We’re still shooting for 2023 Balloon Juice Pet Calendars to be available for order on December 1.
We need your help TODAY in order to make our deadline!
You have ONE MORE DAY to get your pics in if you haven’t done so already. This is only possible because I am behind on the calendar so getting your photos in TODAY won’t delay anything, Silver lining to my being late, I guess. I shouldn’t have been lollygagging these past few weeks. :-)
There are issues with some of the photos. If you are on the list below, we need: either a higher resolution photo (because your file was tiny) or we need a different photo for one reason or another.
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2023 |
bquimby | Baby Lola | tiny | |
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2023 |
Daniel Price | Esme | tiny | |
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2023 |
Gordie | Percy + Cece |
tiny |
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2023 |
Lord Fartdaddy | Athelbert | tiny | |
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2023 |
SusanE | Sadie | need different photo | |
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2023 |
Wileybud | Rascal | need different photo |
These people have sent some of the pets I expected, but not all.
Sherparik – we don’t have either Farley or Murphy
Watership – I believe your 5 are coming today.
Van Buren – I seem to have Rosie but not Fiona.
If you planned to send pics but haven’t sent them yet, please send them TODAY.
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We have 300 pet pics for the calendar, so there are two BJ Pet Calendars again this year. We are calling them Calendar A and Calendar B, just as we have been doing.
If you submitted photos of more than one pet, all of your pets will be placed in either Calendar A or Calendar B.
Please check the Pet Calendar links in the sidebar.
This is your chance to make sure we get it right.
If your pet is no longer with us, you can have a heart next to their name, if you like.
Please check for:
Are all of your pets listed with your nym?Is the spelling of your pet’s name correct?Is the word “heart” there if you should have a heart for your pet? And empty if it should be empty?Are ALL of your pets listed with the same calendar? (look for either A or B)
The pages in the sidebar aren’t posts, so you can’t comment there.
If anything is incorrect for your pets, or if you have questions, please comment in this thread to let me know about it.
Update: Even if you find your nym in Calendar A, please check Calendar B to verify that one of your pets didn’t accidentally land in the other calendar.
SiubhanDuinne
Coffee’s still brewing, and I am uncaffeinated, but I can’t even find the sidebar, let alone the Pet Calendar links. Just find-raising thermometers and such.
(I found a Pet Calendar 2021 link in the hamburger, but I don’t think that’s what you mean.)
jeffreyw
New ginger Boy pic sent to the dropbox link. Sorry I missed earlier plea, if any.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, I have since lined that out for now. That will be for the next step.
But I do have one issue with your pics that is probably most easily handled by phone. Might you have a chance to call me today?
pat
I too looked for the pet calendar link in the sidebar and could not find it….
Josie
@SiubhanDuinne: I’ve had one cup of coffee. Maybe I need more. Found the side bar, but no pet calendar links.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl: Sure. How about now? Does now work for you?
ETA: Can’t find your phone number. Will email you.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
I’ll get a bigger shot in forthwith.
jeffreyw
Resent a pic to this year’s dropbox link. Mea Culpa
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: Thank you! We LOVED the first pic, but it looked like it had gone through a filter, so we couldn’t use it. :-(
The one you just sent is nice, but do you have the original of this one?
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: I had already checked the 2022 link when you said you had sent it, and moved it over. I wasn’t going to say anything. :-)
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl: That is the original, one of a few I snapped with the phone in very low light.
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: Oh, maybe we can use it, then. We just couldn’t set the precedent of having “filtered” images in the calendar. I’ll talk with Beth! thank you.
Such a wonderful photo!
jeffreyw
@WaterGirl:
Great, much grass!
rekoob
@WaterGirl —
Attached a picture of Floyd to an email to you. Didn’t see another way to get it to you today. I’ll be away from my computer this afternoon, but I’ll check again.
Many thanks!
WaterGirl
@rekoob: Got it! It’s still the same size, though, so Floyd will be in the calendar but it will need to be a small photo because of the resolution.
cintibud
Hi. I had to put down my little boy Sonny last week. I would like to send of picture of him. I can’t find a link or an email address though. Could you please let me know? Thanks
WaterGirl
@cintibud: I”m sorry you lost your boy.
Send an email to my nym at balloon-juice.com and I will send you the upload link and the instructions.
