Friend of the Month Reminder
“Last day of the month,” says Spence.
“And Halloween, and the Red Sox won,” says Admin.
“So therefore – time for the Friend of the Month reminder.”
“Check the right of the screen. See Cruizer? He’s Chet’s October Friend of the Month. His human companion sent in a photo to the Friends of Chet gallery, just as Chabui did today. Great pic, by the way. The random number generator – “
“East German Army surplus, circa 1956 – “
” – did the rest. Winner stays over there for the month and the winner’s human companion gets a signed and paw-printed – “
“And illustrated by medieval monks in a scriptorium– “
” – copy of the latest Chet and Bernie novel, in this case The Sound and the Furry.”
“This could be you! Just send in a photo!”
*All 100% true, except for the medieval part.
R#G seen here:
Tags: Friend of the Month, Friends of Chet, random number generator, scriptorium, The Sound and the Furry
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8:10 am on October 31st, 2013
Greetings!
Congratulations to the Red Sox! Maybe now those guys will clean up the Grizzly Adams look!
HRH, B, Today’s Google Doodle is animated!
Hoping all those who are under the quilt are getting better.
8:13 am on October 31st, 2013
Good morning all!
Maybe this month the FOM will be a Plunderer!
Lots of rain here, which may cut down on our little ghosts and goblins tonight. Barb still has to make a run to Wally World to pick up some treats.
8:26 am on October 31st, 2013
I’m wondering how the monks would have illustrated “Sound.” They used a lot of gold leaf.
Happy Halloween all.
8:48 am on October 31st, 2013
Good morning, All! Congratulations to the Red Sox. Congratulations to liz. Good to hear bellie has her 2-legged mom home at last. Good wishes to YSAS.
Please pick one of us (Dima!) for FOM.
8:54 am on October 31st, 2013
I am wondering where my goodest blog friend Teddy is. I love to read his posts.
8:56 am on October 31st, 2013
The Google Doodle is really funny. (Thanks Rose.) When you click on various combinations of objects around the witch, different animated scenes come up. You can use your mouse to move the objects. (I cut down the spiders. Heh!)
So the Red Sox won the World Series. Congratulations. (It’s over. Sigh…of…relief.)
9:02 am on October 31st, 2013
It is disconcerting that I am older than the Random Number Generator . .
Good morning All, I will be going only 4.5 miles to my bank’s full service ATM.
Hurrah!
Other than that? Carve a pumpkin and put books in a ‘new to me’ bookcase.
9:10 am on October 31st, 2013
Good Morning!!
Melanie, Mom thinks a lot of the Plunderers date from before the random number generator! (I know she does.)
9:22 am on October 31st, 2013
So long Cruizer. I’ve enjoyed looking at your picture all month but now time to move over for another friend, maybe a Canadian.
Happy birthday, Daddy Dawg!
Me too. I’m older than that antique machine.
9:40 am on October 31st, 2013
Attention! Nana is indeed in the rehab facility. From Scott:
“Christa Senior Living. She will be there 1-3 weeks. It will be a challenge because she doesn’t eat very much and has to get muscle back. 19301 Kings Garden Drive 98113. The room is B16. “
9:49 am on October 31st, 2013
Hope my avatar is back . .
Congrats to Nana/Barb!
This is for B.Stover. From The Book Of Kells the letter ‘S’ with a dog. I think.
9:49 am on October 31st, 2013
Thank you, OHs!! That is good news that she is there but she needs to eat to keep her strength up. For some reason, being bed-ridden, even for a short span of time, makes you very weak.
9:56 am on October 31st, 2013
Oleys: Thanks for sharing this great news about Nana! Maybe knowing that she is closer to going home will give her the incentive to eat so she can get her strength back.
10:00 am on October 31st, 2013
I am going to post some fuzzy pictures from the quilt show. I hadn’t posted them because the friend who took them isn’t good at focus, but I guess Melanie will overlook that. The first one was a Quilt Club challenge. We each got a crayon and had to make a quilt using 75% fabrics of the crayon color or hues or tints of the color. (Darker or lighter versions of the same color) We did not get to use the color the crayon colors, but had to use the color of the wax part of the crayon…sigh.
