If Annie Lennox likes it, I’m not going to argue. These talented and adorable kids:
I keep encountering these wonderful versions of “Sweet Dreams”. Here’s the latest discovery! You’re gonna LOVE these gorgeous and massively talented young peeps! pic.twitter.com/rj2TFZYhCo
The creator of “Rubes” has been friends with the recipient of the new heart for 50 years.
PAT PEMBERTON / January 28, 2023
Leigh Rubin poses with a life-sized cow based on his cartoons outside his home in Nipomo, Calif. Rubin created the cow for a CowParade public art and charity event with friend Ryan Johnson. (Pat Pemberton/Courthouse News)
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (CN) — After landing in Portland with a 3-month stash of art supplies, syndicated cartoonist Leigh Rubin immediately headed to the Providence Heart Clinic, where his childhood friend was waiting on a heart transplant.
“As it turns out, his new heart arrived the day I did, which was very thoughtful of him because he knows how much I hate to be kept waiting,” Rubin joked.
While many were holiday shopping on Dec. 8, Rubin had committed to becoming a caretaker for his friend Steve Ulrich, whom he has known since sixth grade. But Ulrich’s new heart, he said, was the perfect gift for both of them.
“He got the gift of life, and I got to keep a friend around for hopefully many more years,” Rubin said.
This story and the photos from Melissa is a great read:
Miraculous Search-and-Rescue of a Lost Child
As storms raged, a four-year-old boy from Asa went missing in the surrounding wilderness. While ground teams tried to track his tiny footprints, our fixed-wing pilot supported the search party from the air. One lost night stretched into several, and it seemed increasingly impossible that the child would be found alive in such a vast, unforgiving landscape. But then, on the sixth day, a miracle happened. This account is told by the SWT pilot who joined the search party, Roan Carr-Hartley.
On the evening of 29th November, we received a call from the chief of Asa, a community 52 kilometres east of the northern Tsavo East park boundary. He reported that a four-year-old boy had gone missing during a storm the day prior, while out herding livestock with his brothers. The chief had heard people from the neighbouring town speaking about a pilot who helped find a missing child just a few days prior. After hearing these stories, he too asked for aerial assistance.
It was too late to initiate a search that night, but the following morning, I left Kaluku HQ at around 6:15am and flew 70 minutes to reach the boy’s village. By the time I was overhead, a search party of 70 men were fanning through the wild scrubland in search of the little boy. I had a rough direction of the search party’s location given to me by the Chief. The party had tracked the boy to an area 7 kilometres from his village, but then the tracks started to become unreadable.
This from siubhanduinne is both heartbreaking and heartwarming:
Shelter Reunites Homeless Woman with Her Dog and Vows to Help Both After Finding Pet with Note
McKamey Animal Center shared a message on Facebook reaching out to the dog’s owner, after the canine was found with a note, and is now helping the pet parent and her family
A Tennessee animal shelter reunited a homeless woman with her beloved dog, Lilo, after the rescue found the canine left with a note from the owner saying she couldn’t afford to keep her.
According to a Jan. 24 Facebook post from McKamey Animal Center (MAC), Lilo was found wandering around Chattanooga with a note attached to her collar by a Good Samaritan, who brought the pup to the shelter.
“Please keep my name. My name is Lilo,” read the note attached to Lilo’s collar, according to the McKamey Animal Center’s post, which also included a photo of the dog. “Please love me. My mom can’t keep me and is homeless with 2 kids. She tried her best but can’t get help. I cost too much for her.”
“She really loves me, and I’m a great dog and loved to be loved on,” the note continued, adding, “Please don’t abuse me.”
Okay, that should get you through the week. I’m trying to decide between more coffee or right to the diet coke to get through the afternoon. Sigh, it’s 4 degrees out, sinking to subzero by sundown. You know what that means, right?
It’s getting old. This is the 5 or 6th time in the past year they’ve had to stay in the house. By comparison, Maddie and Mabel were maybe in the house 3 times over the five years I had them.
(added note: reading through the comments on the original Jasper post, I should answer some Qs – he’s come a long way with counter surfing – hardly ever an issue. The cats have not only adjusted to him but are happy to go to him for nuzzles. While Scout has come around, I’m still not sure she “likes” him. And Nick, who is still much in love with the now spayed Trixie, views him as a rival and is constantly chasing him around the yard and biting at his ankles. Silly duck is lucky Jasper is a kind soul).
It’s snowing in Freshwater, about a mile outside of town, and the weather remains foul with high winds and squalls of heavy rain and hail while the temps remain in the low to mid 30s.
I will, however, be able to puppy sit the new pupper. Gary, who showed up yesterday for an introduction.
@Dorothy A. Winsor: There is plenty of goodness here in dead red Tennessee. Just like the indefatigable Ms Cracker and her beloved/benighted Florida, some of us just can’t quit this place.
@HumboldtBlue: Looks like a bunch of schools… four non-credible phoned-in threats, two unconfirmed shots-fired reports, and one airsoft gun in a backpack.
Thanks, as always, TaMara. The stories of kindness you find are incredibly precious to those of us who have a lot of trouble loving, or even liking, the human species. It’s good to be reminded that Great Souls do walk among us.
