Hey everybody,
You guys have 6 days to get us your calendar pics so your beloved pets can be famous for a month.
Please send email to watergirl or pet-calendar (at balloon-juice.com).
Let me know your Balloon Juice screen name (nym) and the names of your pets, and I will reply with the upload site and instructions. About 100 90 people who had pet pics in last year’s calendar haven’t contacted me yet. Not interested, or just busy?
How about new peeps? This could be the year you don’t just think about it.
All we need right now are the names of the pets, and then you have 6 days to pick the perfect photos. :-)
HinTN
Can you confirm mine arrived and are accounted for?
Ken
I sort of have pets, thanks to someone who said that since I started feeding the birds, I was morally obliged to continue. Now vast swarms of them darken the skies as they converge on my balcony, and I’m going bankrupt buying the tons of seed they scarf down every day. I haven’t named any of them, though.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ken:
Tippi? Tippi Hedren? That you?
HinTN
@Ken: Black oil sunflower seeds have doubled in price here. I will gladly go broke feeding the ravening horde.
WaterGirl
@HinTN: 3 photos, all good file sizes!
Beth and I are waiting to look at the pictures together, so I can’t comment on the photos yet. :-)
Ken
@HinTN: The mix I buy has some sunflower seeds, but the horde is almost all little brown birds* and they prefer the smaller seeds, though they eventually get around to the sunflower seeds.
Their latest trick is dust-bathing in some planters that I have on the balcony. The plants died and I’ll get around to doing something with the dirt, assuming any is left after they’ve all taken a turn.
* Sparrows? Wrens? Finches? I dunno. Google says that “little brown bird” or “little brown job” is a perfectly cromulent term, though.
Elie
I took care of it today… thanks for the reminders, Watergirl!
mreingold
photo sent via email
bluegirlfromwyo
It was fun picking photos of my dear departed little dude for this. Thanks, WaterGirl!
hueyplong
This process reminds me of how excited we were when we first saw His Satanic Majesty at the local county shelter. It’s a nice memory.
UncleEbeneezer
@Ken: Since this is an open thread, here’s a killer version of Feed The Birds, by one of my fave jazz guitarists, Kurt Rosenwinkel.
WaterGirl
@bluegirlfromwyo: We need the file name to be the pet’s name, so I renamed them buddy, buddy bath time and buddy yawning.
He looks sweet. I’m sorry he’s gone.
Dr. Fungus
Sent. Let’s see if the pesky line break in my nym is still vanquished.
ETA: Yes. Yes, it was. ?
MomSense
I don’t think there was a place to submit the names of the pets. Mine is Korra and my grandpup is Kebo
WaterGirl
@MomSense: That was supposed to be in the naming of the files that were uploaded.
But I know what Korra looks like so it was easy to know who Kebo was!