Best Twitter content I’ve seen in a while.
ETA: What are you all doing this weekend?
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Best Twitter content I’ve seen in a while.
ETA: What are you all doing this weekend?
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BruceFromOhio
I like how the one comes last, the rear guard. The strength of the pack.
WaterGirl
I was pretty sure this had a happy ending, but I was still saying “Don’t stand in the road!”
Lovely.
Betty
Wow. So special.
Elizabelle
I worry about animals and highways. Stay safe, lynxies.
tam1MI
@Elizabelle: I am the same way. STAY OUT OF THE ROAD, KITTIES!
dlwchico
I was also getting anxious watching them cross the road.
MazeDancer
Wait – The vid stopped before the last kit caught up with the pack. So, now I get to worry. I had just finished urging it to cross the road by saying, out loud, “You gotta go, you gotta with your mommy.”
Which, apparently, it heard.
Also, who knew lynxes had such large litters.
Baud
Respite thread turns out to be stressful.
Martin
Had one in my backyard a number of years ago (bobcat here). Stupid me only knew something loud was up in our tree so I went out, stood underneath it and curiously shone my flashlight up to see what was growling at me (it was a very cool growl). I never did see it in the tree, though we did see it navigate our fence headed toward the lake a bit later. Next day Kevin Drum (who lives a few blocks closer to the lake)’s cat Inkblot went missing.
We do have coyotes here, so it might not have been the bobcat, but I suspect it was the bobcat.
Luciamia
The last one, “Wait for me..wait for me!! “
Martin
Ok, so that wasn’t a happy story.
Here’s some non-cat good news.
Actually, cleaner air is good news for both cats and bobcats, but in a very diffuse way. Good news all around! Favorite line:
Indeed.
Luciamia
@Martin: No, poor thing.
eclare
@WaterGirl: Same here!
trollhattan
What happens when a pack of lynx turn rechts?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin: I’ve only seen a bobcat once, on one of my night trips to Lockwood Valley. On my trip to Zyzzx we saw a fox on the way out, right by the on ramp to the 15.
Mary G
@Martin: Just nominated for a rotating tag
It cracked me up.
Jharp
That is a super cool video.
I want to know everything.
I once saw a big cat just north of international falls mn.
So cool.
Humdog
Naked Link to heartwarming article in WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/02/13/valentines-day-was-humiliating-me-child-i-tell-my-students-about-it-every-year/#comments-wrapper
Had a pleasant few moments wondering how this would have felt for high school me. What a gift for kids lucky enough to have that teacher!
Jeffro
Mrs. Fro saw an actual live skunk on her morning hike with the dog today…she came back in all goggly-eyed, saying, “It was BIG!” Looked it up and apparently they grow to adult cat size. She goes, “this one was BIGGER!”
They can be as big as they want, I guess. As long as she and the dog don’t round a corner and stumble right into one.
BC in Illinois
This is the weekend of the St Louis Irish Arts Feis, bringing 700 young dancers and singers and musicians.
My assignment is to stay at my daughter’s house with the 5-year-old g’son, who is missing the beginners’ tinwhistle competition because of a case of the fever and the pukes. (It’s his turn, the 7 and 9-year-olds have already been though this.) His sisters are competing tonight on whistle, Irish singing (yeah, in Irish Gaelic), and the 9-year-old on harp. My daughter asked her FaceBook community what to do with singing competitions, when the singers have a tendency to cough if they take a deep breath. The suggestions included hot water and lemon and honey, water and honey, straight honey, various teas, and Baileys.
Sitting with the patient, I got to see The Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, which I had never even heard of. In Stephen King’s book On Writing, he mentions how many recent fiction writers are following the paths set out by JRR Tolkien. This heroic owl-fantasy is one of them. But the g’son had seen it before and pointed out what was happening, so it was well worth it.
We hope that all three g’kids can be well for the dance competitions tomorrow. Jigs, reels, hornpipes, three-hand reels, etc. If everybody is healthy then I’ll get to go too.
dr. bloor
Too much drama there.
You want a respite? Here’s a respite.
Mousebumples
We’ve got a support local downtown businesses Chocolate Walk tomorrow afternoon. $20 to walk from shop to shop and try different chocolate goodies they’ve prepared. Hopefully the weather cooperates!
Nicole
My nine-year-old wanted examples of mondegreens (misheard lyrics) and in trying to find funny examples I came across this delightful 16 minute mashup:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i30s2sHWLBs
Lapassionara
@BC in Illinois: more info please. Where?
