Sundays With Ingrid
“I understand,” said Dr. Vishevsky, “that you’re into acting.”
Ingrid gazed at him. He had soft brown eyes, like a puppy. Ingrid wouldn’t have dreamed of kicking a puppy, but kicking Dr. Vishevsky came to mind immediately. “Yeah,” she said, “I like acting.”
“Are you in a play now?”
“We’re rehearsing a scene from The Wizard of Oz for The Xmas Revue.”
“And your role?”
“Dorothy.”
“Ah.” Dr. Vishevsky jotted something on a notepad. “The main character, if I’m not mistaken.”
“I guess.”
“Meaning you’re not sure?”
“The Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion and the Scarecrow are important too.”
“Would you prefer to be playing one of them?” asked Dr. Vishevsky.
Ingrid thought about that. All those parts probably started with body movement—stiff for the Tin Man, floppy for the Scarecrow, catlike but in a timid way for the Cowardly Lion—and she wasn’t too good with that. “No,” she said.
Dr. Vishevsky made another note. “What do you like most about acting?” he said.
Ingrid shrugged. “It’s fun.”
“What makes it fun for you?”
“I don’t know,” Ingrid said. And she didn’t really want to know. Was it a rule you had to understand what made something fun?
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8:45 am on December 19th, 2010
No, Ingrid, it is not a rule that humans have to understand what makes something fun.
Take dogs for instance. They don’t know why something is fun, it just is.
And Kats, a Kat can have fun without knowing why it is fun. Though I don’t know about Alice on that one.
Or a child, YSAS thought it was fun to fill paper bags 1/2 with water and put ten of the around the house. He didn’t know why he did it, but he had fun.
9:02 am on December 19th, 2010
Good morning, Melanie. Hope you are going to take it easy today.
Dr Vishevsky and Ingrid do not seem to be on the same page.
We are going to hang out here today, do some wrapping, and maybe delivery one Christmas gift this afternoon.
Barb was checking out the bird feeder outside the kitchen window. In the last few days we have had the following visitors:
sparrows (many), chickadees, juncos, bluejays, cardinals, mourning doves, and a couple of small woodpeckers. We are filling the feeder every morning now. So much snow that the birds are really hungry.
9:05 am on December 19th, 2010
Oh, and the goat video at the end of last night’s posts was really cute. Young ones really do bounce around like that, and they are sooo cute. Sorry, Siber and Rio, but they are.
9:42 am on December 19th, 2010
Good Morning Barb & MagPie!
Yes, I am taking at easy today. Might finish the tree . . . Maybe.
I agree with you on the video and young goats. Back in my Earth Mother days, (mid 70’s) we had twins born. Within minutes of being born they were trying to do those jumps. Within two days, they could. Very cute.
9:52 am on December 19th, 2010
I saw one of the goats in the background chewing on some books.
10:21 am on December 19th, 2010
Laughing here!
10:25 am on December 19th, 2010
Have to go back and look at that video again. Missed the book chewing!
10:28 am on December 19th, 2010
Good morning all.
10:37 am on December 19th, 2010
It’s fun because it’s fun; just as a rose is a rose is a rose.
10:41 am on December 19th, 2010
I will admit that the younger goats are rather cute, but that is before they grow up to be marauding goats that delay the delivery of Christmas toffee and eat books being sent through the mail. I am hoping to hear that Gus&BooBear received their toffee. If not, we are going after the goats.
Melanie, what happened with the ten paper bags filled with water that YSAS put around the house? Mom won’t let me try it to find out.
10:46 am on December 19th, 2010
I bet the bags were not full for very long. Plastic would have lasted longer, but if you were being Earth Mother, plastic would have not been environmentally correct.
10:47 am on December 19th, 2010
Staff: Those goats are soooo cute. They are having fun with no rules about it. Even Siber H. likes the kids.
What? I missed the post about 10 paper bags filled with water. Sounds interesting…and funny.
