From commentor MomSense:
Since John is depriving us of our puppy photos, I thought juicers would appreciate some Korra pics.
She loves to play in the snow and to take long walks through the neighborhood.
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Apart from that too-brief moment of zen, what’s on the agenda as we start another week?
raven
Arf!
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Woof!
OzarkHillbilly
Too cute.
I can’t decide if I am doing my usual morning read of the Guardian, or if the Onion has hacked them.
#1: Our robot overlords have begun the battle for world dominion: South Korean woman’s hair eaten by robot vacuum cleaner as she slept
#2: There is a deeper meaning here, I’m just not sure what: American Sniper loses to SpongeBob SquarePants
Hope you survive the latest big dump, Anne.
ThresherK
Really enjoying the “failed innocent face” of puppeh curled up on blanket.
BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Apparently, the RWNJ’s are all a Twitter over a Russian “mini Nuke” set off in Ukraine.
Mustang Bobby
“Baroo?”
Against my better judgment, I took the antique Pontiac wagon to Jiffy Lube for an oil change on Saturday. Driving home later that afternoon, I made a hard right turn onto my street and the oil pressure warning light came on. I immediately checked under the car to see if it was gushing oil. No runs, no drips, no errors, and nothing on the garage floor that night or the next morning. I went back to the store first thing Sunday, and they were very nice about checking it out. Twenty minutes later they allowed that yes, they hadn’t filled up the oil as they should, but that I also had a “leak in the lower pan.” Um, no; the evidence would suggest otherwise, including a bill from my mechanic two months ago for testing the car for leaks and getting a clean report after replacing the intake manifold gaskets.
Lesson for Jiffy Lube: Fess up when you mess up. Lesson for me: stay the hell away from Jiffy Lube.
Baud
Good looking puppy.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mustang Bobby:
Heh. Considering the fact that there is no “upper pan”, yeah, stay away from Jiffy Lube.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: The swines. One benefit of having the street in front of the house repaved (maybe not today because of the rain potential) is that it will do away with the big stain from when I dumped a gallon of 10W30 on it when I forgot to put the drain plug back in when I was changing the oil in the van.
Mustang Bobby
@raven:
My mechanic calls that “doing a petroleum flush.”
raven
@Mustang Bobby: If I had used quarts instead of the gallon jug I would have been better off!
raven
Kerry “We’ve attacked their command and control interrupting their command. . . .and control”. Fucking officers.
Schlemazel
@Mustang Bobby:
We have had good luck with the one near us but they are staffed with an ever-changing array of high school kids & what I would guess to be drop outs. Making minimum wage too I would think. Most of them are well-intentioned and honest but not all of them. Hope there was no damage done.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: “Thank you for calling the Department of Redundancy Department. How may we help and assist you?”
raven
@Schlemazel: DROP OUTS! Holy fucking shit. Take em out back and put them out of their misery. Fucking drop outs can’t change no fucking oil! I guess that’s why I forgot to put the drain plug in.
Mustang Bobby
@Schlemazel: No discernible damage, but I have decided I won’t let anyone work on my antique car who is younger than it is. In this case, born after 1988.
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: That’s why he’s SecState, not SecDef.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: 88 being an antique is some scary shit.
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: Hey, he was smart enough to take his movie camera on a op on the Bassac river!
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: If ’88 is an antique, I hate to think what that makes me.
Baud
@raven:
Heh.
raven
I’m sorry girls and boys but saying you were in a chopper that took fire when it didn’t is bullshit. That is all.
BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: An ’88 is a new car, my ride’s an ’86.
raven
@BillinGlendaleCA: I love seeing early-mid 60’s chevy trucks in movies.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: It is an antique according to the rules of the Antique Automobile Club of America: twenty-five years or older. So yes, a 1988 Pontiac 6000 LE Safari wagon is an antique. So is a first-year Mazda Miata.
Hell, OzarkHillbilly, my mustache is over forty.
