So things went pretty well today, I think. Devon came down and we started by giving Lovey and Thurston and Ginger baths, then we had a family photo:
Got Lovey and Thurston loaded in the car, and stopped at the General Store to pick up some beverages for the ride. Lovey (the smart one of the two), was excited and raring to go:
We stopped by the farm to see Harry and Chatman and the gang, and everyone was there (except Holly, who is in NYC for yet another minor surgery, the poor dear) for a farm clean-up day. They have one every year, where all their friends come and chip in and help clean up the brush and get everything pretty, and then they have a bonfire and a regular old hootenanny with live music and what not. This year is an important clean-up, because their Bed and Breakfast is opening in a few weeks (Barn With Inn– check it out). If any of you ever stay there, make sure you shoot me an email, and I will make sure that Lily, Rosie, and Thurston stop by for a quick cameo.
Took about 15 miles of winding roads to get to the interstate, and about 3 miles in to the ride we learned that car riding is not in Thurston’s skill set. Devon screamed “He’s going to puke” and then held him up pointing at me as if I didn’t believe her and I reacted like anyone would when someone is pointing a projectile vomit gun at them “AIM HIM AT THE FUCKING FLOOR MAT ASSHOLE.” Pulled over, let him finish, got driving again. He then salivated so much that Devon was completely soaked, and threw up four more times over the next 35 minutes. We had to stop and get wet naps and paper towels beforewe got to Geg6’s pad.
Like I said, Lovey is the trooper of the duo, and our heroine knew something was wrong with her big brother, and tried to console him:
They got a little dandruffy from the shampoo, which is organic but I guess still a little tough on the wee ones. got to Geg’s. went in and met Koda (who is a big ole sweet and calm lab, and I stayed for a while and chatted, but Lovey kept comingoverto my lap, so I went outside to the car to let Lovey acclimate to her new mom and dad and sister, while my sister did the adoption contract stuff. Tried to leave Thurston inside for that, but he followed me to the door and started crying so much that Devon had to bring him out to me.
They wrapped up, Lovey and mom came to the door to wave goodbye, and this happened soon after we left because GeG texted it to me within five minutes.
Dropped Devon off, picked up some Thai food, and drove home. I put Thurston in the crate for the ride home, and somehow he still had something in his stomach and puked 3-4 times more on the way home, so I had tobringthe carrier to the sink and just dump him in it and hose him off. He’s such a hot mess of a wimp. About a month or so or more when GeG said she was interested, she wanted the one who would do better with another dog, and I didn’t hesitate. Lovey is independent, smart, curious, speaks with her eyes, and she has really developed into a sweet little dog. I think it won’t be long before GeG is sending us pictures of the two spooning.
At any rate, I’ll let GeG send me some more picture, but I will be calling again tonight at around 9 and again sometime tomorrow. I think I am the one with the separation anxiety now.
I haven’t rattled the tin cup in a while, but if you would like to chip in to help defray the costs of the rescues and medical care of some of the dogs my sister and her group rescue, feel free to hit the tip jar and I will forward it to them.
Elizabelle
LOL re Thurston the Subaruriding and puking pup. Hope he will outgrow that. Glad to hear everything’s gone as well as anything goes for Mr. JGC.
BGinCHI
I want to go to the bonfire hootenanny! Been working hard on revisions of the next book and need to get outside and work with my hands. If it were a few hours drive I would have been there.
Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
Um, I think there’s a typo in the sentence about Holly.
Wonderful pics, and best to Lovey and her new family. Hope Thurston’s feeling better.
muddy
I had a dog who always puked in the car as a small puppy. I let him ride on my lap and it was better. I thought maybe in his crate or on the seat there is more motion to make sickness? When he was a 90# dog he used still to try and get over there, as though he were yet little.
Suzanne
Lovey is such a dolly. Best wishes to the family.
Keith P.
Sent a little cash…I’ve got a couple of Balloon-Juice cats (Flash and Mandalay) sitting outside on the deck right now. I was fortunate enough to have the daughter of the previous owner pay the full shipping and vet fees ($400 just for shipping) since I was short on funds at the time, and even though I’m between jobs right now, I still feel like sending something for the cause.
I like the idea of Lovey having another dog to go to, particularly an older one it can look up to. It will make the transition easier, although it always kills me to separate littermates.
