It’s Caturday, and time to relax and talk about whatever we’re in the mood to. And by way of inspiration, reader Tracy R. presents what she describes as “The many moods of Hamster… or anyway, two of the moods of Hamster.”
Weekend Open Thread
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Beautiful Hamster is demonstrating the essential liquidity of cats! ❤️❤️❤️
Lily has a similar kitty bed to loll around on:
If these cats got any more relaxed, they’d be on the floor. And both so gorgeous, especially Lily’s pink ears.
I like how Hamster color-coordinates with the kitchen.
The gorgeous Hamster looks enviably relaxed. I will relax today by mailing a stack of letters to people in Texas urging them to vote, vote, vote like a baby stoat (I don ‘t actually mention baby stoats).
I dropped my ballot in the box outside the county elections office on Wednesday (after getting my flu shot at CVS, since they were postponed at work and now aren’t doing them until November 4) and as of last night its status is “received.”
Once I knew it was received I changed my facebook banner picture to this:
I’m doing early voting IN PERSON because EVERYTHING worries me. It starts in NY on the 24th
If you go in person in NJ you’re filling out a provisional paper ballot, anyway, so I didn’t see much advantage in going. (If in-person voting was via machines like normal, I didn’t have too many concerns, at least with my particular polling place, which is huge with plenty of space for distancing. But since I’d be doing a paper ballot either way, I decided I’d rather drop it in a dropbox than mail it. The closest drop box to me is at the county elections office; there are 16 others in the county, mostly at various city/borough halls and one or two DMV offices.)
Here’s…something…
That is mysterious
That is something … but it is funny.
Bee Gees = BGs = billy goats
Something is right!
That…is amazingly…bizarre!😳
Good Morning!
Oh Hamster – so tempting to stick my face right in the gorgeous fur!
I dropped my ballot off yesterday too! Woohoo! In the pouring rain and still there was a long line at City Hall. I am happy about how many people are taking advantage of early voting and so relieved I’m done.
I’m crocheting some swatches for some filet curtains I now have to make for my bedroom windows. A few weeks ago, the city demolished the house behind me and now there is a giant gaping hole back there. My privacy has vanished. I found a pattern with geese on it, and I need to add a bottom border to make them long enough.
Speaking of thready-handy work… Duckie? I’d love to knit you, or rather knit Little Duckie, a boidy vest! Perhaps, Mr. Mike is willing to be the go between for private address exchange? I just finished knitting bats for my niece and nephew for Halloween and am looking for a new mini project. 😉 ❤️
Good morning all.
Cool damp morning here.
Hamster, you and Lily would look lovely in a painting together. You would ACE the keeping still part.
Yesterday I voted for BC election and for strata AGM, and got my quarterly blood work done. Monday is flu shot day, and then I can say I did my duty to country, home and self.
Tara, I would LOVE to have a tiny knit vest for Duckie, but I don’t know if either of us would survive the dressing process. But yes, please, Mike has my email address.
Speaking of Duckie, I made a very small amount of oatmeal for her yesterday. She sniffed at the bit on my finger and then gave me SUCH a look of loathing, i’m surprised I lived to tell the tale.
Not allowed to say anything, but it looks like this year may be improving in Duckieville.
Have a fantastic weekend, and stay safe, everyone.
Have filled out my absentee ballot and MyMike will take it to the local Board of Elections
on Monday for me. I can’t navigate the polling place these days. It feels so important.
It is wonderful that we can vote this way.
sigh. Indiana doesn’t allow mail in voting for normal people sigh
ooooooh goody! A fun new project. I’ll be in touch then. 🙂
I don’t know how cats can sleep with their legs hanging out in the air, but then again, I don’t know how they can sleep in half the positions they get themselves into.
