It’s the weekend, and lounging around the chat room today is Jasper, who also has an Instagram page at @justfinecat set up by his mum Heather R.
Weekend Open Thread
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It’s the weekend, and lounging around the chat room today is Jasper, who also has an Instagram page at @justfinecat set up by his mum Heather R.
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Happy Caturday! No plans for the day. Jasper is lovely.
From last week’s Post Secret; probably wise.
Oh, and have some dessert…
The one snake I would not fear. It’s simply too cute for words.
This snake is awesome! The only snake I want to get close toš
Taking a moment to relax before my busy day. First pool service is coming over to inspect my mini ce-ment pond thatās pretty icky right now. Tried keeping it up myself and I have no clue what Iām doing. My dad, the retired chemist, is probably looking down on me and shaking his head, āI thought I had explained basic principles of chemicals to youā. Sorry, guess it didnāt take. Then have to run some errands and get ready for the Mustang club coming over to our place tonight to hang and have dinner. Right now itās the flight of the bumblebee to get the place looking de ent. Tomorrow weāre off to either an Hawaiian festival or a cruise with the car club. After all that I think Iāll be glad to go back to work so I can chill out, lol. Stay cool everyone and have a great weekend.
What a lovely cat. I do long for a cat or dog but we have a rabbit that is scared out of his wits by other creatures. So itās nice to see fellow Cutetropolitansā kitties.
Typical of most of my days, I have to food shop – bunny greens, specifically parsley, are in low supply!
I have continued to feed and water outdoor critters despite the news that birds are suffering some weird malady. But instead of a feeder I broadcast seed and Iāve been bleaching the bird baths every day – they get filled at least twice a day. Very splashy, those birds. I hate the idea of not providing water for them in this ungodly heat weāre having in SE PA.
Iāve broadcast seed since I had squirrels, chipmunks and wild bunnies complaining. (Seriously, the squirrels actually attacked my porch door with demented looks!)
I learned today that the ban on bird feeders is lifted, but I continue to broadcast for the summer. In winter I have a feeder and I broadcast but add peanuts. Sometimes I have put out raw peanuts and a plant has grown – and had about 50 peanuts on it! Of course, I gave them to the squirrels since they did the planting.
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Your comment prompted me to see what was up re: the bird feeder ban. Yikes! Poor birds! That sounds like the mycoplasma infections finches tend to get, especially house finches, who have really limited genetic diversity. We have feeders at a family house in eastern PA and have seen the finches with their poor infected eyes in past years. It sounds like this outbreak of nastiness might be a similar pathogen. I’m glad things have subsided enough one can put the feeders and bird baths back up. Happy birding!
Jasper is more than fine in my book, he’s a very handsome gentlekitty.
Because of the unbearable heat wave and high humidity we’ve been having all though the last week we have pretty much done nothing more than go grocery shopping all week.
We even cancelled our plans for our big wedding anniversary celebration and just went for diner to the neighbourhood Barbies restaurant. The heat finally broke during the night and today is much cooler and it will also be nice tomorrow so we’re planing to go in to the city and have breakfast with some friends and do some shopping.
Be safe everyone and have a good weekend!
Happy anniversary!
When I left work yesterday my car said 100 degrees (though it dropped quickly; not sure where the temperature sensor is but it always seems to be higher than the real temp when I first start the car). In reality it was around 90 (according to the weather app on my phone).
Now my computer says it’s 87 at 11am.
My hair is my barometer for determining heat and humidity and it still looks like a bomb exploded on my head. Supposedly there is to be some relief today. In the Philly area weāve been having very droughty conditions with ridiculously localized thunderstorms – a town 2 miles away gets torrential rain while we get nary a drop. I even have to water established shrubs because theyāre visibly drooping. Not a happy camper but this, too shall pass.
We had a blinding downpour earlier in the week on my way to work (Tuesday, I think), then it cleared up for most of the day, then later after I was home it rained some more, including what sounded like another downpour (but it was after dark and I didn’t look outside before it ended).
Jasper is extremely photogenic–great shots, Heather! He looks so relaxed!
So sorry about the heat, everybody. Stay as cool as you can.
I’d planned a big organization project for all my dyeing records, which I write in my magic notebook, photograph with my phone, and then email to myself or add to my Google Drive. Thought I’d saved pages and pages of things since I discovered the magic notebooks. Then it turns out, I maybe had 2 days’ worth of notes. So the big project is kind of fizzling! Rats, that means getting into the dye studio instead. I’m so disappointed.
We had a big party at work yesterday: wood oven pizza truck, ice cream, and best of all a big indigo dye vat! Everybody had a white tee to dye, plus there were extra shirts so many folks did 2, and lots of us brought fabric, yarn, or unspun fiber. Fifty employees milled around, eating and dyeing and playing games on a beautiful, cool day. Dyeing was really fun for everybody, across all our different languages (our staff speak English, Spanish, and Hmong). Indigo is easy and you can make many designs depending on how you fold the item. I’ll link the story and photos when we post them on Monday. Now I’m inspired to get back into my own studio for acid dyes.
Hugs to you all.
