After decades of having “counter-surfers” in the house, I’m so happy the two hounds I have now won’t climb up and grab food. Even if I leave something on the end table next to my chair, they don’t scarf down my food.
San Francisco…. I think this is considered to be in the Haight-Ashbury, though neighborhoods change in an instant, from one block to the next.
But it’s a couple of blocks from that intersection, and close to Golden Gate Park.
I hate the way so many of the houses were “modernized”, mostly in the 1940s and 50s, before people learned to love and sometimes restore the beautiful trim, and the 3 and 4 tone paint jobs.
There were far too many that traded wooden shiplap for horrible asphalt composite, and later, even vinyl siding.
Maybe by 2026, those beautiful apartment buildings are looking more like the top picture again.
Hopefully not torn down… San Francisco is one place that appreciates its history.
She is (or maybe was, cos this is from 2024) said to be the world’s most expensive cow… a 2,400-pound Nelore cow, which is a breed originally from India, but now famously raised in Brazil, known for exceptional muscle and structure.
She was sold in Brazil for a record-breaking $4.8 million, according to Guinness World Records, being twice the size of the average Nelore, and considered the best of her breed.
The new owners are offering Viatina-19 embryos for $250,000 each.
Hey, they’re small…. You should get two.
Maybe, but they only implant them in other Nelore cows, which now make up, I read, 80% of Brazil’s cattle
They have a much higher rate of success with them than what would happen with “ordinary” cows. The size of the calf also depends a lot on the surrogate mother’s size, as well, not just cell genetics.
They’re hoping to pass on her fast growth, sturdiness stamina, and other characteristics, not necessarily her size.
I know you’re joking… But I was actually thinking about this earlier.. No Big Mac’s in her immediate future.
According to the articles I read from 2024, she’s only just reaching prime egg-producing age now, cos they said she was too young.
They’re going to be breeding her for a long time. I don’t know what happens when she gets old.
I also read, since my post above, that the $4.8 million is misleading. They sell shares… Some group paid $1.6 million for a third of her, so they revalued her at 4.8 mill. She has a lot of owners, who want to protect her future.
Figure, too, 2400 pounds for $4,800,000 is $2000 a pound. On the hoof, which is probably $4,000 butchered. $1,000 per hamburger. Not a very cost effective use.
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A puddle of pup.
There’s only two in the bin?
♫ I like big butts ♪ and I cannot lie. ♫
I think they melted!
Maybe somebody should try to separate them while they’re still soft.
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“And then in 1933 I was passed over for the lead in “King Kong…”
Lol…. Could be either of them.
Her losing out to Fay Wray, or him to that big ape.
Dorothy Lamour, in one of her famous sarongs….with Jiggs the Chimpanzee.
I thought maybe it was on the set of a “Road…” picture, since she was in so many…
But it’s a promo photo for “Her Jungle Love,” from 1938.
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Comic book cover?
The genius of J. Ward.
oh yeah!
Apparently it was used on a comic book…
It had that look!
,..
“KILL!!!”
Going after a fumble!
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Yeah…. some weeks are like that……
If that were “Lemmings”…
That’s where they’re going out of the picture—-off the ledge
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“Go walkies?”
I gotta go into the bay and see if the harbor seals are in.
Green with envy
Me too.
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Nope!
“Mister Escher, your room is ready…”
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Shilly pup.
Peesha ish for peoples…
Well, maybe a “pizza bone” once in awhile, just as a special treat.
After decades of having “counter-surfers” in the house, I’m so happy the two hounds I have now won’t climb up and grab food. Even if I leave something on the end table next to my chair, they don’t scarf down my food.
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Awestruck!
“Da-da…?”
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San Francisco…. I think this is considered to be in the Haight-Ashbury, though neighborhoods change in an instant, from one block to the next.
But it’s a couple of blocks from that intersection, and close to Golden Gate Park.
I hate the way so many of the houses were “modernized”, mostly in the 1940s and 50s, before people learned to love and sometimes restore the beautiful trim, and the 3 and 4 tone paint jobs.
There were far too many that traded wooden shiplap for horrible asphalt composite, and later, even vinyl siding.
Maybe by 2026, those beautiful apartment buildings are looking more like the top picture again.
Hopefully not torn down… San Francisco is one place that appreciates its history.
,,..
She is (or maybe was, cos this is from 2024) said to be the world’s most expensive cow… a 2,400-pound Nelore cow, which is a breed originally from India, but now famously raised in Brazil, known for exceptional muscle and structure.
Her ever-so-poetic name is Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis.
She was sold in Brazil for a record-breaking $4.8 million, according to Guinness World Records, being twice the size of the average Nelore, and considered the best of her breed.
The new owners are offering Viatina-19 embryos for $250,000 each.
Hey, they’re small…. You should get two.
The poor cows that have to carry them…
Plus those calves would have to be brought into this world premature via C-section.
Maybe, but they only implant them in other Nelore cows, which now make up, I read, 80% of Brazil’s cattle
They have a much higher rate of success with them than what would happen with “ordinary” cows. The size of the calf also depends a lot on the surrogate mother’s size, as well, not just cell genetics.
They’re hoping to pass on her fast growth, sturdiness stamina, and other characteristics, not necessarily her size.
Yeah, she’s probably a load of Big Macs by now…
Sniffle.
I know you’re joking… But I was actually thinking about this earlier.. No Big Mac’s in her immediate future.
According to the articles I read from 2024, she’s only just reaching prime egg-producing age now, cos they said she was too young.
They’re going to be breeding her for a long time. I don’t know what happens when she gets old.
I also read, since my post above, that the $4.8 million is misleading. They sell shares… Some group paid $1.6 million for a third of her, so they revalued her at 4.8 mill. She has a lot of owners, who want to protect her future.
Figure, too, 2400 pounds for $4,800,000 is $2000 a pound. On the hoof, which is probably $4,000 butchered. $1,000 per hamburger. Not a very cost effective use.
see the snake?
Got it.
Bubble shaped giraffes, mostly neck, with teensy weensy short legs, are hanging upside down out of trees, or standing in mid-air…
And I’m supposed to be looking at a snake??
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Okay okay, already… Yes, I see it.
Esepcially one hanging out of a giraffe’s butt!
Arctic Henge, Raufarhofn, Iceland.
“Let’s have pups you said.” “Will be fun you said.”
At least he’s hanging around.
Not that he gets the Nobel Prize for that
.. I’m just saying, is all.
Bro’s not down the road like some boy dogs I’ve known, making another litter… like maybe with that tramp poodle chick.
Female African Stonechat.
Stonechat because it can talk a stone to death? I’ve known some people like that.
A God knows how old hot dog, soaking in who knows how many times previously used water…. All of unknown provenance.
Held by a dog. [No offense, Cleo… But when did you last (or ever) wash your paws? Okay, with soap? In hot water?]
Mmm. Just what I’ve always wanted.
Hard pass.
Sorry Cleo.
Well, only sort of.
Make me one with everything! Thanks Cleo 🙂
The Buddhist prayer.
Ooold joke..