Has everyone ordered their Pets of Balloon Juice 2020 Calendar? (I don’t think so!)
I fell half in love with some of the guys in the calendar – just from seeing their pictures while I proofed the calendar for Beth. (Who did all the real work.)
Kira won the coveted WaterGirl Really Wants to Take Her Home Award.
Marty and Hissy Kitty look like their parents caught them fooling around and turned on the lights. Uh oh.
And the names. So fun!
· Betty White · Noodles · Oscar · Mozart · Blizzard · Vivian · Bean · Lightning · Monet · Bubba · Wallace ·
· Kira · Janeway · Soul Dog · Bruiser · Pablo · Espresso Bean, Queen of Concord · General Stuck’s Charlie ·
Have any of you received your calendars yet?
What do you think of the addition of the In Memoriam quotes this year? What were your favorite quotes? Did they bring back any blog memories?
Balloon Juice Meetup – Santa Fe, February 4
Another Scott
Got mine today. It’s very well done. Recommended.
Thanks to everyone who made it possible.
Cheers,
Scott.
Sab
Got mine today.
zhena gogolia
Mine came yesterday (one for me, one for a friend). I love it! The Stuck quotations are great.
I don’t think it’s a big problem that I missed January. I always study and pore over all the pictures anyway, so the cute January critters are not going unnoticed.
geg6
There’s my Cleo, looking very pensive.
HinTN
Mine’s due next week. I’m excited to see what the In Memoriam looks like.
It was funny that Cafe Press took just year’s photos and printed 2020 calendars with them. I’ve had a current calendar all year and the photos are just as good the second time.
ETA:
Welp, I guess I should have put the full name (Hamper’s White Lightning) in there.
WaterGirl
@HinTN:
Wait, what? Are you the person that recently ordered the 2019 calendar? I noticed when I clicked on previous years that it changed the dates to the current year.
WaterGirl
@HinTN: Did you include names, just not the full formal names?
pat
Waiting for mine.
Did they really reuse the photos from last year???? I though Beth was putting it together with photos submitted recently.
I’m pretty sure the Pablo on the lower left in January is new. Will look for Jackie when it comes.
WaterGirl
@pat: IF someone ordered the 2019 calendar, it came with last year’s photos but 2020 dates. I’m thinking that HinTN might have done that.
The pictures for the *real* 2020 calendar are definitely new.
HinTN
@WaterGirl: Yes to both questions.
WaterGirl
@pat: We have a very furry Jackie on a rug in November. And a little gray kitty on a light gray rug in May. Is one of those yours?
And yes, Pablo is a 2020 picture.
WaterGirl
@HinTN: I hope your guys aren’t jealous of Espresso Bean, Queen of Concord.
Aleta
Thanks to balloon juice humans, the 5-month-old adventure kitty Finn travelled over 1000 miles from MN last April and landed on the September page. He’s hanging upside down and a year old in his picture. A wooden ladder turns out to be his favorite climbing tree/gym/perspective.
? to Beth, WaterGirl and BJ people ?
WaterGirl
@Aleta:
Is this your Finn?
Aleta
@WaterGirl: Yes. The only time he plays with his tail is when he discovers it while hanging upside down.
WaterGirl
@Aleta: What a goofball. (Meant in the best possible way.)
Aleta
@WaterGirl: Some people around here call him the kraken
That same person (not me) also calls him “shenanigan” and “you’re trouble aren’t you.”
WaterGirl
No memories, no favorite quotes. :: sniff sniff ::
Ruckus
Mine is coming next week. At least the receipt says it is. We have these systems of delivery, and when you live in an apt they don’t always work great for anything other than letters and even then sometimes there are problems. The mailboxes where I live got broken into, someone pried open the back doors the mail person uses to fill up the boxes. I can’t believe no one at least heard them. Now for anything bigger than an envelope they get left at your doorstep. Not the best system, IMO. But how to fix that in our modern society? Maybe make it a bit better for people at the bottom so they can get a job that pays something livable? That certainly wouldn’t make it any worse.
MomSense
Oh there’s my Korra in her bitch mode! I love that infuriating dog!
WaterGirl
@MomSense: I had never seen her face close up! She’s beautiful. That does appear to be her “you’re not the boss of me!” face.
