The Momma Loves Gringo

People let me tell you about my best friend. He’s my one toy, cuddly toy, my up my down my pride and joy…he’s my best friend….the rip ‘em cow torso! (what you see below sans head and limbs).

Now let’s have some fun!

 

 

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Tags: dogs, friends, loony, pets, play, toys, video, whippets

One of the therapies used for the momma’s papa after his stroke is called functional electrical stimulation. It was used to “exercise” the muscles of facial expression on the left side of his face.

French neurologist, Guillaume Duchenne, most notably credited for the discovery of the hereditary muscular dystrophy - Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, used electrical stimulation on live subjects to study facial expressions. He discovered that genuine smiles from true happiness are formed by muscles of the mouth and muscles of the cheeks and eyes, forming crow’s feet.

 

Duchenne stimulating muscles of facial expression with electricity.

 

Plate from Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine (1862) demonstrates various expressions from Duchenne’s electrical stimulation studies.

 

Tags: Duchenne, electricity, eyes, insight, neurology, neuroscience, psychology, research, test

Mmmmm…….doesn’t this look tasty???

It’s a Litter Box Cake!

Here is the recipe [From Dolittler: How to Make a Litterbox Cake]:

Ingredients

• 2 recipes of brownies
• 1 recipe chocolate frosting (not canned)
• 2 recipes of angel food or white cake
• 1 large box of Nerds…pick out the blue and green ones
• 1 bag Tootsie Rolls
• 1 brand-new litter box (hand-washed)
• 1 brand-new litter scooper (hand-washed)
• 1/4 cup dark honey

Assembly

1. Line the bottom of the litter box with brownie squares
2. Soften the frosting in the microwave to achieve a pour-able consistency
3. Pour frosting over the brownies in an even layer and smooth out into the corners
4. In a large bowl, crumble the cake into fine, litter-like crumbs and sprinkle to cover the brownie/frosting layer
5. Sprinkle blue and green Nerds evenly over the top (to resemble air freshening crystals)
6. Sculpt Tootsie rolls into realistic kitty turds
7. Randomly insert litter scooper
8. Scatter and embed Tootsie roll sculptures into cakey litter
9. Pour honey in one spot on the cakey litter to simulate a pool of urine
10. Apply litter box splashguard for complete effect!
11. Dig in!

Tags: cats, chocolate, food, litter box, loony, mess, poo, recipe, sick

Ahoy dar mitey! The momma and I have a new theme! In the upper right hand corner of each post there are two tiny buttons.

Click the one on the left (two arrowheads pointing inward) to toggle the sidebar in and out. Click the square one on the right to collapse or expand the post. Neat eh? Except for the sidebar toggle can be a little goofy at times and shoves the sidebar into the margins.

Tags: buttons

Today I wanted to tell you about a relative of mine. The Azawakh (pronounced Oz-a-wok) is an ancient sight-hound originally used by Central African Tuareg and other nomadic tribes for hunting, companionship and protection. They are both loyal and independent. The most striking feature are the long legs, which are usually longer than the body. This is one of the rarest breeds of dogs; only introduced outside of Africa in the 1970’s.

Photo author: Lilly M

Source: za zgodą mojej znajomej - wikipedystki (2006-03-25)

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License“.

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Tags: breed, canine, dogs, sight-hound

These are from xkcd

A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).

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They also have a lot of fun t-shirts for sale in their store….

Tags: comedy, loony

Do not go to work….please? Stay home at with me!

 

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Tags: dogs, pets

The ten most popular posts this year:

1. Healthy for humans, deadly for dogs - We’re so happy that this is number one. We hope that it has prevented many accidental poisonings. A worthwhile read because some of the foods are surprising…and commonly within reach of many dogs.
2. 13 cribbage boards from the momma’s collection
3. CPAP, CPAP run - about sleep apnea
4. My top three dog toys - the most fun ever!
5. The Audiocity of it All! - a list of free audio applications for the Mac
6. NBC Heroes/USA The 4400 - the comments relayed both good and bad news
7. My 11 favorite activities…doggie style - you wouldn’t believe the search terms that led to this post!
8. Tapetum Lucidum - eye shine
9. Feelin’ Groovy - me in agility class…you may as well bypass this if you watched the video in number 7 above.
10. The momma’s 13 favorite computer games

Tags: 4400, agility, Apple, audio, audiocity, cats, chocolate, collection, computer, CPAP, cribbage, dogs, eyes, free, games, grapes, hazard, headache, Heroes, itunes, list, mac, music, nap, NBC, new episodes, ophthalmology, pets, play, poison, polysomnography, sleep apnea, sleep disorder, snoring, sorbitol, squirrel, tapetum, television, toys, trivia, USA, veterinarian, xylitol

Last week the momma found an application for desktop blogging. It’s called ecto and is sold by illumineX (who purchased the original company, infinite sushi). It is so much easier to manage this blog, create links, etc. She purchased the program after using the 21-day trial version for only 15 minutes. The program cost $17.95 at the time of writing this post. It’s so easy that I’m going to try pawing in the next entry!

This is a screenshot of the post listings:

and this is the draft editing page:

The little iTunes icon in the toolbar inserts information on the current song we are listening to:

Tags: Apple, blog, computer

The momma got some good news from her bank! Her 5-year ARM interest rate for the next year is LOWER than it has been! She has been worried about this for the past year or so….now she is glad that she didn’t go ahead and refinance! Whew!

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Tags: mortgage