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Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

“woke” is the new caravan.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Consistently wrong since 2002

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

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2024 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendars

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It’s pet calendar time again!

Cafe Press seems to have resolved their paper issues, and they once again have the option to create your own calendars.  Yay!

Final Preview of 2022 Pets of Balloon Juice: Calendar B! 1

Here’s what beth and I are thinking re: the 2024 Pets of Balloon Juice Calendars.

The designs for the two pet calendars for 2023 were completely finished, except for the import into Cafe Press, where things came to an abrupt halt because of supply chain issues.  With just and hour or so of work – changing the covers so they say 2024 instead of 2023, and importing the files into Cafe Press – we can WILL have Calendar A & Calendar B available with the photos from last year.

Reminder: the month of January in both calendars (A & B) from “last” year is a tribute to Lily and all of John’s pets.

BJ Pet Calendar 2023 – A  (soon to be 2024)

BJ Pet Calendar 2023 – B  (soon to be 2024)

IF THERE IS INTEREST, we will also open up submissions for new photos for another calendar for 2024, with just photos that arrive this year.

So here’s what we need to know from you.

  • Is there interest in purchasing 2024 calendars that were designed with last year’s pet pics?  Clearly YES, we will do this.
  • Is there also interest in purchasing a new 2024 calendar with pics you send in now?
  • Is anyone else interested in postcards of their pets?  We can make those and add them to the BJ store in Cafe Press.

Please chime in and let us know, because time is short – we want to have the calendars available for purchase by Dec 1.

Oh, and if you want to submit pics, please start getting them ready now – I’ll be setting up the photo upload site in a day or so.  Remember, all photos submitted go into the calendar, but high resolution is the key to being able to have a bigger photo that is more visible in the calendar.

Open thread.

Update: we can also make postcards from your pet pics and add them to our store on Cafe Press.  If you are interested in that, chime in below!

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49Comments

  1. 1.

    Barbara I

    Yes to option of last year’s pictures for 2024.

    thank you, WaterGirl, for taking this on again!

  3. 3.

    pat

    I’m also fine with last year’s photos, but I can’t remember what I sent.  Can we see them?  Just to be sure?

    Thanks.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    Okay, with 5 YES votes right out of the gate, we will definitely have Calendars A & B (From last year) for 2024.

    Who is interested in sending in pics for a “new” 2024 calendar?

  8. 8.

    K488

    I’m another vote for last year’s pictures, but would like a reminder re contents, so I can buy the calendar with my kitties in it.  Thanks!

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    We can also make postcards from your pet pics and add them to our Balloon Juice store on Cafe Press.  If you are interested in that, chime in!

  14. 14.

    eclare

    I’d like the 2023 photos to be used for 2024.  I will only buy one, so no interest in new photos for 2024.

  17. 17.

    Anonymous At Work

    Yes
    Yes
    Whatever works best to get things out on/by/before/shortly after gift-giving times.

  18. 18.

    Butch

    Please yes to last year’s photos.  I sent one of Scout and Ranger and I’d love to see it in the calendar.

  24. 24.

    columbusqueen

    WaterGirl, do you still have the pictures I sent you of my new cats? Would like to submit them for calendar B. Can do pics of the other cats if you like.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    @columbusqueen: You’ll have to refresh my memory. Do I have the pics so I could put them up in a post after you got the kitties?

    If so, yes, they would need to be submitted for the pet calendar.

    Ae you saying you have some current pets in Calendar B and that you want to add your new kitties to the 2023 version?

  27. 27.

    Miss Bianca

    Yes, I will buy a 2024 calendar with last year’s photos! Maybe even two! Oh my, I teared up a little – I had almost forgotten I had submitted any photos for last year’s, what with the whole CafePress shit show and then a few other things that happened…but I sure missed having my wall calendar at work be the Pets of Balloon Juice!

  28. 28.

    Salt Water

    I’d like postcards! The photos would be from a submission for the 2022 calendar so they don’t need to be in a current calendar. Is that doable?

  30. 30.

    TMinSJ

    I’m happy to have 2023 pictures in 2024, but I too would add hearts to 3 of the 4 pets I submitted last year. This year we lost Belle, Chatty and Maddie.

