A dog bowl
My parents bought this bowl for our Airedale in I think the late sixties. She died in the late seventies, and the next dog in the family was an Akita puppy my wife and I bought in 1983, the year following our wedding. It’s been in close to constant use since and is now being used by dog #6.
Many years ago my brother in law saw the bowl and recognized the pottery maker – M. A. Hadley Pottery in Louisville, KY. I didn’t know it came from anywhere special.
The bowl hasn’t worn at all in half a century of use. The finish is still intact. I decided to look M.A.Hadley up on the net. The Hadleys are gone but they hired a guy soon after they opened around the beginning of WW2 and the company is now owned and run by his great grandson. I went on their website and typed:
“I have an old piece from the late 1960’s/early 1970’s. It’s a dog bowl with the image of a bone inside and the words Our Dog on the outside. Curious about the history of the piece. What’s perhaps most surprising is that it’s been a working dog bowl most of the time since then, it still is, and it’s unchipped and unfaded. It’s still in, from what I can see, mint condition after approximately a half century of use.”
They replied:
”We still make those dog bowls today.”
Continuity is a wonderful thing.
12/27/2021 @ 9:59 am
I don’t see any mention of flower gardens or sunsets.
12/27/2021 @ 10:05 pm
Oh well!
12/27/2021 @ 10:18 pm
A genuine canine curio…
If they stopped making it it might even have appreciated in value as an antique…
12/27/2021 @ 10:19 pm
It might anyway, though I doubt there’s an easy way to date it. I kind of doubt Mom has the receipt.
12/28/2021 @ 12:45 pm
Such an ‘open call’ retro reflection: A dog bowl. Yes the wild cat did growl. Many hear the sound of the hounds. As measured as Thoreau. Choreographed as not a deepfake. Tomorrow Richard Gere hosts an Earth Emergency. We’ll pause at the sound. One dog was lapping. Observe the sky. Wayward that painted kite. Too soon the dark sacred night. Water is no longer presumptive. Dogs are never narcissistic. Often thirsty: no place like an airport for the holidays. A sniff. Perhaps a resonant bark. Awake dreamers! As even the tree rings sing. Do good! Our permafrost blushes to the touch. Ought the old poet rhyme: you can’t parachute with an umbrella, fella. Gravity is a terrible territorial imperative. For certain: windsocks have two apertures. Hmmm taste of the dog: beware the ground fog. Sure. Yeah: seven precedes eleven — so where’s that escalator to heaven. And will the angels hark our chorus: Deep Purple … Green Door … God Holy like Water … O! Distance ‘twix the North and South Poles:
12,430 miles / 20 004 km flying* Travel Math
12/29/2021 @ 3:58 pm
Nobody quit these sites without reason. You and Ron may decide to argue into the future, after the demise, but most I’ve exchanged messages quit because that was all that was left. Ron’s decisions to mock people for pleasant posts and his derisive comments that this person or that was not intellectually capable to participate were particularly disdainful and drove people away from Our Salon and this site. It’s delusional to think that Alan Milner did not do enough. People saw what was here and took the off-ramp. Enjoy what lies ahead and live in good health.
12/29/2021 @ 10:13 pm
Who has implied or stated that Alan hasn’t done enough? Not the point at all. The point Ron raises is What would it take to lighten the burden on Alan enough to keep it open? That’s a valid question, particularly given that it’s the burden that’s closing the site.
I don’t defend Ron often but I’m going to here. It makes very little sense to hold Ron responsible for both killing the site and keeping it alive. You want there to be more, provide it.
