For your “stuff that doesn’t suck” early-morning enjoyment, an update from commentor MomSense:
Korra is now six months old. She loves to go for walks in the woods and just started swimming a few weeks ago. One of her favorite things to do is play fetch at the soccer field.
We are looking forward to taking her camping and hiking his summer.
Her ball rolled under the fence.
We didn’t retrieve it quickly enough for her.
Ready to play again!
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Apart from giving thanks for happy dogs & other good companions, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up another week?
PurpleGirl
Awwww, Korra is cute. Have fun playing with her MomSense.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Nice doggie.
Mustang Bobby
Aww-dorable.
Juju
What a beautiful girl!!
ThresherK
Since we are coming into summer (i.e. big panting season), I’m curious if Korra has “big dog” slobber or the little dog stuff, which I find just less goopy.
Baud
She got big.
Baud
And I love the “stop taking my picture and get the damn ball” look.
Dogs are so expressive.
BillinGlendaleCA
@ThresherK: You’ve never seen how much my YorkiePom slobbers.
satby
What a cutie! Pretty girl MomSense!
ThresherK
@BillinGlendaleCA: I’m going by my sister’s Chihuahua-terrier mixes and a King Charles Cavalier. And on the other end, Lab mixes from our family growing up, one of which would actually drool over his food if you made him sit for 10 seconds.
satby
On the agenda for the weekend: pork and sauce already in the crock pot for pulled pork, deciding if I will go fetch a friend who doesn’t drive to come spend a day in the country this weekend; and as always, cutting and packaging soap to get ready for farmers market season. This is the first year I’ve done them and I’m not sure how much I have to have ready. There’s a big one day French Market where I was told to have several hundred items ready. That’s in July, so every weekend till then will be a soapy one.
NotMax
Memorial Day weekend, so a full slate of war films on TCM.
IMHO, the standouts of those in the line-up are:
A Walk in the Sun (4 p.m. ET, Sunday)
Grand Illusion (3 a.m. ET, Monday)
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Good luck. I too am thinking of dabbling a little in the farmers market gig this year.
Mustang Bobby
I found out at 3:00 a.m. this morning that there’s a deadline of midnight tomorrow for submitting one-act plays for this summer’s Miami 1-Act Festival. I guess I’d better get cracking.
I should be able to pull something off. In 2006 I cranked out a ten-pager in forty minutes for a master class with Tina Howe (“Coastal Disturbances”), and it’s been done by three one-act festivals. And I have all day tomorrow to finish this new opus.
Botsplainer
After yesterday’s shitstorm and truly awful employee meeting, I traveled a few hours for the second half of a lesbian separation non-divorce (Kentucky refuses to recognize their Washington marriage but DOES recognize the adoption that my clients former partner did of her child when they lived in Washington). Anyway, my client is engaged to someone in Washington and wants to relocate so she can get a divorce and marry her.
Problem is, this judge is sympathetic but a towering mountain of jello regarding her electoral future and a couple of large local congregations.
There are bunches of moving pieces, and it may be the most complex piece of family litigation I’ve ever encountered.
Anyway, I’ll see if yesterday’s disastrous meeting has sunk in to good effect on my return to the office today.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: Yeah, I hear mixed things, but nothing ventured, right? You doing a veggie stand or ?
satby
@Botsplainer: Good luck on all of it! Because all those situations are a awful.
Edited to add: late in the day yesterday I answered you in that thread, I had to go to work.
Bystander
Korea is adorable!
Meanwhile, I’m loving watching Josh Duggar going down in flames.
Botsplainer
@NotMax:
I have favorites – Von Ryan’s Express, Midway, Kelly’s Heroes, Dirty Dozen…
There’s one that I liked that I haven’t seen in years – The Aecret War of Harry Frigg. It was a Paul Newman thing, and really bad, but loads of fun. He’s an enlisted fuckup with a knack for jail escapes. He’s tasked with becoming a fake general in order to help captured general escape an Italian captivity.
BillinGlendaleCA
Well, I just finished upgrading 3 machines(1 real, 2 virtual) to the latest build of Win10. Still has a few rough edges(including Edge or Project Spartan, IE’s replacement). The upgrade to Android on my watch seems to have messed up the configuration of one of the programs. I did a factory reset on the watch and I think I’ll have to re-install and re-configure the offending program. The weekend will probably be consumed by my home automation mini-station design and programming. I’m also thinking of getting the paint to paint the bathroom, I HATE the green the landlord painted it. Yes, I have permission to paint it. That green makes me want to play Wezzer on my computer and cut myself.
