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Happy belated birthday @dolmansaxlil !!!

I have never seen the movie or even snippets of it. Perhaps I'll try to watch it some day.

@wtg that was a great read, thank you for posting it!

My step father was a huge fan of comics in general (and he loved all that merch, the coffee mugs, the t-shirts etc) and he was a pretty big fan of Calvin and Hobbes. I always looked at the Sunday comics growing up and then whenever I had access to a paper. I can't remember when I stopped following Calvin and Hobbes closely (probably when I started studying Japanese and basically stopped consuming English language media of almost all kinds). But I have a vague memory of people talking about the comic ending. I googled and I do remember seeing this last strip.

@wtg what a great photo!!

I'm really sorry to hear about the OTist. The "way" things are said is of paramount importance, and some medical professionals do better than others. There were two people involved in my brother's care who, when delivering a status assessment, were so careless and unkind that I was very tempted to file a formal complaint, but my mother talked me out of it. And btw, their message was basically "give up." It was truly, truly awful.

So I am doubly happy that you then had such a wonderful surprise visit! And that his message was "don't give up."

@chas sorry to hear that!

To all who've posted photos, thank you!! I'm enjoying seeing all the beautiful flowers and spaces! I'll try to add some of my own soon.

@wtg said:

As you say, better in someone else's yard.

Yep!

BTW I have been monitoring the lack eyed susan's in the front of our house, and I'm convinced that the animal doing the eating is a deer. The reason I think that is because the spots that are eaten are in the middle of the bunch, as if a large creature walked up and bent their head down from a height, rather than at the edges, as you might expect with a small creature sitting low to the ground and chewing at that height.

This is my current "plant detector" analysis.
I remain hopeful that there will still be blooms come July

@Axtremus said:

filled with pond scum

something something ... like attracts like.... something something

BTW we had an uninvited guest the other day, just making herself at home… If she was that interested in the neighbor’s yard, she should have sat over there!

@Bernard yikes! That’s disconcerting! I take it you don’t have one of those doorbell cameras? This would be one time you’d love to be able to see just what happened, and how big the creature was who did it!

Thanks for this thread @wtg .

@Steve-Miller Neat! I've never had one.

We don’t generally watch the World Cup, but we sort of track how things are going, so we did notice that a Japan had a draw for its first game. -_-

@bernard i only knew a few of those details. Yuck!

@AndyD said:
the amazing mobility at that age.

According to the comments in the YT video, Rubinstein was 88 when this was performed with the London Symphony, and it was aired on PBS in 1977 to celebrate his 90th birthday.

Wow!