
In microwave safe bowl, add white chocolate chips and shortening/coconut oil and microwave at 50% power in 30 second increments, stirring after each increment until melted.
Pour melted chocolate into the mixture in the bowl. Stir to combine.
Place mix onto baking sheet and push it down evenly using a spatula.
Place baking sheet in refrigerator for at least 20 minutes, break into clumps and store in an airtight container.
Great snack food. I may also break up some candy canes to add.
MattF
Don’t know if this has been linked yet, but there’s an NYT Peter Baker article on the Trump Downfall. Baker actually quotes a Shakespeare scholar on ‘Act V’ behavior, which is rather over-the-top.
mad citizen
@Zinsky: Good idea except this assumes your Rep/Sen is living in reality. From the last thread and the Wapo poll, my idea was to call my (R) Senators to see what their offices’ conclusion is on the Presidential election. (Having problem stating this ridiculous question–but it’s what are your set of facts?) Start from that lowest common denominator.
laura
@TaMara (HFG): When we bought the casita de Amor, we were disappointed that the orange tree was smack in the middle of our smallish yard. It has been a workhorse of unknown tons of good fruit. Errybody gets a sack for Christmas with tons left for the Breakfast party and still an abundance for the foodbank harvesters that finished it off. We got two dwarf meyer lemons over the last couple of years that produce an unbelievable amount of fruit. This coming year with a scaled down holiday and no way in hell we could hold the breakfast shindig – and so even more will go to the foodbank for our friends and neighbors who can used every kind of a helping hand.
I’ll try and document the marmalading and send pics in for a Sunday Garden Chat if there’s an interest.
Catherine D.
@CaseyL: Cat hairball/constipation help: 1/8 tsp of MirraLax mixed into wet food once a day. My vet recommended it, and it’s made a big difference over the years. I buy the smallest human jar, and it lasts for months.
MattF
Ducks exhibiting rational behavior.
PsiFighter37
@Jeffro: Eh – I just don’t think that people on our side are as motivated to vote against someone being a legislative leader (unlike the GOP, who seems to be very successful at turning Pelosi and Schumer into the ultimate boogeymen). I wonder if they have decided to actually poll-test any of their messaging this time; in the presidential race and a lot of their other ads, it seemed like most of it was coming unfiltered straight from the mind of Rick Wilson.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
We use very different recipes/ingredients*, but I am also making vast quantities of Chex Party (at-home-by-yourself) Mix this weekend.
*Mine is heavy on the garlic salt and Worcestershire sauce. Mixed cashews/almond/pecans rather than peanuts. No M&Ms.
SiubhanDuinne
@laura:
Yes, please!
pamelabrown53
@MattF:
Wonderful article. Thanks for the link. Thinking I may buy the book “Shakespeare and Trump” mentioned in the article.
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
You describe the version I had as a kid–umami heaven (decades before I learned umami). There’s a synergistic blending of worchestershire sauce and butter, plus I’m allergic to peanuts and one must have cashews and pecans in the mix.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Ah, a relaxing Saturday. I’m sitting on the sofa by the window, reading the internet, sipping my tea.
Sammy the beagle mix is on his favorite perch on the back of the sofa where he can peer out the window, snooze, or guard us from incoming UPS packages.
And right outside the window is the front porch which is a major squirrel superhighway for some reason, and it’s especially busy at this time of year.
This is not actually a relaxing combination.
He got so hysterical a little while ago that I had to take him out to the porch to chase off the enemy, and then patrol the perimeter till he was satisfied.
mrmoshpotato
@laura:
Yes please.
PsiFighter37
Looks like Trump called Brian Kemp this morning and asked him to basically call a special session and overturn the results. Kemp said no; I expect he will get massively shat on at tonight’s superspreader event in GA. Seems like the few polls that are out that are not Trafalgar show a tight race that is slightly in our favor. I have to think that the 10% decline in Kemp’s approval rating amongst the GOP is a real sign of trouble for Republicans there – if 10% of GOP voters stay home, they are toast in that race. Really hoping Stacey Abrams and friends can help push Ossoff and Warnock over the finish line, with voter registration deadline on Monday.
As for me – the weather has cleared up in NYC, so time to take a walk and get some groceries done with the family.
mrmoshpotato
@PsiFighter37:
Sad, unbigly, traitorous, orange, mobster assclown!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: That sounds more like the version I make. I use butter instead of oil, how about you?
I laid in supplies for chex mix when I was doing my early pandemic shopping. imagine being stuck at home and unable to have something essential like chex mix???
