Schedule
Spence will be making two appearances this week. His topic will be Fear, Trembling and Beer Pong: The Lighter Side of Kierkegaard; or maybe the Chet and Bernie mysteries.
Thursday 1PM:
Snow Library
67 Main Street
Orleans, MA 02653
Saturday 2PM
Newport Public Library
300 Spring Street
Newport, RI 02840
401-847-8720
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Tags: appearances, Kierkegaard
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7:36 am on March 19th, 2013
Good morning! Love it when Spence posts his schedule, but the HOH wishes he’d to more (some) closer to their home. Mom can’t be the only person living here in the south that is sort of literate.
7:50 am on March 19th, 2013
Greetings!
Good morning HOH! Maybe Spence could come down to Westchester County in New York….Just sayin’
WELCOME HOME SNOWHOOK!!!!!!!
7:58 am on March 19th, 2013
Good morning all, And welcome back Snowhook!
We here were extremely fortunate last fall when Spence made a visit to the Chi town area. What a memory Barb has of that evening! Spence treats the Plunderers very well when he meets them.
8:00 am on March 19th, 2013
Good morning! We are enjoying another beautiful snow-covered day.
We are wondering if Kat has learned to write poetry:
8:39 am on March 19th, 2013
Schedule!…That there schedule don’t mean nuthin’ to me….grunt!
8:45 am on March 19th, 2013
I’d like to hear about the lighter side of Kierkegaard, who apparently did not use the term “leap of faith.”
Good morning all.
8:47 am on March 19th, 2013
About 6 inches on the ground. Another 2 or 3 today.
Welcome home Snowhook! I’ll send back your weather now that you are home.
Not awake yet. BBL
8:55 am on March 19th, 2013
Melanie, Never fear, spring arrives tomorrow!
Barb is off to Fresh Market for half price Tueday – steak and crab cakes. Yum! Akso running to Home Goods to scout out a rug for the kitchen. Love Home Goods!
Josh is coming over later with the kids while Jess works late for one last Tues. He is going to hang a drapery rod in the den, and Barb is going to make him crab stuffed salmon.
9:20 am on March 19th, 2013
Good morning & welcome home Snowhook! Good job, good job.
And a good morning to all.
Bedtime prayer…bet Melanie & Zoe can relate…snicker
Barb: I must say, for one who only recently had knee surgery you’re really hopping around.
We too LOVED meeting OFA last September.
Riö & HOH, your turn will come.
Hi to B & Rose.
9:33 am on March 19th, 2013
Another Strange Night (early morning). Alarms going off at 3 am. Again.
Even though no alarms had been set or were even Visible and all devices had been carefully unplugged before going to bed.
Maybe we should have gotten up. Now we’re late for the Day.
Wose: Don’t worry. Spence is making the rounds and You Are Closer than most to his home territory.
Who would have thunk (that’s a word? my iPaw says so!) he would ever get out to the Pacific NW, but he did!
9:47 am on March 19th, 2013
Bear: From your lips to Spence’s ears!
Greetings, Masquers!
9:47 am on March 19th, 2013
Masquers and Barb are rubbing it in to the rest of us that they got to meet OFA.
But Mom and Kat got to meet the BDHW. So there !
Barb, you really are on the move…That new knew must be working well.
9:55 am on March 19th, 2013
Thirty-seven degrees?.
Is that even possible with spring scheduled to arrive tomorrow?
I say: Put another log on the fire and snooze away the day.
Yeah, right. dream on little kitty, dream on.
Howlers: Yes, and we are mighty envious (green with jealousy) of that and the other special plunderers you met last summer.
9:57 am on March 19th, 2013
I did a dramatic reading of the poem for Zoë.
Did not make it through the first time because we were laughing.
Zoë says that adding more dogs to the bed is not geometrical but exponential. snicker
The plow has been by once and that was 5 minutes ago. I think they are waiting to see how much more snow we get.
It’s pretty (crappy).
10:27 am on March 19th, 2013
Have we mentioned that – WE HATE SNOW!!!!
sigh
Love that puppy prayer. Gilly says it means she should be sleeping in the big bed, instead of in her own soft, warm bed.
