I keep running across more and more kindness stories. I think it’s because I’m suddenly focused on them and when I’m scrolling or the news is running in the background, my brain hones in on the good news. It does a soul good.
If you listen to Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, this was featured a week or so ago and you may know the story. Steve Hartman, a man after my own heart, searching out stories of the best of us, followed up with a video:
See these two? Look innocent, don’t they? But Nick has been up to trouble all weekend and I’m trying to catch it on video. And later this week, another two days of sub-zero temps will bring them back into the bathroom. Which I was dreading, until I realized that Willow is so fascinated by them, this might actually be fun. Messy, but fun. If this weather keeps up, I may have to have a fundraiser to buy them a heated coop!
And here they are wearing MomSense’s beautiful handiwork. Makes me a little wistful, missing Maddie, Mabel and Penelope, so stylish in them previously.
There are a few more photos here. I just want everyone to know, I almost lost a limb with these two – they are large and not playing – so don’t expect it again. LOL
Open thread
TaMara
I’m off to run errands while the weather is still sunny and warm…play nice.
Spanky
Am I the only one that reads that as “co-op”?
JPL
Both videos melted my heart. Thanks so much!
Redshift
Awww! So cute!
zhena gogolia
Great post! Love it all. MomSense is a hero.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Today I learned that Uma Thurman’s dad is a famous Buddhist teacher.
My wife was listening to a podcast that had this American Buddhist scholar on, and he was talking about how the Dalai Lama used to be a frequent visitor to his house, and I asked my wife, “who is this guy? Must be a big name if he hangs out with the Dalai Lama.”
She told me his name was Robert Thurman. So I googled him and found he has five children, one of whom is named Uma, and I said, wait a minute, that can’t actually be THE Uma Thurman, could it?
It is. Uma’s name and those of her siblings are all apparently significant in Tibetan Buddhism.
And that means Uma grew up hanging out with the Dalai Lama.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Spanky:
Nope. That word features prominently in the text exchanges between my wife and I because the local co-op grocery (and we both usually omit the hyphen) is a frequent rendezvous point.
narya
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Yeah, there’s a good recent interview w/ him on the Ten Percent Happier site, under their podcasts. I seem to remember a profile in the FYNYT about him and his wife, too.
John Cole
I think you are lying they look like they were born in those scarves and love them.
zhena gogolia
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: He was an Amherst professor.
MazeDancer
Biting the hand that feeds them? Not smart, ducks.
But they look so dapper in the scarves. And almost blank without them.
debbie
Nick and Nora could be out strolling down the Avenue in the Easter Parade!
mrmoshpotato
“What is snow, people?” LOL
JoyceH
If it’s social media, you run across more of them because you click on them, so the algorithms offer you more things like the thing you clicked. That’s why my Facebook feed has so many cat videos.
That’s why it always interests me when people talk about how angry and nasty social media is – that’s the wolf you feed. My social media is so cuddly it’s almost sickening.
ColoradoGuy
The local Colorado forecast is THREE DAYS of snow; usually it’s 8 to 12 hours. So we’ll see how high it gets. Unusual winter: zero precipitation right through the last day of 2020, and snowfalls (or blizzards) every five days after that. The difference between Colorado and points East is the brilliant sunshine and very dry air makes the snow go away in a matter of days, except in shaded locations. Hope the ducks are OK with that.
JoyceH
@Spanky:
Reminds me of the old joke – how can you tell a chemist from a plumber? Ask them to pronounce ‘unionized’.
MomSense
@zhena gogolia:
Tamara is clearly the hero – she risked life and limb!
MomSense
So I think you are saying that I should make them hats next? Or perhaps vests?
zhena gogolia
@MomSense: Haha, yeah!
mrmoshpotato
@MomSense: Duck booties!
eclare
So cute! I never knew that my life needed ducks.
germy
For antenna TV viewers, tonight at 8:00 the ABC network will be showing the Summer of Soul.
A great documentary with great music.
Scout211
@germy:
Thank you. DVR set to record.
zhena gogolia
@germy: I love it. I’m watching it on Disney+ as I do my P/T exercises. (Just got through with my second viewing of Get Back, so this came along just in time.) It’s so well done and interesting.
Baud
@germy:
@zhena gogolia:
Thanks. Added to my Disney+ watchlist.
MomSense
@germy:
It was so good.
raven
@MomSense: Did you really think so? I mean some of it was good but it seemed to drag and the gospel left me cold. Different strokes I guess. I thought Wattstaxx was way better.
debbie
@germy:
I’m surprised it’s on antenna already. It hasn’t been out all that long. ??♀️
Scuffletuffle
@MomSense: vests!
zhena gogolia
@raven: Hmm. that’s on Prime, I’ll have to check it out.
I didn’t really like the gospel part either, but I really like the commenters and a lot of the other music.
Brachiator
@germy:
Very cool. Thanks for the tip. I will be recording it.
Starfish
@ColoradoGuy: How much snow should we box up to send to those kids in Florida?