10:59 am on December 19th, 2010
Back in the day (snicker) large paper bags were actually thick.
The seepage was there but they did not completely give way until I picked them up.
I THOUGHT he was napping. (rolling eyes here)
All in all, at least it was summer and I got the rugs clean.
11:59 am on December 19th, 2010
A thorn is a thorn is a thorn. Who said that in response to Gertrude Stein?
12:27 pm on December 19th, 2010
From Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twentites & Thirties by Noel Riley Fitch
Sylvia Beach said in a telegram “Yes a thorn is a thorn is a thorn”. She was not pleased that BS had slighted her.
12:46 pm on December 19th, 2010
and a thorn is a thorn is a thorn.
1:02 pm on December 19th, 2010
That should be that GS had slighted her. Must wear correct glasses at computer.
1:36 pm on December 19th, 2010
I think that Sylvia was meaning to say BS, and you said it for her.
1:37 pm on December 19th, 2010
Mom did her Safety Patrol this morning. Then we hit the road. Finally, I’m at Sam’s and Mom is eating toffee. Sam’s box is empty but mine is full. Ha ha! Now we’re off to granddaughter’s birthday party.
1:38 pm on December 19th, 2010
Yes, Rio. Another party.
2:00 pm on December 19th, 2010
Abbie: The goat video was very very cute. It looked like they were having so much fun. I didn’t know they jumped around so much.
2:02 pm on December 19th, 2010
Yes, Sylvia Beach. However, I thought she was referring to a slight of James Joyce by Gertrude Stein. Do you have that book you referred to Melanie?
2:04 pm on December 19th, 2010
TYB: The BS bit is funny!
I hope Mollypop is enjoying her toffee. Is she sharing it with Sam?
Hi Mollie ABP.
Where is Rio….and SH…and Wookie?
2:09 pm on December 19th, 2010
B.Stover: they did not always see eye to eye, but GS really didn’t like Joyce. SB did.
Here’s the link I was looking at.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Zpu5_c2o-2IC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=%22A+thorn+is+a+thorn%22+Stein&source=bl&ots=MgUwSzM4kM&sig=v8nBYnMjK1Pn2w8VfjxDHs52fwI&hl=en&ei=8z4OTe-yM4WClAfQnJC9DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22A%20thorn%20is%20a%20thorn%22%20Stein&f=false
2:56 pm on December 19th, 2010
Ah!! Oh no!! Megan, mommy, and her friend, Savannah, came home with a puppy! She’s Savannah’s and Megan;s dog, and they named her Skylah; Savannah wanted Sky, Megan wanted Lola, so my mommy said, “How about Skylah?” Skylah’s a 3 month old beagle, and she keeps chasing me around the house! They came home with her last night, and she’s already eating my food and climbing the stairs!! Ah!!
I’ll try with the pictures, but it may take time to moderate…
Skylah at the pet store in the mall…
Skylah eating my food…
Skylah with Megan and I (Megan’s the blur…)
3:27 pm on December 19th, 2010
Shakespeare and Company published Joyce’s Ulysses and
Stein saw it as disloyal because she considered Joyce her main rival. Stein even told Beach that she (Stein) would not renew her subscription to the American Library, i.e., Shakespeare and Company. This is from James R. Mellow’s bio of Stein, A Charmed Circle.
I’ll look at your link now Melanie. Talk about fun but now knowing why!
3:32 pm on December 19th, 2010
B.Stover: I think the comment about irish poets hanging about really did it. And no capitalization of the “I”!
3:38 pm on December 19th, 2010
I’ve always thought Stein a piece of work. And I’m irritated because I can’t get to the notes or acknowledgements. I don’t think this author cited the source of the “legend” so s/he is on my SOL list.
I’m making chicken pot pie.
3:42 pm on December 19th, 2010
Actually I know why this is fun. I hadn’t thought of a rose etc. for twenty years until TYB wrote it this morning. So we did research which I love!
