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Since there is no Recipe Exchange today, this Turkey is your consolation prize:
… On Monday in Orlando, Fla., the Orange County Animal Services discovered the 3-month-old black kitten made a gobbling noise when she ate her meals. She was appropriately named Turkey.
The video ran on a local news station’s “Pet of the Week” segment in the hope that the gobbling kitty would be adopted.
Friday morning, Turkey finally went home with her new mom, according to Carolina Mlynarczyk, marketing and public relations coordinator with Orange County Animal Services.
I just seriously hope her new people appreciate a little girl who’s gonna have an opinion about everything…
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Apart from squee, what’s on the agenda for the start of the weekend?
schrodinger's cat
Pumpkin pie to go with Turkey.
SiubhanDuinne
No opera. No ballet. I guess I’ll have the car serviced, in anticipation of my forthcoming drive to Owen Sound and back again. (No, AL and efgoldman and muddy and others in the northeast, this is not the Grand Tour, this is just a quick trip to Ontario to visit my cousins for a few days.)
Villago Delenda Est
The cute…it has caused my blood sugar to double!
JPL
So only sixteen folks are left out of the 8.7 million who entered the Yahoo/Quicken Loan/Buffett contest on the NCAA basketball tourney. I’m surprised that sixteen are still in it.
@SiubhanDuinne: Have fun.
MikeJ
Memphis v George Washington on tv. Having had sex with grads or undergrads of both schools, my usual cheering heuristic is broken.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Hey, I wanted to thank you for posting about Wiley Cash. I read and really liked “This Dark Road to Mercy.” I love having a new author to read!
James Gary
Wait. That cat is clearly black in color. So shouldn’t it be the responsibility of Black County Animal Services, rather than Orange? And why is everything color-coded now?
Howard Beale IV
Watch a Sicilian Nun Singing Alicia Keys Bring a Rapper to Tears
IowaOldLady
@SiubhanDuinne: I looked at “Owen Sound” and thought does she mean the one I know? I apparently had surgery there when I was 6 weeks old. My parents were visiting my father’s family in Southampton on Lake Huron when I got sick.
Mandalay
If you care about electronic privacy (or not), you can complete a two minute government survey here: http://www.whitehouse.gov
There’s even a box where you can write anything you want. Tell our President what he needs to know about Griftwald and Snowden the traitor. It won’t take any more time than it would take to make a post here. And while you may think that completing their survey is a complete waste of time, it’s still a gazillion times more likely to have an impact than posting your comments here.
Raven
I need The Shockers to win by less than 40!
SiubhanDuinne
@debbie: Thank John Cole (if he ever shows up to read his own blog). Wiley Cash is a wonderful writer, and I’m thrilled to see him getting the recognition he deserves. But before he got famous, he was just a friend of John’s.
Neutron Flux
@Raven: It’s not looking good for you
SiubhanDuinne
@IowaOldLady:
Owen Sound, Ontario, on the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. My cousins have lived there for something like 40 years. I love to visit them — it’s a beautiful area.
I hope (and, given everything, have to assume) that you recovered fully from your surgery! Canadian health care FTW!
Howard Beale IV
@Mandalay: I filled it out for the fat load of good it’ll do-I’ll still keep all my devices encrypted just in case i’m ever robbed – legally or illegally.
Raven
Whew!
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Providence put up one helluva fight, but the Heels prevail.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
Thanks. I’m not even sure yet when I’ll leave, how long I’ll be gone, when I’ll come back. Nice to be retired and not have to adhere to a rigid calendar!
I have a lot of bad memories of my time in Michigan, and have avoided it for the past three decades, scooting along I-75 only as long as necessary to get to the border crossing — but have decided to seek out some friends who remain in Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, Kalamazoo, and Battle Creek, and possibly put the old demons to rest. We’re none of us getting younger, and I don’t want to hang on to 30-year-old bitterness.
yoohoocthulhu
Well, since the job scene for Ph.D scientists is less than hot here in SF, and the main person limiting my next job search (my girlfriend) has decided to summarily dump me, I’m considering a cross-country relocation to Boston where there are more jobs!
It’s amazing how many more job listings there are to apply to when you’re not also concerned with someone else!
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: Would a Balloon-juice meet up make the MI visit go easier? Kalamazoo is in the middle for several of us I think.
Raven
Shaka!
schrodinger's cat
@SiubhanDuinne: You forgot me, I has a sad now.
jeffreyw
Thread needz moar kitteh!
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw: They is sweet, how is your kittehs?
Howard Beale IV
@yoohoocthulhu: Yep-worked for me when I picked up and relo’ed-only thing I had to worry about was my cat. Making new friends can be bitch, tho.
Howard Beale IV
@efgoldman: Wonder if those teams alone saved Buffet’s billion dollar bet.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman: thanks! Yes, I’m checking the weather reports and forecasts, and if it really looks brutal, I’ll just cancel/postpone the trip. There’s nothing sacred about my going up this month or next. I’m used to driving in snow and ice and cold weather, but if I have a choice, I’ll choose NOT.
[I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid.]
Anne Laurie
@Villago Delenda Est: I prefer to imagine she’s saying “Mine, mine, mine… mine, mine, yeah! yeah!”
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: Politics as per usual here in the biggest little.
Seriously, you have any idea what that was about?
SiubhanDuinne
@satby: I have no idea how many K’zoo Juicers we have, but yes, I would love to have that kind of get-together!
jeffreyw
@schrodinger’s cat: Toby just now ran Homer under the credenza. Much hissing and growling. Toby lets Ginger kitty tackle him with nought but a squawk and will retreat to the top o’ the tree but he will not put up with Homer and will kick his ass.
