I heard through the grapevine that from now until election results are known, some folks need some extra respite. I’m here to oblige.
Friends and family all sent me this, so I have to share. Trixie has been showing signs of a false pregnancy and I’m grateful her symptoms have subsided without us having to add to our brood. She’s scheduled to be spayed in Dec (when I’ll be home for the entire month for her recovery). It’s a bit early, but she’s had a difficult time with her hormones since she was about 6 months, so early seems prudent. For those that don’t know, large breeds need to be at least a year, preferably 18 months before they are neutered – they need those hormones for bone and joint health.
Let me tell you, those last 6 months are very challenging. Very. Challenging.
And here’s another Dane being an awesome foster…
Bixby was great with fosters. My friends’ fostered puppies after they lost their dog and weren’t ready to adopt yet. When each litter was ready, we’d bring Bixby over, and he would do his thing. And his thing was giving these little ones confidence. He would let them play on him, chase him, and when they would attack him, he’d roll over like they’d conquered the intruder. For most, it was what they needed to become more outgoing and, thus, more adoptable. And I had a good time, too. Puppies!
Scout pretending I’m not there. (And thanks to Watergirl for solving the mystery of how to get the photos to enlarge, click to embiggen).
I gave the dogs beef bones yesterday. The first time since Jasper arrived. I was concerned about disagreements but had the time yesterday to supervise. Jasper behaved himself like the gentleman that he is, and it was clear from his joy, he had never had such an awesome treat before. He’d come inside for a little while and then would want to go back outside to relish his treasure. It was a very peaceful afternoon. LOL
This is a RESPITE open thread…
TaMara
I’m off to salvage the remainder of my tomatoes before the big freeze tonight. Have fun.
Jerzy Russian
You know how archeologists put rulers in their pictures of artifacts for scale? You need to do the same with a yardstick.
There are a lot of things I did not know about large dogs. For example, their food and water bowls should be elevated since they tend to gulp their food and the elevation makes it so that they take in less air (I learned this at a craft fair). I will add the 18 month rule to the list.
mrmoshpotato
Magnificent beasts!
Happy football Saturday!
Go Hawkeyes!
TaMara
@Jerzy Russian: LOL – here they are to scale
Couch potatoes
Jerzy Russian
@TaMara: I see a Disney movie in your future, something along the lines of “Honey I Unshrunk the Dogs”.
mrmoshpotato
mrmoshpotato
@TaMara:
Can ya blame them with that couch? It beckons for potatoes.
zhena gogolia
Thanks for respite!
trollhattan
Giant, giant speedbumps are giant. Such regal lugs.
Weirdness going on in China, with Xi seemingly physically disposing of his predecessor Hu Jintao. Xi’s power quest has no upper bound.
Also, Iranians killed in Ukraine? Would be interesting if so, as they’re evidently providing drone operators in addition to the drones.
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: Yo!
MomSense
I’m knitting a backpack. Never made one before, but this pattern calls for weaving scraps into the knitted fabric and I have A LOT of scraps. Sometimes you finish a project and you have just the tiniest bit of yarn left over and I just can’t get rid of it because it is so pretty. I’m looking forward to playing with all the colors and textures. I just finished the bag and one strap. I’m going to knit the second strap and then pull out my scrap boxes and start putting colors together. Yes boxes. I said I have A LOT of scraps.
Betty Cracker
This good boy completed one trip around the sun today!
kalakal
Down the scale from ginormous dogs but came across some great macro photos of jumping spiders the other day. Enjoy
http://thomasshahan.com/#photos
mrmoshpotato
@MomSense: Hold up a second. Are you saying you’re making a backpack out of yarn? Am I understanding this correctly?
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: Hooray!
MomSense
@mrmoshpotato:
Ayuh! A backpack out of yarn! I may even drag out the old sewing machine and make a fabric liner with pockets for my wicked smaht phone and keys.
MomSense
@Betty Cracker:
Happy birthday!! Such a cutie.
Kelly
Respite? Rain in the PNW! The smoke is gone! More rain as far the forecast reaches. There’s snow on ground at the Cascade Passes. Fire season is over at last.
raven
Artie has been doing so well at the dog park. . .until this morning when she go really aggressive with a couple of doggies that she has played with a number of times. Nothing bad, she didn’t really hurt any dogs but she was a beeetchhhh!
