Teddy the huge golden doodle is an absolute pouf of a himbo.
Magnificent lion dog perches in stately fashion on back step, floofily.
After an hour with the metal comb, we have a lion. (The bestest and goodest boy, when annoyed or ouchy, reacts in the sweetest way, by slow-licking your comb-hand. Please beloved mama, no more please.)
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Fifi the beautiful little red Cavapoo with the white chin and curly chest senses an intruder!
Fifi's up! Go-get-em stance engaged! Intruders beware!
Currently apoplectically scream-barking at the woodpecker sound in the nearby woods.
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In a catalog image, a hyped woman and man side-hug in their HIDEOUS ketchup and mustard striped overalls - U of Minn colors - their outside arms raised high as they each point a single finger skyward. The U Minn overalls are labeled "gopheralls." I sent this photo to my 17 yr old senior, who has chosen U Minn for college. The only response from him: "Disliked an image."
HAHAHAHAAAAA having a soon-to-be Gopher is so much fun.
... but will you still eat fried pickles?
Oh gosh that button. I love a BUTTON.
Ooooooooh!
He likes skiing, soccer, museums (modern art esp), sculpture gardens, stately architecture, state parks, trail hiking, world vegetarian cuisines, jazz, water, woods, mountains, walking around groovy neighborhoods with arty/historic vibes, midwestern nice, travel, pastries, and speaking German.
Beautiful teenage boy with long brown curls sits sweetly next to me, bespectacled, black-cherry-haired mama in a vinyl-covered foam circle in the main Indianapolis library kids' section. The theme appears to be blue, red, and smiling with no teeth.
Taking my son to visit U of Minnesota and U of Wisconsin (applied math) in a few days and we VERY much want him to be a gopher or a badger so what should I include in our whirlwind trips to Minneapolis and Madison that will snag him?
#Minnesota #Wisconsin
Small silky red Cavapoo covered with teeny snow pellets sits on a back porch step in the breeze and looks back over her shoulder winsomely.
Fifi's soft feathery red fur lifts in the wind as she surveys the back yard. The snow on her wavy red coat looks like a dusting of sprinkles.
Supervisor
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Just fully fresh and lovely and luminous and unforgettable. Best she's ever looked. Atta girl.
The greeeeen!!! 😍 I love what people do with stairways! What are the dark green shelfy-sconce thingies?
Lanky teenager with long brown hair under a bike helmet rides a trail bike in the woods.
Already willowy teenager is absurdly lengthened by the camera angle on a street car in New Orleans as he smiles slightly, like usual.
In a photo that cracks me up, my sonand daughter sit stiffly on uncomfortable granite chairs in an outdoor sculpture park in New Orleans. They look like they are in trouble and having to listen to a lecture about their behavior from a grown-up who is no fun.
He has always reminded me greatly of my 17 yr old. Their vibes are the same. Quietly clever and sly, deliberate? Amused by and tolerant of an emotional mama? Also lengthy.
Congratulatory letter from the National Merit Scholarship people telling Holland he's a finalist!
Teensy 7 year old Holland/Tiny Tim in a dressing room during "A Christmas Carol" stands on a chair to model The Ghost of Christmas Present's huge, green, fur-trimmed robe and ivy crown.
The Smoulder. Holland sits in our living room looking beautiful with his long brown wavy hair and perfect eyebrows (you're welcome, kid) and elegant piano fingers holding a pink bunny dog toy.
2 yr old Holland on some beach vacation in a blue and green union suit bathing costume sits in the sand playing with a truck, looking happy and darling with his heavy sun-kissed brown waves of hair.
Let's GOOOOOO!!!!! My beautiful, smart boyboy rules. Come on, U Chicago! Show us the $$$$!
Let's gooooo!!!!
It's like my mother's famed holiday dessert, Hershey Bar Pie (a melted giant Hershey bar stirred into room temp Cool Whip, blonked into a graham cracker crust, and frozen) in a can. Revelatory.
PS this thread helps.
I went stress shopping at TJoe's last night and spent $200. That is a stupid full cart at TJoe's. So now we're ALL stress eating all the things.
Frosted Flakes. Would that I were a child again.
HA! Right?!
Static. Bane of cats and fine-haired dogs and people.
DO SOMETHING.
Exactly. And fire behind the eyes.
If I thought it would elicit any real change, I would light myself on fire in front of the white house. I have no useful outlet at the scope of my rage and anguish. I have no words to quantify this evil, to define, frame, and diminish it. Daily life feels like bad puppetry. What do we do?
My son just got accepted to the University of Minnesota. I do not know how I feel about that possibility. I cannot even think a week ahead, let alone 6 months. I love Minnesota. I would be terrified for all the math kids of color who would be his friends. I am apoplectic with rage. What do we do?
I'm shaking. Everything in me is screaming to run to Minnesota and help the helpers. I swear to god I'm on the verge of lighting myself on fire on TV, I feel so helpless and swallowed by the void. How are any of us functioning? Why isn't this all over EVERY media, and called what it is?
I volunteer.
Yeah. It fucking IS.
Me and daughter in the bar where we sneaked the 17 yr old son to hear jazz in its natural habitat.
Husband and 17 yr old, happy with the music and the successful sneaking into the bar.
Excellent graffiti reads "Decriminalize Frolicking". Yeah!
Gorgeous house front in the Garden District, with friendly yellow lab behing the deep grey decorative iron fence. The house is white, with an upper balcony. There is copious, lacy, delicate, deep grey iron work everywhere and tasteful holiday decorations. Love.
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Gorgeous swamp landscape
A great brass band busks at a corner on Bourbon Street. So many incredible musicians here!
Son leans against the outer window of Peaches Records on Magazine Street, where the coolest little stores are found.
Found a bangle and a ring (that I am obsessed with) at an antiques store. Bangle is ivory lucite encrusted with an array of stones and gems of different sizes, shapes and colors in a palette of blues, purples, golds, whites, and seafoam greens. Ring is silver band topped with a white ceramic cushion rectangle, with a bezel-set round, faceted amethyst in the center and an unexpected swoop of marcasite curving up one of the long sides and ending in a point.
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My 2 youngest kids sit stiffly side by side in granite chairs in the NOMA sculpture garden, looking silently ahead at a pool of green water with a statue in it. They look like they are in time out and it makes me laugh.
Charlotte and I found the most perfect, cozy, charming coffee shop/bar for reading time called The Fourth Wall. This is the back end of the long, narrow space where the art-covered brick walls, colorful rugs, cozy sofas and old desks open out on the courtyard, where one can read, drink, and even smoke (!!) just like in the olden days (the 80s).
A giant voodoo priest float "prop" at Mardi Gras World, where design and construction takes place. He holds a skull-topped staff and a green boa wraps around his arm. He's beautifully painted and his dramatic expression is incredible!
Delicious and diverse pastries line the counter at Bearcat Café, where we made our way for delicious breakfast several times during our stay. All made in house.
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