Oooh, it's turned cold all of a sudden

[conuly]

Brr!

I must get the doggies new sweaters, and also a new hoodie for me. Oh, and Eva urgently needs new pants - she's as tall as her mother now! When did this even happen!?

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Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Excellent comeback to the anti-vaxxers.

How long until Eva can wear mom's/your old clothes?

We had a hard freeze last night, and all the trees are ablaze with color.

[conuly]

She's a hell of a lot skinnier than either of us are, and honestly, I don't want to encourage her - Ana has already stolen most of Jenn's clothes, particularly those which Jenn stole years ago from our mom.

[duskpeterson]

"Do most people really misunderstand those numbers?"

Reading through the two presentations of the problem, I'm astounded that I was able to get a decent math score on my SATs.

So, yeah. There are a few of us out there who are number-ignorant.

Now, if the problem was presented to me geometrically, I might be able to figure it out. I do reasonably well with shapes.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Once they start growing, there's just no stopping them!

I was as tall as my mother by age 12, but she was rather petite, and I was rather a beanpole. My feet were bigger than hers by age 10 - I wear the same shoe-size my father wore.

You ought to post pics of your doggies in their new sweaters, once you get them. And yo, wouldn't it be a good idea to start getting them used to their little boots now, before they need to wear them out in the snow? Winter is coming...

[conuly]

They hate boots soooooo much.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Of course they do, poor little doggies, but they're going to need them when winter comes, and if you start the training-with-treats process now, they'll be resigned to their fate before the first snow.