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Checking in on all the rest of y’all in the range of Snowmageddon 2026. (Basically, the southern half of the US, northeast downward, half the Midwest, etc.) Everyone doing okay out there?
It’s freezing here in southwest Missouri with snow on the ground, but our neighborhood hasn’t lost power...yet. Tomorrow is supposed to be round two of this nonsense. Cold’s vehicle doesn’t handle cold well, so he’s bundling up like he’s bound for the arctic and walking to work. Heiferlump, meanwhile, is determined to crawl inside my skin to sap all the warmth from my corpse, and let me tell you, that cat has cold toes. Those toes are also equipped with unfailing nipple-seeking stomping hardware, and I have the bruises to prove it. Naturally, I’ve held her up to the window circle-of-life style a few times so she can cuss out starlings on the feeder.
Everybody, stay warm out there!
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We’re having trouble with our furnace. 🥶 The thing would crap out right in the middle of a once-in-a-decade snowstorm. I’ve tried threatening it with the sledgehammer treatment, but with a windchill in the double digit negatives and snow drifts up to my calves, it called my bluff. Cold is coming to hate the nickname he chose. 🤭 Fortunately, we haven’t had any sleet yet, and it hasn’t warmed up enough during the day to melt the snow, so for once, we don’t have ice on the roads.
Stay warm, and BronxWench, give the pooch some scritches for us!
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We are happiest when we’ve stuck our face in the snow...
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That may just be the cutest thing I’ve seen in ages. 😂 So much chaos in such a tiny body, and that little grin is perfection!
The furnace is working again, thank heavens. I was about to turn into a Ghost-sicle. Apparently telling the company it’s pushing 40° and you can’t breathe when it’s colder than 50° gets someone on the job fast. (It’s true, too. My inhaler has been getting used hard and put away wet for the last week.)
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In my 2013 Phineas and Ferb fanfic “Candace’s Perfect Body,” there’s a scene wherein Dr. Doofenshmirtz captures Perry the Platypus by trapping him inside a wool sweater and then using a huge blow dryer on it to make the sweater shrink around him. Tonight, I watched an episode of the recently revived Phineas and Ferb in which Doofenshmirtz traps Perry exactly that way.
I’d love to think that the writers got the idea from me, but honestly, they’ve used so many different Perry-traps over the years that this coincidence seems like a statistical inevitability.
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That’s a hoot! And I know the feeling. Some years ago, in my TMNT WIP, I wrote a scene in which Vern, having been approached by Dunkin Donuts for brand sponsorship, lost out on the chance because he threw away an empty cup from another coffee company in the lobby. Then, last year, I think, guess who showed up in Dunkin commercials? The actor who played Vern in the film adaptions I based my story around. My brain straight up broke. Sometimes we have to wonder if just the right people have come across our scribblings and decided something didn’t sound too bad.
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