The second thing I’ll say is that over time on our blog sites I’ve been subjected to a whole lot of personal attacks and in a few cases attack campaigns. Bitey over time has taken more heat than I have but I don’t think anyone else has. (On sites that I’ve been on with Steel Breeze and no one else from here, I’ve taken way worse than on anything Salon related, particularly in the department of antisemitism, I mean stuff you’ve never seen before.) Contrary to anything you may have observed about me, I do not like confrontation. Arguing a point, sure. Personal crap, really no. That being said, I have never let anyone drive me from a blog site. We haven’t seen personal threats to the point where if you expressed a view on a site anyone was in danger of retaliation off site. If you’re seeing a lot of crap at least attempt to compartmentalize it. If you’re consistently getting attacked, either report it or stop talking to that person and delete their comments. I get that sometimes the negatives outweigh the positives but I also get that there is an extent to which a lot of my friends are wimps. Enough with the hissy fits. Grow up and deal. If someone bugs you, don’t read them. Exercise a little self control. If you try and fail I get it but how often have you seen that even attempted?
You go into a library you don’t read every book. You go onto a blog site you don’t have to read every post. If someone bugs you, ignore them. Particularly on a site like this one where the oversight can be very personal, if someone consistently bothers you and you ask them to leave you alone and they keep showing up on your blog or insulting you, a complaint to Alan is likely to get that handled. He won’t hesitate to say Play Nice Or Out when necessary. This isn’t OS where it was too big to do that or Our Salon where one of the biggest offenders was a friend of the site’s owner. People want to take their marbles and go home, fine, but I don’t think that’s on Ron. The guy once wrote a post calling me a racist. I’m still here. Metaphorically speaking because I don’t want to be gender specific, my answer is grow a pair.
12/30/2021 @ 6:20 pm
“Ron’s decisions to mock people for pleasant posts and his derisive comments that this person or that was not intellectually capable to participate were particularly disdainful and drove people away from Our Salon and this site. It’s delusional to think that Alan Milner did not do enough. People saw what was here and took the off-ramp. Enjoy what lies ahead and live in good health.”
Art, if you’re referring to the comment I made regarding the type of posts that generate exchanges on matters of national interest and concern, please be advised that there was/is no intention or desire to ‘mock’ anyone ire anything…
About
my “derisive comments that this person or that was not intellectually capable to participate were particularly disdainful”…
Please cite and quote specific examples of such occurrences….
12/30/2021 @ 6:25 pm
I don’t know why my comment posted as being from ‘Anonymous’?
12/30/2021 @ 11:28 am
OK. I’ll be specific. Oftentimes when I have participated in what amounts to a very limited number of conversations available, either here as Art W. Stone or on Our Salon as “alsoknownas”, Ron saw fit to tell me I was out of my league and incapable of keeping up. It rankled me then and does still. “Grow a pair”, “Exercise a little self control”, “Take my marbles and go home” ???!!! HAHAHAHA hahaha. I was taught to turn the other cheek as well, but I don’t always believe in that. Thanks for the mentoring, but I’ll read whatever I wish and wasn’t looking for paternal guidance. That’s a sometimes annoying habit of yours. Maybe the people who have written to me over time, whom I paraphrased in part were also childish, need to grow up and were wrong about how they felt. “Wrong about how they felt”. Doesn’t that seem goofy to surmise ? Alan says the podium will disappear by Saturday. The echo chamber will then be reduced to whatever one lets bounce around in their own skull. I’ve learned much from both you and Ron over time, but I won’t miss the posturing. Be well.
12/30/2021 @ 10:29 pm
Who said anything about “wrong about how they felt?” I certainly didn’t. Feelings are feelings. We don’t control those.
If someone tells you you’re incapable of keeping up, do you believe it? Assuming that you don’t, are you afraid someone else will believe it as a result of it being said?
12/31/2021 @ 1:01 pm
Stop. OK? I don’t have any 3D friends that would tell me “to grow a pair”. Schoolyard comment.
No acknowledgement tells me more than I want to know.
The site has lost any appeal to me it may have had.
12/31/2021 @ 5:25 pm
My comment about growing a pair was more general than specific. It was not aimed at you per se but was addressing the general phenomenon of people allowing themselves to be driven off sites. In this case it actually doesn’t apply to you because you have not (as yet) been driven off a site. It is also not a term I generally use in person.
