(I was going to post this last night, but by the time I remembered I was headed for bed)
He spent the entire game sleeping, curled up on one or the other of us!
Year: 2012
I cleaned my windows today
Well, ok, only the insides of the front two. See, those are the two the dogs like to peer out of the most. I hadn’t realized how bad the nose prints had gotten till I was trying to take pictures out them yesterday, and then trying to find a clean spot to photograph out of was quite interesting. I had to scrub to get the worst spots off. How in heck do these two plaster so much dirt on with their noses??
Links
Hackers take over police websites around the country. Including Syracuse, the media were frothing over it here.
SOPA’s done, now how about ACTA? I’d like to see the actual text please….that said the secrecy doesn’t bode well.
FL wants to ban using food stamps for sweets. I’ve got mixed feelings about this, SHOULD the .GOV be making those bans? On the other hand that IS taxpayer money you’re getting there, so maybe I should have a say in what you can spend it on….
Europe is freezing. To be fair -27 is seriously cold even by my standards.
Lady cuts in line at the drivethru, gets stunned.
Hey, the stimulus backed power program is faulty! Who’da thunk it?
Guy steals kid’s lunch box.
Motorcyclist takes down hit n run driver. For the 2nd time.
(good grief lately, and I haven’t even hit Fark.com yet this morning!)
Arty
The sun, weather, and my free time all cooperated this afternoon, so you all get puppy pictures. Going to toss them below the fold since there’s a bunch and I don’t want to lock up someone’s connection….
See that green grass? Its not your imagination. We have green grass on February 4th. I don’t get it, and Apollo is NOT amused, Arty likes it though.
Birds
With the weird weather the birds haven’t been hitting the bird feeders the way they did last year, so I’ve not really gotten any pictures. But today there were several woodpeckers and goldfinches out there, and I wanted to play with my new lens, so you’re getting a couple pictures. Note: this is on the very close in edge of what this lens will do, and I was having a little trouble focusing it, not to mention holding it still enough….gotta dig out the tripod.
Congratulations
To the winner of the contest over at A Girl and Her Gun. Thats some serious loot to get started with!
Homemade coyote rollers
For anyone who doesn’t know what coyote rollers are here is their website, but its basically a rolling pin made out of metal tubing attached to the top of the fence. When the dog (or predator) hits the top of the fence the roller dumps them back on their butt.
Very cool idea, but not cheap. We’ve been looking at ways to top our chainlink fence since Arty has already proved his climbing ability (and for that matter Apollo could go over the fence we have if it ever occurred to him to try). Someone pointed out this page to me. If you scroll about halfway down they describe a homemade “rolling pin” fence topper. Now I just have to figure out the best way to attach it to a heavy duty chainlink fence!
Edit 9/19/2014: Apparently quite a few people are hitting here, looking at the DIY instructions, and then going onto the Coyote Roller official site and buying. Because of the volume of people doing so Roll Guard (who owns Coyote Roller) has offered me a spot in their affiliate program, and after some thought I’ve accepted. What that means for you: if you click through to the Coyote Roller home page via the above links and proceed to buy from them I’ll potentially earn something off of that sale. I’ll admit that the possibility of earning enough to cover the blog costs was to tempting not to try it. On the other hand, if you experience a negative experience by doing so, something that appears to be related to the click through, please let me know…..
5/27/18: Not quite sure what happened, as I received no emails, but the original coyote rollers site appears to be down and has been for a while. There are other places to get them from if you do an internet search for coyote rollers. I have removed the broken links from this page.
Reading
So, catching up on the GunBlogBlacklist, and ran across Standing Outside Looking In, realized this must be the Stephen that several other bloggers have mentioned in the last few days, and had to shake my head at this post. I’ve never understood how people can NOT read, for pure pleasure if nothing else. I don’t care if its the most horrid smutty romance on the shelf, READ dammit. The only reason my house doesn’t look like the one described is lack of money on my part, and lack of shelves. Gotta fix that lack of shelves problem….
If you don’t know how….
….to tell the difference between a tripped breaker and an untripped breaker then you should not be the person trying to find the tripped breaker. Cause, you know, its REALLY REALLY ANNOYING to have to restart my computer 3 times the space of 10 minutes. It also proves how stupid you are.