Hey! C’mon in and celebrate the end of one year and the start of a new one.
Backtalk: A Medium Place
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Tuesday Haiku
Like a lovely cloud
In a beautiful picture
New Year’s first sunrise!
-Shusai
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| Yokoyama Taikan |
Monday, December 30, 2024
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Eve of New Year's Eve Eve OT
I think I've found a metaphor for my feelings about the new year. Am I being too pessimistic? I've never had a greater feeling of "reach for your tin hat" at the start of a year than I do now, except possibly 2021.
Maybe a more hopeful topic for this evening (EST) would be what have you read or plan to read this year? I definitely want to keep growing my attention span after my pandemic era laissez-faire follow-four-screens-at-once period. So... reading.
The Photo Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Friday, December 27, 2024
Fur Face Friday
Hello and welcome to the year end celebration of sweetness we call Fur Face Friday. Last week's comments were full of adorable faces getting together as the year winds down.
Friday Morning Open Thread
Almost to the end of 2024 (and not really ready for what 2025 will bring).
Happy Friday.
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Thursday evening open thread
Presents opened and put away? Packaging in the recycling?
There's some confusion here about garbage pickup this week; some people saw online that it's tomorrow, some people saw online that it's today (Thursday is our usual day). So I put my stuff out, and if they pick it up today, fine. If not, it's ready to go for tomorrow.
Blaurgh!Talk
All right, everybody, Xmas is over and I'm sure we're all tired from being sociable and pleasant. Go ahead and get out your grumbles.
Slapdash Thursday Open Thread
Show's over, folks. Nothin' to see here. Don't touch my toys.
(Say hello.)
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Christmas Eve Tuesday Evening Post
“‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house. I’m sorry I can’t make the rest out. What does it say here?”
Tuesday Haiku
Both plains and mountains
Have been captured by the snow
There is nothing left
-Joso
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| Kono Bairei |
It’s Christmas Eve and toosdai too OT
Good morning! Santa is due down the chimney any minute. I hope he leaves you something nice.
Monday, December 23, 2024
Monday Morning Open Thread
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Sunday Dinner OT
After a late start (as always), Flora and I are on the road. Any winter road trip playlist suggestions?
I should say that all the words in the following beautiful French Canadian folk song are very, very rude words. However no one will understand any of them unless they speak French, and even then only French-speaking Canadians will know they're rude. So SFW, unless a francophone is in earshot.
The Photo Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
Friday, December 20, 2024
Fur Face Friday!
'Twas the Friday before Christmas, when all through Fur Face Central not a creature was stirring, not even the most judgemental. Last week's pics were posted on the site with care, in hopes that likes and comments soon would be there.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Thursday evening open thread
Is panic setting in about how much still needs to be done for Christmas? People keep asking me if I'm doing anything, or going anywhere, and I am blissfully free of obligations. I hate shopping in the crowds, and I hate travelling over the holidays. I just have to make sure I have enough of everything to get me through the days the stores are closed. Which reminds me; I need cat food.
Blaurgh!Talk
It's that time of week again and plus extra FIVE AND A HALF SHOPPING DAZE. What's got you tossing a fit?
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Tuesday Haiku
As have the moon and snow,
I have fallen wayward
At the end of the year.
-Matsuo Basho
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| Utagawa Hiroshige |
Monday, December 16, 2024
Monday Evening OT
It wouldn't feel like the holidays without cookies—lots and lots of cookies. My daughter helped with the baking this year. She has her own pizzelle iron now, so she took that over. Hers are better than mine anyway. She also made the Love Knots, which we argued about because I wanted them to have green and red sprinkles, but she insisted on the traditional multicolor. And she's going to try her hand at Pignoli. I made gingersnaps, brown sugar cookies, shortbread, brownies, and maple fudge. I'm making Italian Rainbow cookies later this week. Then I have to package everything up and deliver them to friends.
What are your favorite celebration cookies?
Special note to Rooo, I miss you! I can only see your comments if I'm logged out. But then I can't reply to you. I thought maybe you had blocked me but I saw you saying you tried to clear your cache but still can't see me. (You may have me accidentally blocked.) I'm going to make a new account after the holidays when I have more time so I can talk to you again.
Monday Morning Open Thread
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Sunday Later ☄T
It's time for another meteor shower. It's also a full moon which complicates star gazing. Still, it's dark at 5 pm so need to stay up late to catch a shooting star.
While the shower is peaking this weekend, there's still lots to see on the "shoulders".
The Photo Gallery
It’s your weekly Photo Gallery! Come on in, take a look at what people have been up to over the past week and share some of your own photos.
They don’t need to be taken with a fancy camera or works of art. Share any SFW photos you’ve taken with even the poorest of potatoes. Of course we love to see that arty stuff too.
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