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
She really is so beautiful – that’s what saves her. It’s crazy. Even lobsterman will stop and get out of their trucks to pet her and tell me how beautiful she is.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: Regal is the word that comes to mind when I see that picture.
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
That’s funny because she has so much fur around her neck that we call it her ruff. She doesn’t speak in Elizabethan English, though. More Liz Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Anyone else give their dogs accents?
pat
@WaterGirl:
That sounds like Jackie, in November. Belongs to friends of ours and when they come to dinner (in Austria) Jackie is always welcome.
And now I understand why the dates were switched but it does sound a bit unusual.
HinTN
@WaterGirl: Mine are a pretty self-satisfied bunch.
HinTN
@pat: I got antsy and went to CafePress and they said they had a calendar and I looked at it and it had 2020 dates so since the new photographs weren’t ready I ordered one. Now I’m getting a 2020 calendar with the new photographs. Plus, it’s more money for MARC!
Ruckus
@MomSense:
Bud was crusty old fart. Sort of like Bernie.
I think I heard him bark a couple of times over the years but he did growl if he was pissed at me for some reason. And you couldn’t touch him much unless at the self serve dog wash at the local pet food store.
WaterGirl
@HinTN: MARC thanks you, and we thank you!
MomSense
@Ruckus:
He sounds like a character. My oldest gave the perfect description of our dog. He said that she’s the worst dog we’ve ever had but he loves her the most.
Ruckus
@MomSense
Said this before but my nickname for Bud was Ornery Bastard.
He was a great companion for one person – if he liked you. He was a rescue and older. Once he attached himself I was OK. There were rules of course, his rules, I was just there to feed him and put up with him. He and I got along just fine and I’ve missed him like no other pet ever. Maybe because he had such a personality. He lived with me during some of my worst days on this rock and that was a miracle that helped me get through them.
MomSense
@Ruckus:
Oh I get that. My old lab was that for me. He got me through the worst times – rug pulled out from under me times- and just the routine of his feeding and walking kept me going. He was a sweetheart, the easiest dog ever. This dog has so much personality. She talks FFS. She knows what she wants and takes it. I aspire to be more like her.
Villago Delenda Est
No love for Her Serene Highness, Princess Mocha?
grandmaBear
I got mine today, yay! I like the quotes. Our Mac & Gibby are now immortalized as perpetually asking, “surely it’s time for dinner now, right?”
WaterGirl
@grandmaBear: The one on the left – I assume Gibby – looks kind of like my Tucker.
Villago Delenda Est
Did I read correctly that CafePress just recycled last year’s calendar and slaped “2020” on it updating the calendar pages but not the pets?
WaterGirl
@Villago Delenda Est:
I can see where you got that, but NO. Any old calendar (and we have them on the shop going back to 2011) can still be ordered, with the original photos but with 2020 dates.
HinTN said he got antsy and ordered the 2019 calendar with 2020 dates.
Not to worry, if you choose the 2020 calendar link, you will get the new pet pics for this year.
edit: i just searched the Cafe Press reports page for “juice 2019” to confirm that everyone ordered the 2020 calendar. It turns out that jeffreyw ordered the 2019 calendar; I will check with him to make sure that was intentional. That was the only match for “juice 2019” in the Cafe Press Jan 2020 purchases, so everyone else is good.
BruceFromOhio
The cafepress cancel your order Jedi mind trick thing was disconcerting. It charged my card twice when i reordered. I think I’ll end up with like ten calendars.
WaterGirl
@BruceFromOhio: Sorry to hear that. If you send me email with either an order number or a name, I can see what the records show.
Miss Bianca
I ordered mine a few days ago, and Cafe Press says it is en route.
This is the first time I’ve ordered one, so I am excited!
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: I am anxious to hear people’s reactions to the In Memoriam quotes. I think they really make the calendar, but so far no one has said much.
cthulhu
She’s now almost three times the weight she was in the calendar pick. And full of challenging puppy energy. She has certainly worn out her welcome with her animal siblings. But also in training and taking to it pretty well.
WaterGirl
@cthulhu: Oh my gosh! This is why they are so cute. That, and because they are also adorable, is how we all manage to survive puppyhood. :-)