3:44 pm on December 19th, 2010
Been “researching” for hours…one thing led to another…my brain hurts…naptime.
4:02 pm on December 19th, 2010
Dawson: What have you been “researching”?
4:16 pm on December 19th, 2010
Bee, What do you put in your chicken pot pie (Rio would say chicken, obviously)? That is Barb’s favorite comfort food.
4:36 pm on December 19th, 2010
Barb: Besides the chicken (which I roasted yesterday), potatoe, carrot, sauteed onion and a bit of gravy. When I don’t feel like making the pastry (which is often) is put the same ingredients in a casserole dish but use more gravy.
There is a nuthatch in my garden eating sunflower seeds. It’s the second one I’ve seen this winter. (I’d never seen one in person before.)
4:39 pm on December 19th, 2010
Home!… We’ve been running around town all day long!….whew!… It’s good to be home finally…sniff!… I got to see Grandma today that was really nice. We ate lunch with her mother and did some shopping and then the Post Office…grunt!…Every one’s Christmas card will be late this year…snuff!…Oh well, it’s a miracle we even got any out at all…heh!… I tried to help her wrap gifts but that wasn’t working out so well. I like laying on the paper and licking it…snort!….She tried to wrap me up in it but I got away. I think there is ribbon tied to my tail, but I can’t be sure because I can’t see back there…grump!
4:41 pm on December 19th, 2010
Yum, chicken pot pie
I’m starting to get worried about Rio.
4:42 pm on December 19th, 2010
Good, There is Rio!
4:53 pm on December 19th, 2010
Hi, guys! Just got a minute to catch up on all the posts for the last couple of days. Been Christmas busy, busy, busy. And yes, the toffee finally arrived yesterday with the very cute card. Mom is waiting to try it until tonight because she just knows that if she takes one little bite, then she will just sit down and eat the whole thing. Sweets are her weakness!!
We had to laugh when TYB tried to tell Rio what his real name is. TYB, my man, Rio changes everybody’s call sign. We quickly became Puss&Boots. He is the one who coined SiberH for Caleb (does anyone call you that anymore, SH?) Although we do believe that Macy MP changed Mollypop to Pollymop during the baseball playoffs.
We still have so much Christmas stuff to do before the family arrives next weekend. Cards are going out tomorrow, so some will probably be late. So many people have stopped sending cards and every year Mom says “not next year”. But she always ends up sending them out.
Later, guys.
G&BB
4:57 pm on December 19th, 2010
TYB: I’m also known as “The Scarecrow”! (if I only had a brain)
5:07 pm on December 19th, 2010
G&BB – When Macy was calling me Pollymop, a couple of times she even called me Mop. That little girl sure does get all poodled up over her baseball team!
5:13 pm on December 19th, 2010
I guess we have to let Rio do his thing as long as we remember “A rose by any other name….
5:15 pm on December 19th, 2010
Hi everyone. Wookie checking in from Chevy Chase. Now that my back is not bothering me any more, we’ve been able to resume our longer walks in Rock Creek Park near our house. Great smells to be smelled and places to run to, although I always come back to mom and dad. I’ve even refrained from any unauthorized dips in Rock Creek, probably a bit cold even for me right now. Mom has been in one of her cleanup modes the last couple of days, and it’s always a good idea to lay low when she does that, because she could decide that I could use a bath too. But she’s gotten her quilt studio in tip-top shape, so that is a good thing. Looks like some new quilting projects may be on the horizon. Getting some good tummies from grandpa, so all is right with the world. Wookie signing out here from Chevy Chase
5:29 pm on December 19th, 2010
B.Stover: My researching started with your “a thorn is a thorn” question then via Melanie’s suggestions to Sylvia Beach and the Paris literary crowd in the 20’s and 30’s, then to Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Spinoza(I don’t know how he got in there), Alice B. Toklas, cookbooks, haschich brownies and, finally, a nap. Now I am hungry. Would like a slice of your cranberry bread.
