Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

In after Baud. Damn.

The words do not have to be perfect.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

No one could have predicted…

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

People are complicated. Love is not.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

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Respite Open Thread: Penelope In A Pretty Scarf

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You guys do like to spoil my critters! MomSense sent me three beautiful scarves, colored especially for each duck. I may have video of putting them on, I haven’t looked at it yet, it may be just a blur of feather, wings and yarn.

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They removed them very quickly :

Respite Open Thread: Penelope In A Pretty Scarf
Mabel removing her scarf

When I have a bit more time, I’ll do one scarf/one duck and take photos. It kind of stresses them out, but I bribed them with romaine lettuce and they have mostly forgiven me.

Okay here is the big reveal, Penelope Pearl in her pretty red scarf:

Pretty duck in pretty scarf

Thanks so much MomSense! With luck, there will be more pictures.

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  4. 4.

    Jerzy Russian

    I have seen the Who’s Pinball Wizard performed on an outdoor organ, and now I have seen a picture of a duck wearing a scarf.  I have truly seen it all.

  7. 7.

    CaseyL

    Looks like MomSense did a different pattern as well as a different color for each girl. Great work!

    Penelopearl is rocking her scarf!

    Mabel… does a dignified dip to be rid of hers.

  11. 11.

    HeleninEire

    I LOVE how Penelope’s scarf contrasts with her white feathers yet still matches her yellow beak.

    I should be so great at putting my own outfits together.

  15. 15.

    Sab

    She looked so lovely. So you can’t dress a live duck. Good for them.

    I stopped by my dad’s nursing home. They had some event going, so I had to park in back by the rehab facility. After wending my way through the maze I decided I would leave by the outside and walk through the grounds.

    They have replaced the evil swans ( they swear they went to a farm) with black ducks to blend in with the white ones. Every duck in sight swam over when I walked by. I felt bad. In future what should I bring to fed them?

  16. 16.

    Ohio Mom

    HeleninErie@11: Haven’t seen you on a thread in a long time. How are you? Where are you? Erie or Queens?

  17. 17.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @Sab: Green things – lettuce, kale, mustard greens. Stay away from grains – bread, popcorn, crackers, etc. They do like birdseed – but too much fat can cause wing drop.

  19. 19.

    MazeDancer

    Awww…

    And well placed unfolding of the pics. Scroll past the scarves. Nice. Then poor Mabel. Oh, not going to work out, is it? And then – ta-da – Storybook Girl!

    Actually said “Awww” outloud.

  23. 23.

    Sab

    @TaMara (HFG): Seriously? Kale and lettuce? I and they will be happy. I will do that at least weekly this winter.Those ducks expected to be fed. Followed me in the water the whole way around.

    Dad and I can do that next summer. Roll him out in his wheel chair. He has always loved ducks.

  25. 25.

    joel hanes

    @Jerzy Russian:

    I’ve seen a peanut stand

    Heard a rubber band

    Saw a needle that winked its eye

    But I think I will have seen everything

    When I see a duck in a scarf

    [hmmm.  needs work]

  27. 27.

    MomSense

    Yes!!! My youngest will be pleased to know his favorite, Mabel, is as rebellious and head strong as he is.

    I’ll have to get some pics because one of my knitting friends has a flock of geese she wants to outfit.

  29. 29.

    HeleninEire

    @Ohio Mom: I’m in Queens. Mostly lurking here. Posting periodically. Lots going on. My stepmother died at Christmas so I’m working on moving my 85 year old Dad here to Queens. Pretty sure I can get him in my complex which has 3 buildings and 1300 apartments. He’s about to accept an offer on his Long Island house. But he’s been there for 60 years so there’s a lot to sort out. It’s the house I grew up in and I’m old ?. So by May he’ll be here within 3 minutes of me.

    Lots of other stuff. Anyway. Once he’s settled and comfortable with living in the city I’ll go back to visit my Ireland friends. I miss them.

    Thanks for asking.

     

  30. 30.

    Mnemosyne

    I suspect that keeping a scarf on a duck is like keeping a hat on a baby. They don’t care how cute it looks, they just want it OFF! RIGHT NAOW!

  31. 31.

    PsiFighter37

    NYT reporting that intelligence officials told the House Intelligence Committee that Russia is meddling to support Trump – and that’s why the acting DNI just got canned. Not terribly surprising, but the House should already be investigating whether Trump is coordinating. I have zero doubt that they are, again.

  32. 32.

    Sab

    @HeleninEire: I know I have been a jerk to you before. Best wishes moving your dad. That’s hard. Been there, done that. He and you will be so much better off if he is near where you can check on him easily

    We sold my parents lovely house to the next door neighbor and he immediateky flattened it. That was a shock. But Dad is safer, so there is that.

  33. 33.