Violet
What a wonderful story and wonderful pictures! Poor Thurston having that motion sickness. And isn’t Lovey the fantastic sister, taking care of him like that. Awww….. That last picture looks great–everyone looks so at home already. Congrats to everyone on such a great job with a fantastic outcome!
Edit: For those that missed it in the earlier thread–pictures from the puppies’ first day at Cole’s: https://balloon-juice.com/2015/01/18/good-things-come-in-small-packages/
Poopyman
Dropped some coin in the jar, but mostly because you write the best dog barf scenes I’ve read in a long while.
And I hope you fed TH extra goodies to make up for the stuff you shook out of him this afternoon.
Pogonip
Why’d you take Thurston along?
WaterGirl
@Pogonip: Hopefully Cole will answer, but I thought it was a great idea for them have brought Thurston along. Now he doesn’t have to worry because Lovey just suddenly disappeared one day and never came back.
karen marie
I had a dog who got car sick when he was young. He outgrew it. I found that if he pooped before getting in the car, he felt less queasy. Congratulations, John, for keeping Thurston. He is going to continue to bring you joy and excitement. You can look forward to his baby teeth coming out and the teething that goes with that. And then when he gets to six months old and discovers he’s autonomous, you will have a battle of the wills, at least to some degree. Rewards for obeying are much more important than yelling at bad behavior. Distraction is also your best friend during that horrible six-month-old period. Thurston’s doing something you don’t want? Without yelling or even saying anything at all, simply relocate him and give him a chewie or a toy. They learn fast but you want him to learn your rules, not how to jerk your rope. I taught James “take a rest” (he had to lay on his side, with his head fully on the ground) originally as a parlor trick, when he was learning, sit, down, wait and off. Later, when he was older, if he was misbehaving, I would tell him “take a rest” and make him stay there for 30 seconds or a minute to remind him who’s boss, then let him up for a cookie so he would be rewarded for obeying. He was the best dog that ever lived.
Svensker
@Poopyman:
What the P-man said. :)
Pogonip
@karen marie: Words to live by! They’re like babies. Don’t argue, change the subject and move on. I’ve seen major drama with people trying to get the keys or whatever away from the baby, not realizing that if you just give him an egg beater he’ll forget all about the keys, at least until he’s 2. Dogs never get to the terrible twos.
Pogonip
@Svensker: Come for the politics, stay for the dog barf!
rikyrah
the pictures are so sweet.
Pogonip
@karen marie: Teething is horrible, babies or puppies.
JordanRules
Ginger!!!
Love all the pics and stories from the day.
Poopyman
@Pogonip: Come for the dog barf, endure the politics!
Pogonip
Cole, please post the results of your 2100 call to geg6. Thanks! Goodnight!
MelissaM
Too cute and sweet! I think I need a filling for that cavity now. I look forward to reading about Ginger’s transfer to whatever happy home she gets (and she’ll get one.)
scav
Congrats to all on the Puppydom. Looks like they sorted to their proper homes as well.
Mary G
Bravo for the great post and pictures. The one of Lovey hugging Thurston is too cute for words. Thanks also to geg6 and her family for letting us be in on the story.
Mobile RoonieRoo
I love the pictures! You and GeG might be in for some crying the next couple of days as they might miss each other but I know you both can handle it.
schrodinger's cat
@Mary G: Agreed! That picture is too sweet for words even for an ornery kitteh like me.
gbear
I made a major purchase ($250 is major for me) on Amazon last week and remembered to come to BJ and click on your Amazon link. Do you see more that fractions of a penny for that?
raven
30+ years ago I used to fly to Pittsburg and take the “Wheeling Limo” (a big crappy cab with a steel plate welded on the bottom to protect it from the potholes on that intertstate) to Oglebay Park. Nuff to make a lot of people hurl.
Elizabelle
I like the top pic of Lovey snuggling close to Rosie.
I think the senior dogs are going to secretly miss the puppy.
And wait until Thurston turns his attention to them!
PurpleGirl
Great pictures. Thanks for continuing the story of how the day went. I think everyone will sort out and settle down. And everyone will be happy and content.
Gex
How’s Thurston doing without Lovey? I realize almost all our dogs get separated from their littermates. Apparently I’m mildly traumatized by this.
raven
Jon Hamm, Paul Rudd, Sarah Silverman and a bunch of other celebs have been in town for a wedding all weekend and people are freaking out on the book of faces. It’s pretty funny since ignoring REM is a community sport.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodinger’s cat:
I have the loveliest Kitteh Lullaby to share with you! Background: I follow the contemporary choral composer Eric Whitacre on FB and he posted this the other day. Everyone in his comments is urging him to set this to music.
