Spent the afternoon grilling brats at Blue’s owner’s place. Max did a quick lap in the above-ground pool and spent the rest of the afternoon in Blue’s favorite spot under the back porch, where he ignored everything but hot dog bits thrown at his nose sticking out from under the stairs.
Report your holiday adventure in the comments.
Mark
Beautiful picture.
sb
Second that.
Yutsano
ITZ A PUPPEH!!
Debating venturing out for a steak over getting something delivered, most likely Italian. In other words, in total indecisive mode.
quaint irene
Caption under that photo should be:
“Life Is Good!”
Violet
Max is really gorgeous.
I’m going to be grilling a burger in a bit after I make an international Skype call. Other people in other countries are working today.
MikeJ
@Violet:
Bank holiday in Engerland. As an American with clients overseas, I often get the worst of both worlds. Nice when they sync up.
Violet
@MikeJ: Yeah, it can be tough when you have to work on, say, Thanksgiving. The family doesn’t really understand.
tBoy
hey – that’s what i did all day too
MikeJ
@Violet: And my mom never understood why I was calling her a month early for Mother’s Day.
Violet
@MikeJ:
Interestingly, Father’s Day seems to be on the same day in both the US and UK, but Mother’s Day is different.
Linkmeister
@tBoy: What, flopped under the stairs with your nose out awaiting hot dog bits?
kdaug
Rigging/weighting a low-poly dog.
(Colloquially known as “boning”, but experience has taught not to use that phrase in a public setting).
Suffern ACE
@Linkmeister: Kind of early for that tradition for me. That’s usually my Labor Day.
burnspbesq
The bubble is starting to bubble again, amazingly enough.
Got a note from Chase saying they had increased the limit on my Visa card by $6k.
Spouse got a note from Chase offering to loan us up to 125 percent of the value of our house, at a rate that is 150 basis points below what we have now.
geg6
Had the big party yesterday as it was my niece’s 10th birthday. Today is so fucking hot and humid, it’s salad and steak on the grill and some apple pie and vanilla frozen custard to eat while we get ill watching “Too Big to Fail.”
Linnaeus
A glass of wine, a book about Joseph Banks, and plans to make some pasta in a bit. Really not bad, because I’ll have plenty of activity tomorrow.
burnspbesq
@geg6:
Just enjoy it for what it is, a very well-crafted piece of mainstream Hollywood entertainment. It’s not a documentary, and I don’t think it was intended to be one. You won’t learn anything you don’t already know.
Yutsano
@geg6: Ugh. I hate humidity with a passion. I could go to Atlanta or Austin easily with the new gig but the humidity says no touchie for me.
asiangrrlMN
Max! Such a handsome boy.
My plan is to allow gravity to do its thang on me as I meld with the couch.
@Yutsano: Did you decide?
MonkeyBoy
I made a big pot of black-eyed peas for a cookout (I really hate the baked beans that would have been brought otherwise).
I considered finishing the big bed I’ve been digging for rhubarb, basil, and flowers however it was hot and my earlier herculean digging efforts has made the tendons in my forearms sore so I figured I deserved a mainly restful day.
(Another thing that sores my tendons is finding a good pinball game and playing for 2 hours)
JGabriel
Tim F.:
I’m sure they deserved it.
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JPL
@Yutsano: When I first moved to the Atlanta area 25 years ago from Dallas it seemed cooler by comparison. Next week is suppose to be in the mid to high nineties. No global warming here. I can’t wait until July..wahoo..
Captain Goto
Me? I put in a couple hours at the office, then I picked up the kid and stopped by the Moms for chicken and tater salad.
The roomie is entertaining an old GF that he hasn’t seen in 30 years. I’m at the Beehive on Carson Street, nursing something called a “Dark and Stormy” while Morrissey is blasting over the speakers (hey, what’s a guy supposed to do? 2/3 of Sah-Side is closed down, and there’s nothing but beer back at the house).
Shadow's Mom
Me, I got on my roof to trim back branches that are overhanging it and worked on my final for ‘Human Organizations and Social Realities.’ Most of the way there on that and I have a week to complete it.
New job starts tomorrow, will actually have to get up, get dressed, and drive the office for the next few weeks.
tkogrumpy
@JGabriel: I prefer them on a rotissary spit.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Tortelinni and potato skins. None of the steak places local to me really had any sort of delivery options. Oh well, I’ll make up for it next week even if I have to buy my own slab of cow. And vegging out around the condo has done a world of good for my sanity I must say. Lexie is annoyed with me though.