For those who await OFA coming to their area, we hope it doesn’t happen the way it did for us – he was here, and we were far away on vacation! Talk about tough decisions.
10:31 am on March 19th, 2013
Masquers: It’s 26 degrees here, snowing and blowing.
10:32 am on March 19th, 2013
Oh ye of so much snow
Despaireth not your treasure
For the bounty you disdain
Would bring us so much pleasure.
10:42 am on March 19th, 2013
Mom laughed and cried (tears are tasty) and Daddy Dawg laughed over the puppy prayer. He wants to know how the prayer might change if he gets his wish for a king size bed. We say room for more of us.
10:50 am on March 19th, 2013
Heh. Cute poem, Macy.
10:51 am on March 19th, 2013
Where’s Siber this morning?
10:51 am on March 19th, 2013
Dilema!…It would be a real dilema if I had to choose between meeting The Charming Mr. Abrahams or The Giants…snort!…That would be a humdinger of a decision…sniff!
10:57 am on March 19th, 2013
Good Morning All
Another Spring like day here. The trees and bushes are turning green. Very good poem, Macy. I can relate, believe me.
Welcome back home, Snowhook!!
10:59 am on March 19th, 2013
Hi Masquers, Mom had stuff to do this morning before she turned on the computer for me.
11:03 am on March 19th, 2013
HOH, Zoë sleeps on a King size bed. She has 4 of the Pack with her at all times. They switch places. I have a Queen size bed. Excuse me, Patsy has a Queen size bed. I am the only one she lets sleep on it.
Love the poem Macy!
How much snow down in the valley?
11:03 am on March 19th, 2013
Decision!…I guess it would come down to who had the most treaties for me…chuffle!..heh!
11:05 am on March 19th, 2013
We had about 5 inches of snow last night in the lower Hudson Valley. Now it is rainy and cold.
11:09 am on March 19th, 2013
Belle Starr: I hope your two-legged and the Giant are both home now, resting and eating.
I had so much fun meeting you, I can’t stop thinking or talking about it. Do you think your Giant would build me a little house in the woods so I could live with you for ever and ever? I would work for free, and I would give you excellent tummies.
I miss my mom Luna too. I got such sweet kisses from her.
11:13 am on March 19th, 2013
For the snowbound plunderers…some California dreaming.
http://www.bing.com
el pais grande del sur
11:21 am on March 19th, 2013
Rose, just remember that those little cabins in the woods come complete with a lovely path to the littlest house. Mom has a healthy respect for indoor plumbing!
Mr. Husky, it just is not right that two snow loving pups as ourselves should be placed in such desolate locations, but at least you have scenery!
11:27 am on March 19th, 2013
Macy is a very good poet.
We don’t know why there is so much complaining about snow. Our only complaint is how little of it there is.
11:28 am on March 19th, 2013
Lovely scene on bing, Masquers.
11:52 am on March 19th, 2013
Someday I’d like to meet OFA. I’d prefer in Alaska 😉 but I would be willing to travel stateside to meet him.
Morning all.
12:01 pm on March 19th, 2013
C.Hobbit: Who knows…Spence may travel to Alaska one of these Iditarod Days.
You & Wose may have started a trend 🙂
12:06 pm on March 19th, 2013
Macy: It is a sacrifice I would be willing to make.
12:07 pm on March 19th, 2013
Masquers, I love it when you talk in different languages.
12:12 pm on March 19th, 2013
I don’t mind snow but I hate sparrow hawks.
12:30 pm on March 19th, 2013
I LOVE the snow! Too bad we didn’t have too much of it here in New York this year.
12:33 pm on March 19th, 2013
test (^^^)
12:35 pm on March 19th, 2013
A burglar broke into a house one night. He shined his flashlight around, looking for valuables when a voice in the dark said, ‘Jesus knows you’re here.’ He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked his flashlight off, and froze. When he heard… nothing more, he shook his head and continued. Just as he pulled the stereo out so he could disconnect the wires, clear as a bell he heard ‘Jesus is watching you.’ Startled, he shined his light around frantically, looking for the source of the voice. Finally, in the corner of the room, his flashlight beam came to rest on a parrot. ‘Did you say that?’ he hissed at the parrot. ‘Yes’, the parrot confessed, then squawked, ‘I’m just trying to warn you that he’s watching you.’ The burglar relaxed. ‘Warn me, huh? Who in the world are you?’ ‘Moses,’ replied the bird. ‘Moses?’ the burglar laughed. ‘What kind of people would name a bird Moses?’ ‘The kind of people who would name a Rottweiler Jesus.’