5:29 pm on December 19th, 2010
hey! Gus&BooBear, I’m glad you got your toffee! Bet your mom can’t eat just one piece, my mom couldn’t. My mom also has the same issue with Christmas cards. She would like to do away with them.
I much prefer Siber-H to Caleb. Rio did good with that name change. My folks didn’t name me, Caleb…I came to live with them with that name. We think the name, Caleb, sort of sucks for a Siberian. There is probably not another Husky in the country named, Siber-H.
5:31 pm on December 19th, 2010
TYB, Rio is also the one that started calling me MagPie, so most of us do have alternate names, given us by River Dog. Think Macy may be the one that called him that, but not sure.
Bee, We sometimes use the premade pastry from the dairy section for the pot pie top. It is quite good. Also have used Bisquick which works very well.
5:39 pm on December 19th, 2010
I’m slowly catching up with the weekend’s chat. My connection at home is very slow and frustrating, and all my spare time was filled up anyway, so i didn’t get to say wow, Rio, great quilling work, your friend is so good at that! I think the Bishop’s Wife is my favourite christmas movie, after Die Hard. Sorry to miss your rant.
And Tyb, you are a real looker, that photo of you with Santa is gorgeous.
5:43 pm on December 19th, 2010
Names!… Some guys need a nickname but not me…grunt!… I’m just Rio plain and simple just like someone else we know…heh!… I think she is almost done wrapping gifts. Nope, there is one more for Grandma that needs wrapped….snort!….The Crafty gifts will be put into Christmas bags, but that won’t take too much time…snorkel!
5:50 pm on December 19th, 2010
Barb: I make a double crust (top and bottom). I can’t use those other crusts because……..I’ve been baking pies a long time and I just prefer my own crust. I just had some–it was good but so filling….nice on a cold winter day.
Dawson: I’d send some of my orange cranberry bread if it could be done electronicly. Spinoza…how in the world did he come into it? But your research sounds like fun.
Think I’ll check to see if Rio has a bow on his tail and, if so, I’ll pull it off!
5:52 pm on December 19th, 2010
Liz is back. What is Bishop’s Wife about?
5:53 pm on December 19th, 2010
LizF,
I’m glad you like my picture with Santa. I had great fun with him and all the kids yesterday, and we made a pretty good penny for the SPCA. I know what it’s like to live in a shelter and wanted to do something for animals that don’t yet have forever homes.
I think I was lucky to be rescued in April, but my day says we are two lucky dogs.
5:58 pm on December 19th, 2010
Our local RSPCA is apparently having twenty animals a day dumped on them – the Christmas rush. Awful. On the weekend 10 puppies, three weeks old, were abandoned at the shelter. Luckily they have lots of foster carers to help out.
Bishop’s Wife i haven’t seen for the longest time, but stars David Niven as a stressed bishop and his wife is played by someone who Rio will tell you, and Cary Grant plays an angel who comes in disguise to help them out. It’s lovely though, way better than miracle on 34th street, dare i say it.
6:04 pm on December 19th, 2010
Movie!… Liz summed the movie up pretty well. We love that movie and try to watch it every year….snort!… I like the part with the cab driver learning how to ice skate. In real life he was a very talented ice skater…yeep!
6:38 pm on December 19th, 2010
We’re back from today’s birthday party. Cousin Emma was there – she’s a Pug and had on an adorable sweater. She looked so chic.
Rio – Mom will post Emma’s picture tomorrow. She seems to be so tired she’s not even moving a finger. Poor Mom. Cuddle, cuddle.
6:48 pm on December 19th, 2010
Sweater!…. A sweater?….sniff!… Now that might be something I would try on when it’s really cold around here…grunt!… I can’t wait to see this Emma. I know you have talked about her before Molly, but it’s been a very long time….wheeze!…Is she still shaped like a football?…heh!
