I've probably told you before that east Baltimore has a huge Polish immigrant population. So we get Polish language churches, Polish import stores, etc. :D Bobby's grandmother frequents one of the latter and often passes things on to us.
I would guess with Tonik's particular blend of breeds that he sheds a lot. Probably even more than Alex, which is saying something, since he currently has hair coming out by the handful. Phil, thankfully, sheds relatively little for a Golden Retriever.
Yes, he sheds like crazy, and these days especially due to the heat. I brushed out about four or five brushes *full* of his hair today and it didn't seem to stop coming out. Poor thing.
I'm having a lot of fun reading this meme. It's endearing how we all are so different in certain things and so close in others.
Before I got to #45 I was already getting the hate-dog-hair vibe. lol. My cat sheds hair in tumbleweed-like balls. :D Also, he gets really sweet and loving when I'm wearing black.
That sheriff/whore photo is a riot!!! lol, that must have been so much fun to take.
Beekeepers - that's awesome! I have a friend who keeps bees too. I find it fascinating.
The Goldens, likewise, seem to have an uncanny sense for when you're wearing dark or nice clothes that aren't enhanced by stripes of golden-white hair. Phil doesn't shed too badly. Alex though? OMG. His undercoat has been coming out in handfuls for weeks now. Just when I think I have it all out, another round begins. I don't know where the dog gets all that hair from.
The picture was fun--the costumes are backless! You put them on over your regular clothes, the employees tie you up in the back, they give you a variety of nefarious props to choose from, and you're done in minutes. :D These Old Time photos are a cottage industry in Ocean City, Maryland's coastal resort town.
We unfortunately have no bees right now. We pulled one of our two colonies through the awful winter we had last year, but then the unrelenting rain in the spring meant they couldn't forage and the colony never strengthened and eventually just died out. We'll try again next year ...
Great pictures! I know what you mean about a clean house! I have standards--they are just lower than most peoples. I had a giant closet in my big apartment in Park Slope (where I was when I met you). I used that for clean-up. If I was having people over, I just threw everything in there. That one space looked ridiculous. One might find anything in there--we had a giant bag of finished/dead pointe shoes, which we kept in case of an emergency--then she would rummage through the bag and pull at the least destroyed pair for one last use.
I love looking at people's homes like this. Humanizes them or tells me they are just as neat and perfect as I thought they were--out of my class entirely on the housekeeping front. I insist that I definitely am not a true hoarder, but not very neat either.
My kitchen is clean now. Except for the floor, of course. (I like to eat!)
But the old saying that you can eat off a particular woman's kitchen floor it is so clean? Why would you want to do that? That's an unrealistic standard. I have plates so I don't have to eat off floors. And since I don't eat off floors, so I don't care if they're a little dirty. My feet aren't offended by walking on dirt and dog hair!
Yes! I also won't buy anything for my house that shows stains or ordinary wear and tear easily.
Entertaining is a great way to keep one's house moderately clean. I entertained a lot when my kids were little and it really, really helped.
The people who lived here before us had a white tile floor and white cabinets in the kitchen. WTF. And they had small children and a dog; I don't believe they were neater than we were.
I would frequently mop the floor (usually before guests came over!), and as soon as I let the dogs back in, there was mud/dirt/leaves on the white floor again. Our back door opens from the kitchen/dining room, and neither the dogs nor the humans in our house use the backyard for just sitting and admiring; we get dirty, and then that dirt was tracked across the white floor. That floor is now brown tile for a reason!
I haven't been able to replace the cabinets yet, but they're on the radar. In addition to be white and showing every little thing, they were some cheap Ikea model that the previous owners put in just to say they put in new cabinets and, eight years later, are now literally falling apart.
I love how you conserve your produce for the winter months - there is nothing like the taste of sunripe tomatoes when the sun hasn't been out for weeks!
Awww, yes, that's right! We had a relatively light year for fireflies (locally lightning bugs ...) this year, I suspect thanks to the hard winter and then the cool, rainy spring/early summer. I missed driving home from dance class in the evenings when the corn is just starting to get tall and seeing them sparkling by the thousands in the fields.
We put up a batch of special vegetable chowder every year and get it out on the first snow of the year. ;) It is wonderful to be able to eat from the garden year-round.
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Re dog hair: I can so relate.
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I would guess with Tonik's particular blend of breeds that he sheds a lot. Probably even more than Alex, which is saying something, since he currently has hair coming out by the handful. Phil, thankfully, sheds relatively little for a Golden Retriever.
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Yes, he sheds like crazy, and these days especially due to the heat. I brushed out about four or five brushes *full* of his hair today and it didn't seem to stop coming out. Poor thing.
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Before I got to #45 I was already getting the hate-dog-hair vibe. lol. My cat sheds hair in tumbleweed-like balls. :D Also, he gets really sweet and loving when I'm wearing black.
That sheriff/whore photo is a riot!!! lol, that must have been so much fun to take.
Beekeepers - that's awesome! I have a friend who keeps bees too. I find it fascinating.
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The picture was fun--the costumes are backless! You put them on over your regular clothes, the employees tie you up in the back, they give you a variety of nefarious props to choose from, and you're done in minutes. :D These Old Time photos are a cottage industry in Ocean City, Maryland's coastal resort town.
We unfortunately have no bees right now. We pulled one of our two colonies through the awful winter we had last year, but then the unrelenting rain in the spring meant they couldn't forage and the colony never strengthened and eventually just died out. We'll try again next year ...
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I love looking at people's homes like this. Humanizes them or tells me they are just as neat and perfect as I thought they were--out of my class entirely on the housekeeping front. I insist that I definitely am not a true hoarder, but not very neat either.
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But the old saying that you can eat off a particular woman's kitchen floor it is so clean? Why would you want to do that? That's an unrealistic standard. I have plates so I don't have to eat off floors. And since I don't eat off floors, so I don't care if they're a little dirty. My feet aren't offended by walking on dirt and dog hair!
Yes! I also won't buy anything for my house that shows stains or ordinary wear and tear easily.
Entertaining is a great way to keep one's house moderately clean. I entertained a lot when my kids were little and it really, really helped.
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I would frequently mop the floor (usually before guests came over!), and as soon as I let the dogs back in, there was mud/dirt/leaves on the white floor again. Our back door opens from the kitchen/dining room, and neither the dogs nor the humans in our house use the backyard for just sitting and admiring; we get dirty, and then that dirt was tracked across the white floor. That floor is now brown tile for a reason!
I haven't been able to replace the cabinets yet, but they're on the radar. In addition to be white and showing every little thing, they were some cheap Ikea model that the previous owners put in just to say they put in new cabinets and, eight years later, are now literally falling apart.
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I love how you conserve your produce for the winter months - there is nothing like the taste of sunripe tomatoes when the sun hasn't been out for weeks!
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We put up a batch of special vegetable chowder every year and get it out on the first snow of the year. ;) It is wonderful to be able to eat from the garden year-round.
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