Jewish Steel
Directed to this garden of Republican delights via Rumproast.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2725798/posts
I support this. Republicans! stand fast to your core principles! No Gayborting RINOs! Megadittos!
Plus: Is anyone seriously considering Giuliani? I really did check to see if this post wasn’t from 2007.
tkogrumpy
Spent the last four days tilling and planting the gardens with veggies. More like a small farm than a garden.The economy here in mid-coast Maine is still in the shitter so any surplus goes to the food pantry.
Ruckus
Just spent the last 45 min looking at pics of the Vietnam Wall Memorial. I generally do this every memorial day just to remind me how lucky I am that I didn’t get sent over there and that many of my generation were not. Was in the hospital for 2 months with mostly marines who had been wounded in Vietnam. I can easily imagine some of these men probably never mentally recovered even if their physical wounds healed, and many of them have life long physical aliments as well. I drank quite a bit and did drugs for a few years trying to get over that(didn’t work by the way), I can not imagine what being in country would have been like.
Yutsano
@Jewish Steel: It’s not random. 9iu11iani won a CNN poll last week so I expected a freakout involving him.
khead
The dog pic is beautiful.
OT but this is a big story. Been waiting on CNNSI to release this all day.
Mr. Tressel, meet Mr. Media Train:
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1Nt6ko7Ow
CaseyL
Thank you for another fine photo of MaxPup! There’s something Zen about a dog always that happy.
I’m volunteering at SIFF, so my weekend was full of movies and parties celebrating them. Not a bad way to spend Memorial Day, though I do regret not paying my respects at the veterans area of the local cemetery, which I usually do. (I visit there more than once a year anyway, though, to look over the graves and have a good cry. I’m weird.)
PurpleGirl
@Ruckus: A friend’s brother was badly wounded (lost leg muscles) in Vietnam and also suffered post-traumatic stress. It took a few years but he finally found a place as a peer counselor. Unfortunately, he also picked up Hep C, probably from a blood transfusion in Vietnam. When he died a few years ago from Hep C damage, the family felt that the war had finally gotten him.
Linda Featheringill
@Jewish Steel:
One of Guiliani’s problems is that most people not living in New York or Washington don’t even know who he is.
The Chattering Class seems to love him. The rest of us are saying, “Who?”
Ruckus
@Linda Featheringill:
The rest of us are saying, “Who?”
Or WTF?
dopealope
I love your writing, Tim … But I love your pictures of Max more …
Yutsano
I still want to know why I had never heard of this until I discovered it a couple of weeks ago doing some random YouTube surfing. Has anyone seen and/or heard of this? Does anyone have an opinion on it? TIA.
PurpleGirl
Max is such a good looking dog. When I see his picture I think of my friend’s dobie (Hugo). Hugo loved buttered bread; if you gave him a folded slice of buttered bread, he’d open the slice, lick off the butter and then eat the bread.
Violet
@Yutsano:
I heard good things about it when it came out, but didn’t see it. It was nominated for an Oscar.
PurpleGirl
@Yutsano: Never heard of it. It looks really beautifully done and interesting.
NobodySpecial
Worked. Walked. Went to bed. Woke, ate. Will Work Again.
Holiday my ass.
wonkie
I spent the morning walking dogs at the shelter. Our weather is cool and by a miracle not raining. Went to a wine tasting and am pleasantly buzzed. Found my Kindle which went walkabout three days ago leaving me stranded and bookless. will now eat somethi g and probably fall alseep on the couch. A lovely day!
becca
It was hothothot today. Line-dried three loads of laundry in three hours.
Then I fried catfish, along with potato wedges and hushpuppies. That and some slaw made for a mighty fine dinner.
Now I’m ready for homemade buttermilk ice cream with fresh peach slices and to bed on crisp, sun-smelly sheets with an old collection of Vonnegut essays and stuff that I never tire of re-reading.
At this moment in time, i am content.
Jewish Steel
@Linda Featheringill: @Yutsano:
Does this mean we get to trot out our old faves from the past too?