    Yutsano

    @MomSense:

    I’ll have to get some pics because one of my knitting friends has a flock of geese she wants to outfit.

    Is she just daft or completely suicidal?

  39. 39.

    schrodingers_cat

    Momsense is super talented. I learned to knit as a punishment. We had to learn to crochet, knit and sew in my all girls school. I only did those things because otherwise they wouldn’t give you a rank if you had an incomplete in those projects. So I did them out of compulsion. I knit booties which I still have and haven’t touched knitting needles again after age 13.

  43. 43.

    HeleninEire

    @Sab: Ah no worries. You have apologized already. You are grand. I have also had a few “fuck you other commenter” moments on this blog. And been mortified by my words.

    Again. No worries. ❤

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    @debbie: That was an incredibly diplomatic comment!

    MomSense can think you are talking about her beautiful scarves.

    TaMara can think you are talking about her gorgeous ducks.

    John can think you are taking about his girlfriend, Penelope.

    Henry can think you are talking about him.

    MomSense can think you are talking about her dog sweater!

  47. 47.

    debbie

    @WaterGirl:

    Oh, good. Okay, yeah, I was talking about all that! ?

    I love all of the knitting. I learned to knit when I was a kid, and somewhere there’s a lemon yellow sweater with 1.75 sleeves. I wanted to crochet like my Mamaw, but it just made no sense to me.

  48. 48.

    Yutsano

    @WaterGirl: Can I give my hearty “FUCK YOU!!!” to welcome your return?

    Also: Valdiva came back around for a bit too. Gonna work on AsianGRRLMN and RedKitteh next. They both add character here.

    EDIT: Of course you do too!

  51. 51.

    WaterGirl

    @Yutsano: I just said to someone this week that I have been wishing that AsianGrrlMN would come back.  RedKitten, yes!  I remember when her baby was born. (At least one of them.)

  54. 54.

    WaterGirl

    @MomSense: Henry looks so jaunty in his sweater with his white hair and his tail curved up for contrast.

    He has given you permission to use his adorableness in any sweater advertisements. :-)

  57. 57.

    Mary G

    @Baud: She’s well worth a follow on Twitter where she is known as Valdivia. Unless it’s a different Valdivia; I haven’t asked.

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    @debbie:  A couple of years ago, the older lady that did the early morning swim with me tried to teach me how to crochet  – I made a little “square” something that I could use to wash dishes.

    Square is in air quotes because I was not legally allowed to use the word square to describe the shape of my creation.

  64. 64.

    Ohio Mom

    HeleninErie: My two cousins are going through something similar, needing to clean out my aunt’s four story house in Jackson Heights. Fifty-five years of stuff. My aunt liked to shop, had the money to do so, and then kept it all.

    She was quite organized and tidy though. I was there last month for her memorial service and afterwards went through the house with the older cousin. The drawers and closets would be the envy of Marie Kondo.

    I keep suggesting looking for an estate auction service but I don’t think they are there yet.

    Anyway, it’s a big project, moving your dad. Sounds like he is agreeable, and that’s to his credit.

  65. 65.

    JPL

    So the shakeup at DNI was because they informed the House about Russia’s interference in trying to elect trump for a second term.  trump was pissed

  69. 69.

    HeleninEire

    @WaterGirl: OK gonna lay my cards out. Sab apologized for saying stupid things to me. I told her it’s grand I’ve been an asshole here too. No worries.

    And???

    Yutsano is here why?

  70. 70.

    debbie

    @HeleninEire:
    It was Yutsano at #48 (for me) who posted this:

    @WaterGirl: Can I give my hearty “FUCK YOU!!!” to welcome your return?

    Also: Valdiva came back around for a bit too. Gonna work on AsianGRRLMN and RedKitteh next. They both add character here.

    EDIT: Of course you do too!

    I think he meant to reply to you. WG hasn’t been gone long enough to be welcomed back.

  76. 76.

    Shana

    That’s so sad. Are they just using it for a bigger yard or are they building something new?

    We were lucky to find buyers who affirmatively liked the mid-century modern style of my parents’ house (which my father had designed) and have kept that while updating some things that sorely needed it.

    So sad to have all those memories “disappeared.”

    @Sab:

  79. 79.

    Fair Economist

    So cute! She even looks like she’s posing. Hope I get to see pics or video of the other two even if it annoys them.

  80. 80.

    prostratedragon

    Reminds me of an old favorite at our house, No Roses for Harry. But Penelope is styling in her red.

  81. 81.

    Avalune

    O.M.G. These sweaters and scarves are gorgeous! Love love love.

    Now I kind of want to see Penelope in a sweater.

  82. 82.

    ziggy

    The scarves are lovely, but I think the photo of the duck getting it off is hilarious! Good for them, my chickens would be scarved for life if I tried that.

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