Kent
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’ve seen bobcats in my old suburban/exurban neighborhood in Waco TX and I’ve also seen them here in my suburban Vancouver (WA) neighborhood in the green belt behind my house. I wonder if they are getting more common like coyotes. Or if we are just encroaching in their habitat more. Perhaps both.
Mary G
Probably borderline for a respite thread, but I enjoyed this video of the Founding Fathers singing “The Day Democracy Died.” It’s sung to the Don McLean song, so it goes on a big long, but the lyrics are great.
Mnemosyne
@Martin:
I don’t think that bobcats eat house pets, at least not nearly as often as coyotes do. I once saw a small dog at the vet’s office that came to get its stitches out after a coyote jumped over their backyard fence and tried to carry it away. Fortunately, the owners were able to drive the coyote away and rush the dog to the emergency vet.
Kent
I’ve got four 13 year old girls doing a sleepover in the basement. They are probably going to watch Japanese anime until the wee hours of the night over Costco pizza diet cokes.
Tomorrow I’ll probably bring them to a local DIY glass blowing studio so they can learn how to blow glass.
jl
@Baud: “Respite thread turns out to be stressful.”
All true BJ blog inhabitants know well how to escape the clutches of respite.
I am fully respited by this delightful post. It is adorable, and I for one have full confidence these cats know what they are doing, and look forward one day to welcoming our new lynx overlords.
BC in Illinois
St Louis Ballpark Hilton. Tomorrow, starting at 8:30. You can just walk in and watch them for free. They start with the little kids and the 2-hand and 3-hand stuff, and it gets more advanced as the day goes on.
Just come.
Kelly
We had a really great XC ski day. Inch or so of new on a well consolidated base. Nice Mexican dinner on the way home. Cats managed to shut themselves in a bathroom while we were gone. Couldn’t even drink from the toilet because they knocked a pile of towels into it. They didn’t seem very bothered by their confinement. Glad we were home.
eclare
@dr. bloor: Awwww…
OzarkHillbilly
@BC in Illinois: This must be post Hillbilly. Can ya give me more details? I’m gonna be in town for the Soulard pet parade on Sunday but this sounds like it’s right up my alley and next year…
Hope springs eternal.
jl
@Mnemosyne: Going by what my friends in CA Sierra foothills say, bobcats love to eat house pets. Not in the news much I suppose because there are not as many around built up areas, and they are shy and more careful and cautious than other predators.They are also smaller than a coyote or mountain lion, so usually will tackle only smaller pets. But having watched them, mostly as blurs running away in the middle distance, man, are they fast and nimble, when they decide to catch a domesticated animal, I think they don’t have any trouble.
OzarkHillbilly
@BC in Illinois: Thanx. Not this year, but next???
Oh, and next year can you remember to give me a reminder? s///
laura
Heart shaped pizza is in the oven & under the control of spouse. I’m in a comfy chair. We rode our bikes and the weather was sun and fair winds. Wishing a gentle and loving weekend to all.
trollhattan
@jl:
To be fair, Sierra foothill (and coast range) bobcats are just cleaning up the cougar leftovers.
khead
I love this video. I really wish we could’ve saved the MomCat that gave us 6 beautiful kittens.
Weekend includes a western party/murder mystery. I’m a sheriff and Mrs. Khead is a saloon girl. I’m… coloring my mustache. Because I’m old.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I would like to live in a place where there are lynx
opiejeanne
Right now I’m making Peruvian chicken because ohmygawdit’ssogood! and it’s Valentine’s Day. The aroma of the garlic when I opened the ziplock bag with the marinade (24 hours is a long time to wait) was like heaven. Now it’s in the oven and we’re eating brie and other assorted cheeses while we wait.
Tomorrow our youngest and my niece and her husband are coming to take us to lunch and to decorate sugar cookies. I will limit my cookie-eating to one, between nuts and carrots and other things so my blood sugar doesn’t go nuts.
Martin
@Nicole: Not quite a mondegreen – but close and probably hilarious for a 9 year old.
Bad lip reading is a close cousin to mondegreens.
Martin
@Kent: I have an 18 year old who is still down with japanese anime, diet coke, and costco pizza. A pack of Pokemon cards still cheers her up.
Rolling back to 13 year old pleasures can really help during later year troubles.
Glass blowing is a fascinating artform.
ruemara
Writing a cover letter tonight, writing tomorrow, maybe on set tomorrow night, maybe not. Maybe have a post or something to throw up.
