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They are so stinking cute. After ten granddaughters I had almost forgotten how much fun little boys can be. After taking our two year old granddaughter for her special day with nana and papa we brought her back home and hung out with the rest of the family for awhile. Their birthday party isn't until Saturday.

-11F did not feel to bad after -22F low. Suppose to warm to 14F today, but we'll wait and see.

We are watching the Arrested Development series again. If you're not familiar, Henry Winkler plays the family's bumbling attorney, Barry Zuckerkorn. They snuck this in, in one scene with Barry in the men's room.

I have a pair of pj's just like those except mine have a flap in the back.

But OMG the women got GOLD in cross country skiing....and Jessie Diggins is from Afton....that is where I do the "no hills" ride with Ian...3 miles of climbing I got tears in my eyes...given the limited coverage on NBC...WOW...

I didn't post last night cause I was tired. After work we had an interview with the prospective landlord. A nice chap, we will get along well. The lease will be signed later this week and funds transferred for the security deposit and the rent for April. At home, I opened the can of Heady Topper double IPA to celebrate. Wow what a good beer. Aggressively hopped but a nice malt balance. A straw gold color, lighter than I expected from an IIPA. Great beer from start to finish, I almost cried at the end. I will visit the brewery next time I travel to VT. Next up, I poured a Founders KBS. A delicious stout and was a very nice follow up to the IIPA. I have one KBS left in the fridge and my source is bringing me another Heady Topper. I will repeat this exercise in April after the move.

I guarantee you that these guys never had that issue with their team car!

They are different, the guy with the brown hair is very mellow and easy going. He has a smile that will melt your heart. The redhead is a wild child, was walking around like a big shot at nine months old, climbing anything he can find to climb, he has a good pitching arm. The two are real buddies and hang out together all day. They always want to be touching each other, a hand on the shoulder or arm.

So I made the trek to "Fresh Thyme" on Saturday...hoping to buy a spicy parmesan chicken sausage...1 will pretty much cover 2 meals if I add a little pasta and veggies...and for the third time...they were out Yes they will give you a rain check..but wtf this was my third time there looking for that sausage. So I just decided forget it...I mean it is a nice tasting fresh sausage...but hey ...too much bother. I will just cook something else. Well I shared the story of my trip with Doris (the resident who has come to my place for Thanksgiving..of the younger crowd ) She mentioned she likes their bourbon sausage...but that she doesn't go there very often... I told her...I have given up on going... Well she went there today...and she brought me 2 sausages...(1 would have been enough...they are huge) So tonight's dinner was a little pasta, broccoli and chicken sausage..with a little olive oil and parmesan The end

The last line on my RoadID says, "Send lawyers, guns, and money."

I hate chickens so have decided to eat the bastards!

Same for me. I was tired after rushing home early from work to get a ride in! I only had a little over an hour of daylight to play with (still needed to give the pup a walk), so I changed and got out as quickly as possible. I and a THOUSAND of my closest friends!!! Man, with temps at 80*, it was like everybody was hap-hap-happy to get outside and enjoy the glorious weather. My overall speed was checked by many slow-to-pass maneuvers, and my philosophy on a day like yesterday is "smell the roses" and "better safe than sorry". Out past Herndon, things always thin out, but I never got to where things really get quiet. And the wind was surprisingly strong with a crosswind from the South bringing the warmth but also some humidity. Anyway, 18 miles @ 18mph is always nice in February. No complaints, except no beer last night at dinner. Had Old Ox Brewery Golden Ox then night before, though Tom

So, racism is making an automatic and incorrect judgment about someone based upon their appearance rather than getting to know them personally. Now, here, take this test on insert-the-characteristic (in this case, racism) written by people who don't know you containing decision algorithms subject to a programmer's whim or his automatic bias that over the course of just mere minutes will pronounce a judgment about you and your inclinations, preferences, and prejudices that have taken decades to develop within you that you don't even know you have yet. I mean no offense to Wilbur, and I hope none is perceived. These kinds of 'tests' can be interesting and can help promote meaningful discussions. However I place little stock in the outcome of such 'tests' because the basis of their designs can be so arbitrary. And if the basis of design is arbitrary, the accuracy of the result remains in question.

I hate when I get sketti in my nose

Marion is the key to the answer.

I took Tom in for the night. The other cats are in a separate section of the house. He's just beginning to act like it's old self. But we felt a little pick me up would cheer him up. At least a good night's sleep in a warm bed with a Viking might help a bit. Couch

Thank you all for caring and your kind words.