My color was red violet. Red violet colors a lovely pinky purple but the wax part is a sort of reddish brown pukey color. sniff.
But I did it anyway and was happy with the result. I am not a big fan of boring browns and I prefer my reds scarlet or cherry.
10:04 am on October 31st, 2013
That quilt was between two windows so I had some issues with reflected light.
This one is just fuzzy.
This is me with the loverly Plunder Quilt. It got an honorary award from a citizen of the area as her favorite quilt in the show.
She described herself as a leukemia survivor, animal lover and 5th grade student at Larimore ND middle school…!
10:06 am on October 31st, 2013
Heh heh heh.
You can see my attempt at wearing a dressy scarf. I was trying to do the scarf tie that someone (Melanie?) posted on the blog that day.
I love scarves but I am not very dressy about them. I am more a twirl it around the neck 4 times and tie a knot person.
10:08 am on October 31st, 2013
O’Howlers: Can you double check Nana’s zip code? I looked up the facility and I believe it is in Shoreline. WA 98133. Thanks for posting this address.
Nana: Eat. Walk. Smile. Victory!
Staff: That is very cool and M.C. Escher-ish.
10:13 am on October 31st, 2013
Good morning, everyone! Thanks to OH for Nana’s address. Go Nana, you need to eat right to get stronger and to help control the diabetes. Dawson, will pass along your words to the Daddy Dawg when he comes home from his walk. Melanie, mom, too, is older than the dreaded randon number generator, but on the bright side…she doesn’t have to work. (heh, heh, heh) It feels good to have the HOH “home” with all ya’ll again.
Let’s have a truly tree-mendous Thursday, after all, it is autumn.
10:17 am on October 31st, 2013
Nana, eat, eat, eat! Barb would be happy to send you a few pounds.
Melanie, Barb is older than you by 9 years, I think.
10:19 am on October 31st, 2013
Staff: The art (or lack thereof) of tying scarves runs in the family. I did mean to practice with the help of that link Melanie posted, but I got distracted.
10:33 am on October 31st, 2013
Come on Nana – channel a little of BearSpiritDog and eat, eat, eat…and then plan lunch.
Howlers – Thanks for the info from Scott – not being facebookie knowledgeable, we depend on those of you who are.
Ok – so the Red Sox won. Yay. NOW can we have pie?
10:51 am on October 31st, 2013
Maybe some of Dawson’s butterscotch?
11:03 am on October 31st, 2013
There are a few servings of butterscotch pie left, going fast.
11:17 am on October 31st, 2013
Thanks Melanie. That is an interesting “dog” especially the tail.
11:23 am on October 31st, 2013
Sled dogs training at Denali NWR in Alaska.
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11:28 am on October 31st, 2013
Staff, you are melting away! That is a great picture of you and the quilt.
11:34 am on October 31st, 2013
You guys, Help please on Nana’s new address.
There is more than one Christa Senior Living center in the state of WA.
Scott did not tell us the city.
11:47 am on October 31st, 2013
SsiberH: From what I could find on the internet the facility is in Shoreline WA but the zip code doesn’t match what O’Howlers posted. Trying to confirm…
11:48 am on October 31st, 2013
Hmmm, I am of no help due to lack of brains.
Staff, beautiful job. Lovely Quilts. That honor for your Plunder Quilt was given by one wonderful person.
I’m hoping this will work.
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11:55 am on October 31st, 2013
Christa Senior Living
19301 Kings Garden Drive N.
Shoreline WA 98133
Room B16B
11:58 am on October 31st, 2013
Melanie: Sooo…one dog does as she is told and the other does not suffer fools gladly? Heh, heh.
12:00 pm on October 31st, 2013
Dawson, I wish I could make gifs (or what ever they are) Right now The Pack are sleeping. I could do one in which no movement is made except breathing.
Thanks for the address.
12:10 pm on October 31st, 2013
Really grey, overcast and damp here (low pressure?) and the HOH ihas been napping most of the afternoon. Can mom be far behind?
12:18 pm on October 31st, 2013
Dawson, Thank you!!