Baud
@raven:
Joe is talking about Brian?
raven
@Mustang Bobby: I know.
raven
@Baud: Yea and they showed footage of Brian on Letterman and it was no “mistake”.
Mustang Bobby
@Baud: Have they brought up “the fog of war” yet?
raven
@Mustang Bobby: Joe and Mika are pretty straight up about being close friends with him.
raven
Off to do my jury duty!
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Uphold, the Truff, the Jusdise, and the ‘Merkin way.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: In light of your recent fishing adventure, be sure to swear (or affirm) “to tell the trout, the whole trout, and nothing but the trout, so help you Cod.” (Seen on a t-shirt in a tackle shop.)
satby
MomSense, what an adorable little girl Korra is! Thanks for these pictures, just the antidote for a not so great weekend.
Biggie’s bonded companion Maggie has been ill, and now is refusing food and water. She’s done that off and on over the last week and then started eating and drinking again, but she’s letting me know she’s tired of living and the vet’s first round of meds didn’t improve things, so back to the vet we will go. I’m not optimistic though.
OzarkHillbilly
@Mustang Bobby: Damn, that is a depressing thought. I first grew my beard 26 years ago during a week long stint in the hospital. Even my facial hair is antique.
Schlemazel
@raven:
Not my point at all. Its that they are guys with fewer options than most and often not exactly highly motivated. It was more of an “in spite of” because so many times guys without a lot of options are those that care the very least.
MomSense
@satby:
Oh no! I’m so sorry to hear about Maggie. Sending hugs to you.
JPL
MomSense, Korra is a beauty and you are lucky that she enjoys the snow so much. Imagine if she didn’t.
JPL
@raven: How fun!
Iowa Old Lady
Cute puppy!
@satby: I’m sorry to hear about Maggie. It sounds like it might be time.
Mr IOL is theoretically in CA and enjoying warmth, although the last I heard he was stuck in the Dallas airport. Still I can’t complain about our weather. At least we’re not buried in snow.
gogol's wife
Looks like about 8 inches, and the plow guy hasn’t been to do the driveway yet and isn’t answering his phone. Still snowing.
satby
@Iowa Old Lady: yes, it is looking like that, and I would never have expected it this soon. She’s only 10 and seemed perfectly healthy even after Biggie was gone. She came in with the other dogs fine, but started going downhill a month ago. She’s been on meds for 3 weeks that the vet wanted to try first.
It’s always been a risk taking in older and sick rescues, but 3 just about 4 months has me reeling a bit.
Baud
@Mustang Bobby:
I don’t watch that shit. I rely on Raven to provide a window into that world.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Wimp.
Baud
@satby:
You are a saint.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I haven’t been able to watch Morning Joe ever since the sofa I used to sit in while watching was fired upon.
NotMax
@Mustang Bobby
Have heard many a horror tale involving those quick change places.
Not about those establishments, but there was one time many moons ago (either a ’65 or a ’67 Chevy wagon, can’;t recall which) that the pump jockey at a service station could not figure out why no matter how much oil was being added, the dipstick came up bone dry.
Turned out (once had nursed it the final 5 miles or so to my destination) that the sleeve the dipstick slides into had worked loose from the reservoir and the end of the dipstick was hanging in empty air.
Had to jack that sucker up, get the sleeve back into position, drain all the oil out and re-pour in the proper amount.
Elizabelle
Korra’s a darling. Can’t decide which pic is my favorite. They’re all good. Love the last, with the firmly planted little puppy feet.
Still think of her as “Crash.”
OldDave
@Mustang Bobby:
Translated: “We also forgot to tighten the drain plug.”
danielx
It was 56 degrees yesterday, as of this morning it’s 31 and the low tonight will be 19. The break was good even if only for a couple of days, but I’m longing for spring at this point.