Hart/Glenn 2016!
tkogrumpy
Almost forgot. It finally cleared up enough here for the first time in a jillion days, for my friend to take me up in the front seat of his J3 cub where we scared the bejeebus out of the seagulls on the Bagaduce river at something less the the required 500 feet. Yeehaw!
stuckinred
@wonkie: I really appreciated your post on the puppy rescue program this afternoon.
Jewish Steel
@Yutsano: Oooh. That looks delightful!
Yutsano
@Violet: @PurpleGirl: The animation style is definitely different, and they don’t go too heavy on the CGI which is a point in their favor. Plus the story itself looks really interesting to me. I might have to see if I can finagle a copy somewhere and find a venue to watch it.
Oh and thanks for answering a question for my Violet. I wondered if it had ever gotten a cinematic release, but it looks like it came out when I was still in the cultural wasteland that is the Tri-Cities.
stuckinred
@Yutsano: Have you watched Bitiful with Javier Bardem? Tough flick but worth the watch.
Barb (formerly Gex)
Recorded my weekly podcast, then jumped in the pool. Spent the day with my girl, some good friends, and some good pups.
Libby's Person
@Yutsano:
Gorgeous movie. Every single frame could be hung on the wall as a piece of art. The story is just interesting enough to carry you through, but it’s the imagery that grabs you. I loved this movie. (I’m a big fan of sophisticated animation.)
Violet
@Yutsano:
I think it’s from the same people who did the Triplets of Belleville. The animation is similar. That was a really good film. Music especially.
Barb (formerly Gex)
@Linda Featheringill: And the base won’t like him any better the second time around. There’s still the gay roommates and the drag photos after all.
Valdivia
was in John’s state for the holiday. Did some rock climbing, some hiking, watched my boyfriend and his son fish, went for a few bike rides, fell on my ass and lived to tell about it. Only to come back to dc to see Palin has taken over our media (again, it’s going to be a looooong summer) and that we’re in the midst of high swamp weather….
vikram chandran
TimF,
What camera do you use? What are your exposure & F settings like? The photo is absolutely crystal clear…Awesome
Yutsano
@Violet: It mentions that in the trailer, which is of course a big plus in my book. It just looks lush and mystical, and I think just from the few images I’ve seen it captures beautifully why in medieval times the unknown was so scary until it was illuminated.
MonkeyBoy
Has anybody else noticed BJ FYWP acting up in the last few days?
I find sometimes when I reload a page all I get is just the main posting but none of the comments appear. I find a “cache refresh” reload (Control-F5 or Shift-control-R) seems to fix the problem, but it shouldn’t exist in the first place. I’m running FireFox 3.6.17, but that shouldn’t make any difference.
Umbrella
Cool and gray here, with teasing sunbreaks. Gave up the barbecue and went for roast pork and clams in cilantro sauce. It did this last year, too. I may have to petition for moving Groundhog Day to the Ides of March.
Little Boots
what think you people?
have the Republican overreached with the Medicare hatred and the Union hatred? or does anyone give a damn anymore?
Yutsano
@Little Boots: They done past overreach awhile ago. They’re running on flat-out suicidal now. But Party Uber Alles.
Little Boots
@Yutsano:
I hope so. this can be one stupid ass country. it really can.
aliasofwestgate
@Yutsano: Yutsano, i’ve seen it and its a gorgeous little film. I was pleasantly surprised when i saw it out of sheer curiosity.
Ireland animation and done in the style of the Illumniation, of which it centers around the prime example of it. The Book of Kells. I’m a total animation geek, and seeing this was great. I still want my own copy of it. :D
Do give it a try!
madmommy
I worked today, then came home and Furminated my goofy Labrador. There is now enough hair on my front lawn to knit a Pomeranian. My German Shepherd/Basset mix would not sit still for a brushing, but he is still a pup and easily distracted.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@Jewish Steel:
that is begging for a well orchestrated troll thread over there.
something to the effect of “i agree with the comment policy, and am completely on board with the anti-abortionist/gay agenda, but i have one question, perhaps at the crux of the matter, what if we could abort gay people?”
that ought to send some hamsters careening off the wheel.
Little Boots
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:
DON’T give them any ideas.
not that it matters. ideas never penetrate anyway,
Jewish Steel
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal: Inspired.
Citing “cutting edge DNA research that has isolated the gay gene and can be identified in utero.”
Or do they all believe we choose our preferences?