12:54 pm on October 31st, 2013
Those are happy sled dogs in Staff’s video!
Great picture of both Staff and the quilt…very pretty quilt. Staff is pretty too.
1:47 pm on October 31st, 2013
We cut/pasted Scott’s message to Mom. He must have typo’d. Thanks for the correction, Dawson.
2:12 pm on October 31st, 2013
Blush…thanks guys. As for melting that all happened last year before I figured out I was lactose intolerant. My body took a long time to catch up with the loss. I have been stable at this weight since the middle of the summer. I am working at not losing any more but it is hard when you can’t put too mamy milk products in your tummy.
And it is hard to remember to have a lactaid pill every single time you eat. Every time! Do not make any exceptions. It is amazing how much food has lactose in it.
Ok I am done whining now.
I am off to put fancy decals on the parts of my sewing machine that have been painted a sparkly black. whooHooo
2:16 pm on October 31st, 2013
HOH, the Pack and I are feeling the front. We are now resting.
Grace and I went to the ATM and everything worked! For a surprise treat for Grace,I bought a ‘Spencer’ apple. We split it. Tart, crisp with a hint of wildness. Yup, an apple well named.
Next the pumpkin story . .
2:19 pm on October 31st, 2013
Good picture of Staff and the quilts.
Barb would like to melt away a little bit. Especially if she is going to attempt a trip north in Feb.
2:24 pm on October 31st, 2013
I brought the pumpkin in and put it on the counter.
No dogs.
I got the tools and the bowls out.
No dogs.
Cut into the pumpkin . .
2:29 pm on October 31st, 2013
The pumpkin is carved. The dogs got fresh pumpkin pieces and I tried to burn down the kitchen. We will now being using a flashlight.
Time for a nap.
Bookcase will have to be down tomorrow.
2:48 pm on October 31st, 2013
As usual Melanie’s post has us confused. How did carving a pumpkin cause electrical damage? Was there a candle involved? And what happened to the bookcase? Did it catch on fire?
3:00 pm on October 31st, 2013
I was trying to light the candle, hence the flashlight.
Earlier today I mentioned filling a bookcase. That is not going to happen today. Got tired.
Pouring rain here. Not sure where to put the jack-o-lantern.
3:01 pm on October 31st, 2013
What did trying to burn down the kitchen have to do with using a flashlight?
3:02 pm on October 31st, 2013
lol Melanie answered my question by one minute.
3:06 pm on October 31st, 2013
Your post said the bookcase would have to be down tomorrow. Thus we thought you meant you had to take it down due to damage.
3:15 pm on October 31st, 2013
Jack’o lantern lighting for the completely inept? Pyromania? Perhaps Melanie needs one of those LED candles.
3:23 pm on October 31st, 2013
Maybe she meant that she is going to put the flashlight in the pumpkin instead of a candle?
3:34 pm on October 31st, 2013
Error 444
Brain Not Found.
3:35 pm on October 31st, 2013
…laughing at all the confusion.
I am not at all confused by Melanie’s post, but I could be wrong so I will stay out of it.
Off to the post office to mail a card to NanaBarb. 🙂
3:43 pm on October 31st, 2013
How scary is it that Mama read Melanie’s post and understood every word?
3:51 pm on October 31st, 2013
Staff: You are having your machine painted sparkly black? I like sparkles and part of me is black, or so I’m told. You and I are twins. I won’t be convinced otherwise.
Pancho and Lefty have been busy all day. They told the giant they were taking the day off from training so they could procure a pallet of Slim Jims to send to Nana. Tenzing says he can usually go for a Slim Jim even when he is sick and doesn’t feel like eating.
4:04 pm on October 31st, 2013
Our poor trick-or-treaters! It was 69 degrees today so great about that, but high winds are sweeping in with gusts up to 60 mph.
4:13 pm on October 31st, 2013
Yikes, Princess Sam!
Your Trick or Treaters will need tethers.
Ours, if we ever had any, would need boats.
Is anyone (four or two legged) dressing up for Halloween?
My sister’s teaching team at school dressed as highlighters.