That sounds like so much fun, DEBG! And speaking of Hmong, we have a large population of Hmong in the Philadelphia area so I am familiar with and am proud owner of a few Hmong pieces. There was a wonderful woman who lived near me who was a clearinghouse for Hmong textile arts and she had a sale once a year at Christmas. Her son, a chef, provided free Hmong food – it was a lovely 3 day event. Sadly, she died of COVID a couple of months ago. I donāt know if anyone could replace her or if the event could continue. It would be a fitting tribute if it did go on. Her name is Pang Xiong – I wonder if any of your co-workers knew her.
Murray C, this will sound like a stupid question, but you’re the first Cutetropolitan to mention living in the Philadelphia area – are you familiar with Laurel Hill Cemetary? My great-great-great grandparents, who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1882 with some of their grown-up children, are buried there.
Yes, Laurel Hill is famous. I have never visited it but passed by countless times. There are all sorts of events held there, history tours, Halloween spooky tours. I have a friend whose daughter is the director of the Mutter Museum which is full of medical oddities and she comes up with very creative ideas for events at Laurel Hill. How interesting that your forebears should be buried there! Do you know anything about them besides their final resting place?
They were James Edwards (1833-1894) and Margaret Edwards (1835-1901). James was a dyer in a Bradford textile mill who moved to Philadelphia to take up a similar job there – I have a photo of their tombstone in which the mill, now converted into apartments, is visible in the distance.
Philadelphia was very big in the textile industry. My mother worked for a carpet mill and a hosiery mill when she was just out of secretarial school, around 1928. Manayunk is an area of the city not far from Laurel Hill where, because of its proximity to the Schuylkill River was a major textile area. Iād love to see the photo and try to see if the Mill is, indeed, in Manayunk (pronounced āManny-yunk)
Greetings, Cuteropolitans.
Itās Saturday, and as I look out the window, all I see is smoke, and a faint red sun. Temperature is close to 30C (about 84F). Fires in BC interior must be hellish. So must breathing.
Today, hubby must beard his not-yet-ex-step-mother to get paperwork about his dad. Assessment is on Wednesday, and she is fighting to keep his dad out of a home, for financial reasons. A home costs more, so she wouldnāt get as much of his pension. Just thinking about it makes my stomach knot up.
Cataract surgery on Monday. Nightmares are in effect.
A very minor plus: Duckie has begun to explore the new rope toy. By explore I mean kill. Somehow I need to trim her nails, and sheās about as likely to let me do that as…well…
Finances, health, weather, family, all close to rock bottom. But things could change for the better by the end of the week. So hereās hoping.
Have as good a weekend as you can, everyone.
Sending good thoughts your way, Duckie. Wish things weren’t so difficult for you and your family right now.
And good news about lil Duckie!
Everyone I know who has had cataract surgery is enthusiastic.
So sorry for all your woes, Duckie, no wonder youāre in knots. You know weāre all pulling for you here!
Jasper is beautiful. Is he named after Karl Jaspers? He seems to be deep in thoughts.
Oh, Duckie! I hope things get better soon!
You shouldn’t, though, come in my house. We had triple bad luck yesterday. Black cat curled up under a ladder on Friday the 13th! Okay, she’s a tuxie, but looks black with her white paws and shirt front tucked in.
Jasper is a very regal-looking cat!š
This was a baaaaaad week. The temperatures were sky high with 100% humidity! (Did I ever mention that humidity is my Kryptonite?šµāš«) Which means we were in the āfeels likeā 104 degree range! We had three massive storms with freaky thunder and lighteningāflooded my neighborhoods streets!
School started with me having both my school printer and home printer not working (home due to the evil teeth of my bunny who decimated the cord sometime this summerš”). After 2 days of frantic-ness I had to order a new printer for schoolš©. The plug assembly for my home printer came defective and I had to reorderš¤.
My school is very puzzle-like in its layout and I had to keep traveling to the printer. (As I still donāt walk well this took FOREVER). I have no aide and donāt know when I will get one cos no one wants to be employed by our low-budget-for-anyone-who-is-not-administration corporation. We started school with 100 hundred jobs open. We have 2 classes being taught by aides right now!š
Our low-budget corporation refuses to have the air lower than 73 by the thermometer in your classroom. Which means half our school is sweaty-hot and half is very cold due to running on 2 different systems!š„µ My room is small and humid and has the sun beating thru the windows all day.š
I am working on planning the whole weekend. Oh, did I mention we have two days a week we have to stay after school for an hour UNPAID?! š” (We only get a 30 min. paid plan each day) For professional development mandated by the corporation because our test scores are so low. Becauseā¦why canāt you teach 30 kids effectively, hmmmmm?š¤Ø
We are mandated to wear masks, which is the only good news š seeing as I live in a state that doesnāt believe in the pandemic!
šThank you for letting me vent.šš Itās just been a super hard week. Hope everyone is doing well and staying cool in the extreme heat.š Itās supposed to cool down here this weekend. Thank goodness!!
Aw, 6Rabbits, thatās a heap oā frustration and maddening inconvenience to cope with, especially in the heat. I hope things get more comfortable and dealable soon.
Thank you! From your thoughts to Godās ears, as my Grandma used to say!š