6:51 pm on December 19th, 2010
Bee, you are right, ready made does not compare to home made pie crust. We have used it in a pinch though.
Making some chili here. Seems like a good night for it. Right now we are watching an old Christmas movie called Prancer.
6:55 pm on December 19th, 2010
Pizza!…Today we went and got our favorite pizza from our favorite pizza place…snort!… Someone here had called her mom and said come over for pizza with us before we left…sniff!…So when we got home with the goods her mother was already here. As my friend was asking her mom if she’d seen Grandma’s crafty gift she noticed it was precariously lying on the edge of a cawfee table with half of it off the table!…yeep!… My friend quickly saved it and wondered why in the hell her mother would do such a thing….growl!… Who knows?…gasp!…Old age?
7:16 pm on December 19th, 2010
Goats!… Those young goats aren’t “cute”…grunt!… Hell, that’s an official Marauding Goat Training Farm right under our noses….snort! … They are being trained to jump around and distract those poor mail men while others steal important packages from their bags…wheeze!… Like our Quilling Books!….dammit!
7:45 pm on December 19th, 2010
Oh, no. My comment is still awaiting moderation, yet I want you guys to see it! 🙁 It’s about Skylah, my human’s new puppy.
DDoB:
🙂 🙁 😀 😛 😐
I hope you get to see it by tonight…
7:55 pm on December 19th, 2010
What date was your moderated post Lexi? I will sneak back and look at it.
A-Kat (according to Rio)
8:09 pm on December 19th, 2010
Abbie! My post was today, actually, at 2:56. 😀
8:22 pm on December 19th, 2010
Lil Lexi!…Where the hell have you been my dear?…heh!… It’s always more colorful when you are around with your entourage of Bob’s…snort! …So it sounds like the world as you know it will be coming to an end, if it hasn’t already…heh!…Who and what is your new puppy pal?…wheeze!…No puppies here, that’s for damn sure or I will run away to Siberh’s house forever…grunt!
8:29 pm on December 19th, 2010
B. What did you think of the finale of Sanctuary? I guess if it comes back they will all by some means have survived…
8:33 pm on December 19th, 2010
MOLLIE!….Please do not give anything away regarding Sanctuary!…snort!…We have not seen the last episode yet, I don’t think…grunt! … I can’t remember, we need to figure out where we are in that show…wheeze!
8:35 pm on December 19th, 2010
Yep, River Dog has to have a non de plume? like everyone else. Do they make sweaters in XL short?
Lexi got a puppy! Cool
We love the goats. More goats please. No marauding goats here, no sir.
8:38 pm on December 19th, 2010
Mollie: I haven’t seen the finale of Sanctuary yet. I’ll let you know when I do.
Lexi: Tell us more about the new puppy.
8:41 pm on December 19th, 2010
In Texas, the chupacabras keep the marauding goats away.
9:05 pm on December 19th, 2010
Wrist!… My friend hurt her right wrist today doing something….grunt!…We don’t even know what it was, but tonight it is sore and she has heat on it….sniff!… Because she is right-handed it’s hard to do anything really that requires her hand. I hope she stays home from work tomorrow, but I bet she doesn’t…wheeze!
Lexi!…She’s one of those annoying posters that drop a note and then leaves for weeks on end…grump!… She won’t be back again so don’t bother waiting for her to expound upon her new pal, the puppy…snarl!
9:06 pm on December 19th, 2010
SH: What?
9:17 pm on December 19th, 2010
Good night all.
9:21 pm on December 19th, 2010
Hello plunders! Mom has been in and out all day and completely interrupted my napping schedule.
Mom’s first day at work is tomorrow, so she had to gas up the car, get keys made for the house for all the people coming in to play with me while she is at the busy and far away place, put out the trash, and take the trash that wouldn’t fit into our trash to her son’s trash. Then she went to Aunties house and played Scrabble with her sis and mom. Mom also put together a roast with potatoes and carrots to put in the crock pot for tomorrow. It will be a strange day with mom gone and me holding down the fort, but I will thoroughly enjoy all the guests coming to visit with me, me, me!