Hopefully, or maybe not so hopefully, today will be the day a mold remediation guy shows up to test the black stains I discovered inside a wall at customer’s home. The upside (for the customer) is that the mold question will be resolved, the downside (for me) is that the mold guy might say quit working and get out of the house now, in which case the job won’t get finished and I won’t get paid. Why people don’t do the minimum maintenance…for lack of a few gallons of paint and a few tubes of caulk, the house is trashed. And this in a reasonably nice neighborhood in a reasonably nice subdivision.
satby
@Baud: Thanks, but I keep thinking I must have been REALLY bad in a previous life… so no, not really a saint. A wee more patience occasionally is all I can claim.
Elizabelle
@satby: Sorry to hear that Maggie is ailing. Best to you and the rescue family.
Gin & Tonic
@BillinGlendaleCA: That’s funny. Here is the photo of sunrise from the ISS that the Alex Jones crowd is calling a nuclear explosion in Donetsk.
Buddy H
@Mustang Bobby: Jiffy Lube: I learned my lesson many years ago. They put the wrong size oil filter in my car. I had them replace windshield wipers. That very night, coming home from work in the worst rainstorm of the season, my driver side wiper flew off my car. I drove home the rest of the way with my window down, looking out of the car like a dog.
A few years ago I was job hunting, checking the local want ads. I saw they were hiring. “No automotive experience necessary.” That told me all I needed to know.
Buddy H
Speaking of pups, what’s wrong with the Downton Abbey dog? Did Thomas give her one of his pills??? She just lays there.
And I’m worried.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic: LOL, Well they were right about nuclear explosion, just not in Ukraine, or even on Earth.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Reddit is talking about a big chemical plant explosion in Ukraine, which might have been the original source of the rumor.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
These clowns need to get called out as quickly and thoroughly as Brian Williams was.
Raven
@Schlemazel: Got it
debbie
MomSense: That’s a face worth a billion hugs!
My brother got two Great Pyrenees earlier this year. I visited them yesterday. At 12 weeks they’re about as tall as my knees. I hope to stay on their good side.
PurpleGirl
Oh, she is adorable, MomSense. May she long be a member of your family and spread joy and love.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: I’ve seen nothing on Ukrainian TV about that, but I have seen reports of an explosion at a separatists’ equipment/ammo storage facility in Donetsk. Facts are, of course, unclear.
Southern Beale
This is ominous: Samsung’s Smart TVs Share Living Room Conversations With Third Parties
Tenar Darell
@MomSense: OMG Puppeh dawww… Korra is seriously cute.
@satby: I’m so sorry to hear about Maggie.
Got roused early by neighbor to pull out car for plow guy. Got stuck at end of driveway for a bit. Was wiping snow off my car windows with my coat sleeves while cars driving by me because I was barely awake and forgot my snow brush. After I got back in my driveway, cleaned off the warm car, shoveled around it a bit and around the stairs. All this happened before I had my coffee!
Oh, and there are some giant killer icicles hanging off the eaves. Looks like they’re hanging about 2-3 feet in front of my car and two stories up, so hopefully I managed to park out of the line of fire.
JPL
@Gin & Tonic: Chipper Jones is retweeting the Jones theory as I type. Actually, his agent probably told him that he had to have his tweets approved.
Tenar Darell
Oops, sorry for dupe. Word press fail. I think this calls for a FYWP! There, I feel better.
ThresherK
@Mustang Bobby: Isn’t “ancient Pontiac wagon” redundant. Or “ancient Pontiac” almost so?
I took a fairly new ’88 into on in ’89, and it came out with a much more audible engine note (the kind of thing the stroke books fetishize about when they complain a car “doesn’t sound as powerful as it is”), to discover they mis-reinstalled my air cleaner cover. It was the old “trash can” style with four clips around the circle and a wingnut on top, and they managed to put two of the clips under the “trash can lid”.
And this was for the free “air filter inspection”.
After that the only time I went in was when I bodged up the plug surface and gladly paid them to do an oil change and sell me a new drain plug.