I don’t know who Julie Malcolm is, but she clearly loves and understands Kittehs, and is fluent in LOLCat.
raven
@efgoldman: that was weird
phoebes-in-santa fe
I kicked $250 your way for all the good work you and Devon have done. But, Cole, WHERE’S THE CAT?
raven
@efgoldman: Tough call.
ooh, those replays are brutal
schrodinger's cat
@phoebes-in-santa fe: The attention starved cat has taken to posting rude comments on the blog.
ETA: Check the last thread, for example.
raven
Well, at least he didn’t touch that one.
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: Me too.
schrodinger's cat
@raven: Took your suggestion and deleted the direct link.
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: Thanks, it would be nice if folks would follow your lead and let him die on the vine.
Mnemosyne
Good news: Interweave Knits is having a huge online sale so I can download all of their back issues from 2013 and 2014 for $9 (as opposed to paying $7.99 per hard copy issue).
Bad news: The damn site keeps going down every 20 minutes or so — WTH?
Pogonip
Well, I didn’t make it to bed because I was finalizing my list. What list? Well, I am spending too much time on the Intertubes–yes! That is possible!– and so will be cutting back sharply for the rest of the spring. I was listing the few sites I’d view daily. Balloon Juice is one of them–my condolences, Cole. However I will only be reading the pet blogging and entries about some sort of emergency, so Cole will MOSTLY have a vacation from Pogonipical pontification. I hope he enjoys it. I mention it to the rest of you because I’ve noticed when someone abruptly stops commenting, kind-hearted Juicers occasionally worry that the party has died.
Cole, enjoy the next six weeks, and unless I do die it’s my plan to resume pupdate pestering on 1 June.
Violet
@Pogonip: Enjoy your vacation but we’ll miss you. I’ll look for you on the pet threads.
@JordanRules: It was so nice to see Ginger again. I wish John would give us an update on how she’s doing. Is her diabetes under better control? Does she have a potential forever home?
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: Maybe there are more deal-crazed knitting readers than people expected.
@Pogonip: The private club in C’bus that you mentioned wandering about as though it was a museum awhile ago, was it the Athletic Club or the Athenaeum?
schrodinger's cat
@Pogonip: I will miss your comments, come back soon!
DesertFriar
@raven:
Oh I don’t know, I don’t mind!
Pogonip
@Omnes Omnibus: The sign was in what might have been Greek; must have been the Athaneum. Was I lucky not to have been killed and buried in the back yard?
Elizabelle
I’m so glad the Gilligan’s Island puppies live close enough they can do reunions from time to time.
sharl
Thanks for these sweet and excellent photos JGC, along with the accompanying narrative.
Best wishes for easy adjustments for all involved. Looking forward to updates!
Pogonip
And NOW–goodnight! In 6 weeks I will be able to report on the rumors that there is some sort of life outside the ‘Tubes.
Elizabelle
@Pogonip: It’s a good idea — the internet is a giant timesuck — but will miss you. Will look for you on the pet threads.
Elizabelle
@Pogonip: I keep wanting to spend less time on the intertubes and redevelop my skill at reading novels and well-written nonfiction. Used to be really good at them — now I have so little power of concentration. Aargh. And so much good stuff out there I’ve never gotten to, never mind current lit.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I hate knitting, crocheting and sewing. I had to learn how to do those things in school. It was compulsory.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Hey, still riding the C-Dale Quick?
Omnes Omnibus
@Pogonip: On 4th St. just north of Broad or on Broad just east of 4th? Given the Greek signage, probably the Athenaeum. I’ve been to wedding and other events at each. Since the University Club closed in the late 90’s, I had little interest in joining any of the C’bus clubs.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Haven’t gotten it you yet this year, but yes. I just got a new front tire and tube, but haven’t put them on yet. It is my plan for tomorrow morning.
ETA: What for you ask?
Violet
@Elizabelle: Do you think Thurston and Lovey will remember each other?
schrodinger's cat
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks for sharing the lollaby.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Just picked up a new bike for the boy today and he is over the moon about it.