12:35 pm on March 19th, 2013
Another foot of snow is on the way! This has been a great winter. Saturday is pond skimming, a spring event that’s held at all ski resorts. A pond is dug at the bottom of the hill and the skier has to make it all the way across or get dunked.http://www.skinet.com/skiing/photo-gallery/pond-skimming-where-do-it-how-do-it
12:37 pm on March 19th, 2013
Whee!
12:39 pm on March 19th, 2013
Love the pics, Molly’smom
12:43 pm on March 19th, 2013
Macy, that was so funny!
12:44 pm on March 19th, 2013
Did we ever find out which dogs made it to Nome?
12:44 pm on March 19th, 2013
Mom thinks that looks like fun, MPM. Us? Not so much.
12:45 pm on March 19th, 2013
Jesus is watching! heh heh heh Good one!
12:58 pm on March 19th, 2013
Pond skimming. Not me, no how!
Love the joke. Snowing like mad now. Zoe spent the morning hibernating. She’s taking a walking. I am now hibernating.
1:13 pm on March 19th, 2013
YIKES – the snow is coming down in dumptrucks now! There is more piling up in the last hour than we got all night and morning. Help – glub, glub…..
Macy – we read your joke to Gramp. He howled with laughter. He wants us to write it down so he can tell it to his church friends during coffee hour on Sunday. (And we loved your poem too. We think you’re crazy, but we love your word skills)
And Mama said we were rude before – so now we have to remember to say WELCOME HOME SNOWHOOK! Well done.
1:14 pm on March 19th, 2013
Spence’s schedule never aligns with mine.
Mollypop’s Mom: Brrrr!
MacyMinPin: Me too! I love indoor plumbing, especially in winter, which is about 7 months long.
Welcome home to the Snowhook Kennel CEO and the Giant.
OleyHowlers: Loved Kat’s poem and it did make me think of Melanie.
T&G: Excellent letter from your mom about racism.
1:16 pm on March 19th, 2013
Our poor little tree
1:18 pm on March 19th, 2013
Just yesterday when Melanie was here there wasn’t any snow in any of the front yards.
waaaahhhh
Bee – why do you hate sparrow hawks?
1:34 pm on March 19th, 2013
T & G, I think the hawks come to her bird feeders and pick up some lunch!
Macy, loved the joke!
Barb is back, found a bargin rug on clearance at Home Goods, picked up the drapery panels she had ordered, and got the 1/2 price sirloins at Fresh Market. Now for a little rest before the kids arrive.
Barb is hoping the snow and cold last another week. Something to do with Gus coming on Friday while his family goes out of town for spring break. Barb doesn’t want to deal with his big muddy paws if it gets warm. We have to reseed the little bitty back yard in April.
1:45 pm on March 19th, 2013
Snow!…I don’t feel sorry for you guys getting all that snow…grunt!…No one worries about me and Beau disappearing under that stuff when we get dumped on…gruffle!
1:48 pm on March 19th, 2013
Barb: That’s one way of putting it.
Sparrow hawks are cannibals and I would begin the process of their extinction if I could.
2:09 pm on March 19th, 2013
Well, we said it at the end of last night’s blog, but it bears repeating: “Welcome Home Snowhook”
2:52 pm on March 19th, 2013
And she will bring snow where every she goes . .
Hmm, I guess I should have gone to AK this winter.
We now are having an icy mix. On the radar we have nothing. But snow from MollyPop’s mom is headed our way.
3:26 pm on March 19th, 2013
HOH is sooooooooo glad the white shhhhtuff stays elsewhere. It is really cute, for about an hour, then it is time for a fluffy towel to sry with. Here it was 80 on Saturday, yucky rainy yesterday and 58 and clear today. Yep, guess it is spring.
3:29 pm on March 19th, 2013
Duh…DRY, not sry. But I did find washing instructions in a skirt which said, “hand wash, twist like rope to cry”. Don’t know about ya’ll, but we’d cry if you twisted us like rope!
