We just bought this: [link] Very excited! We have a fountain our realtor gave us as a house-warming present, but it has never worked right, runs on electricity, and we got tired of buying new pumps for it. This one and is solar and has a much smaller spray, so we are hoping it lasts. It's freaking hot here all summer and it's nice to offer the birdies a bath.
These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me.
Jayne ,'The Train Job'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Apr 16, 2009 1:57:32 pm PDT #15545 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
tommyrot - Apr 16, 2009 1:57:43 pm PDT #15546 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
WARNING - a picture of a hairless chimp: [link]
Freaky. It looks like something some Hollywood effects studio came up with.
sarameg - Apr 16, 2009 2:01:38 pm PDT #15547 of 30000
Cool, Scrappy!
My parents have a fountain. Well, ok, it is the overflow drip for the swamp cooler, but they have it strung so that it flows into a birdbath fashioned from a bike rim and a frying pan. But you really can't tell what the components were in their previous lives.
Liese S. - Apr 16, 2009 2:04:34 pm PDT #15548 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Well, ok, it is the overflow drip for the swamp cooler, but they have it strung so that it flows into a birdbath fashioned from a bike rim and a frying pan.
Okay, I totally <3 your parents, sarameg.
Scrappy, that's a gorgeous fountain. I really want one, but I have to figure out how to deal with the wind & the lack of humidity.
amych - Apr 16, 2009 2:05:12 pm PDT #15549 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Okay, I totally
... DESPERATELY NEED THAT? Yes.
Connie Neil - Apr 16, 2009 2:05:57 pm PDT #15550 of 30000
brillig
I forge Hubby's signature 90% of the time. I had to take over the bills because he gets offended when people send us bills, and he thinks if he frowns at them hard enough that they'll apologize and slink away.
Liese S. - Apr 16, 2009 2:07:17 pm PDT #15551 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
... DESPERATELY NEED THAT? Yes.
Hee. That too.
Also, I forget that less than three really means I have to put the less than tag in.
sarameg - Apr 16, 2009 2:18:31 pm PDT #15552 of 30000
He doesn't do it as much (though that may change with retirement) but dad likes fashioning stuff out of seemingly unlikely parts. We have lamp from a radiator from a jet(?) engine, a giant brass shell casing that is the umbrella stand (that's not too unusual, I don't think) and art piece that is some internal timekeeping guts from a telescope (size of a loaf of bread) in a casing he built from the same metal. A lot of it was channeled into making solutions for the workbench. He must've picked up the habit from his father and grandfather who were machinists in a die factory(?) He certainly inherited their beautiful tools (some homemade as well.)
Barb - Apr 16, 2009 2:23:24 pm PDT #15553 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Oooh... my web guy (who is also quite an accomplished cartoonist) sent me this link to the longest version of the Wolverine trailer that I've seen yet-- complete with Hugh pimping for free comic book day.
le swoon
sarameg - Apr 16, 2009 2:43:07 pm PDT #15554 of 30000
So I was putting in my time off and remembered I've got a holiday I need to use (as opposed to vacation.) So I'm taking a Closing Holiday.
For some reason, I find this funny.