Mustang Bobby
@NotMax: I will probably pull out my DVD’s of Band of Brothers and binge-watch that.
MomSense
@ThresherK:
Yikes. I’m not sure. So far she is not much of a slobberer but it hasn’t been very warm yet. She has a lot of fur so we will need to be careful with her when it warms up.
danielx
Zoey the Menace has added a new bit to her morning routine (yowling for breakfast, demanding blinds be opened so she can check out birds, etc). For the past few weeks while we’ve been downstairs, we’ve been hearing a considerable amount of cat noises upstairs – semi-anguished yowling like she’s about to hork up the world’s largest hairball, various thumping noises (she’s a hefty girl) and so forth. Go up to investigate and assuage her issues, whatever they are, and there she is lying on the floor with her catnip mouse between her front paws and looking at you with the usual cat version of “What?” all over her visage. She’s having a great time, she just doesn’t want to be caught and then be embarrassed for acting like a kitten.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Some veggies, I always have an abundance of tomatoes, squash, and hot peppers, and if I repeat last years success with sweet peppers (I gave my little bro 60+ lbs for his restaurant). I grow only heirlooms so I figure that’ll be a plus, but the veggies alone would not be worth the trouble. I have a few food items I make that my wife is certain would sell, but mainly I am at least somewhat creative and have a talent for wood so that is the most likely direction, just not sure what to do with it. No real focus at this time and that is necessary.
Like I said, dabbling.
Germy Shoemangler
@danielx:
Good for her for acting like a kitten. And nothing’s better than a catnip mouse in the morning. I assume she hugs with her front paws and disembowels with her hind feet.
ThresherK
@MomSense: Well, they say that fur is an insulator for dogs in the heat and cold, because it provides a layer of buffering air. I’ve never asked a Malamut or Husky when it’s 90F and 90%, so I’ll take the experts’ words for it.
I am getting one of those glove-hair-shed thingies to remove more hair from our cats when and where we’d like it, rather than just randomly and on clean laundry. If this doesn’t work (along with all the other devices which worked on previous felines), we may go to kitty-calmer pruhscripshins 2x a month and just brush the heck out of them.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
The Kickstarter was a fabulous success, thanks largely to my parents. Thanks to all who participated. I’ll be sending out an update soon, but the plan is to have the extensive rewriting of Part II finished and sent to my editor by June 20th for a developmental edit. Hopefully I’ll have fixed the problem of Phoebe being too passive over the second half.
While I’m waiting to get that back from her, I’ll do a pruning and tightening of Part I, with a few much smaller plot changes as well. Those are mostly along the lines of making sure that college age people talk and behave like college age people rather than older adults. That should be a much easier project than what I’m doing with the second half.
Then the trimming and tightening of Part II happens, followed by one last round of overall editing. I’m hoping to have the manuscript completely finished by the end of August, if not a few weeks sooner.
After that, it’s the process of going from a manuscript to a ready-to-sell ebook and print edition. I haven’t really started thinking about any of that yet. I’ll be talking with my consultant in publishing as we get close to that.
danielx
@Germy Shoemangler:
Yup, classic technique.
OzarkHillbilly
@Botsplainer:
Love that movie, too much fun, as with Kelly’s Heroes. When I was a kid I found “Stalag 17” to be absolutely terrifying. Don’t know why, it was just so dark and intense. And we can’t forget “Bridge on the River Kwai” or “Das Boot”.
ThresherK
@MomSense: Well, they say that fur is an insulator for dogs in the heat and cold, because it provides a layer of buffering air. I’ve never asked a Malamut or Husky when it’s 90F and 90%, so I’ll take the experts’ words for it.
I am getting one of those glove-hair-shed thingies to remove more hair from our cats when and where we’d like it, rather than just randomly and on clean laundry. If this doesn’t work (along with all the other devices which worked on previous felines), we may go to kitty-calmer pruhscripshins 2x a month and just brush the heck out of them.
(Previous comment in mod for “Zannacks”.)
Germy Shoemangler
@ThresherK: This time of year our girl swallows more fur because she’s shedding her winter coat. I brush and comb her, but the problem is she follows the “I have to lick myself wherever I am touched” rule, and ends up swallowing even more fur.
@Botsplainer: Have you seen The Young Lions (1958)? Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin. I haven’t seen it in many years but I remember being impressed by it.
PurpleGirl
@NotMax: Tank mew, tank mew, tank mew for the reminder about war films. I checked and tomorrow evening they are showing Twelve O’Clock High.
