From our raffle winner! Bobby Thomson:
We have five cats but Jade spends the most time in the bed. We love the quilt! There’s a lot of detail to find as it settles in, and the colors, shapes, and message are all great.
Tail is up, it looks like Jade has declared that the quilt passes kitty-muster!
I have a quilt from Quiltingfool, too, and I can confirm the noticing of little details as time goes on. Just lovely!
Open thread!
DarkSiubhan
Jade is a lovely kitty, and the quilt is spectacular!
Dorothy A. Winsor
At first, the second picture looked like one of those pics you see of the Loch Ness monster.
Beautiful quilt!
SiubhanDuinne
@DarkSiubhan:
Whoops, forgot to change back my nym!
SiubhanDuinne
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Brontosaurus tail!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I like DarkSiubhan!
But I suppose I have to agree that it might be best reserved for certain occasions.
WaterGirl
After working 90 hours in 10 days (not counting anything blog-related) I feel like I am no longer behind and can afford to take the day off. I am trying to remember how to just chill.
mrmoshpotato
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Sneaky kitties have been fooling people for decades!
Loch Ness tail!
kalakal
That’s a beautiful cat and a gorgeous quilt. Or the other way round.
very nice indeed!
Mel
@WaterGirl: You deserve it. Today should be a “do only what you want to do, and the hell with everything else” day.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Yeah, somebody used it in a comment last night and I thought I’d better get the moderation out of the way so I can grab it quickly if I need it!
ETA: And I completely agree with Mel. You deserve a nice long break!
HinTN
@WaterGirl: What sumptuous summer meal are you having prepared?
ETA: We went with okra and tomatoes, with Anaheim peppers, and yellow squash with onions and cheese, all over rice.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
lovely quilt, lovely cat….
And, Jade, feel free to step on (or sleep on) the dog image! This quilt belongs to you!
different-church-lady
Just making a public statement that this is going to be my reply to nearly everything for a bit.
Old Dan and Little Ann
My first MLB game with my dad was cancelled due to Covid 2 years ago. Yankees vs. Pirates. I’ve been bitter since. Anyway, I just bought tickets to see the Braves vs. Pirates in a few weeks. Better late than never. He just turned 79. We have seen countless sporting events together but never a MLB game. It’s criminal it took this long.
WaterGirl
@HinTN: Sadly, no one to prepare a special meal for me!
I do have spicy peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and cucumber in the garden. And I have some enchilada sauce and tortillas.
Maybe I’ll make cheese, onion and spicy pepper enchiladas, topped with tomatoes and a side of grilled zucchini, onion, and peppers stirred into rice. (*rice not from the garden)
That’s all I’ve got – I haven’t had time to go to the store yet!
But I did make some homemade chocolate and vanilla pudding.
Yatsuno
@SiubhanDuinne: Okay ya got me curious…
EDIT: IT STILL WORKS!!!
Barbara
@Old Dan and Little Ann: Wow. My first ballgame with my dad came when I was 6. It was Pirates (Home) v. Giants. Juan Marechal was pitching. My dad loved excellence.
raven
@Old Dan and Little Ann: I saw an epic fight in Three Rivers. It looked like a bunch of steel workers and the cops just stayed out of it!
SiubhanDuinne
@Yatsuno:
Wait, what? Curious about what? What still works? WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO, YUTSIE??
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
I love everything about Pittsburgh except their MLB team. GO BRAVES!!!
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
@Yatsuno:
Ahhhh!! Not Yutsie but Yatsie!! Congrats! I’ve missed that dude.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
I think I could make it in time for dinner if I leave now and drive like a maniac.
zhena gogolia
If that was one of my late kittehs, the quilt would be in sad shape in a very short while. I hope Jade is more polite.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: That would be fun!
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: Only 9 hour days…slacker.
FelonyGovt
What time should I be over? Can I bring wine?
FelonyGovt
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: I was going to comment that the beautiful kitty doesn’t even seem to mind Patron the dog on that lovely quilt!
SiubhanDuinne
@FelonyGovt:
See you there. I’m stopping in TN on my way to WaterGirl’s place.
Ken
@zhena gogolia:
HUMAN: “I spent sixty bucks on a custom rope-and-bark scratching post, and you sharpen your claws on the couch?”
CAT: “The couch cost more, and I know you only want the best for me.”
indycat32
Cats seem to have an affinity for quilts. I can’t get a picture of one of mine without Henry photo bombing it. And the moment I put fabric on my cutting table to start a new one, there’s Ollie checking it out to make sure I made the right choice, or more accurately taking a nap on the nice new, freshly pressed fabric.