Anne Laurie
@satby: If it happens, commentor Hillary Rettig is in Battle Creek now, IIRC…
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodinger’s cat:
Oh noez, I did not mean to overlook Schrodinger’s Kitteh!! Where do you live? (Don’t think I ever knew.) if anywhere in the Mitten (Mitteh) part of the state, I expect I could do a meet-up. And would love to.
Raven
@efgoldman: I’m in a Calcutta and it has a10k pot. It pays 5% on the biggest 1st round blowout and I bought American. They lost by 40 so I have to hope things go my way in these last few games.
SiubhanDuinne
@Anne Laurie:
I think I had made a mental note that she is in BC or K’zoo. (They are only a few miles apart.)
Raven
Anyone want to meet up outside of Clemson’s arena Sunday morning before the Illini game?
Raven
Dupe
Schlemizel
@efgoldman: Daughter had Dayton, North Dakota State and Harvard but not Mercer so she is out – OTOH she is killing in the local pool which she won last year & made about $500 – its a very large group
satby
@Anne Laurie: I’m a bit south, nearer to Three Oaks, but I remembered reading a couple of comments during the winter about weather around here. K’zoo is about an hour away, but it’s a college town so good places for a meet up.
jeffreyw
Moar, moar kitteh.
schrodinger's cat
@SiubhanDuinne: Is in the boonies of Mitteh’s state, closer Albany, NY than to Boston.
Gravenstone
@Howard Beale IV: Yes. Headline at Yahoo News just now was about the last three unblemished brackets falling.
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw: We need a live-action cam.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@efgoldman: Wow. Bummer.
Raven
@Gravenstone: how do you think he got to be a man like that?
NotMax
@schrodinger’s cat – @jeffreyw
Quokka.
jeffreyw
@schrodinger’s cat: Watchful waiting.
Pogonip
Those aren’t gobbling sounds, they’re nom-nom-nom sounds!
JPL
@efgoldman: Did you ever see the TV show Brotherhood? I saw the article in the NYTimes and flashed back about that film.
Howard Beale IV
@efgoldman: Funny thing you mentioned that-something similar happened in Minnesota.
jeffreyw
Is it safe?
OK, then.
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw: Poor Homer, he looks shaken!
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodinger’s cat:
Oh, you are in MA not MI. Great, I will be there this summer sometime. Are you anywhere in the vicinity of Great Barrington?
aangus
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edit: mandatory cat pic.
schrodinger's cat
@SiubhanDuinne: Not really, it over an hour away. Closer to Greenfield.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: Ok, how do we plan one of these then? I can make a reservation somewhere when you have your plans set. One of my emails is sbarrt at hotmail.com, so let’s chat when your itinerary is set.
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
@schrodinger’s cat:
I have friends in West Stockbridge, is that anywhere near you?
satby
@schrodinger’s cat: rats, was hoping you were in Michigissippi too.
SiubhanDuinne
@satby:
Thanks so much. Hope to have dates set in the next week or so, and will email you with details.
schrodinger's cat
@SiubhanDuinne: About an hour away, is my guess.
satby
And there was someone who lived around South Bend or so, anyone remember who? That’s not that bad a drive to K’zoo either. But then I drive rescue transports, so my idea of a not bad drive may be different from other people.
CaseyL
After many years ignoring the 6-foot tall kitty tree (which they once practically lived in and on), my two have rediscovered it. Maybe moving it from the staircase to the sliding glass door helped. Oscar has taken to sleeping in the round tunnel thingie at the top, and Jeannie likes to perch on top of the round tunnel thingie and survey her realm. (She also likes to go up there and whack at Oscar when he emerges from slumber.)
In other news, I have discovered the apotheosis of popcorn. A specialty shop in Ballard called KuKuRuZa sells popcorn of many flavors, and Oh. My. FSM, the flavors. Their yellow cheddar flavor is drenched in real cheese; it’s like mac-and-cheese with popcorn instead of pasta. Their cinnamon is covered in cinnamon syrup and tastes like a Cinnabon.
It’s so rich you can’t eat more than a couple handfuls at a time, though I have made heroic efforts to do so. I think I’ve gained a couple pounds just in the last two days from the stuff…
Can’t wait to take some with me to social events and see the reaction. Seriously, this is amazing popcorn.
currants
Probably dead thread, but just in case: Guessing some of you might be interested in supporting the Animal Rescue League of Boston team running the Boston Marathon this year: http://www.crowdrise.com/arl2014bostonmarathon
A young friend/former colleague is running–she’s from Boston and lived through those long few days (in the Back Bay) last year. As a lifelong animal lover/rescue advocate, she is psyched to have qualified to run on the team, and just as psyched to be able, after the events of last April at the finish line, to run the Boston Marathon to show support for her home town.
PaulW
I will see you at MegaCon.
I will take pictures.
scuffletuffle
@SiubhanDuinne: Will you be going to any Tanglewood concerts while you are here in Western MA?
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
I’m sorry, but I must stick with my considered opinion that the cutest animal on earth is, in fact, the pudu.
I wanted to bring one home from the zoo, but my husband has this weird idea that it’s “illegal” or something to keep an endangered species in your apartment. I don’t know what he’s talking about.
hamletta
Dudes! I’m watching The Loved One on TCM. It is demented.
NotMax
@hamletta
Incredible cast, but ultimately the movie weaves around its target and never quite hits it. Still and all, a noble effort and worth viewing as a curiosity.
Steeplejack
@JPL:
And you know they’re all loons who did their picks with a Ouija board or their parakeet pecking seeds off a newspaper bracket chart.