Priorities all screwed up.

We had an old Franklin freestanding wood burning stove for heat. The kind that's barrel shaped with no windows. But we always knew how the fire was doing by how close the cats were lying to it. 3 feet away, fire is fine. Within a foot, add wood.

Labradors. Same full-body enthusiasm as they have with water.

Nice of someone to put the rug up there for this good dog.

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If there is a danger of mudslides that will kill people. reseeding quickly can help hold the soil. Plus after a fire there is a crust on the soil surface which needs to be broken so water can soak in and not runoff. Some places use livestock to help with that and dogs will work too.

If anyone is wondering, that looks like a Jolly Ball. For dogs.

I have pets. There's not a floor in my house I would place clean clothes or linens on.

Humans make decisions on pets for themselves, not for the pet. Besides the should-be-obvious danger of cold weather breeds in hot weather locales, too many breeds are now so deformed that their health is in danger daily. Put the health and wellbeing of your pet over your "I want" desires. No more smushed faces impeding breathing. No more giant breeds with serious skeletal issues that reduce their life span to under 8 years. Be kind and love animals, not breed them into grotesque shapes that doom them to illness and disease just because you think it's cute. Oh. BTW. Keep Golden Retrievers golden. Stop this ridiculous "white", inbred and line bred oddity.

Only a Lab!!! mine is currently giving me the "you forgot to feed me. trust me, you forgot" look.

At one point in the late 70's, there were still over 100 telephone companies operating in California. Most served only a small local area, taking the name of the town they were in, and offered messenger service to folks not on the wire, for a fee. That's when you called your local operator and asked for messenger service for (insert name of town here), Your local operator then connected to the distant operator and passed the info of who called and who they wanted to speak with. Then some poor soul at the distant end would travel to that person's house to tell them they had a call. That person would then travel to the switchboard location and their operator would do the final connection.

My grandfather worked in the canneries in San Jose, CA from the early 20's until retirement as plant supervisor in the late 60's. He would never eat ketchup because he saw the dropped tomatoes swept up and used to make it. I sure hope by the time I was old enough to eat ketchup, the health dept. has implemented rules about that sort of thing. But you never know.

Open plan is best. Otherwise you end up alone in the kitchen while everyone disappears at clean up time.

I luv this! Those ears.

What a crock! Since the price of tickets goes up every year, there will always be a new winner in the $$$ wars. But the only true way to measure success is by the number of tickets sold or the ratio of cost to profit. In the tickets sold category, GWTW from 1939 still reigns supreme. At 10 cents a ticket.