9:22 pm on December 19th, 2010
Pug! Mom saw a human being walked by its pug today. She laughed and laughed.
9:27 pm on December 19th, 2010
Jasper, best of luck to your mom tomorrow!! We know she is going to do great on the new job and you will be fine.
9:31 pm on December 19th, 2010
Jasper!…. Tell your someone, “Good Luck and have fun tomorrow!”…snort!… It probably will be very slow during this week of Christmas, so she can settle in slowly…cough!… You are lucky that you have visitors during the day to keep you company…grunt!…I’m all alone usually, except for my pals on this here blog…gruff!
Walking!… I don’t understand the whole Pug walking a human….grunt!… I am usually tagging behind or being pulled along during our walks…snort!
9:31 pm on December 19th, 2010
Yes, good luck to Jasper’s mom, and Jasper for staying home alone. You will do fine with your friends dropping in.
Good night all. We had our piece of toffee, trying to make it last all week. Beddy bye time.
9:35 pm on December 19th, 2010
Stover, I will try to explain…you will read this tomorrow.
Macy said she didn’t have any marauding goats. I said it is because chupacabras are native to Texas and chupacabras attack goats. I honestly learn this stuff by watching channels like the National Geographic Channel.
9:46 pm on December 19th, 2010
SiberH!… Can Chupacabras be migrated to my state?….snort!… Maybe Staff and the Kats could instigate this migration soon!….cough!… Our books still have not arrived and we are counting on them for at least one Christmas gift… grunt! …Damn those Marauding Goats!…growl!
9:53 pm on December 19th, 2010
I have never heard of them in my state or your state, Rio..only Texas and Puerto Rico, if I remember my tv programs correctly.
Can those books be tracked on the internet? You know how companies give you a tracking number and their progress or lack thereof can be followed across the country. The goats probably know how to hack into those shipping companies websites.
9:57 pm on December 19th, 2010
OMG!….I never thought of that Siberh!…crap!….They are probably monitoring all my online purchases and just waiting for my mailman ….growl!…Devious and computer literate…grumble!…There is no justice in the snail mail world anymore!!!!…gasp!
10:00 pm on December 19th, 2010
Funny!…We are watching the colorized version of Miracle on 34th Street and right now we are watching the part where the guys at the post office decide to get rid of all the Santa Clause mail by sending it to the court house!…heh!
10:51 pm on December 19th, 2010
Bed!… Off to bed I go…sniff!….Tired out from all the running around and Christmas stuff today…yawn!…I am so ready to crawl into my warm soft bed with all my baseball toys in all their special places just where I left them earlier today…heh…slurp! They still taste the same too!…heh!…Night all!…burp!
10:56 pm on December 19th, 2010
Night All
11:27 pm on December 19th, 2010
Night everyone.
For some reason I have to sleep next to the radiator. It is cold here! Stay warm out there.
11:49 pm on December 19th, 2010
Good night,all. Mom did try her toffee after a light supper and, of course, could not eat just 1 piece. It is absolutely the best! She wouldn’t let us try any but we did have our heads in the box checking it out. Thanks again, Wolfie, for letting your mom send us the treats.
Jasper, tell your Mom Good Luck from us. We know she’ll do just fine, and you will adjust to not having her to yourself all day. It makes for good nap time during the day and then we wake up when Mom gets home and keep her company all evening.
Purrs to all and to all a good night.
G&BB
12:04 am on December 20th, 2010
Macy out night!
12:10 am on December 20th, 2010
We will be waiting for the pictures Melanie. Peace to you on this difficult night.
12:23 am on December 20th, 2010
Jasper, best wishes on your new job. We are all cheering here and know it will be a great day tomorrow. Kat best wishes on your first day!