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Something Wonderful: STELLA’S BEST LEAF JUMPS OF ALL TIME [Bumped from March because… now more than ever!]

“Meantime life outside goes on all around you…”

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  • Patrick March 18, 2020, 5:02 PM

    No food or other cravings—just joy, pure sensual joy!

  • jwm March 18, 2020, 6:16 PM

    Gerard, I notice that you’re working hard too, by posting all this fun stuff. You’re giving us a great selection of stuff to seriously think about without posting gloom & doom, or pointless rants as well.
    Your efforts are noted, and appreciated. Keep it up. AD is the best site on the web, bar none.

    JWM

  • Mary Ann March 18, 2020, 6:20 PM

    Ditto, ditto, ditto @jwm.

  • u.k.(us) March 18, 2020, 7:34 PM

    I can almost remember the smell of a giant leaf pile, fun.

  • Andy Havens March 18, 2020, 10:45 PM

    Out here in the great Northwet, once the leaves start falling, the rains have already come. You can’t get a pile that sounds like that.

    This video is definitely going to be queued up and waiting for my kids when they come down for breakfast tomorrow.

  • ghostsniper March 19, 2020, 4:51 AM

    Don’t click the links directly above. Spammer. [Fixed. Thanks.]

  • Rob De Witt March 19, 2020, 11:02 AM

    Yes I can smell that pile. Even more, I still smell the piles of leaves being burnt every Fall. Anybody remember that? You’d see piles maybe five times as the one in the video, in gutters and alleys all over town, beyond dry, set alight with a match and tended by a kid with a rake. It’s what football season smelled like, and Halloween.

  • Joel March 19, 2020, 3:46 PM

    That fellow better be careful never to rake leaves around anything solid…

  • Donna Estess March 23, 2020, 6:34 AM

    I am a nature person and value all life. As a “Ju-Bu” I bow to all life forms and my fellow humans!!! May you be alive and thrive for eternal eons!!!! I send my love and best wishes to all for wonderful happy lives!!!!!! Peace, Donna Estess

  • Rob De Witt November 17, 2020, 7:38 PM

    Wonderful happy creature with a most eloquent tail.

    I envy her owners, but people who put costumes on dogs should be neutered. Publicly.

  • PA Cat November 17, 2020, 8:17 PM

    In honor of Miss Olive: a reminder that teh kittehs (singly or in pairs) enjoy jumping in and around autumn leaves as much as dogs do; also playing with windblown leaves. The black cats might be Miss Olive’s cousins– but I doubt there are enough leaves in Chico for Gerard to make a proper leaf pile for his Editor.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRgqN-FBjjk&ab_channel=WeMeow

  • EX-Californian Pete November 18, 2020, 7:28 AM

    How could anyone watch that and NOT spend the rest of the day (or week) with a huge smile on their face, and a lightened heart?

    Awesome stuff, Vanderleun. Just another reason to love this website.

  • Mike Anderson November 18, 2020, 8:04 AM

    Totally ridiculous doggy fun. Why can’t we all be more like Stella?

  • rdb November 18, 2020, 1:49 PM

    Who’s the good girl? Someone had to say it.

  • Anne November 19, 2020, 9:29 PM

    Your decision to give us a little bit of joy and beauty every day is helping to ease the terrible pain we are all feeling. It helps to ease the rage. Thank you!

  • Dirk November 20, 2020, 9:08 AM

    Agree, life is for fun stuff’. While I’m watch this family dog, I’m listening to Ten Years After, ” 1970 Live at Fillmore East” . Thru stacked Klipsch Cornwalls. Trying hard to,wash these BS politics from my head.

    Keep the fun stuff coming please.

    DW

  • DOUBLE XX November 23, 2020, 10:46 AM

    Better than Disney and cheaper, after that a fire and hotdogs for everyone including Stella. Joy is to be taken whenever and wherever. Ghostsniper, a comment please.