So I expect a bit more of (suburban street/parks) riding in my immediate future. I have the Haro mountain bike and a super-duper old school Alpine 10-speed I used when I would park in the farthest parking lot in college and ride it in to campus for class.
So debating on new rims and wheels for the Alpine (?), and/or getting something I can invest in for a bit.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: I can sew on buttons properly and I can iron like a champ (the army was good for something other than letting me jump out of planes and ski in the Alps).
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: I like the bike. I think it is good if you are just getting back into cycling like I was. I think that after this cycling season, I may look at getting a serious road bike and then getting folding baskets, etc., for the Quick to make it an around town errand running thing.
ETA: The Quick 5 was about $600 when I bought it.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I can do both those things reasonably well, as well as minor clothing repairs that involve hemming and tacking. I usually find pants more difficult to iron than other stuff.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: I’ll note that I almost never iron. Brooks Brothers no-iron cotton shirts are awesome.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Knitters in general seem to be more deal-crazed than most people expect. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, a Canadian knitting writer, has documented many a conversation she’s had with Customs folks who found it hard to believe that all of the yarn in her suitcase after a trip to a US fiber festival really was for personal use. Some of them seemed to suspect her of yarn smuggling but couldn’t figure out why anyone would bother.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
The nice thing about Providence winning is that It means that Minnesota is the only school to make both the men’s and the women’s tournament and to win one of them. The Providence women’s team was a complete train wreck this year. That pretty much describes all of the women’s Hockey East, for that matter except BC and maybe BU.
rikyrah
A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
APRIL 11, 2015
It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama’s presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive.
Republican lawmakers in Washington and around the country have been focused on blocking Mr. Obama’s agenda and denigrating him personally since the day he took office in 2009. But even against that backdrop, and even by the dismal standards of political discourse today, the tone of the current attacks is disturbing. So is their evident intent — to undermine not just Mr. Obama’s policies, but his very legitimacy as president.
It is a line of attack that echoes Republicans’ earlier questioning of Mr. Obama’s American citizenship. Those attacks were blatantly racist in their message — reminding people that Mr. Obama was black, suggesting he was African, and planting the equally false idea that he was secretly Muslim. The current offensive is slightly more subtle, but it is impossible to dismiss the notion that race plays a role in it.
Perhaps the most outrageous example of the attack on the president’s legitimacy was a letter signed by 47 Republican senators to the leadership of Iran saying Mr. Obama had no authority to conclude negotiations over Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Try to imagine the outrage from Republicans if a similar group of Democrats had written to the Kremlin in 1986 telling Mikhail Gorbachev that President Ronald Reagan did not have the authority to negotiate a nuclear arms deal at the Reykjavik summit meeting that winter.
There is no functional difference between that example and the Iran talks, except that the congressional Republican caucus does not like Mr. Obama and wants to deny him any policy victory.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/opinion/sunday/a-new-phase-in-anti-obama-attacks.html?ad-keywords=socialopinion&smid=tw-nytopinion&_r=0
Elizabelle
@Violet: I hope so. I think they’ll smell like each other. Will be fascinating to see the reunion reporting.
We should have a betting pool on how big the puppies get. I’m guessing they’re most of the way there already. Think they’re going to be smallish, very dear dogs, and at most the size of Lily and Rosie.
Corner Stone
I just explained to my son what a Polaroid camera is/was.
Holy crap.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@schrodinger’s cat: You jump out of planes?
Mnemosyne
@schrodinger’s cat:
Did everyone have to learn them, or just the girls? From what I’ve been told, in Canada boys and girls were both taught knitting (at least as of 30 or so years ago), apparently to give them something to do so the long Canadian winters didn’t drive them insane.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: You should try it.
Corner Stone
@Elizabelle:
Um, no. They are going to be paws on your shoulders huge.
SiubhanDuinne
@Pogonip: Have a great time and don’t forget us!
Karen in GA
This needs a Ralph Steadman illustration.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Omnes Omnibus: If I have the money hanging around I would like to try it some day.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: I had to take Home Ec in 7th grade. Sewing and cooking. I recall a sad pillow case and a pathetic attempt at making potato chips (oil not hot enough and too much salt).