We’re doing a rare excursion out today- going to a garden center that we’ve passed by often but never been to, to see if there’s any more yard art/sculptures we’d like to get for our landscaping. Then off to the jewelers to have my wedding ring sized up. I’ve been taking it off during the week since I work in health care and am putting on and removing gloves about 15 times/day. The diamond gets in the way, and I’m afraid the prongs are going to wear down. And I may have gained some weight since I got it almost 20 years ago, but we won’t talk about that. 😛
On the way back we plan to stop at a park we enjoy on Lake Washington, have lunch at Ivar’s Fish and Chips, and see if any blue herons are hanging out today. This park is so busy in the summer that it’s impossible to find parking, but today it should be pretty deserted.
Enjoy your weekend, all!
Got most of the warm weather clothing put away and got out almost all of the sweaters. I have more wool sweaters than I deserve, thanks to an English website callled Woolovers. Their woolies
are machine washable, not machine dryable unfortunately. Still, it’s good I can throw them in on
the gentle setting- or to give proper credit, MyMike can, bless him. I have an excellent physical
therapist coming in now who has shown me I am stronger than I think and can do more than
before. Bless her, too.
Glad to hear you so chipper, PhredsMom! Bibi sends you encouraging puppy kisses.
Thank you! Words of encouragement are such a big help to me. As are puppy kisses!
My mom’s birthday was Wednesday and we’re doing dinner tonight. My dad asked me to bring a cake so I decided I was going to make something (not a full size cake). I baked the cake batter in a pan that makes 6 mini loaves (plus about 7 or 8 cupcakes), then I sliced off the tops of the loaves to make 6 flat (well, mostly flat…) cakes, melted frosting in the microwave, and spooned it over the cakes so it covered the tops and dripped down the sides. Put sprinkles on top (3 have little pearly gem-shaped sprinkles and the other 3 have candy-coated chocolate sprinkles; they’re like teeny-tiny, roughly spherical, M&Ms). They’re cute. 🙂
Then I took two loaf-tops and made a sandwich with some leftover frosting. It was yummy.
Sounds like my kinda sangwitch.
I made two more with the chocolate sprinkles in them, nice and crunchy. I ate one but I put the other in a container for later. I still have 7 cupcakes and some frosting. Not sure if it’s enough frosting for all of them, though. (I probably used more than I normally would have by melting it and pouring it.) I had the cakes on parchment paper on a cutting board and put the whole thing in the fridge for about ten minutes before putting them in a dish. Then I scraped a bunch of frosting off the paper back into the bowl, and there’s still some left in the can. Maybe I should have bought two cans. 😉 But the cake is okay by itself.
Greetings to lovely Hamster, Lily, Little Duckie, and all the Cutetropolitans! It’s a lovely day in NYC, so Bibi and I went for a walk in Central Park. Bibi decided to play diva and greet her public, so we said hello to a lot of humans and not a few puppers along the way.
Currently I plan to Vote! Vote! Vote! like a baby stoat! using my absentee ballot, which I can drop off at my early voting site. It’s all very odd, but the ballot looks like the ballot one fills out normally, and so presumably can be scanned the same way, albeit not by me. This all makes me very anxious, so I may just choose to vote early the “normal” way. Early voting is actually very new in NYS; I think this is only the second or third year we’ve had it. I miss the clunky old machines we used to use; perhaps our current system is better, but our older system felt more real, somehow. (I’ve been voting since 1976, and before that I used to go to the polls with my mom. Same machines all along.)
I miss those machines too!
I’m still wading thru all the propositions and measures on our ballot so I think I’ll be ready to turn it in next week. And I remember well the old machines used in NYC and a few other places. Very satisfying hearing the plunks and clicks when you voting. But I think I have everyone beat with the “machine” that I had to deposit my ballot in when I was living in a small MA town. Behold a wooden crank ballot box that was still in use in the early 2000s. Talk about old school!
https://www.recorder.com/getattachment/c0b87763-45fe-475a-a079-221e651e1361/b1-Conway-election-preview-for-THURSDAY-ph01
Oh, that’s bee-yoo-ti-ful, AJ!