Bobby Thomson
Awww. Thanks for the compliments for Jade – she’s quite a lover when she isn’t trying to kill us.
WaterGirl
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: At least my time was at the computer, not having to run around the store and load things into vehicles.
But I’ll bet you are in better shape than I am! :-)
prostratedragon
@indycat32: See CAT reply in comment just previous.
WaterGirl
@FelonyGovt: I would gladly take dinner with you and Subaru Diane any day of the week!
WaterGirl
@Ken: My kitty soulmate, Quiver, used to help me make the bed. Every day. He didn’t scratch it up, but he definitely wanted to be “helping” whenever I made the bed or changed the sheets!
WaterGirl
@Bobby Thomson: I could only remember your real name and not your nym, and I was too lazy to go looking for it.
I can add your nym up top now that you have kindly supplied it for me!
HinTN
@WaterGirl: I highly recommend sliced cucumbers and tomatoes with an oil and red wine vinegar dressing. Add salt and pepper to thre dressing. Let it sit. Ooh la la, and so easy.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: I don’t do much loading into vehicles, that’s mainly the lot guys. I put stuff out in the staging area to put on trucks. I do run around the store quite a bit, I’ve lost over 50lbs in the past year.
HinTN
@SiubhanDuinne: Come on!
hueyplong
@Barbara: My first live MLB game also featured Juan Marichal. Lots of futile attempts to copy his high leg kick.
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s always good to know my emergency nym can help in case FYWP doesn’t like the current vowel arrangement.
Was that ever figured out? I just tried the regular way one day and it was back to normal.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@raven: I was at Opening Day at Three Rivers in 93. Flag giveaway night. Whoever played the Pirates that night had one of those little league Grand Slams. The Pirates threw the ball all over the field on one play. Bad News Bears Style. At least 2 or 3 errors on one batted ball. I may have been one of the few fans who didn’t throw my flag onto the field.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
i dunno. That was very weird, for sure. A long time ago, too — 8, 9, maybe 10 years? One loses track.
WaterGirl
@HinTN: Interesting, I will have to think about that. I tend to make gazpacho, which does have olive oil and vinegar but also V-8, red peppers, spicy peppers, garlic, parsley, etc.
WaterGirl
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA: Holy cow! I guess 20,000 steps a day will do that!
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: If you tell me it’s 30,000 steps, my head will explode, so break it to me gently.
The Quiet One
One of the first games with my dad, KC Athletes versus someone at old Municipal stadium. Picture day, down on the field and dad taking pictures with his new camera. Pictures shooting out the bottom. Hey, lets have a look at that says my favorite player, Dick Green. I end up on the players side of the rope line with the Athletes 2nd baseman getting my picture taken!! Memories!! I was maybe 10 years old.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: Eh, should I tell you…30k is about average. When I first started, I’d average 35k, but I’m better at it and walk less.
hueyplong
@The Quiet One: Seems likely it was in 1965 or 1966. Green played a lot of 3B in 1967,
Villago Delenda Est
@Old Dan and Little Ann:
I took my Mom and Dad to a Yankees vs. Mariners game; my Mom wore her Yankee hat. I also took them to a couple of Seahawks games. Good times.
The Quiet One
@hueyplong: I don’t recall that. I played 2nd in little league and Dick Green was the MAN.
That quilt is breathtaking by the way!!
PAM Dirac
@Barbara: My Dad took me to to a Memorial Day doubleheader back when Memorial Day was always May 30 (my birthday) and doubleheaders were real doubleheaders. I didn’t realize it at the time, but it was the first time the Dodgers were back in NY after the move out west. They played the Mets at the Polo Grounds. I remembered Gil Hodges hit a home run a couple of rows from us in the left field bleachers and the Mets pulled off a triple play.
Mo MacArbie
My first game was Royals at Yankees, ’77 or ’78. I’m not sure which. Both teams went to the playoffs both years, and the same for the NL too. I was still puzzling out why my ’78 cards only went to ’77 on the back. It was all very confusing.
Quiltingfool
This quilt now belongs to Jade, she has claimed it. Sorry, them’s the rules! My cat claims all the quilts in the house (not sale quilts, she never goes into the bedroom where I keep those quilts!). Baby only interferes with my sewing when she desperately needs some attention, and she likes lounging on my small ironing table because it’s usually warm – I use a wool pressing pad and those stay warm for quite a while.