Still, the idea that someone would be enjoying their conversations on the site with some people, particularly people they consider friends, get insulted once or twice and take off is a bit weird. I get it but I don’t respect it much, particularly if the insults are infrequent.
No acknowledgment of what?
12/30/2021 @ 3:31 pm
I have a little dohickey that lets me know when my name is being taken in vain so that’s why I am jumping in here.
No one – other than yours truly – can either kill Bindle or save it.
First of all, I’m not trying to save Bindlesnitch or kill it…but I did go through the exercise of updating all of the plugins that operate the site…largely because the license for most important plugin – the one that really runs the site…expires on January 1.
It was the announcement that I had to fork over $190 (I think) to renew the license was the specific trigger that tipped the balance….until I realized that, if I updated all of the plugins from this vendor NOW before the license expired I would get at least another year before I would have to repurchase the plugins as they age.
The problem isn’t just money. It is also time, energy, and available mental capacity. I’m 73 now. Some of you are probably older, but I can clearly perceive that I don’t have the same mental capacity that I had even just a couple of years ago and I am not convinced that I want to invest my more limited mental capacity on maintaining a site with fewer than ten members. I mean, seriously….
At the same time, however, there are people dropping away from Facebook in droves because a variety of reasons, all of which boil down to: “we don’t want someone else making a bundle off our time and effort.”
Well, I completely agree with that. That’s why I built this website in the first place, and why I planned to turn the ownership over to the members….but there have to be members to turn it over to, and that means people who know how to wrangle WordPress or who are willing to learn how.
Robert Pannier’s departure took a lot of wind out of my sails. He was essential to my process, someone to help me work out complex programming question problems I mean, yes, he is an asshole, but he was my asshole, and we cooperated brilliantly on the technicalities around building and maintaining a website. It was the political and then the personal animus that got in the way.
But he’s gone and I’m going unless I can find a cohort users to actually use the fucking thing…and I can’t do that alone.
I would need your help. Traffic brings revenues. I will never make anything off the site but I would like it to pay its own way…and that only works if there’s enough traffic to generate the revenues.
I would need your help to do that. I’ve said this all before. I don’t expect anything to change.
Surprise me.
12/30/2021 @ 6:00 pm
Well Alan, it wasn’t me that thought you had not done enough. That came from a clumsy reading by K/S and his arguing buddy.
12/30/2021 @ 6:32 pm
Art re clumsy reading
“That came from a clumsy reading by K/S and his arguing buddy.”
RonP said no such thing…
12/30/2021 @ 10:02 pm
I’ve already said this but I guess I have to repeat it. I have neither said nor implied that Alan has not done enough. I am neither that stupid nor that much of an ingrate. Nor to my knowledge has Ron. Ron asked if financial assistance would help. All I said is that Alan should answer his question. If money is the issue and participants in the site are willing to come up with the money does that mean the site stays up? In order for that to happen, participants need to know what it would take. It is a reasonable question. If the answer is that in addition to the money there are technical issues that Alan can’t address by himself and no one here has the chops to help him, so be it, because that answers the question.
12/30/2021 @ 6:38 pm
Alan…
At 75 the best I can do is offer some financial aid and assistance in a?search for an acceptable administrative assistant…
Are we OK for a year if we fork over $190?
12/30/2021 @ 6:45 pm
Maybe it was because I wasn’t logged in….
03/18/2022 @ 11:15 am
running wild all night
Learned that there were six (6) assassination attempts on Adolph Hitler. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT. Read of course in grammar school about that black briefcase toating Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg 20 July 1944 coup d’état: ‘Unternehmen Walküre’ — frankly I am stymied / conflicted with the 7th Commandment and whatever can be done with our efforts to eliminate President Putrid of what was the USSR. All this fork-licking psychiatric parabola U turns to a sum of all fears … where’s an errant game of Russian Roulette for the one (1) devoid of empathy…?
He sure as hell uses the doomsday tick-toc to sustain his insatiable mania … he’s zero EQ. Is he competing with Hitler?