OT: Thank you otherwise reliable Zoom H2 digital recorder for cutting off the first beat of a bunch of guitar samples I just spent half an hour recording. If you didn’t cost $150 I would give you one hell of a bite.
Jewish Steel
@Jewish Steel: Those guitar parts sucked anyway, J-Steel. ZH2 did you a favor.
Yutsano
@Jewish Steel: In psychology we call that rationalization. But hey if it helps you sleep tonight…
Martin
@PurpleGirl: BTW, some people really care about e-reader typography. That population is certainly larger than publishers think.
I would further add that, IMO, people are more willing to pay for something that they feel is well done, even if they can’t articulate why it is well done. Something to keep in mind on your conversion project.
Little Boots
@Martin:
people fall for a lot of sad and stupid shit though. it’s a problem.
Redshift
We got a group of Deaniac friends to go to the NOH8 photo shoot downtown. It was fun and I think it’ll turn out well; I’ll post a link when we get the results.
Jewish Steel
@Yutsano: Sigh Those chords were deliciously crisp. And since I couldn’t hear the bassline I was harmonizing over, and had stopped counting, I was guessing where the changes were. Correctly.
Plus I’m a first take kind of guy. If I don’t nail it that first time, it’s going to take a lot of passes. What a terrible session guy I’d make.
Did I mention Sigh?
Yutsano
@Jewish Steel: I’m the exact same way. I either nail it the first time around or it’ll take 600 more before I’m happy. The point when you stop is when you obsess over a single note. That’s a big clue to just. move. on.
ruemara
made eggplant pizzetti for the 2nd day in a row, but I can’t eat grains and dammit, I want pizza. Plus cuban marinade pork loin. Other than that, painted the new cabinets for the kitchen, worked out, did a run of charitable donations and bakery. It’s been like multiple sundays here. I’m just not used to having holidays. BTW, do cover letters always suck or seem to suck as you’re writing them? I’m writing a new one and everything I write sounds like drool.
AliceBlue
Mr. AliceBlue and I drove down to the Andersonville Prison site and POW museum. It was a very interesting and sobering experience.
Yutsano
@ruemara:
Nom!
Pourquoi?
ruemara
@Yutsano:
I’m vain and on a low carb diet. Trust me, I’m just waiting for the right poundage on the scale so I can slip a damn plate of roasted potatoes or a fricking slice of toast back into the menu.
That being said, damn eggplant pizzetti is good.
Yutsano
@ruemara: Well for weight loss I can’t help you much, especially since I’m about to dive into a brownie here. :) I may or may not be rubbing it in.
Debbie(aussie)
Haven’t readcomments, so sorry if this is a repeat.
What were the kids kids upto that required a grilling? Was the first thing that came to mind. Then i realized ahh, brats as in sausages. Just a bit of a language problem. Beautiful doggies!
Nutella
@MonkeyBoy:
Yep, frequently today I got a long (1 – 2 minutes) pause on page load while it was waiting for “static.addtoany.com”. That apparently is something that adds Share/Save buttons to click for sending something to FB/Twitter but this site doesn’t have Share/Save buttons(???)
Origuy
@aliasofwestgate:
I’m going to have to watch that. I was able to see a part of the book of Kells when it was in Copenhagen, back in 1984. Pictures don’t do it justice.
jenn
@Martin: My big peeve: missing characters. It’s usually the single quote mark that the e-reader can’t handle for some reason, and it gets translated as a question mark or an empty box. Drives me crazy. And the really annoying thing is that paying a hefty not-nearly-discounted-enough ebook price doesn’t mean that those issues have been fixed. Most of the problems I’ve had are in texts that I paid a good chunk of change for — it’s the Project Gutenberg texts I’ve downloaded where so far I haven’t found any obvious typos!
Cliff in NH
@becca:
I would love to have some fresh made hushpuppies, may I beg for your recipe?
Oh, Pretty Please gimme yummy hushpuppies!
Dogsbody
Here’s a song for Blue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B2y22w_Yhk
Ruckus
@PurpleGirl:
I am sure that a lot of vets, not just Vietnam vets, lose out to the war many years after they come home. I’ve met a few of the lost souls that have never found their way back to, well life. They have existences, sometimes they even have the appearance of being alive, but many are mere shells of what humans can be. I feel sorrow for drunks and drug addicts who can’t deal with life, I feel real pain for those whom dealing with life is impossible or next to it, when they were forced there by war.