    I have 2 new kitties now, so if you’re going to do a “new” 2024 as well I will submit a picture of them for that one.

    I would also love to buy postcards of my pets.

    I’m glad we’re getting the calendars back, I missed having it this year, although I am enjoying my bird butts calendar from Albatrossity. I might have to find a place to put up another calendar if there is a new one of those.

  31. 31.

    Sis

    What great news! I’d love to have the ’24 calendar with last year’s pics! Thank you so much, WaterGirl!

  32. 32.

    Alison Rose

    @TMinSJ: Follow my lead and put a calendar on every wall, LOL. I live in a tiny one-bedroom apartment (the kind with no hallway, where it’s more like a studio with a wall built down the middle) and this year I have four wall calendars  (one in each room: bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, living room) and three desk calendars (one in the bedroom, two in the living room).

    Is it silly? Yes. But that’s okay. Silly is good.

  33. 33.

    Bhaall

    Bigly YES to “…purchasing 2024 calendars that were designed with last year’s pet pics”.

  35. 35.

    daize

    Thank you, WaterGirl!!!  You rock!!  A vote for both options here.  2023 pictures for the 2024 calendar and a new calendar for 2024 (for selfish reasons, see below….).
    I downloaded and printed the 2023 calendar pages and hung them over another calendar so I can enjoy the photos!  It will be nice to have the real thing and not my less than stellar printouts.
    We have a new kitten — Leeloo — recently rescued from trying to cross a busy street all by her tiny self.  So I would love to be able to send in a picture of her for a new calendar.  But creating a brand new calendar will be a huge undertaking, so I will save the kitten photo for next year.  :-)​
     

    ETA: We did donate for the 2023 download!

  36. 36.

    WaterGirl

    @daize: I suspect that there are enough Bj peeps with new additions to the family for a “new” 2024 calendar, as well.

    Because if anyone who already has pets in the calendar, we would move those pets out of the “2023” version to the new one, so everybody’s pets are in one calendar.

    That just means that the remaining photos in the “2023” version get to be bigger, because thee are fewer on the page.

    Yes, that will mean moving pictures around in the “2023” design, but really, the design is the fun part, so that won’t be a sacrifice.

    And we can use the January tribute to Cole’s pets in the “new” 2024 calendar, too.

    I will put up another post tomorrow that makes it clear that we WILL do the two “2023” calendars as 2024, AND that folks who have *new pets can have their furry guys in the “new” 2024 calendar.

    *or meant to send in photos but didn’t get around to it. :-)

    (Though if it’s only a small handful of people who have new pets or pics, then I guess those will have to wait for the following year.  But it’s hard for me to think that we don’t have a bunch of new pets living with BJ peeps.  I guess we’ll find out!)

  38. 38.

    glc

    If you do another calendar I’ll probably send in a picture.  We lost our little (single-serving) dog Rocky in September to what were in essence the complications of old age (many of them medicated but at least one beyond the scope of any kind of medication).

    However, if we stick with last year’s it’s fine, they’ll be welcome (one or both, I haven’t decided).

  41. 41.

    WaterGirl

    @columbusqueen: So sorry if I dropped the ball on that!

    Please give me a day or two to get the photo upload site set up – the makes it super easy for me to track.

    But yes, they would go in the “new” 2024 calendar.

  43. 43.

    S Cerevisiae

    Yes please for a calendar of last year’s pictures but unfortunately you will have to add a heart to my dear Bella’s photo, she is the German Shepherd in the bucket in calendar B. I will buy at least 2.

  45. 45.

    S Cerevisiae

    @WaterGirl: thank you, she was such a sweet girl and loved everyone. She was Mikey the cats protector and he still misses her. He has taken up a few of her mannerisms now that he has to be both the cat and the dog. ❤️

  48. 48.

    WaterGirl

    Nov 6 post, beloved pets who need hearts.

    15. Van Buren: Fiona needs a heart

    21. Kristine: Gaby needs a heart (B-July)

    30. TMinSJ: Bella needs a heart (B-May)

    30. TMinSJ: Chatty needs a heart (B-May)

    30. TMinSJ: Maddie needs a heart (B-Sept)

    38. glc: Rocky needs  heart (Sept)

    43. S Cerevisiae: Bella needs a heart  (calendar B)

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