PurpleGirl
@Mustang Bobby: Sending good thoughts your way that you can do this.
Elizabelle
Korra! And not-snow covered grass, in MomSense land.
Korra is beautiful and feisty. One of my fave vicarious internet dogs. Nice way to start a Friday.
FWIW, here’s Bill Gates’ list of summer reading suggestions.
Before you say “ugh”, Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh tops the list.
ThresherK
@Germy Shoemangler: “I have to lick myself wherever I am touched” rule
As long as it’s not too much. My wife’s tabby cat has groomed an awful lot of fur off his tummy. Her second cat before that, a tuxedo, groomed herself bald there for the last few years of her life. With the tabby we’re trying a few behavioral mods which seem to be working. And a hairball-prevention paste which, just like on the package, cats love!
Elizabelle
@satby: Wish I lived close enough, cuz I’d help you package. Good luck with the farmer’s markets.
Elizabelle
How big is Korra (and weight), and how big does the vet think she will get?
She’s lovely.
PurpleGirl
I did a search for Mister Roberts and Stalag 17 and neither seem to scheduled. Can you have a war movie weekend without Mister Roberts or Stalag 17?
Sailing from tedium to apathy and back again, with an occasional side trip to monotony.
debbie
@MomSense:
My sister-in-law came home with two Pyrenees about the same time you got your Kora. It’s frightening how quickly they grow.
MomSense
@Elizabelle:
She’s almost 45 lbs now and will probably be about 55-60. I can definitely see the border collie now. She runs just like one and goes into that crouch low to the ground but still moving. We are thinking she’ll be a big border collie/small shepherd size.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Wish I had a pic to show. Some relatives of mine had a furniture factory in South America, and made a decent bit of change on the side by taking shavings from wood scraps or cut from leftover pieces of veneer and gluing them onto the front of folded cardstock in a variety of designs (Xmas trees, cats, starbursts, etc.) to create blank greeting cards which they sold at flea markets.
Elizabelle
@MomSense: She’s just perfect. And hardy enough for two boys and roughhousing.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: One can have a lot of fun with veneers.
MomSense
@debbie:
There was a Pyrennees at our puppy class and it towered over all the other dogs. The only dog who could take it on was the little pug puppy who would run underneath him and nip at his belly (I’m assuming/hoping). The are such nice dogs.
@Elizabelle:
She is perfect! She follows her boys all around wherever they go. I think I’m going to sign her up for an agility class she can do with my youngest this summer. He liked the basic behavior/obedience class and on his own taught her how to jump through hoops, ride a skateboard, and other cool stuff.
rikyrah
the pictures are beautiful. that is a lovely animal.
rikyrah
About Ms. Mosby in Baltimore:
Just wanted to also say, that another reason why they dislike Ms. Mosby- look at the timing of this case. In and out. She went in, presented the evidence, got the indictment.
We were constantly told by the apologists for McCullough and that incompetent in the Eric Garner case, that we just didn’t ‘understand’ how the wheels of Justice were supposed to work. That them hemming and hawing and drawing it out for forever and a day – well, that wasn’t them trying to NOT get an indictment, and how dare we question their ‘ integrity’.
Then comes along Ms. Mosby.
Bringing charges – DONE.
Going before Grand Jury – DONE
Getting an indictment – DONE
All, within, pretty much, a blink of an eye.
Which only points out what was obvious to all of us out here: that McCullough and the incompetent in Long Island DID NOT WANT TO GET INDICTMENTS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Elizabelle
@rikyrah: Precisely.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
She has been so steady and impressive throughout this.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: McCullough did some really dicey things in that grandjury, including but not limited to, having somebody he knew was lying get up on the stand and perjure herself. (something for which he could be disbarred for, something we all know won’t happen) While I obviously enough can not prove it, I am fairly certain he colluded with Darren Wilson’s atty. I just can not imagine an attorney worth a shit stained rag allowing his/her client to get on the stand in a GJ proceeding without an immunity agreement, and yet that is what happened here.
workworkwork
It’s the end of a crazy week. Monday was our anniversary so naturally we celebrated by taking my wife in for a surgical consult.
Wednesday was her MRI.
Today is her birthday so of course I have to take the car in for service. On the brighter side, if the car is ready in time we have lunch reservations at a new sushi place that just opened up near us.
We’ll probably go to see “Tomorrowland” this weekend and tomorrow I’m fixing my famous slow cooker chili.
