... and you are entitled to laze about in your pink robe on Saturday morning.


I don't hear any sound coming from the piano. In fact, it appears the keys are shuttered behind a thick, hardwood cover. What gives?

I'll leave that for the "pink robe" to answer.

*I* was long ago designated as a "listener."

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I think we could all take a lesson from this.

Or tries to get to the cat box for a tastier snack.

Funny thing about the little, "cute" dogs. We imbue them with all manner of sweet, lovable, childlike traits, but in the end, they are what they are, dogs.

She growls, she fights, she barks, she farts, she chases toys, she barks menacingly at passersby she sees out the windows. She does everything the big dogs do and then some.

But she melts your heart while she does it.

I really like the mix of modern and antique. I especially like that standing lamp. Now I feel like I have to go scrub my house. How do you have all these dogs yet there are no mud splatters on the walls and filthy footprints throughout??? I only have one beastie yet the second I clean anything he's dirtying everything up again. He even dirties things up WHILE I'm cleaning them. Last night I tried to clean the kitcen floor, but with him trying to attack the mop he was just transferring more dirt from his feet and belly back on the floor. I think we ended up dirtying up the floor even worse than it was in the first place.

And yet just like your layabouts he's doing his bathmat imitation on the floor looking all lazy and innocent. You'd never know it was him that ate the umbrella last night and cast it's various bits all over the living room. It was broken anyway, but I'd rather be able to throw it away in one hunk rather than crawling around on the floor picking up all the little remnants of its formal self.

Walked through a very expensive furniture store yesterday. Some of the stuff I saw, priced way beyond a normal person's ability is located in your picture. Like that lamp, and piano, and wall painting. In that first picture, the chair you have ( very nice ), is priced (if the same chair), at or near 1500. The throw rugs in the store, similar to yours go for 500-1500. For the one chair that is out of most people's budget, if merely a chair. The ashtray on the other hand probably goes for under a hundred. Not begrudging you the digs, and probably was not a good comment to make.

The piano is my wife's. She is a professional musician (among other endeavors) and that piano is part of how she makes her living. It was a rebuild of a very tired but sound instrument as a favor to her father more than 30 years ago.

The ashtray was a $5 flea market find.

The chair is IKEA.

The lamp was bought new by my in-laws in the 1950s. The scratches and surface rust at the base don't show in the pictures.

The wall painting is of my mother-in-law, my wife, and her three sisters. It is an original by a friend of my in-laws and was done in the 1960s. The sentimental value far outweighs any monetary value it might have . . . . which, on a good day, might be a few hundred dollars. At best.

The throw rugs are from Home Goods. Maybe $20 each. We toss them every few months when the dog mud gets too much to vacuum.

We have good taste and a good eye. We also tend to hold onto stuff that means something to us.

Lastly, we have the good sense to not insult people in our first exchange with them. We also don't visit someone's home and ask them how much they paid for the dishes. You're very rude and I very much don't appreciate it.

I am certain this will get "rowed" back for your friends' amusement.

Have a nice day and please, in future, just go past my threads. I shall not appreciate your replies.

I said it was not a good comment to make on my part and I should at least apologize. So I apologize. Sometimes, I look at my own stuff and go crap especially traipsing around in places I don't belong. That is all. No reason for me to be jealous, just a thoughtless remark better kept to myself. You can ignore me if you would like. Would not be offended if you do, maybe deserved. The dogs are beautiful.

...because Stinky is a knowledgeable collector and has a good eye...

I have two chairs that are worth about $1000 each. Danish modern, with original finish and original upholstered cushions. I paid $5 for each of them about ten years ago. Found them in a thrift shop. I also have a Danish modern teak end table probably worth four or five hundred. I got that one in the free pile at a sidewalk sale.

That's how it goes for those who spend the footwork and research to know a good deal when we see it. It's the American way and has been for decades until Republicans decided that money trumped all else and shoved corporate greed in our faces.

If you want to hang out over in the Antiques Collectibles topic, you'll find lots of tips on how to find potential treasures on a budget.

My best wishes to you.

But $8 million plus? Seriously?

I'll take that as a compliment, x 8. Thanks.

We have so much fur there's no need to worry about mud. The fur protects the surfaces. The rugs are "dropcloths" for the animal pack.

My border collie has been lazy today too. He's hiding because he knows that I want to trim some little dreadlocks off his belly. If I get the scissors, he shows me his teeth. Nutty doggy.

. . . . . . "buttfluff."

I never saw any animal shed so much.

Sometimes I pluck out her hanging fur "feathers" so I won't have to vacuum them off the floor later.

but I miss my Jimmy dog.

Seeing your gorgeous GS made me think of him. Give him/her(?) and your other furbabies extra hugs for me, ok?

Thanks, and sorry for your loss.

I have yet to lose one of them (since childhood cats who just went off and never came back), and I don't know how I'll manage it, assuming I outlive them.

It's hard to believe now how much I resisted having a dog in the house at all!

Resisted getting a dog, I mean... My partner wanted a dog from the first day we got our own place 21 years ago. And I wanted a cat. Therefore, our first GSD was the product of a compromise. It just worked out coincidentally that both a GS puppy (full blooded but w/out papers- we didn't care about that) and a kitten (that I immediately fell in love with) became available to us at the same time.

We got both of them within a week of each other, just shy of 20 years ago, in late February of 1992. They were SO cute togethor the way they'd rough-house. There were times he'd have her entire head in his mouth, but remained gentle despite how it appeared.

That dog only lived to be 7 (cancer but I grew to love dogs as much as kitties thanks to him. I had never had dogs growing up, therefore had no idea what I was missing.

We got Jimmy, our 2nd GSD a few months later. Our cat took to him immediately and she lived happily w/him almost his entire life. She was 19 when we had to put her to sleep in August. It's been a tough time for us having lost both of them within 6 months of each other.

Sorry to have gone on and on. But I guess the original point was that I'm now both a Kitty AND Dog person-- despite having resisted getting a dog at first. To me, it's kind of like having 2 children w/entirely different personalities but they are both loved equally.

Thanks for sharing. Your pups and home are gorgeous .