Elizabelle
@Corner Stone: That would be a TaMara thread.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: My personal view is that if you someone mentions it and it sounds good, you should do it if you have the chance. If your reaction is “Why would you do that?”, then don’t bother; you won’t like it. Some people say that the the best part is floating down and watching the world from a quiet height, but I think it is the moment of actually jumping – leaving a perfectly good airplane and starting to fall but then I am a bit nuts.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Shop was 8th grade. I made a wrought iron candle holder.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I sucked at sewing, but I turned out to be a really good cook. The teacher was impressed that my pot roast was so tender it was falling apart, because she bought the cheapest (and toughest) cuts of meat for class. No knitting or crochet, though — I don’t know why. We did learn rug hooking, but it didn’t stick.
Violet
@Corner Stone: Polaroid cameras are trendy. They’re being sold at places like Urban Outfitters.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: One of my grandfather’s was a master tool and die maker and the other was a qualified blacksmith and welder. I learned bits of metalcraft as a boy.
@Mnemosyne: I am a rather good stove top cook. The only thing I do well in the oven is shepherd’s pie (and that got a lot better after I read Keef’s autobio).
kc
Aw, what cuties! Especially love the pic of Lovey hugging on Thurston.
Violet
@efgoldman: @Omnes Omnibus: Do they even teach shop class anymore? Seems like it would be practical so that probably means it’s not allowed. Same with Home Ec.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Violet: I still have my SX-70.
Omnes Omnibus
@Violet: Fuck if I know. I left middle school in 1978.
OTOH, Tech colleges still teach machine shop and welding. My grandfather the tool and die maker would have been comfortable as a medieval guild master. He thought that teaching his craft was so important that he left a job in industry to take a teaching position at 1/3 the pay. Master craftsmen teach apprentices. That was his view. He was rather medieval in many of his other views.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Nah, ‘e was a master craftsman. ‘e didn’t need that shit. He could turn a perfect sphere on a lathe and he did it because he could and no one else could.
Mnemosyne
@Violet:
No idea. Given how often boys injured themselves during class, it may have been eliminated well before the “teach to the test” mania simply on insurance grounds.
Everyone who does a lot of woodworking should have a Saw Stop. We have one at work and it’s pretty amazing. Assuming you do not deliberately disable the safety device, the worst that can happen is that you’ll get a little nick on your finger.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Those views were both good and bad. I won’t say a word against him because he was wonderful to me, but if someone else has arguments against him, I won’t oppose them. I will leave it at that.
MomSense
Been cooking all day for tomorrow’s Easter celebration. I love the pics esoecially Lovey cozy on the couch in her new home.
I feel for you with Thurston. My pup does the same thing. And the drool – frightening quantities of the stuff come out of her little body. The riding on the lap trick did not work for us. When I got to puppy class I had to leave my coat on or they would have thought I was the one who wasn’t potty trained.
Ok off to bed so I can get up early to roast lamb and potatoes and finish off the rest of the meal.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Well, of course. It was a bit rhetorical.
Tenar Darell
@Mnemosyne: I know knitters with like yarn stashes, swear to dog!
seaboogie
John – it looks like you and geg6 made the right choices all around for the pups – and I know that I am projecting A LOT, but maybe Lovey knew she was off on her next big adventure and was so excited for that reason. Also possible that if she intuited this Thurston was sad because he was losing his littermate – he looked a bit glum in the family photo too.
Wonder what Thurston is going to think happens with a car ride going forward for the next bit. Besides being sick, he knows that his sister was left at a new home with great people and a great big wonderful dog….I think he’s pretty attached to you. Maybe good to acclimate him with short trips in town so he gets used to the car and knows that he is coming back home again, with treats afterwards.
Msilaneous
@efgoldman:
Reminds me of the time my daughter arrived home from middle school and told me she was flunking wood.
divF
@efgoldman:
When Madame divF was in HS (late 1960’s), boys who were college bound could get out of taking shop, but home ec was still a requirement for the girls. At least, until Madame pitched a fit saying that she shouldn’t have to take home ec if the boys were allowed to get out of shop. Backed by her parents, she won the battle.
Besides, being the oldest of five spaced over twelve years, there wasn’t much that she would have learned in home ec that she hadn’t already been doing since she was 10 or so.