4:27 pm on October 31st, 2013
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4:39 pm on October 31st, 2013
At the farm, we never had 1 trick or treater in 6 years. Here we bought 90 pieces of candy to pass out for tonight.
5:01 pm on October 31st, 2013
In 12 years here have had 0 trick-or-treaters. Mom is scared of the fireworks people set off, so we take care of her while the Daddy Dawg goes out with the grands.
5:12 pm on October 31st, 2013
Treaters!….We have Zero Treaters too…snort!…Because someone turns off all the lights and closes the windows and bolts the doors….heh!heh!
5:18 pm on October 31st, 2013
Princess Sam, Now THAT is scary.
Pumpkin is outside with flashlight in it.
5:23 pm on October 31st, 2013
Rose!…After you finish Trick or Treating check your SDD!…snort!
5:31 pm on October 31st, 2013
I hardly ever get a Plunderer on the right side. Tonight is Zen Cat Masquers.
Missing Nana. Get better soon.
Sent an email to my doc saying thank you. Got one back. The doc at the clinic I will be going to is a National Reference in this field.
I’ve got a wonderful liver doc.
5:54 pm on October 31st, 2013
Mom just got homefrom work. She didn’t missany trick or treaters. 🙁
6:03 pm on October 31st, 2013
We were right, Melanie did put the flashlight in side the jack-o-lantern. We first thought she meant they had to use the flashlight for lighting, due to the kitchen fire, which also burned up the bookcase. Oh My!
New doc sound top drawer!
6:05 pm on October 31st, 2013
About 10 pieces of candy left, then the porch light goes out. Raining kats and dawgs out there.
6:31 pm on October 31st, 2013
Barb&Maggie: Wow! You went through all that candy already? I heard that 99% of the little candy packets for Halloween are made by 3 companies: Mars, Hershey and Nestle. Usually I will buy a bag of candy I like and then I end up eating it all because no one comes. I didn’t want to buy from those 3 companies so ended up getting 12 Kashi granola bars. So far I have had one of each variety. Heh, heh. Bleeech!
6:35 pm on October 31st, 2013
Our first trick or treater…a chihuahua dressed as a pumpkin. She turned up her nose at our milkbone treats.
6:37 pm on October 31st, 2013
Supper!…We are having Halloweenie Hamburgers for supper tonight…snort!snort!….With Frightening French Fries…heh!
6:43 pm on October 31st, 2013
Melanie, That is a neat pumpkin.
Very glad to hear about your new doctor and clinic.
We had one trick or treater…the kid next door who mom likes. She even bought him his favorite candy bar.
Now, for the rest of the night, she is doing what Rio’s friend is doing. We have gone to ground.
6:45 pm on October 31st, 2013
SiberH!…We are off the grid as far as the outside treaters are concerned…snort!
6:52 pm on October 31st, 2013
A (very little) entertainment for your evening.
7:01 pm on October 31st, 2013
My Monster Movie
“Terror of The Flesh Eating Vampires”
I would prefer TYG. snicker
7:05 pm on October 31st, 2013
We are watching The Excorist. Scared out of our minds. G’Night
7:06 pm on October 31st, 2013
Melanie, To answer your question about costumes (hours ago):
Nope, mom is just lounging around in her everyday duds 🙂
7:08 pm on October 31st, 2013
Mom is Curse of the Flying Death Bots. What’s a death bot?
7:20 pm on October 31st, 2013
“Attack of The Massive Swamp Beasts” – shudder.
Almost as scary as the phrase “play ball!”
7:21 pm on October 31st, 2013
Death by Windy Swamp Beasts! It sounds like an evening in confined quarters with Rio after on too many hot wings.
7:24 pm on October 31st, 2013
HOH, is your mom a bat? Or am I just seeing her upside down.
7:38 pm on October 31st, 2013
This is our niece Lucy, a band director. I wonder if she stood around in this pose all day.
7:40 pm on October 31st, 2013
Movie!…My friends movie is “Curse Of The Windy Sock Puggets”…snort!