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
🎁🎉🎈🍰🎂🎉🧁🐾
MomSense
@raven:
Damn. My dog does that too sometimes. She is much better with other dogs off leash but off leash is not possible unless I arrange for a special play date with a dog she likes.
mrmoshpotato
@Kelly: Woo hoo!
Betty Cracker
@raven: How did you handle it?
trollhattan
@Kelly: Good! We’re headed to PDX next week and I’m not remotely prepared for 57 and rain, given it’s barely fall here, but it should be an interesting contrast. WCC cross country championships.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: No, it can’t possibly have been a year already!
Doug R
I know with my son of a feral cat boy, I waited a year to neuter him. It got so that I was getting worried at how much I was yelling at him for his constant “leg hound”.
Scout211
@mrmoshpotato:
What!? Another Hawkeye fan? Sweet. (My alma mater).
Or are you just a Buckeye hater? (Always acceptable!)
Jackie
@Betty Cracker: Pete!🥰
Happy Birthday!
Jackie
@Kelly: YES! I’ve never been so happy to have rainy, chilly weather!
Next week I’ll be complaining LOL
eclare
@Betty Cracker: Happy birthday Petey! I hope mama gives you extra treats!
Cameron
Sweet post. Big dog, big heart.
Hilfy
Thank you for the respite. I needed that.
NeenerNeener
@Betty Cracker: Wow! That’s the little butterball that startled your Boston so badly the first time he trotted into the room?
CaseyL
Happy Birthday to Pete!
Another Seattleite here saying YES to the rain and chilliness. Normal Seattle weather at last!
Question: What are we supposed to call “Indian Summer” now? TBH, I never thought the term was an ethnic slur. Quite the opposite. As a child, I thought it was a gift: that, thanks to the Indians/Native Americans, we had an extra bit of summer no one else did. So I quite liked the term.
Quiltingfool
New kitty update!
Progress: Yesterday Allie spent all day with me in the sewing room!
Backslide: Mr. Quiltingfool came home (works out of town all week) and she was a bit freaked out. She has retreated to her safe corner, but she has graced us with her presence, and she stares at Mr QFool. She has no problem with him petting her, though.
I think she knows the word “No.”. She hopped up on the dining room table, I pointed my finger at her and sternly told her “No!” and she hopped down…but I suspect she will venture up there again when I’m not around, lol!
raven
@Betty Cracker: I let it go since she didn’t really hurt any of the other pups. It’s a pretty understanding group at this dog park even though it’s at the VFW!
eclare
@Quiltingfool: Allie in the sewing room, yay! Give her time, she’ll work her way up to supervisor.
Betty Cracker
@NeenerNeener: He is!
@raven: Glad everyone was cool about it. I’m trying to assert more leadership over my dogs to curb aggression, so I’m interested in how others set boundaries.
WaterGirl
@Quiltingfool: She thought she understood her new world, and then another human pops in from out of nowhere!
Is he gone every week for work? She might like that. :-)
Alison Rose
Baby goats romping about in pajamas. The best.
Quiltingfool
@WaterGirl: Well, she really liked him last weekend…and he fussed over her quite a bit. As she has lived in a shelter most of her young life, living in a house is much different, I expect. She just needs more time getting comfortable; a kitten would probably be running the house by now!
I chose an older cat because of all the threads I have on the floor of the sewing room. Kittens would have a greater tendency to eat those threads, not good. Allie showed zero interest towards the thread. She did hop up on my small ironing tables and proceed to wallow on a #25 Ukraine block, though. Typical cat behavior.
Speaking of #25 blocks, time to go to the quilt cave and do some work on them…the pieces are fused on the background fabric, now I’m doing machine appliqué. So, not too much longer for you folks waiting for that block!
Got some lovely thank you notes! My post office ladies had no problem figuring out who “Quiltingfool” is, lol!
Damned as Random
Can’t tell you how happy the NW rain makes me. I live in a small town by a large fire. We had a mandatory evacuation for 3 days last month and our air quality has ranged from merely unhealthy to flat out hazardous for weeks. The state of Oregon passed out free HEPA filters. Last night I heard rain on the roof and started to cry. This mornings AQI is 1!
