38 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 2-23-18”

  6. Good Morning Everyone. Cowboy was my friend from the moment I walked in. I also met Tess, but she was a little more stand offish. I don’t think I saw Annie Oakley, but cats are that way.
    As you can see over my left shoulder is the front door, behind me is a cute little table that DJ has sort of made into a sofa table/writing desk. To my left is a fireplace and over my right should you can see the wainscotting and a church pew.
    Above the wainscotting are some built in pegs, so we are going to move the church pew closer to the door and under the pegs to make it more of an entry way, a place to drop a few things as you walk in the door.
    Do you see behind me, behind the vase and next to the door? There is a REAL mail slot. Under that is a table that DJ’s father made.

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  8. That looks familiar. Kim hasn’t changed in the 2 or 3 years since I met her. And the clutter looks like our house.

    I guess Chas was thrown off by the picture, so he forgot his line: “It’s Friday, anbd you know what that means! (Did I use “it’s” correctly? 😉 )
    Anyway, here are the Friday Funnies.

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  10. Peter, Correct, when I saw the picture, I forgot everything else.

    I got this e-mailj

    “Brian, I have completed your personal prediction for February 26 ”

    Of course, I ain’t Brian. But if I were, I wouldn’t open it. I smell something rotten here.

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  17. Morning! You can’t fool us…we all know that is Tess and not Cowboy!!! 🐶
    You both look very happy and oh how I love DJ’s house….is that a copper pitcher on the desk? I have one exactly like it 😊 can we all just take a road trip to DJ’s and hang out, work on the house and go to the dog park…just don’t forget to bring yer parkas!!

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  18. I notice that a lot of the cartoons are about the national debt.
    I didn’t notice them when Obama was doublings the debt and giving us nothing.
    Nothing to show for it.
    No military, no infrastructure, Where did the money go?

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  20. Yes, that’s Tess & Kim in my still, in places, crazy house, guess we could have picked a nicer background, huh? One of the still really chaotic corners … Oh well.

    And the copper pitcher is from Mexico. My mom had several copper pieces — my favorites are a couple rustic hammered copper pots — that she bought on our trips to Mexico City and beyond. I found them packed away among all the other things from storage in the garage last summer and decided I really liked them, so out they came. Sometimes it pays to hang on to things that, you discover, much to your surprise, you actually love more later. Tastes change, I’ve discovering.

    Well, everything finally caught up with me and a cold that I think has been coming on all week long (I woke up with a sore throat yesterday and have just been really tired) hit me last night. I was in bed by 9:30 and just got up a little while ago, texted my editor that I’m staying in today but can still do a little work I think.

    By late yesterday we heard about layoffs going on at some of our sister papers, we may get it today (though I still think we’re ok). Just sad to see so many talented people leaving or being let go.

    Someone posted a video set to music of our ‘last day’ cleaning out the old newsroom in 2008 — in the building we owned and filled with dozens of reporters and editors — and it was so poignant to see all those familiar faces, the full staff (though even that was down from what it was a few years before that). None of us thought it would ever get as sad as it is now, 10 years later.

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  21. Tess’ frustrated look in that photo is because she had just been trying to lick Kim’s face but had been oh-so cleverly blocked. Kim is quick. Quicker than a border collie.

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  22. Ah, and the ladder-back chair you can kind of see behind the pitcher was one I picked up in Tijuana when I was in college. Hardly a “fine” piece of good furniture and not super comfortable (it has a hard, straw seat), but well made enough to last all this time and to have survived several moves.

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  23. The table under the pitcher (and my purse and a Christmas gift lighted thing-y my friend gave me) you can’t see but it’s the pine kitchen table from my mom’s childhood home in Iowa. Could wind up as my new dining table when things get re-moved around.

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  28. One of the best cartoons was Billy Graham arriving in Heaven and his welcoming committee.
    It made me think of this song: If it works.

    This is Jimmy Davis singing. His is likely not the best rendition, but I wanted it to be by someone I was confident of what he was singing.
    I have no doubt that Jimmy Davis has stars.

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  31. That’s OK, Kim. Yesterday you said something about having a photo of you with Cowboy, and I opened the blog this morning to a photo of you with Tess and was momentarily confused myself.

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  32. Tess is the lap dog. Cowboy just stares at you with his mournful brown-blue eyes. 🙂

    Kim, forgot to mention (or point out when you were here) but it appeared that the window/door trim & wainscoting in the past were painted a very similar vintage green color as the fan. Not sure I’d go that bold (and I’d lean more toward the stronger color for the plaster walls with the moldings & wainscoting being a neutral off-white or?). But I do seem to like those vintage greens these days.

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  36. I have other sixteen year old reading those two articles. We were talking the other day about the shooting and my theory that a lot of these shooters are adopted with mental health problems and he needs to see to it he learns the tools he needs to manage his behaviour so he does not become one.

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