Your Monday moment of Zen:
An open thread for you all.
by John Cole| 75 Comments
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I’m tired. Lily and I went 5-6 miles this morning, then I worked all day, came home, had a quick dinner, and just walked another 6-7 miles. I didn’t mean to, but I kinda forgot what I was doing while walking and was thinking and lost track of where we were, and when I realized how far we had gone, I knew the walk back was going to be fun. Was out there from about 5:15 until just a minute or two ago, and on the way back, I have to admit all I could do was pull a Nooners and just keep a walkin’.
At any rate, here is an open thread for you with some surrogate pets. Not Tunch:
I can’t describe what it is about this picture, but it is my favorite one in a long time. The expression on their faces is priceless. I’m getting a Matthau/Lemmon vibe or something:
And this picture came in recently, but I bumped it ahead because this dog has the must ridiculously long tongue I have ever seen.
It’s really almost obscene.
At any rate, here be yer thread. Behave.
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100% not posed:
I turned around and there it was. Thank goodness the camera had charged batteries and was right next to the computer, so I did not need to move.
I like how they are exploring all the space of the futon. You can still see a pile of furmination remnants in between them. They are using it as a border, I think.
And I hate posting this, because I know you pricks are going to pick on Tunch’s not-so-girlish figure and that will upset me.
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I’m not sure if it is just the beautiful summer and my desire to spend more time outside, but I’ve been struggling to blog substantively lately. As such, pet pics (not that I need an excuse):
I just love the deep red in that top photograph. Here is another open thread.
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Here is a video I took on Saturday of Ginny and Guesly freaking out when my mother turns on the hairdryer. I was telling mom that Lily never barks, and mom said “Oh, really? Want to see what I have to deal with?”
I laughed the entire time:
Here is a pic of Lily, who jumped up onto the futon while we were playing and I caught her in mid play. She still has no clue what to do with balls or toys, but I can get her into the play bow, and then start making funny sounds while tapping on the floor, and she starts to drag herself by her front paws and acting all goofy. We were doing that and I chased her into the room, she jumped up onto the futon and I snapped a picture.
The best part is that when she jumped up on the futon, she didn’t look first, and a very asleep Tunch got the surprise of his life and went screaming into the other room. He came back in after he pulled himself together, sat in the doorway with this disgusted look on his face as we played, as if to say “Have you no dignity?” He’s in the other room being pissed off and I’d take a picture, but I don’t think you would be able to tell the difference from any other day. I can’t. What I love about Tunch is he has two moods- “go to hell” and “no, really, I said go to hell. Also, where is the food?”
*** Update ***
And as I wrote this post, Tunch came in, reclaimed his throne, and proceeded to noisily clean himself while glaring at me:
He’s going to kill me in my sleep. I know it.
Also, someone remind me to start posting other people’s pet pics. I’m back up to over 100 in the pet folder and need to start putting them up again or I will never catch up. Lily has been hogging the spotlight since I got her two weeks ago.
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Gardening, dog park, house cleaning, etc.:
Lily on the log at the dog park:
Tunch guarding the tomato plants:
I’m going Galt.
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Too much is never enough (btw- I just watched it, and I have no idea why, but it seems super loud, so you have been warned):
You know, I can honestly say that when I was 19 and raising hell at Dead concerts, with an active social life and everything ahead of me, if you told me that in twenty years I would be filming my cat chasing a laser with a shitty camera, and that hundreds of people would watch once I posted it on this thing called the “internet,” I probably would have had the decency to try to die young. Right now, though, I’m kinda happy with the way things have worked out.
Also, my tomato plants look amazing.