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It's in a nice part of Louisville. (for a change) The patients are all in reasonably good health. They walk in. They are not super needy. They converse with you. It's gonna be a good day.

My goofy grand pup is mine. This picture makes me happy.

I refuse to have train noises and water leaks coming out of my computer at all hours of the night.

Was it this one?

My native pollinators and butterfly gardens are starting to attract beautiful and interesting fliers. I am going to keep adding plants.

Saturday at the races Mona was just a little off. On Sunday she was shaking and slept more than normal so Monday morning my son took Mona to a vet and they gave her a shot and some medication that she is all ready on for some health problems. It looked like she was starting to get better but then this afternoon she got worse. She couldn't keep any thing down so she went in to the animal hospital where they did more tests. It turns out that she has a tumor pressing on some of her internal organs and she is going to need surgery. We were planning on racing this weekend but it looks like I might be driving to Georgia instead. My son has a small pickup and I think that Mona would be more comfortable making the 14 hour trip in the motorhome. This is a photo that a track photographer took of Mona on Saturday morning

The medication the they gave her last night seems to be working. She's up and walking around...slowly. she drank and ate a little bit and is keeping it down and her tail is wagging again.....slowly.

My background is a slide show of some of our dogs that we had that have passed. Barkley (Sam in the back) Sam Bruno Sam and Bruno (yeah I know... Bruno was plump... he was with us for 14 years)

I took this panoramic pic on my phone while oot on a ride some weeks ago, of storm clouds. This is Lake Erie. It spans three monitors nicely

Is this the part where you get to yell 'Bingo!' ?

But are you woke?

Scientifically proven.

THEY ARE REAL!!!! WHAT!?! REAL! I am so super stoked. @Kzoo I said "They look so real for fake wood." HE laughed and said, "I got you the legit ones."

No. Not his responsibility at all. I'm grateful for a fun place that he created but he owes us nothing. Frankly, in a world of forums that suck ass SW stands out head and shoulders above many far larger ones.

https://www.bicyclebooth.com/products/hide-seek-champion-v2-jerseys

View of the Jungfraujoch from the train between Lauterbrunnen and Wengen three years ago. I haven’t opened my laptop since May, but the background is tulips in our front yard taken in spring of 2020. Bulbs from the Netherlands; same trip as the Switzerland picture.

My house is one of those "Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky." There's not much a view from my house except for other houses, but there's a nice park and woods a block away. Fortunately, there are lots of nearby parks with pretty views and lots of benches at which to rest and give Jake a drink of water in his collapsible water bowl:

I hope RG's items don't arrive in a clear bag

Memories of our Ohio trip in 2019. A stop in an ice cream shop in Loudensville.

DONT’T POST POLLY KICKS

Here is a great pond idea

I appreciate all you have done for us Cliff but I would completely understand if it became too much trouble to keep it going. Just do what’s best for you.

We're your family now. Some of us you love, some of us you wish would disappear in New Guinea, but we need you and to a much lesser extent you need us.

We are all about the age she is used to dealing with.

It's a different world now. None of us asked for this. The future is uncertain. Stop posting politics. It seems we go through cycles where I beg you to stop, I send PMs asking nicely, people try to negotiate, people tell me I'm wrong... I honestly don't give a crap. Stop posting politics!

As they say, "Pics or it didn't happen."

We're here for you, SW! If you need to take some time off, I'll be around for any moderation requests that come through. And maybe I'll share some more catgut. Anyone can @ me if they notice server/forum software issues and I'll do my best to knock them out from my side of things.

Homemade chicken soup. Chicken tenders chopped Carrots shredded Onions chopped Broccoli chopped Basil and Rosemary from the deck garden pots All stir fried and then put in the pot with Better than bouillon and noodles and water.

It’s 4 o’clock somewhere.

In this heat and humidity doing yard work. Siesta time.

It’s a great day for a parody!

And the Parody Meter says............. 9.73

Hey @MickinMD i am white.

I'm just glad it's not one of the flavors in the Kool Aid thread.

Buy him a cooler bag for graduation. The only way they can afford to eat is carrying their own. https://crewoutfitters.com/default/f-c-5-large-crew-cooler.html

3 Monitors:

Or better yet, in the clear plastic bag.

I like the dome bubbles so the fishes can swim up and see you when you come home from work.

Nice checkmate DH! Both sides violated the opening principles that you should make as few Pawn moves as possible and develop your other pieces first. It usually pays to keep the pawns in front of the king-side bishop, knight, and rook on their original squares and to castle early. Black paid for not doing that. There are grandmaster openings with a lot of early pawn moves, but they're designed to get the other pieces out fast while slowing your opponent's ability to do so. These often involve a long Queen move like you did in your game. Here's one I won with the Vienna Opening - which moves the King's Bishop's Pawn out early - in 14 moves where mistakes by my opponent led me to make some early Pawn moves in 2017 for Team Maryland vs Team Alabama. The interactive game is here: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/160141534 There's is one extremely powerful opening called the King's Gambit which appears to give away King's Bishop's Pawn on the 2nd move but Black ends up facing an extreme attack if he accepts that Pawn. It results in such a wild, almost out-of-control game that few people will try it. I've only played it twice in rated competition, once in a 2018 Team USA vs Team Hungary match, where the Hungarian declined the "free" pawn I gambited and I won in a slow, positional game (https://www.chess.com/game/daily/208247790). The other I also won and it was the typical, thrill-a-minute Kings Gambit Accepted in the Semifinals of the 2017 Team USA Southeast Championship Tournament. This was one of the most exciting games I ever played: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/192545898

Didn't have much time, so I did 7 miles, 6 of them being time-trial miles.

I love this.

32 miles, 79-80 degrees, overcast with smoke, no wind