Sweet mixed in is intriguing, though.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: You’re tempting me to go buy a few boxes of Chex…
scav
I think there very well could be a general interest in an All The Ways One Can Make Chex Mix Melee. All the different regional and familial tweaks to explore.
WaterGirl
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LuciaMia
Dogs are like agents, they expect 10% from everything you make.
Bex
Looking for some cute Christmas gifts? Rocky the owl has merch. She is posing in her orange sweater.
https://ravensbeard.org/collections/all
Topclimber
This thread is riper than an ever-Trumper’s sex toy but just have to give shout outs to Ozark’s pluralith coinage. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, friend.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: I use one box of corn chex, one box of rice chex, and 2 boxes of wheat chex. I think the wheat chex gives it more depth. YMMV. And I use either baby cheese goldfish or Annie’s cheddar bunnies instead of pretzels.
mrmoshpotato
@scav: Haha, oh the battles in the comments!
LuciaMia
@mrmoshpotato: Chex Mix, ummmm. Snacking on a batch, there was always the excitement of finding that chex piece that was saturated with the woistercher-butter mix.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
That is how I have traditionally made it, but last year, a co-worker brought this sweet version in and I knew it would be a big hit with my sisters and nieces. Sweet and salty hits all of us where we live.
catclub
Lyndon laRouche
catclub
@WaterGirl: I think the wheat chex gives it more depth.
also the worcestershire sauce and salt. I think worcestershire is a big umami sauce/source.
WaterGirl
@catclub:
Ingredients:
1 box rice chex
2 box wheat chex
1 box corn chex
1 bag baby goldfish or Annie’s cheddar bunnies
1 Tablespoon seasoned salt
2 Tablespoons worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. minced garlic
2 cups butter
sometimes I add cashews and sometimes I add pretzel stix.
Directions:
Mix butter, oil & spices together to make the sauce, preferably at least ½ hour ahead of time. Preheat oven to 175 -200 degrees. (Under no circumstances should oven be hotter than 200 degrees.) Combine snacks in two large, extra deep roasting pans. Sprinkle sauce slowly over the ingredients while keeping the sauce stirred up and the snacks mixed. Put pans in oven and cook for 1-1 ½ hours. Check and stir snacks every 15 minutes. Start tasting after one hour. Do Not Overcook.
SiubhanDuinne
@LuciaMia:
THIS! So true, I’m going to blockquote it again:
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
I’m reminded of Sandra Boynton*’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies, which began: Theoretical yield, 24 cookies.
*The “hippo birdie two ewes” cartoonist, in case there’s a soul here who doesn’t know her name.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Butter, of course! What do you take me for, a heathen?
SiubhanDuinne
@trollhattan:
I can’t eat peanuts either (not allergic, just, the taste and smell make me gag), so it’s the mixed nuts for me. This year, instead of the traditional pretzel sticks, I’m using little tiny itty-bitty wee pretzel-shaped mini pretzels. And I ran across a recipe that suggested garlic-flavoured mini bagel chips, but I dunno. Maybe one batch, to see how they work with everything else.
SWMBO
@SiubhanDuinne: They will work fine. Trust me on this.Also the rosemary bagel chips are tasty as well.
lowtechcyclist
@jimmiraybob: Man, our fixers really suck! While stuffing the ballot boxes in Maine to give Biden the win, they totally forgot about the Senate race!
We hired a buncha dipshits, I tell ya.
WereBear
For old and achy dogs and cats, I mix dry gelatin into their wet food. No one seems to mind.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: I haven’t had that since I lived in CT decades and decades ago. Enjoy!
trollhattan
@catclub:
Agree, the Wheat Chex are toothsome in a way the other two Chex aren’t. Al dente? Dunno.
There’s no way that mix tastes as good as it tastes, based on looking at the ingredients. Pretty sure crack makes it in when you’re not looking.
SFBayAreaGal
My cat Puddin (no longer with us) loved the milk left over from the sugar cereals.
When she heard the clang of the spoon hitting the bowl, she appeared as if she had been transported from where she was to where the person was eating their bowl of cereal. She would sit in front of you shifting nervously from one side to other. She would tap you gently with her paw to remind you she was waiting for that beautiful sweetened cereal milk.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
What, no kale and pink salt?
//
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and suddenly, the anti-mask movement experienced…. shrinkage
Catherine D.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well, maybe that will slow the breeding of stupid.
zhena gogolia
@SFBayAreaGal:
My cat Buddy was like that. He also loved ice cream.