3:34 pm on March 19th, 2013
Bee, At least the sparrow hawks also eat mice and voles and other pests. Our least favorite bird is the Northern Shrike, whice we only witnessed one winter in no. Illinois. They usually don’t venture this far south. They are a “carnivorous songbird”. They don’t have talons like a raptor, but the have a nasty little hook on the end of their beaks. They will visit bird feeders, attack a small bird and then kill it and hang it from a branch, by impalling it. Yes, Gross! Then they come back to visit it whenever hunger strikes. The males also do this to impress the females. Do you see those in Michigan?
3:37 pm on March 19th, 2013
That is funny HOH.
I won’t to Arizona a long time ago and brought back two t Inge that were between rugs and shawls. I got them because the tag said “Made from unidentfied fabrics”. They are still around. Somewhere.
3:39 pm on March 19th, 2013
You up, still hate auto correct.
3:41 pm on March 19th, 2013
Hounds: Twist to cry…that’s Funny!
MollyPop’s Mom: Pond Skimming…Looks like fun…With a wet-suit Maybe.
3:45 pm on March 19th, 2013
Barb and Maggie, I looked Jo the Northen Shrike. YUCK.
They are a predatory song bird. I didn’t know any songbird ate other birds. The call is pretty, but I wouldn’t invite it to dinner.
3:47 pm on March 19th, 2013
Interesting avian information today.
First we have the Hannibal Lectors of the bird world…the sparrow hawks.
Next the Count Dracula types…the northern shrike.
Yikes! Who knew the little darlings had this evil side?
3:51 pm on March 19th, 2013
HOH! We love to twist them til they cry! hah hah!
We had no idea there were birds who ate other birds. Sounds like cannibalism.
Kat is in Meashka’s doghouse! She either tried to steal, or did steal, a piece of hoof from her. Boy was Mama Meash ticked off at her! She is lucky Mom saved her. Now Kat doesn’t want to go back outside.
4:00 pm on March 19th, 2013
Barb: The Northern Shrike is not familiar to me. (I like mice and voles and I would still make the Sparrow Hawk extinct if I could.)
4:06 pm on March 19th, 2013
Raptors will eat other birds, but I think the Shrike is the only songbird that eats other birds. It is also know as the Butcher bird, due to its habit of hanging its prey for future meals. Yuck, as Melanie said.
The pond skimming looks sort of like the river skimming that some crazy snowmobile riders do here. When the rivers start to thaw they will try to take the snowmobile across the opening. Every year some one ends up with a sled lost to the river. Dumb and dangerous!
4:08 pm on March 19th, 2013
Lucy Lou, our French Airhead likes mice and voles too! She digs the up and brings them in all the time. Just one question…why would a state university name its mascot after a little rodent like the vole?
4:11 pm on March 19th, 2013
Mama says that if we rid the world of all species that routinely act in a predatory manner to their own kind, then who will buy us our kibble and give us tummies?
just sayin’
4:13 pm on March 19th, 2013
I like Masquers’ descriptions of the Sparrow Hawk and Northern Shrike.
4:14 pm on March 19th, 2013
T&G, heh heh heh! Good point!
By the way, we here are willing to rid the world of all birds. and cats. and mice. and rats. and skunks. and raccoons. and groundhogs……
4:14 pm on March 19th, 2013
Very good point T&G.
4:15 pm on March 19th, 2013
Melanie: Can’t you turn off the auto correct?
4:17 pm on March 19th, 2013
And I would be glad to rid the world of huskies. At least these huskies.
4:19 pm on March 19th, 2013
Yeah, Melanie. Turn off auto-correct. You can use auto-suggest instead. It will flag typos (if you are paying attention and see them before you hit enter…we don’t), and you can have it suggest a correction.
4:40 pm on March 19th, 2013
Auto!…You mean she has been bitching about something she can turn off this whole time??…grunt!…For Pete’s Sake!
4:56 pm on March 19th, 2013
Well, Pete came by and darn if he didn’t switch off the auto correct. He also showed me how to use the four finger pinch to get to the home page, and how to swipe with four fingers to get to different apps. Good ol’ Pete
5:02 pm on March 19th, 2013
Melanie: Is that the 8 year old kid you grabbed off the street?