Exurban Mom
Fixing the dog-who-vomits-in-cars problem can be done with lots of shorter rides in the car. We’ve had two dogs who went through that, and they both grew out of it, but shorter car rides helped with the process. It gets them used to the feeling of being in the car, and it lessens their anxiety if every time they get in the car it ISN’T going to the vet or the kennel.
divF
@divF: Later, when Madame was doing a surgery rotation in medical school, she had to bite her tongue when the surgeons were ponderously explaining how to do surgical stitching to keep from saying, “yes, I know how to sew a blanket stitch – can we move on ?”
Generally speaking, most of the women in her med school class were of an age and social status that they had made a lot of their own clothes during adolescence. They were generally astounded by the sloppy work you could get away with in general surgery (living tissue heals together as long as it is held together long enough with the stitches – cloth doesn’t).
ETA: I dropped some coin in the can. The Ginger-Lovey-Thurston story has been a great saga, and it isn’t over yet. Keep it coming.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
Looking at the top picture again, I wonder if Rosie is going to be sad that Lovey is gone. We still think that Annie thinks we kept the wrong kitten — she got along better with Charlotte’s sister than she ever has with Charlotte. Hopefully Rosie will not think the same about Thurston.
SWMBO
Jumping in here a bit late (we went to the season finale of the Panthers hockey season), we had a dog that was an infinity barf machine in the car. It took one long trip to figure out what helped with him. He had motion sickness from not being able to track rapid movement with his eyes. If you kept him where he couldn’t see things flying past him too fast for his brain to keep his stomach from reversing, he was much better. He also did better with limited water but dry food. And not feeding him the morning you leave. Take him in the car and let him feed on dry food a few kibbles at a time. When he gets older, Thurston Howl may get better at tracking visually and not be as prone to car sickness. Also tranks can help. If the dog still barfs, take one yourself.
Tommy
Totally off topic, but is anybody watching American Crime? Almost intense beyond words. Felicity Huffman is one of the main characters and I love everything she does. But the character she plays is so mean and ill-tempered I want to punch my TV.
Suzanne
@Corner Stone: Did you explain to him that that was how we took naked photos of ourselves before cameraphones?
Tommy
@Suzanne: How about it, the kids have it so easy these days.
Anne Laurie
@Violet: Oh, sure they will! Dogs have better memories for other dogs than you’d think. Our little rescue guys go to a couple of ‘play dates’ with other papillons every summer, and it’s easy to see who are the new dogs, and which dogs remember each other from the year before, even though they only met for a few hours many months earlier.
Of course memories vary from dog to dog — Lovey may remember Thurston better than he does her — but then, I once failed to recognize my own baby sister after not seeing her for a couple years when I was away at college and she’d matured from a kid to a real person.
Tommy
@Anne Laurie: I have always wondered about the memory of my cat. Clearly she knows who I am. I live with her everyday all day. But she is somewhat afraid of other people, like my father. But he is over at least once a month for a few days, but each time it takes her a day or two to realize he is also a cat lover. Like she doesn’t remember him.
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
You should check out James May’s five-part shepherd’s pie video on YouTube.
TrishB
My boy Tramp used to get car sick. He was at least six years old before he grew out of it. One time, he was sitting in the front seat and let loose with a metric ton of deer poop into my purse, which was conveniently located on the floor in front of him. That was not a fun clean up. After that the vet figured out the proper Dramamine dosage for him and car rides got much better.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I have a lot of cotton in my wardrobe, so I am good friends with the iron. The no-iron fabric makes me itchy.
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:I am much more of a scaredy cat than a dare-devil when it comes to acts that require physical courage. So no, never have jumped out of a plane.
@Mnemosyne: I went to an all girls school till grade 10.
SuperHrefna
So good to see Lovey off to her new home where I’m sure she will be pampered and adored. And I’m so glad that Subaru interiors are relatively easy to clean!
Is Ginger very poorly? I’ve been worrying about her poor love, she’s got so many health problems.
SuperHrefna
@Amir Khalid: JM’s unemployment tube! I’m glad Clarkson is facing some consequences, but I am sorry that means I get less James May on my telly. He’s always been my fave Top Gear presenter.
Shana
@raven: Late to the thread, but who got married?
Original Lee
@Mnemosyne: We had a similar adventure many years ago. A bunch of us drove from Rochester, N.Y., to Toronto, specifically for the purpose of visiting The World’s Largest Bookstore and yarn shopping. We were treated to some extra special Customs attention coming back because the trunk was obviously full of heavy things. They had a hard time believing that we had six boxes of books wedged with big bags of yarn instead of drugs and liquor.