Anyone who wants their pet in the calendar can still do that if you send me email today and get your photos uploaded by tomorrow
edit: the email you use for Balloon Juice doesn’t look like a real one, so I can’t send you email.
cintibud
I’ve been meaning to post about Sonny, haven’t had the motivation to do a proper obit, but below is his rescue story.
I really miss my little boy
Sonny. 6/2007 (approx.) – 11/15/2022. Rescue date 9/8/2007
It was the fall of 2007. We had purchased a cabin near the WV, MD and PA border, very close to my favorite whitewater river, the Upper Youghiogheny (Yough). I was at the cabin by myself for a couple of days for the last whitewater releases of the season, one on the Upper Yough Saturday and the Savage on Sunday.
I drove to the put in with my kayak for the Upper Yough where I would meet some friends. It was yet early so there were not many people at the gravel parking lot. The lot was in a mowed field, separated from the river by a 30-40 ft buffer zone of trees. When I stepped out of the car I immediately heard a loud and persistent meowing, so exaggerated that I asked my friend “Is that a catbird?” “No, it’s a real cat” he said and pointed to an adorable golden kitten with long fur that was running up to the people in the field. He would shy away from quick moves but would run to outstretched hands, rubbing into them accepting petting and purring and loudly meowing again as they moved away. I went over myself to the kitten and he greedily accepted my pets and scritches. I was very conflicted, it was an adorable kitty, obviously abandoned, but I was 6 hours away from home and we had only recently had dropped to only having 3 cats. I was sure someone would rescue this cutie but everyone I asked, “Want a kitten?” would give a little smile, some excuse and walked away.
My group was putting on the river and it was time for me to join them. I forgot about the kitty as I was soon occupied by the class IV rapids. It was a wonderful time on the river but once we got to the calmer waters before the takeout my thoughts went back to the little guy. Once off the river and changed and loaded my friend drove me back to the put in to get my car. I was rather alarmed as we approached to see several dogs playing in the field loose. I anxiously walked back into the wooded buffer zone and called “kitty, kitty!” and heard an answering meow from above. He was on a branch 15 feet above the ground. I wasn’t sure what to do. I had a commitment to help some folks down the Savage river, an hour away, the next day and was going home from there. I didn’t want to leave a strange kitten in my car for hours while I was on the river nor did I want to leave him alone in our cabin. I knew I should also check with my wife before I did anything. Nevertheless I told the kitty “Wait here, I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon.”
That evening I called my wife and told her about the kitten. She said to bring him home. I began to regret that I didn’t bring the kitty to the cabin with me.
The next morning I closed up the cabin, grabbed an empty Rubbermaid storage box, loaded my gear and went to the Savage river, 45 min in the opposite direction from the upper Yough. Again I had a great day, said goodbye to my friends and drove back to the Upper Yough put in, stopping in Friendsville along the way to pick up a packet cat food.
The put in was deserted. The day before was the last release of the summer season so chances for another potential rescuer were pretty low. I walked into the woods with the box and the food and called for the kitty. He bounded out from the underbrush and greeted me warmly as I caressed him. I opened the cat food packet and he started wolfing it down. I waited until he had the last morsel in his mouth when I grabbed him, put him in the box and put on the lid. I expected to hear loud cries and feel some thrashing around but it was dead quiet. I took the box back to the car and placed the box on the seat next to me.
Before I left however a friend pulled into the parking lot to say hello. It was Paula, one of the kindest persons I have ever met. I told her about the kitten and gave her a quick peek and the golden kitten. I told her of my surprise he didn’t put up a fuss about being in the box and she laughed “That kitty knows he just hit the lottery!”. I bade farewell and started the long drive home. I kept the lid open far enough so I could reach in while driving to stroke the little boy. I decided his name would be Sonny. Sonny boy.
He was very quiet and well behaved on the six hour drive. I only stopped once for gas and restroom. Finally, when I pulled into my driveway and turned off the engine I heard soft purring coming from the box.
cintibud
@WaterGirl: Email sent. Let me know if you don’t get it.
WaterGirl
@cintibud: Got it!
PBK
@cintibud: Thank you for giving this sweet boy a loving home and sharing his story.
OzarkHillbilly
Yeah. Right. When have you ever?