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Geek alert! This pi day, celebrating the math expression, is a super pi: next time the date works out this way will be a century hence. So seize the day and celebrate, on March 14 2015, at 26 minutes and 53 seconds after nine, either am or pm will work. Eating pie works,too.
Elton, accompanied by tiny dolls, obliged with That's Amore, and There'll be Pie in the Sky By and By, and leaves you to remember the words to That's Amore!!
So much to mark. Don't know where to start! You'll notice that when they abolished separate celebrations for Lincoln and Washington, and moved a lot of statutory holidays in the US to the nearest Monday, Lincoln seems to have been bumped. Just sayin'. I think the Cherry Pie Makers Full Employment Council won it.
Cherry pie, for non US readers, being the iconic food to celebrate the man who claimed to have chopped down his father's cherry tree and been unable to practice self-preservation by lying about it.
Wedding anniversary, February 16, 1963 Handsome Partner and I were married. No we were not trying for Valentine's Day, cringed at the thought. It was the logistics of a Catholic wedding in the UK, where there being a state religion, not Catholic, priests have no legal authority to marry people, and the city registrar has to be physically present in the church to make it legal.
Getting the registrar to agree to ANY of the dates the priest offered delayed it from the October date we originally planned on...registrar finally said I'll be there at 3.20 p.m. on February 16, and I will give you ten minutes. Then I'll leave. So we had to crush the whole thing into his time requirement. Reason 45,679 why I'm so happy with the US freedom from a national religion...but it was still a nice day.
Finally, Valentine's Day is for celebrating all kinds of friendship, not just the romantic red overpriced roses kind...so I wish all our blogistas a happy day whatever you're doing.
Me, it's cowering in the house in zero temps, with a nice glass of merlot this evening and maybe some hot chocolate at some point. Dollivers it's preening and prancing about in their red dresses with the lace trim. Elton it's prowling in search of new outfits, after an incautious remark in here yesterday.
Oh,oh, here's an unsuspecting Upstairs Bear playing with his friends.
And here's Elton after a successful Sweater Raid after explaining that it's nice to share on Valentine's Day.
This Is Not Over! the bears confer on how to raid the sweater back again without having to confront the Dollivers.
Watch this space for further developments...
The hounds of Dolliver Kennels came out today, courtesy of wrangler NameMe, to celebrate Grounddog Day.
They insist that this is right, since every dog has his day and this is their day. Elton consented to come out of hibernation to perform, after NameMe lent him her seasonal ski cap.
Accompanied by barking and howling, he banged out a nice rendition of Hound Dog, How much is that Doggie in the Window, Dog of my Heart, and Moon River, which, he explained, was to give the howling maximum opportunity.
Clockwise, starting with Irish setter, is the shaggy puppy, Wirehaired Terrier, winner of Westminster last year, Whippet, Dalmatian and Big Shaggy Dog.
The patterns for the breed dogs came from Knit Your Own Dog, by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne, a book of breed-specific patterns, great fun. Especially when people ask you what you're knitting and you say, oh, an Irish setter..the two shaggy mixed breeds came from the brain of Boud, and resemble a couple of dogs in her own past.
The Dalmatian is a bobblehead, mugging for the camera, put in in memory of the late great Dal K.C. Adams,who was the mascot of this development in her day. Full name Katie Cherie Adams, but she answered to K.C. The Herend Porcelain Afghan hound declined to take part in this vulgar brawl and continues to preside over the kitchen from a high perch, above it all.
As you see, maximum of snow and sleet, wintry mix, in fact, and minimum opportunity for seeing anyone's shadow today. Either way I think six more weeks of winter is a reasonable expectation, if winter can be said to be reasonable.
After this exhausting photo shoot, the dogs have retired to sleep, a policy long advocated for the month of February by the cats.