5:04 pm on March 19th, 2013
They go by different names but they’re all under 10 yrs old.
Mom has used one or two of them herself in a pinch.
5:28 pm on March 19th, 2013
O.K. melanie, now hou need to teach us those 4-finger techniques. We here only have a one-finger technique, and youse know what that one finger is! 🙂
5:29 pm on March 19th, 2013
Gah! And while you’re at it teach us how to type.
5:52 pm on March 19th, 2013
HOH, are you a fan of the Voles?
5:58 pm on March 19th, 2013
Howlers, use the little microphone on your keyboard and you won’t have to type.
6:03 pm on March 19th, 2013
We don’t have one. 🙁
And if we did, would it really understand Dima?
6:04 pm on March 19th, 2013
Sammie: You are very high tech.
6:09 pm on March 19th, 2013
Masquers, he was nine and the grandchild of my next door neighbor! I gave him slightly drooled on cookies for payment.
Also, please let your mom now that something arrived here in the mail. I will get it to where it needs to go when the roads are cleared.
As this Nor’Easter is working its way through our area we have all been hibernating as much as possible.
6:15 pm on March 19th, 2013
Well, Basil and Sage are in trouble again. Mama keeps the big laptop upstairs, but uses her little notebook in her workroom downstairs so she can keep up with the blog and still do something productive. She went to use the notebook today, and it warned her that the battery was very low, even tho she had just unplugged it. After checking many things out, a small break in the black outer wire was discovered. Surrounded by tiny, kitty teeth marks.
So, the notebook is dead dead dead until she can get to the ‘puter store and get a new one.
Now, here is our question, When we get in trouble, we are in the doghouse. (Daddy says that’s where he has to go too). But would the Kats have to go to the KatHouse? And why does Daddy giggle when we ask that?
6:17 pm on March 19th, 2013
Mama howlers is techie so for sure she should have the little microphone on the keyboard for her Huskies. I went from the original iPad and then recently it couldn’t work anymore, poor thing, so now I have the iPad 4. I don’t know at what point the little microphone was added to the keyboard.
6:19 pm on March 19th, 2013
Hey, youse guys, the 2014 Iditarod begins March 1st.
So who’s going?
6:24 pm on March 19th, 2013
I am checking flights right now…
6:29 pm on March 19th, 2013
Wose – I’m going! Please let me know the flight info.
6:33 pm on March 19th, 2013
MPM: I have looked at a couple of airlines….still too early. GAH!
6:35 pm on March 19th, 2013
March 1st!….snort!….We better git cracking on raising some money for our team!….Woooooo!
6:36 pm on March 19th, 2013
Melanie!…So now any misspellings are all of your own…heh!heh!
6:36 pm on March 19th, 2013
OH: Don’t tell anyone in TN, but mom says that they are just games. Says that statement could get her hanged here.
T&G:Don’t know why your daddy laughs about KatHouse but when mom takes care of our cousins, she calls it pussy patrol and the old fart laughs, too
6:36 pm on March 19th, 2013
RIO! I’m here to offer any help I can.
6:37 pm on March 19th, 2013
For BStover
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/AmericanKestrel02.jpg/479px-AmericanKestrel02.jpg
6:45 pm on March 19th, 2013
Sammy, ours is an iPaw2. Pop’s is an iPaw3 though…maybe we should steal his
6:45 pm on March 19th, 2013
Sparrow!…That is one mean looking Sparrow Hawk…snort!…He could be on the show “The Following”…heh!
6:50 pm on March 19th, 2013
This is Dima’s mom. I have a microphone on my phone but it doesn’t understand Dims’s speech
7:13 pm on March 19th, 2013
Howlers Mom, Return the phone. It is defective.
7:20 pm on March 19th, 2013
Sparrow Hawk: You don’t look happy but you are beautiful. Okay…extinction is out. However, no more eating in my garden.
7:22 pm on March 19th, 2013
So THAT’S what that little microphone is for…..
7:26 pm on March 19th, 2013
First were the MG and now the SHU. Yikes.