One day my ex-husband noticed Pookie licking up the remnants of his martini. We were alarmed, but then it turned out that she loved olive juice. So every time he had a martini he had to pour out a little olive juice for her so she wouldn’t get into the gin.
There go two miscreants
Damn it, you folks have about talked me into making some chex mix — I will have to expand the grocery list! I hope they have Wheat Chex — sometimes they are hard to find.
Also too: Just got an email that my calendar has shipped! Yay!
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Countdown to abolishment of all medical costs for treatment in 3, 2, …
SiubhanDuinne
@SWMBO:
Ooh, rosemary! That sounds great!
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Don’t even care if it’s true. I’m glad that’s out there.
JeanneT
Pet related announcement: this afternoon I was able to successfully trim all of Lily the Beagle’s toenails in one 10 minute session, with breaks for zoomies and cheese between each foot. It’s the FIRST TIME she’s been able to tolerate my messing with all her toes on the same day since she moved in with me in 2019 – and she seemed happy about it. I’m chuffed!
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: Look at that sophisticated, drunk ass pooch!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I don’t start tasting until they start being really fragrant, which means they are close to being done. But my mom taught me to cook based on smell.
I love Sandra Boynton!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: My most sincere apologies for doubting you, even for a second!
trollhattan
@JeanneT:
Beware, you may have just created a Stealth Beagle, the thievingest critter on four dainty legs. :-)
PaulWartenberg
I would like to mention my Christmas happened today with a new Ford Escape Hybrid.
The parents were unhappy that I was going with a black car with a black interior. “But Paul, it’ll get so hot in Florida…”
“Mom? Dad? This is Florida. It WILL get hot no matter what…”
PaulWartenberg
And I came home to a major water leak in my yard. The utility water ports are swamped. I can’t tell which one is busted. Called it in just now. Ugh, Saturdays.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: They have been saying that for weeks or months, but I guess if the news is finally getting some play, that’s a good thing.
I am so sick of seeing couples where the woman is wearing a mask and the man isn’t. I have thus far restrained myself from shouting – you should ditch that asshole while you can, he is selfish and he cares only for himself and his image.
WaterGirl
@There go two miscreants: The first 8 orders have shipped, so you must have been one of the early purchasers.
thank you!
Cameron
@Zinsky: Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
Jay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
can also cause sterility, gangrene and permanent erections,
Omnes Omnibus
@Zinsky: And what would these impeachment charges accomplish?
mrmoshpotato
Without comment. ?
MagdaInBlack
@WaterGirl: I have every intention of using that ” information” at work. I dont have any non maskers, but I do get scoffers, so I will just mention in passing…… ? for my manly blue collar body shop guys.
mrmoshpotato
@PaulWartenberg: Big roll of cling wrap – slip n slide!
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
Our Nessie cares for baby carrots a great deal.
Yarrow
@laura:
Yes, please! I have Meyer lemons in my fridge that a friend game me and I’ve been planning to make marmalade. I have a recipe for orange marmalade that I’ve used plenty of times and I was going to follow that. It doesn’t call for added pectin – just the pectin from the seeds and pith and so forth. Is that how you make yours?
Steeplejack (phone)
@PaulWartenberg:
Congrats on the new ride. Always a good feeling.
zhena gogolia
@mrmoshpotato:
Kitty!
Jay
Benw
Grey day, but I’ve run and done my chores. Now I’m tucked in watching the Tech game with a big labradane head smooshing my lap.
Go Jackets!
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl:
But he… I got nothing. I don’t walk downstairs to check my mail without a mask and gloves.
mrmoshpotato
@There are those who call me…tim… (Still posh): Are cut up regular-sized carrots refused?
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: Sorry! But even better! More sophisticated!
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
watching Tennessee vs Florida. Gators QB just got sacked. Working in n updating my VGLI insurance and my will because I need to do it and keep putting it off. Starting wrapping and debating dinner options…probably going to be angel hair pasta with garlic Alfredo sauce and grilled chicken chopped up in it. Gotta work out after dinner on the stationary bike.
JeanneT
@trollhattan: Ah, she mastered that a while back, making joint forays with my lab mix, who knows how to open jars. Little by little they are training me to keep my countertops food -free.
zhena gogolia
@JeanneT:
A dog knows how to open jars?
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
@mrmoshpotato: they would not be unwelcomed.
laura
@Yarrow: Yes! The pudding bag of pith and pips – squeezed to yield the glue that holds the whole thing together and adds the bitter bottom note of flavor.
rikyrah
@Zeecube:
????