PurpleGirl
@workworkwork: I hope the car is serviced quickly so you can use it again and actually do things as planned. I hope the surgical consult was not for something too serious and your wife will be well again real soon now.
Josie
MomSense: What a lovely dog. She was a cute puppy and has turned out to be quite beautiful. She looks sturdy enough to be a good companion to three boys and smart enough to be your good friend. You chose well. As she matures, you will be so glad you put up with the frustrations of her puppyhood.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: go for it!
Paul in KY
What a sweet looking puppy! Looks like a load of fun. Bet she would love the beach.
CONGRATULATIONS!
MomSense, you’ve got a winner of a dog there. And it’s a good thing you’ve got kids, because they can wear her out. She looks like a working dog for sure, looks part shepherd and part lab.
satby
@Elizabelle: Aww, thanks! I just cut them, let them dry out in the middle a bit (they’re already cured), and then stamp them if they are a stamped one and package. After a while it puts me into a sort of Zen state. Until one of the dogs wants to frolic near the table where they’re stacked and knock stuff over.
I doubt Proctor and Gamble have trouble like that.
TaMara (BHF)
@MomSense: So glad to see a Korra update. She’s adorable. If my experience means anything, be patient the next few months as she tests her boundaries, over and over and over. Sigh.
ruemara
Trying to get a roommate since the current one is leaving this week – surprise! Also, surprise, guess what your food budget is! Planning some stuff that must be done and I think the workers rights org that is trying to get me to volunteer for them is s o l. I can’t do any more donations of time or money to anyone else. Mostly, I will be watching my camera auction and hoping it sells at fair price. I can’t afford to risk it going super cheap. I’d rather keep it than sell it for the chump change people want to offer, but that’s how people work, no?
ruemara
@rikyrah: Damn right.
NotMax
@ruemara
Job #1: change the locks.
Steeplejack
@Mustang Bobby:
For those without DVDs, HBOS is running the whole miniseries starting at 6:00 a.m. EDT Monday.
Seanly
Wow, Korra is a cutie! I’m seriously considering dognapping her… (no, not really)
RE: war movies – yes, war is horrible and all that, but I luvs me some good war movies (and some not so good ones). Kelly’s Heroes, A Bridge Too Far, Where Eagles Dare, Black Hawk Down, Big Red One, The Sand Pebbles, Saving Private Ryan, The Longest Day & Fury are some of my favorites. Band of Brothers is also excellent, but The Pacific was just okay – though it got me to read Eugene Sledge’s excellent book.
EDIT: How could I forget Patton? WTF is wrong with me…
J R in WV
Yesterday was a big day for me. I got to go back to elementary school for the first time in like 50 years. More than, actually.
A good friend is a special ed teacher at a nice elementary school the next county over. She does a “Big Dreams Day” for her kids, which this year had sewing to make bags, a Corvette, a Virtual Reality helmet in the computer lab, and me with rocks. Two of her kids are big into rocks.
So I got to spend an hour in the teacher’s lounge unwrapping another rock just to hear the kids go “WOW!”
I had a piece of lava, the newest rock I had. It was full of bubbles, which made it light enough for a little to handle, and was black but iridescent. I also had geodes full of glittery crystals, quartz, calcite, and a few cut stones for the grownups. Best school day I had in quite a while.
Oh, ETA there was a big purple fluorite covered with translucent cubes like fossilized grape jelly, that was a big hit. One kid had received a jeweler’s loup with an LED, which made the purple rock glow wonderfully, OOOOOHHHHH, Wow, the kids went. Fun, big fun.
Also got to visit with really good friend I hadn’t seen in a couple of years, all good. It was a rainy day here, heavy drizzle, which we needed.
On the other hand, my water system’s pressure tank is failing, so I have to take care of that. Plumbing is a big pain, we hates it!
kc
What a cute pup!
ruemara
@J R in WV: Whoa! That sounds awesome! Not the pump, but the rocks. I love geology! Mostly because so many rocks are so very different and pretty. That’s so nice of you to do.
Aleta
@OzarkHillbilly: The last few years I buy large amounts of sweet peppers at the farmer’s market; just eat them fresh them all fall. They keep awhile in my frig, and I can put tuna or rice or cheese or peanut butter or potato salad in them. They’re so amazingly delicious when fresh, and fast, and almost no dishes.
Aleta
I like how Korra’s expression goes from “hey, help me out?” to “urgent, potential level 3 state of emergency.” She looks like a good swimmer, and an excellent shaker.