It fucking snowed here Monday. SNOW. Okay, for less than a minute, but STILL ( Read more... )

Edited to add the answer: Mummenschanz!

Need help with a brain bubble. In the 1960s and 1970s, maybe into the 80s or now for all I know, there was a modern dance troupe that was considered very edgy and groundbreaking. They worked mostly in blackout bodysuits (hands, feet and faces covered too) like Japanese zentai. They manipulated large ( Read more... )

So, I'm sick again, and I've been reading. I went to let Ace on out this gloomy spring day and as he hesitated in the doorway, the sun came out, though it did not stop raining. This used to be called "when the devil beats his wife" - I don't know why. Perhaps it was thought only a devil would beat his wife on a nice sunshiny day? Pah! The ( Read more... )

You know it's spring because yesterday, I picked up my first tick of the year. *sigh* It took my dearest savant_da_rat ten minutes and two pairs of tweezers to get rid of the foul thing on my knee. Fortunately, we are certain that it was not a deer tick, so probably no Lyme exposure. Bleah ( Read more... )

Brief (and amusing) slideshow here. They captioned this one to note that it looks like a pigeon - "see the beak to the right?"


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Taken February 26, 2009, by Adrian Bradshaw for EPA photo wire service outside the Pagoda of Tianning Temple in western Beijing.


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Poor Ace! At eighty pounds (36 KG), he is too light to break through the ice covering the snow in the back yard. Savant dug paths for him, but Ace went... is "off-piste" the right term?... and fell, and then lay there on his side in the cold for two minutes while Savant hastily found and put on his shoes and went out to rescue him ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas to those of you who roll like that. Here's a story for all the good doggies out there...."Dutch Shepard" probably means a Malinois or similar.

Rescue Dog Rescues Ontario Woman Lost In Snow For Three Days.

From pyat. ( Because CNN won't keep it online for long... )

Well, it's Imbolc. The last pumpkin finally went to the compost heap yesterday, having frozen and collapsed as its three brothers did weeks ago. Looked good in the snow, which was its purpose. I need something bright out there to remind me the garden will come back ( Read more... )

The Shuttle: Hey! Historical note: the space shuttle mission which took off this morning marks the first time women have been in charge of both the shuttle and the space station. This means a lot to me. My whole life's course was set the day that my foolish, foolish, first-grade teacher told me I could not be an astronaut because "you're a ( Read more... )