I’m sorry, but I have to laugh at your Duck Dilemma. Hopefully your new house (whenever you get one) will have a large extra bathroom, or a family room with a floor that could tolerate a kiddy pool when the weather gets icy.
I had no idea orange cat females are rare. Are they really? For a couple of years, we had an orange female feral who hung around our house. She had several litters, almost all of them also orange. In fact, I suspect that our Cleo (who is a tabby) is one of her progeny. Cleo has a big orange blotch on her back that really stands out among the gray and black stripes.
And by the way, congratulations on the new kitteh!
@geg6: Did a quick Google. Evidently, the gene for ginger is an X-linked recessive (like the most common form of hemophilia in humans). Therefore a female cat needs a double whammy to express the color. Also, since she is then homozygous for the trait, all her sons will be ginger, and all her daughters will be carriers at the very least (the daughters will be ginger if dad is also ginger).
@FelonyGovt: He’s coming around slowly. They can now be in the same room with no barriers. He hisses when she gets too close, which the agency says is to be expected, and the worst he does is run away (we pull her back though). I’m not sure she knows what hissing means.
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Dorothy A. Winsor
Lots of great posts here. I especially like the rescue dog, Lilo
HumboldtBlue
Has Betty been eaten by an alligator yet?
It’s snowing in Freshwater, about a mile outside of town, and the weather remains foul with high winds and squalls of heavy rain and hail while the temps remain in the low to mid 30s.
I will, however, be able to puppy sit the new pupper. Gary, who showed up yesterday for an introduction.
Mike E
@HumboldtBlue: I’m sure it’s the opposite.
OzarkHillbilly
Got a little dusty in here.
HinTN
@Dorothy A. Winsor: There is plenty of goodness here in dead red Tennessee. Just like the indefatigable Ms Cracker and her beloved/benighted Florida, some of us just can’t quit this place.
Major Major Major Major
Ducks!!!
Yeah it is FREEZING this year, yikes!
HumboldtBlue
How horrible is to see “Boulder High School” trending and not needing to click on a link to discover why.
TaMara
@HumboldtBlue: Luckily, it looks like it was some ugly hoax.
Major Major Major Major
@HumboldtBlue: Looks like a bunch of schools… four non-credible phoned-in threats, two unconfirmed shots-fired reports, and one airsoft gun in a backpack.
TaMara
Hey, I put up an open thread, since it looks like we could use one. Then I’m back to the grindstone. ===>>>
CaseyL
Thanks, as always, TaMara. The stories of kindness you find are incredibly precious to those of us who have a lot of trouble loving, or even liking, the human species. It’s good to be reminded that Great Souls do walk among us.
I’m sorry, but I have to laugh at your Duck Dilemma. Hopefully your new house (whenever you get one) will have a large extra bathroom, or a family room with a floor that could tolerate a kiddy pool when the weather gets icy.
Major Major Major Major
@TaMara: Oh was this respite? Sorry!
Umm, we got a kitten! Orange. A rare lady one! Will post about once she’s better-integrated into the house…
geg6
@Major Major Major Major:
I had no idea orange cat females are rare. Are they really? For a couple of years, we had an orange female feral who hung around our house. She had several litters, almost all of them also orange. In fact, I suspect that our Cleo (who is a tabby) is one of her progeny. Cleo has a big orange blotch on her back that really stands out among the gray and black stripes.
And by the way, congratulations on the new kitteh!
HinTN
@Major Major Major Major:
You have been assimilated!
FelonyGovt
@Major Major Major Major: Uh-oh, what does Samwise think about the new addition?
TaMara
@Major Major Major Major: No worries!
Can’t wait to see the kitteh and we should also talk about your relocation. ;-)
Major Major Major Major
@TaMara: Oh no we need to talk???
pluky
@geg6: Did a quick Google. Evidently, the gene for ginger is an X-linked recessive (like the most common form of hemophilia in humans). Therefore a female cat needs a double whammy to express the color. Also, since she is then homozygous for the trait, all her sons will be ginger, and all her daughters will be carriers at the very least (the daughters will be ginger if dad is also ginger).
eclare
What a sweet post. That woman who gave up her dog, I can’t imagine. Similar story in Mississippi was in the news here about six months ago.
eclare
@Major Major Major Major:
Can’t wait to see kitten photos!
Ghost of Joe Liebling’s Dog
Not going to bother trying to blame the dust. Lilo’s story just left me in tears.
Glad every day we give to help support a local shelter.
Ken
Do we need “hasbettybeeneatenbyanalligator.com”, in the spirit of “isabevigodadead.com“?
kalakal
that story about Lilo has left me in tears.
I’m so glad she was reunited with her mom. Well done that shelter
Major Major Major Major
@FelonyGovt: He’s coming around slowly. They can now be in the same room with no barriers. He hisses when she gets too close, which the agency says is to be expected, and the worst he does is run away (we pull her back though). I’m not sure she knows what hissing means.
MelissaM
Finding that lost boy still gets me. Amazing.
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: My ginger tabby was female. She was the sweetest kitteh ever. Not one mean bone in her body. I miss her so much.