7:45 pm on October 31st, 2013
Walk!…Out on our walk during the spooky dark halloweenie night a guy came up behind us while Beau and I were really giving some bushes the what-for…snort!….He was very scary looking and Beau stopped what he was doing, no easy feat, and stared the guy down as he came walking towards us…yeeep!…He came close and saw Beau standing his ground in the middle of the sidewalk starring him down and, and then he smiled and said, “Happy Halloweenie!”…chorkel!
8:07 pm on October 31st, 2013
Macy : Heh, heh. She might be, but don’t call her an OLD bat.
8:10 pm on October 31st, 2013
YES, it has started raining again. That ought to dampen those knuckleheads with the fireworks (the pun was for all pun loving Plunderers) And on that note we will say nighty night.
8:23 pm on October 31st, 2013
HOHs, your mom looks just wonderful in a witchy sort of way.
YSAS and LLL have gone out for dinner. She is wearing a lawyer costume and he is wearing a relaxing actor costume.
OTAS and GLAD are waiting for the neighbor’s children and then going towatch a scary movie.
8:26 pm on October 31st, 2013
I’m going to sleep now, sleep now, sleep now
Faster than lightning
For no one you see can fall asleep like me.
And if I wake up, wake up, wake up
You’ll know it you’ll see, I’ll be the Zombie.
TTFN
8:28 pm on October 31st, 2013
OoooMelanie!….When will Clarkson hear about the Washington D.C. Theater Company position?…snort!snort!…I am so excited for him. I have a very good piggish feeling about this gig!…heh!
8:29 pm on October 31st, 2013
Piggish?…grunt!….I meant Puggish of course…sniff!
8:42 pm on October 31st, 2013
We are The Attack of the Flying Vampires. Nothing too strange there.
We are going to relax for a bit, watching a Glee repeat and then Parenthood.
Barb has the day from he** tomorrow. Has to get up at 4:45am to go over to Josh’s. They are leaving for Florida for a 3 day cruise for Jess’s 30th. Barb has to get the kids up, fed and to school by 8:20, then pick them up and deliver them to some friends at 4:00.
Nighty noodles.
8:44 pm on October 31st, 2013
Barb!…Good Luck!…snort!…I hope they are paying you over-time and a half…grunt!
Baseball!…Is over…sob!sob!sob!….So where the heck is all the baseball snobs tonight? Don’t you all have “other” crap to talk about now that Baseball is Over?…grunt!…Blah!blah!blah!
9:11 pm on October 31st, 2013
Just because the baseball season has ended doesn’t mean we still can’t talk baseball.
9:15 pm on October 31st, 2013
SiberH!…True!…snort!
9:24 pm on October 31st, 2013
I fell asleep in my I Lost at Strip Poker costume. No doorbells rang. Now the fireworks are booming and I’m watching Elementary.
I have 10 granola bars to get rid of.
MacyMinPin: Lucy looks great as Rosie.
HOH: You look like a good witch but I’m not certain because you are upside down.
I’m not feeling great so I’m going back to bed after this show.
9:30 pm on October 31st, 2013
Dawson!…We here are watching Elementary too…snort!…But we are all feeling tip-top. At least we were till my friend found an email from a realtor who wanted yet 3 more papers signed and delivered for the closing of a house in Iowa..grump!…It has already closed. Keys have been handed over, people have moved into the house. What the hell!?…snuff!
9:46 pm on October 31st, 2013
Dawson, no offence, we love you, but mom would not have wanted to go trick or treating at your house….granola bars?
9:47 pm on October 31st, 2013
Dawson!….I do not know if there is much room under the Quilt these days..sniffle!…So many sick right now. But maybe you can add an extension onto the Quilt with one of those Staff has made for you…grunt!…Or else your feet will be out in the cold tonight. I sure wish some of the sicko’s would recover to make room for some other new sickos…wheeze!
10:02 pm on October 31st, 2013
HOH: Is the Daddy Dawg dressed up?