Say, I’ve gotten several (14) donation squares ready to go in the quilting machine! (I’ll make more, not done yet). I’m juggling several other projects (2 custom quilts and a hospice quilt – my quilt guild does lots of donation work). Very enjoyable – it isn’t work if you love what you do!
Back to “work!”
realbtl
My first memories of M:B is listening to Vin Scully and Jerry Dogget (sp?) broadcasting Dodgers games from the colosseum on my new tiny transistor radio. Yes I am old, why do you ask?
Baud
@🐾BillinGlendaleCA:
Wow. I need to get a job at Home Depot.
raven
@Old Dan and Little Ann: Better than batteries!
raven
@realbtl: Same here but I had one of those crystal sets.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: Me too! Except I can’t walk at all right now.
eclare
Thank you for the photos of Jade’s new quilt!
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
People don’t want to work anymore.
The Quiet One
Ball park memories! One of the quirks of old Municipal stadium in KC was the parking situation. My dad wanted to get close and probably half the neighborhood had parking signs in their yards. 50 cents, maybe a dollar at one time. All very cordial as I remember, handshakes or slap on the back thanking dad for parking in their yard. I doubt many parks were like that.
🐾BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: r/antiwork.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@FelonyGovt: as long as that quilt smells like that kitty, the kitty won’t mind the images on it at all.
EVERYTHING IN MY TERRITORY MUST SMELL LIKE ME.
Yes, I am owned by a cat. Why do you ask?
Yutsano
Hmm…
Dog open thread.
Cat open thread.
I’m detecting a distinct lack of chinchilla representation here.
mrmoshpotato
@Yutsano:
Chinchilla, eh? You a Bob’s Burgers fan?
Barbara
@PAM Dirac: I saw a doubleheader between Bucs and Mets — Tom Seaver and Jerry Koozman. Seaver not only won he had the winning RBI. Yep, we saw a lot of low scoring hometown losses. A really fond memory of my dad, among the many not so fond.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: The lack of capybara posts is probably why SoonerGrunt never shows up anymore.
SFBayAreaGal
My first MLB game was a SF Giants game at Candlestick Park. My girlfriend dad took us to the game. We sat between home and first base.
The grass was so green, the smell of peanuts, hot dogs, the background noise from the fans, and seeing Juan Marichal pitch (the way he leaned back it looked like he was touching the ground) is why I fell in love with baseball.
Saw many games at Candlestick. When I drive by where Candlestick was I still feel a little sadness that it’s no longer there.
NotMax
Oy.
Made a special run into town solely to pick up a quart of exterior paint.
STICKER SHOCK
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: He’s busy posting rock vids on Facebook!
skerry
@Yutsano: We had two chinchillas when my kids were young. Great pets.
trollhattan
@SFBayAreaGal: Freeze in summer, roast in fall, that was the Candlestick weather recipe.
PAM Dirac
@Barbara: Excellent. Mets year 1 was NOT low scoring losses :-) It was Marvelous Marv Thronberry and Jay Hook, and a whole parade of expansion quality players. That and Casey Stengel saying “Can’t anyone here play this game?”. But it was baseball and it wasn’t the Yankees, so that was good enough for me
ETA: I made some money betting on the miracle Mets in ’69 series against the Orioles. Wasn’t some great insight, just happy memories from earlier times. Seaver and Koosman showed how good they were.
raven
If you swing by the Athens Ga Lowes the Cub Scouts will sell you a bag of caramel corn for $14!!!
I was busy getting my 10% vets discount when my wife and Artie struck up a conversation with the scouts and, when I came out, she needed another buck to make the buy!
Jay
@Baud:
nope.
JMG
Not that I’m old, but my first baseball game (I was six, Dad took me) featured Jackie Robinson and the BROOKLYN Dodgers. Dodgers beat my Phillies 3-2 in extra innings.
J R in WV
My dad was never a huge sports fan, other than WVU where he and all the rest of my family went. But they spent winters in the Sarasota area, where MLB had a lot of grapefruit league games, which were cheap and fun. Hot dogs that were actual sausages, with sauerkraut, and ice cold beers.
And superstar players trying to get healthy and primed for a long pro season. Saw a lot of famous players, playing ball but taking it easy, no one wanted to get injured in a game that didn’t even count. Big fun, tho, for folks in the stands.
SFBayAreaGal
@trollhattan: Yup. Hot dog wrappers and peanut shells circling around each other when the winds started blowing.
Many times I sat at Candlestick during the summer wearing my ski jacket, gloves, and ski hat to stay warm.