Scamp Dog
@Gin & Tonic: My god, I saw a nuke going off as I walked my dog not a half hour ago!
Bystander
What beats snow on a smudgy puppy muzzle in the Thunderdome of Cute?
Josie
What a lovely puppy! I’m so glad you have her. They are trouble, but so worth it.
Ukko
My 6 year old Newfie was reccomended for a total ear canal ablation (TECA) operation. I am a bit uncertain of it, it feels so extream to take his ears out. Has anyone done this? Any advice?
Amir Khalid
That puppeh face on Korra … I’m sorely tempted to give it a big smooch, right on the nose.
@satby:
So sorry to hear about Maggie. If it’s her time, I hope she has an easy passing.
Tenar Darell
@Ukko: I know nothing, but Angell Memorial may be able to suggest more resources. All they have online is this bit on ear diseases. Are you in Boston or even Massachusetts?
Kristine
@satby: Best of thoughts for Maggie and for you. You’re giving dogs that otherwise would never find one a loving home. That’s special, special work.
TaMara (BHF)
@satby: One of the reasons I waited so long to get another dog is because my three rescue Danes left me so close together. Two of them just two weeks apart. It does leave you reeling. So you have big hugs me and Bixby.
TaMara (BHF)
@MomSense: Thank you for the great start to my Monday. Puppy Love!
Violet
MomSense, Korra is absolutely adorable. Those are some great pictures. Love the romping in the snow! So cute!
Pogonip
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m a ’59. I guess that makes me an artifact.
Ukko
@Tenar Darell: I’m out in Minnesota so a commute to Boston might be a bit rough.
He has had ear problems his whole life that we have been managing with mixed success. This past December I noticed what looked like a tumor blocking off his ear canal, but it is shrinking with prednazone. But that is only temporary. There are other things we can do like identifying the underlying cause which is likely allergies and treat those. But that will take years and we will still have to manage this.
If you want nightmares try to google “TECA dogs” and look at some of the before pictures. We are not there yet but the vet said we are getting close.
I was just wondering what it would be like to go through this…
rikyrah
this pics are adorable :)
Ruckus
@OzarkHillbilly:
Better to be an antique rather than a used up old relic.
Ruckus
@satby:
Sorry about Maggie.
A wee more patience occasionally is all I can claim.
From what I’ve seen from most humans, that’s pretty saintly.
burnspbesq
At least in Jefferson County (Birmingham), the local probate judge has flipped Roy Moore the bird and started issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples after the Supremes denied a stay of the District Court decision pending appeal.
Roll Fabulously, Tide.
Tenar Darell
@Ukko: If you’re still checking this…I was thinking…..
A local major vet hospital, maybe these guys near the Veterinary University, could possibly have either a support group or at least be able provide pointers to more information about the procedure. I’m guessing you’re not looking for the clinical info, but personal experience info. Also, perhaps they have listservs? (I didn’t noodle around that much on this site).
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
ZOMG I am faint from the cuteness of that puppeh.
Elizabelle
These puppy pics are so cute, I bookmarked them all. Every one. Thanks to Anne Laurie for naming them so descriptively.
daddyj
Aptly named! Definitely a born waterbender.
Tree With Water
Top Photo: “Why don’t we go back inside where it’s dry and warm”?
Second Photo: “You don’t want to go out again, do you”?
I once saw a group of kids that had never seen snow before go crazy, too. Great pictures.
varmintito
Oh my Dog, that is one cute puppeh.
LanceThruster
Positively pup-tastic!
yodecat
@OzarkHillbilly: Heh. Your beard’s not an automobile. I’m sure you’d have noticed.
yodecat
@danielx: Daniel, I don’t know you or your situation in life but I’ll make a suggestion anyhow. Think about moving to somewhere on the Left Coast. We moved from Dallas eight years ago and haven’t regretted it more than two years (the first two).