Hey, dog experts. They have this dog listed as a daucshund, but I think it’s the long body. My dog has that same long body/short leg thing and I think it’s the frankendog thing that causes it. I suspect chihuahua. What do you think? He’s super cute and has a sweet face. I’m thinking about going to see him. https://www.petfinder.com/dog/werito-41669688/az/phoenix/az-dog-adoptions-az617/

Our rescues look like a lot of variety when I but every other dog is actually part chihuahua or pit. I’ve been looking for a medium sized dog for a while that isn’t part chihuahua and haven’t had much luck. We travel a lot so the dog has to be sized for planes and road trip travel. Our current dog is a good enough dog around us but she’s a little nuts. High strung. Food anxiety. Snaps at invisible flies. Bites and screeches for nail trims. Anxious aggressive around certain dogs and men. We’re making progress with her this year but I’d really like to avoid that this time around.

You have to take that with a grain of salt. They guess based on how the dog looks, but it’s a wildly inaccurate method. My dog was supposedly a lab/daucshund mix. We had her tested and she’s actually Boston/chihuahua

Our immediate area is like Jean’s where we try to corral the dogs and get them returned or rehomed, but we’re also surrounded by a lot of rural property where I suspect people let their dogs roam. The temps are routinely 112-116 in the summer time and the dogs suffer.

I noticed the same thing posting on the politics social group but I don’t see it here either.

In general the most popular working class dog of its day prolifererates. In the 70s German Shepherds were everywhere. In the 80s it was Dobermans. It’s expensive to alter a dog and that’s one factor. Irresponsible dog owners exist in all economic classes but there is no denying certain dog breed mixes are likelier to wind up in shelters. The fancier ones are there too, but in smaller numbers, and I think that reflects what has been said.

In Arizona over half the dogs I see are pit, chihuahua, pit mixes, or chihuahua mixes. My own rescue dog is a Boston chihuahua mix. The vast majority of rescues have one or the other. It’s annoying because I like rescues but neither pit nor chihuahua is an ideal breed for families with cats, kids, and a lot of activity.

Oh noo we broke it ? Also it looks like edits are labeled automatically now. They’ve been doing some tinkering. Maybe our archives will reappear someday?

Same here. Different things worked for me in my 30s and early 40s to normalize rising blood pressure but the closer I got to 50 the higher it crept. My cardiologist said estrogen is protective against hypertension and heart disease and hormone depletion in peri menopause allows the gene expression of you have inherited it. Of course everyone should try to maintain a healthy weight, exercise, moderate intake of sugar (the jury is actually still out on salt), eat real foods, exercise, reduce stress when possible, and generally enjoy life. Supplements and teas are good too if they make you feel better. But It’s possible to everything you are supposed to do and still develop so-called lifestyle diseases. It’s aggravating lol. Don’t be discouraged if you eventually have to start medication. I used to be so angry and feel betrayed by my body. Now I’m glad it exists and I’ll get to live to see grandbabies one day.

Antithesis? Antithetical parallelism? I actually had to look up whether a parallelism could contain an inherent contradiction and learned that it can.

Would you call yourself an introvert or an extrovert? What about your daughter? I’m intrigued but wondering if it could work in our house. I think I’d be tempted to use it as a jumping off point for talking rather than respecting the journal. I think it might be weird for me to communicate without verbal acknowledgment. I tend to process aloud though

That’s about 2-3 miles which with lights, kids, and traffic could take an hour to walk. Plug in the address to google maps and they have a public transport and ride hailing options which is really helpful. For instance, there is a bus you can catch that will drop you off right at museum campus

Rainy road trips are cozy ♥️ I got a wave of nostalgia from your photo

My kitty has soulful eyes. He looks likes he has seen some things. In reality we plucked him off the side of the road at the age of three weeks and he’s been a man of leisure all his life.

Haha, I’ve lived here part time for eight years and still haven’t worked up tbsp courage to ride a bike in the city ?

And Chicago still has a lot of taxis available to grab off the street, especially in touristy areas. Taxis are often cheaper for short hauls and faster too since they know the short cuts. Another plus is no surge pricing during rush hour. But if you plan to use a car for more than a couple of miles uber/Lyft is probably better since the rate is flat.

Do it. Transport is your only real expense. If the museums are free, then wha do you care if they are crowded, right? We go on the weekends all the time and can’t remember the crowds ever being so bad that I’d felt like I was wasting my time. The museums really are huge and absorb large crowds easily. In what part of Chicago does your friend live?

Are you in the car? ETA: I mean right now. It looks like a road trip ?

Sweetness. We have family with a small house on the bay in Key Largo. This young manatee would come see the kids whenever they were playing in the water. The first time it happened she gave me a heart attack because she swam up and gave me a love nudge all down my legs as I was floating on the ring. My first Thought was SHARK, lol. She was there every day we were outside. One afternoon her mama came and got her and she swam away. Another day she hoisted herself partway up the dock ladder to visit us on the dock. After we left she looked for us daily for almost a week before giving up.

“Don’t get too wet! We didn’t bring a change of clothes.” ”We won’t!”

BM Revere Pewter looks like a gray leaning beige or a beige leaning gray depending on your light. Here is a photo i found on google images where you can see it looking beige and gray in the exact same photo! And attached is another photo of how it looks in my son’s room without terrific lighting.

Can you believe we didn’t buy it?? I don’t know why. I took a photo of it so I could decide later and never got around to purchasing it.

I’m behind. Here is what rain in the desert looks like for dirty, six of us getting ready to be doused into the water at Splash Mountain for clean, and then my lock screen photo for surprise. In 2016, between July and November one of our teens had a mental health crisis, our house burned up, Trump was elected, and one of the other girls was chosen to be on the cover of an international magazine. We suddenly needed fly to overseas and to LA while trying to do Thanksgiving and Christmas for 12 at our house. I remember feeling like if I had one more surprise I might have a stroke. I put this photo my daughter took of her baby sister on my lock screen to remind me that no matter what happens, we survived 2016, lol

Of course you aren’t. I remember reading a quote in a book when I was just beginning my parenting journey. To paraphrase, you aren’t raising a child; you are training an adult. In order to do that properly, you must turn things over to him that you’re perfectly capable of doing yourself.

Also explain the concept of emotional labor. I tell my slow to get it kid that needing to remind is work in and of itself. I have a huge running list of things I need to get done or delegate and once a task is delegated I want to trust her enough to be able to brain dump that task. If I have to keep returning to the task and think of different ways to get it done or do it myself, she has just taken something that wasn’t my responsibility to begin with and has made it and even bigger problem than it was initially. Taking initiative is a huge kindness as removing tasks takes away some of my daily emotional labor and frees up my mind to think of doing something small for myself.