Sorry about Trixie’s “pregnancy.” Hope she isn’t too uncomfortable
MomSense
@Quiltingfool:
💕💕💕💕
Miss Bianca
@Betty Cracker: Peeeeeete!!
A year old already!
raven
@Betty Cracker: She was so horribly abused that I don’t want to make her fearful. She freaks out with the slightest little slap on the ass but she gets over it quickly so I may have to do that.
Miss Bianca
@NeenerNeener: OMG, I have watched that little Pete and Badger clip so many times now…!
sab
@MomSense: What a great idea, but I do not need more projects.
I’d be more likely to knit a purse for me. But my granddaughter in first grade would love a knitted backpack.
CaseyL
@Quiltingfool:
When it comes to “No,” cats have no object permanence. It’s always conditional, contextual, even if you’re right there staring at them.
(I love watching cats stare at their humans while knocking things off tables.)
Spanky
@Kelly: Obligatory.
Geminid
@trollhattan: The morning thread is still rolling.
mrmoshpotato
@Scout211:
Lemme put it this way – my team has a bye week, and I wasn’t rooting for Iowa on October 1st.
MomSense
@sab:
It’s an easy pattern and it looks cool.
https://www.woolandpine.com/whidbey-bag Whidbey bag
Kelly
@Spanky: Alternate lyrics:
I can breathe clearly now the rain is here
raven
@mrmoshpotato: Go Illini, Go Dawgs!!!
Baud
@Kelly:
Nevermind. I didn’t click up thread enough.
Dan B
@Kelly: I sent Satby a picture of the Hepa filter taped to a box fan in our tightly sealed house. It ran for over one week and was charcoal gray. Seattle air – OMG!
Kelly
Heading over to Mom’s to watch Ducks vs UCLA. My maternal grandfather was a big football fan. Many weekend afternoons watching games with him, Mom and a bunch of cousins. Grandchildren were the remote control back then and split screen was a small black and white set next to the color tv.
mrmoshpotato
@raven: That’s next week. (Gonna be fun watching you and BettyC during the game).
And I suspect the Illini will shuck some corn.
mrmoshpotato
@Kelly:
We did that too. Good ol’ rabbit ears.
rikyrah
Love the videos🤗🤗🤗
WaterGirl
@Quiltingfool:
That’s funny!
In college, a good friend had to do a semester internship in Peoria and we all wrote letters back then. She couldn’t remember the street number, so she addressed it to:
WaterGirl
California St., cocker spaniel out front
Urbana, IL 61801
Our postman knew exactly who to deliver it to!
Alison Rose
@mrmoshpotato: At first glance, I thought that said “suck some corn” and I was like, is that a Midwestern insult I’m not familiar with
sab
@MomSense: Thanks.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Wow, an internship in Peoria. That must have been competitive to get.
mrmoshpotato
@Alison Rose:
LOL! Well, I guess it could be! Telling someone to suck an egg isn’t exactly a compliment after all.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Remembering back to election night coverage on CBS (’64? ’68?).
Technology at the time allowed (barely) for a split screen image to be broadcast in thirds, but four simultaneous images was beyond any network capabilities. There were multiple live feeds CBS intended to show in a 2 by 2 grid so they set up a tower of four Sony Trinitron TVs, a pair of each stacked atop each other, using black electrician’s tape to mask the words Sony and Trinitron on each of them, then focused a camera on those.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Ha!
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Hahaha! Bravo to whomever came up with that idea.
kalakal
@WaterGirl: Ha! HAL 9000 was from Urbana
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: I’ve actually been to Peoria.
raven
@mrmoshpotato: We don’t talk about it.
raven
@mrmoshpotato: You said bye week.
sab
I did not know that about late spaying of huge breeds. My vet when my german shepherd was a pup (she was not a huge breed but she turned out to be a huge girl) used to remind me that ” we charge by the pound because of the anasthetics.” Granted, in retrospect he wasn’t a very good vet.
Seefleur
@MomSense: Please to post a photo of your finished backpack!!
Torrey
@MomSense:
That does look cool. I’m starting to glance speculatively at my stash.