I am going to get ready to go upstairs. I will make The Pack go up first to make sure there are no goats, sparrow hawks or Count Shrikeulas waiting to pounce on or dive at me.
7:28 pm on March 19th, 2013
Bear!…Try it out!…snort!….Arrrrooooowwwww!
7:35 pm on March 19th, 2013
We just got back from the barn, and now Mom says it is time to sign off.
7:49 pm on March 19th, 2013
Sharon, Surprised you got that one past Mike the moderator. We were going to say earlier that we were going to cut some kitty willows to try to sprout.
We are going to sign off early too. More PT tomorrow. Nighty noodle.
7:49 pm on March 19th, 2013
Rio: Alas low battery. My Techie Experiment will have
to wait until it is fully charged.
Melanie: Count Shrikeula. I Love it!
7:54 pm on March 19th, 2013
Awwwww!….Bear. I wanted to read your real voice…sniff!
8:10 pm on March 19th, 2013
Techie!…Isn’t it Maskers job to keep all your devices in tip-top shape?…snort!…No way should you be low on battery power..sniff!
8:18 pm on March 19th, 2013
Rio: Normally, yes. Today, no.
He said he has a gig tonight and took off a while ago in a Big Rush.
8:21 pm on March 19th, 2013
Just got back from checking the grand cats. T&G: Thank your mama for the mail. The HOH is wound up tonight, must be the “newf” influence. Think I’ll put bactine on my gnawed ankles, scratch all the girls and go night-night.
8:27 pm on March 19th, 2013
Nite to all of those you are hitting the hay.
I have not made it up the stairs. Zoe just came down and she seems to be perfectly okay.
I’m taking a chance, but here I go . . .
8:28 pm on March 19th, 2013
By the way, if you look over to the right? The estory is coming out this summer. Sigh, way too long to read Chet’s words about Kosher chicken, bulldozers and such.
8:31 pm on March 19th, 2013
Summer!…grunt!….Can’t that little guy type any faster than that?…gruffle!
9:56 pm on March 19th, 2013
Snowhook!…Rebecca has updated their blog!…chorkel!
10:18 pm on March 19th, 2013
Whew! I am caught up with the blog. It took more than a day of read read reading. Along with laundry and cooking and playing with my fishies. Sounds like you guys have much more fancy fishies than I do. I just fill up a tank and create a new name and start another tank. If I kept on one I might get up to 1000 also. So far the most exciting thing I did was put a bubbles screen saver on my desktop. I love it. They are multicolored.
Mr.Staff sent me an email asking if I wanted to go back to Florida (where we were married just over 24 years ago)next spring. I said no, I want to go to Alaska. I can’t decide if I want to go for the start or the end of the race?
Off to bed. I only have to worry about the kats and when they see me get in they get out. They stay on the bed in North Dakota but it is a queen. They don’t think this little full sized bed is large enough for people and kats. So they sleep in it all day and we use it at night.
10:24 pm on March 19th, 2013
Staff!…Alaska?…snort!…Now someone here is starting to ponder the adventure….heh!heh!
10:26 pm on March 19th, 2013
Staff!…Did you watch the video of the Giant chipping away at the incredibly big Ice-Mammoth that is Rebecca’s roof?…snort!
10:38 pm on March 19th, 2013
Yes I did Rio. Thank you for pointing out her new post. I wonder if it all came down at once. I was glad he was standing under the overhang. It looked dangerous.
I went in to give my father his ‘just before bed’ eye drops and he was laughing away. He was listening to As It Happens from the CBC radio and they were interviewing the founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society. Evidently the town of Dover in the UK has decided to stop putting apostrophes on their street signs. A stand MUST BE MADE! I hope B.Stover is on the job!
http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/
If you go to the website you can see examples of bad use of apostrophes.
12:31 am on March 20th, 2013
Great books, I’m on the last one and can’t get enough of Bernie and Chet the Jet!
ONLY complaint, write faster please, we need more more more….
1:19 am on March 20th, 2013
My Giant and my Two-Legged Mama are starting to settle back into life again, and I have come to find out that she didn’t bring me back any lavish gifts from Nome. I may never speak to her again.
Spence: We here at the Kennel agree with Jeannie. Write faster. Quick, like a little pug.