Rio: 🙁
10:03 pm on October 31st, 2013
I am experiencing my first real trick or treat Halloween in 30 years and it has been lovely. The costumes are nice and the kids seem both excited and polite. I wasn’t sure I’d get many since my exterior lighting is dark and currently the small front yard is filled with massive, HUGE rocks for a retaining wall project. The house has a hidden doorbell so I installed a lighted one so they can at least see where it is. Probably I have another hour to go…
10:04 pm on October 31st, 2013
SiberH: Me neither. That is probably why I got no trick or treaters. Why oh why did I not buy some good old bad for me chocolate? Health food. Bah!
10:04 pm on October 31st, 2013
Dawson, Hope you feel better tomorrow.
The baseball season has ended. The Long Dark begins. sob, sob, sob. It is fitting it should begin on Halloween.
I am going outside for last call now. Skunk season also seems to be at an end…boring
Night All
10:08 pm on October 31st, 2013
Funny thing about the Quilt—it is as big and as warm as the needer needs it to be.
Dawson: I know the feeling of losing at strip poker at you hand if I’m not mistaken. I’ve been parading around in my The-Giant-painted-something-green-and-I-couldn’t-resist-taking-a-nap-on-the-wet-paint costume all day. Have I mentioned I make a great pillow?
10:16 pm on October 31st, 2013
The rain came down in buckets so no trick or treaters here. Gramp and the Storyteller are grinning cuz they bought the kind of candy THEY like, so now they just have to eat the remains. Funny – THOSE leftovers they like. hrumpf
Sleep tight Nana and Dawson and Melanie and Dima and Tenzing and all who are pulling up a corner of the quilt.
G’night all
10:32 pm on October 31st, 2013
Yeesh!….Her mother had to come down here and interrupt our “quiet-watching-tv slash posting-on-the-blog-time” me and my friend have together…sniff!…Now it is ALMOST time for me to go up to my warm soft bed – but not quite yet…grunt!
Score!…We had NO trick or treaters at all tonight!…heh!heh!…Plan well executed…snort!…My friend says this is a favorite saying of her new hot-shot boss. “Plan well executed.” Oh and he says “Sooo therefore….” quite often during the day when he is training the other new girl…heh!heh!…My friend keeps thinking the ‘so therefores’ are better left up to Bernie,…but she keeps quiet about this at the busy-place…heh!snort!cough!
10:34 pm on October 31st, 2013
Come on Tenzing, my green pillow, let’s get under the quilt.
Good night all.
10:41 pm on October 31st, 2013
All done. Candy is gone. Probably ran out too soon but that is the way it goes. There were a couple of piggies but 98% were just happy kids liking getting one or two pieces of candy. Lights are off and I am in my bedroom hunkered down with Sadie.
10:44 pm on October 31st, 2013
CHobbit!…I give you maybe one more year and then you will be off the grid like me and SiberH during halloweenie and all those little free-loaders…grunt!
10:55 pm on October 31st, 2013
We had over 100 treaters, so all that is left here is the tootsie fool pops that mom found in the back of the pantry left over from dog knows when. Unless you count the half bag of Paydays that she ‘”forgot” to put in the candy bowl. Then when she started to get ready for bed, she discovered that there is no water. In the entire ‘hood. She is really glad that the giant work lights are several houses down and not right out front. Our public servants are neck deep in street working on the problem. AND our bowl was dry. Luckily there was some ice to melt. Five thirsty Perro es no bueno.
High and dry in Texas, this is Macy Minpin reporting. No film at 11.
11:13 pm on October 31st, 2013
Yawn!…yuck! I fell asleep in the basement…grunt!…Now I am really going upstairs and calling Halloween over and out…sniff!burp!yawn!…I hope I have water in my bowl cuz now I am very thirsty….gah!
2:23 am on November 1st, 2013
Zombie Sharon here. Halloween may be over but the rain is coming down still and what do my sleep deprived ears hear at 2:50 a.m.? Honking, er, barking in the back yard 🙁 Out I go, followed by the rest of the herd to bring the “baby” in. Puppy potty stops all around, reminders that honking at night isn’t good, playing “the towel is our friend” and lastly, PUTTING IN THE DOG DOOR COVER! They are all snoring now, Darah soggily curled around my feet, ah! Newfie aroma therapy. Hopefully back to sleep, perchance to dream. Nighty night, again.
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