Mnemosyne
Since we usually do our Valentine’s Day celebrating the weekend before (or the weekend after), tonight will be Chinese takeout because I was in the mood for it and willing to pick it up. I did bring G a cupcake from the batch that my co-worker’s mother made for us.
Contemplating a train adventure down to the Happiest Place on Earth on Monday since I have the day off AND they somehow managed to leave one of those damn ink tags on a sweatshirt I bought and no one else seems to be able to remove it, unless I manage to convince Macys or JC Penney that I’m not a shoplifter, really. Gah.
khead
Also, did Cole or anyone else ever talk about Jim Justice’s comments after I mentioned them here earlier this week?
Dude is trying to walk it back now but I knew what the fuck he was saying. Check the demographics for Greenbrier County and Beckley, WV.
burnspbesq
Enjoying married life.
HumboldtBlue
@burnspbesq:
Congratulation.
Have some music.
50 years ago today The Who recorded Live at Leeds.
Just listen to Moon.
mrmoshpotato
@burnspbesq: Congrats! When’s the honeymoon?
John Revolta
Lynxes have an interesting gait. Somewhere between a dog and a cat.
J R in WV
Amazing litter, for a wild cat mother, I think 5 kits is a huge crowd of babies to raise in the north woods. And they all look healthy and growing up to be big wild cats on their own! Wonderful.
Thanks Cheryl~!!~
Another Scott
@Mnemosyne:
I assume you’ve tried things like these?
Enjoy your weekend either way!
Cheers,
Scott.
burnspbesq
@mrmoshpotato:
long weekend in NYC, exact dates TBD. We grew up together a few miles west of Exit 165.
Mai naem mobile
@burnspbesq: I cannot believe you’re posting here on your wedding day after the wedding!
Anybody see the video of Obama at the NCAA Care event. Man, I miss him. What a cool decent empathetic president we were lucky to have.
opiejeanne
@burnspbesq: Congratulations! May your marriage last and bring you both much joy.
khead
@burnspbesq:
Congrats. Honeymoon?
The Pale Scot
@BC in Illinois: Sounds like a good time.
The Gaeltacht school Coláiste Lurgan has a three week music program during the summer. They translate modern tunes as Gaeilge, perform and film themselves and post it on uTube. Looks like a lot of fun.
Avicii – “Wake Me Up”as Gaeilge
Ed Sheeran – “Thinking out loud” as Gaeilge
There are hundreds on uTube.
Nicole
@Martin: My 9-year-old loooooooooves Bad Lip Reading. He likes the songs best (I think he knows every line of “Seagulls Stop It Now,”) but I’m old-school- I liked them when they were doing more actual bad lip reading. We disagree on this frequently.
Nicole
@burnspbesq:
Yeah, give it a couple of weeks.
(Kidding; I love being married. Congratulations and wishing you years and years and years of joy!)
CaseyL
Well, there’s the meetup on Sunday. Other than that, this weekend will be like any other: hanging with the kitties, maybe doing some grocery shopping, and working on glass.
Bill Arnold
@Martin:
Google translate French to English of this: https://asce.kanak.fr/t114-recettes-de-cuisine
a dish called “Rôti Sans Pareil” -> “Roast Without Equal”, with jokes about artists of the time
(roast on low heat for 24 hours)
laura
@burnspbesq: Oh how wonderful! The Highline, together, alone in a crowd, hand in hand, as the sun drops behind the Hudson river.
Uncle Cosmo
I nominate “Lynx or it didn’t happen” for a rotating tag line.
Mnemosyne
@Another Scott:
Honestly, I’d rather go back and have them take it off than risk getting ink all over a fairly expensive hoodie. Thanks, though.
MoCA Ace
I’m about 200 miles south of lynx territory but we have plenty of bobcats around. There is a mamma bobcat that must have a favorite den site close to my house because I have seen her and her kits regularly (in person and on camera trap) for the last 5 years. I have never seen her with more than three kittens.
They are the most stealthy animal I have ever seen. I was deer hunting a few years back and saw her coming through alone at about 25 yards. I inadvertently made the smallest noise and she immediately dropped to the ground. I watched for at least 10 minutes and never saw her depart the area. It was like she never existed at all. Another time I watched one of her mostly grown kittens crouch on the end of log while a grey squirrel fed within two feet of the cat. I so wanted to see it take the squirrel but it never moved… must have been full at the time.
prostratedragon
@Jeffro: Anyone who’s spent a spring in Ann Arbor might guess that “wolverine” is a euphemism for the team nickname.