...that folks might finally be willing to heed. The best quote is from near the end. It is absolutely true, but one that folks ignore: Alice Dougherty: We got rid of guns, and there were people who would have liked guns before. But their lives haven’t changed that much. Nobody walks around miserable because they don’t own a gun. Tom

...because this dude sounds like one of the lunatics who hang in SW's Cafe! Lucky he wasn't a Millennial! ------------------------------------------ Adventure paddler Aleksander Doba willed his 71-year-old body and 1,600-pound kayak through a 4,000-mile trans-Atlantic journey You might ask what the world’s most intrepid paddler does for 110 days while kayaking across the Atlantic Ocean solo. He gets naked. The logic is obvious to 71-year-old Aleksander “Olek” Doba: no chafing, no laundry, and no one to judge you. Last month, the perpetually upbeat and determined Polish athlete, who had ignored all sorts of common sense and caution, finished his successful crossing of the Atlantic in a one-man, human-powered boat. Only three other kayakers have ever achieved the accomplishment (Franz Romer in 1928; Hannes Lindemann in 1956; and Peter Bray in 2001, according to Canoe and Kayak), and Doba is the only one to have done it three times. Again: The man is in his eighth decade. “It’s not like he’s an older guy who set out to climb a hill,” says Piotr Chmielinski, a supporter and the expedition’s publicist, who himself once kayaked the Amazon River. “Olek decided to cross an ocean.” On May 7, Doba pushed his 23-foot long, 39-inch wide, reinforced fiberglass kayak, named Olo, off the New Jersey seaboard and toward Lisbon, Portugal. The mishaps started almost immediately. First, Olo nearly ran aground close to the Sandy Hook coastline. Man and vessel were towed away from the land, and in the process, Olo—which weighs 1,600 pounds full and has a tiny compartment for sleeping—nearly capsized. Over the next four days, Doba advanced about 60 miles east under his own power before retreating to the Jersey coast ahead of an approaching storm. Onshore, he grabbed a steak dinner and some new compasses. He then re-started the journey on May 16. Tom

..."Not enough racing opportunities for toddlers." However, the amount of smiles shown in the article show that perhaps it is something I should be talking about??? Tom

When my son was in HS, he was invited to an engineering camp at a University. Here they were, a bunch of the best and brightest, learning and experimenting for a couple weeks in a college setting. When he got back, he asked me to fix his iPod. This was years ago, the larger models still had magnetic storage. I could NOT get that thing to boot, no matter what tricks I tried. After many hours of frustration, I asked if he downloaded anything to it, did he have it with him in any of the labs? Turns out one of the experiments he and his fellow geniuses came up with was what happens when you put his iPod on that huge magnet.

well, yeah, Sophia Vergara, but if you want to watch with the sound on, it's an amusing show.

I'm in more of a Warren Zevon mood...

Oh for goodness sake! All you had to do was set another garage on fire some place across town, and they would have all taken off to put that one out!

You have a screw loose in your coconut.

What I want to know: Are we talking laden or unladen European- and African-Americans?

...it's a good thing he didn't have to portage that baby.

...you're all a bunch of specists.

This was all Trumps greatness. He truly made America great again.

Congratulations on the success of your scam. I hope your day in the judiciary is successful. Remember that if they were innocent they wouldn't have been arrested.

Nah. He's a good napper. He slept right next to me. Couch

He was banging Joanie.

Come on... Put aside the my team/ your team thing and at least watch and appreciate the athletics. People are doing amazing things these days. It ain't your grandfathers Olympics. Look at David Wises last halfpipe run. Amazing stuff.

Interesting arrangement.

And his father was named Franklin Delanocles...

Last night at dinner

Arthur.

I've taken this test before. On different occasions I've come up on both sides of the equation. This time I came up with no preference. Don't take this test if you are suffering from post concussion syndrome. Too many of my answers were preceded by wut?

The test takes less than 5 minutes. The whole point of this thread is to take it. In the time you typed up your response, you could have taken it.

She really is an Airedale in a furry suit--- she is the best Airedale and now you know it too. Next time, you come and stay with Tillie and I'll take the two boys to an agility trial. You Tillie and Ylva would have a great time napping.

This Airedale gets along great with cats. Couch

So, you and Doris like the sausage

Sorry @Kirby

How do you decide to sail around world and you cannot even watch the damn weather, handle a boat, or read the damn channel markers. I am an inland sailer, with lot of fresh water experience and very little blue water sailing. I know enough to make a boat go relatively fast and I know enough to know I have no place trying to sail off into the sunset until I learn a lot more. We need to tell our kids to work hard and be satisifed, not "you can be anything, snowflake" http://www.sperrybaseballlife.com/stay-at-17-inches/

What always gets me with this stuff, I can't get over the amount of nerve some people have to have to even ask people for money to help them with this kind of stupidity. Of course, apparently I'm the stupid one because they went way past their goal and I'm the idiot that bangs my head into a wall trying to pay for everything myself and fix my own mistakes.