Enduring Love is odd (freaky character) and put me off ever wanting to get in a hot air balloon - unlike my mother whom I probably ought to gift a trip as yet, for her birthday (if not ON her birthday, considering it's November then). And I am no friend of owls. Since I am a housemouse.
It might not be so random and odd, indeed, that what you try to move away from (either of my elderly parents before I find myself in the position you are in and I swore I never would be) will continue to haunt you till you've cracked the code (which is sure to be about freedom).
I have put in my notes to self for a future life that all dogs need two parents. It sure as hell doesn't work for kids to just have the one. Why would you want less for your dog? You are perfectly sensible about not having a dog in any urban setting. I tried with totally the wrong breed (border collie) and I don't think it did Fern or me any favours. Still, I like to blame that failure on there being too many uncooperative sheep in our family. Never get a dog when three out of four don't really like dogs (and the most obvious pack leader - a hulking father - is not game at all.) All great tips to keep up on a post-it . (Been working on a piece involving Alzheimer's).
We live and we learn. But do we ever learn to let life just live?
Finally, corresponding to that ever growing urge to possess or consume less: in researching what this new dog of mine could best be fed on, I became terribly disheartened in the whole project. Okay, so being a diehard organic fishytarian doesn't help sort that problem out; but the culinary market for dogs is just MAD!
I wonder about Joe and Jed, because Jed made me wonder if standing my ground is preferable to light footing the light headed thing and allow this swamp mouse to get airborne. I didn't watch the entire thing as the only versions available to me had issues. One was dubbed in Portuguese, and the German version had an image quality that should be outlawed. Poor Joe lost the thing he loved, gained a lover he didn't love and then what?
Did I detect a hint of evil in yer mum's birfday gift? I don't remember ever seeing the Balloons in November from the balcony of my underswamp Bunker, but can think of no reason they couldn't fly at that time so long as one wears a decent Snowmobile suit, Helmet and a Parachute. One could always try to retrace Icarus's flight plan to warm up a bit.
Letting life live is an art we lost long ago. In an epic attempt to regulate Humans we build the biggest Clocks that go boing in the center of town, we even invented miniature versions that we can wear around our wrist, like shiny handcuffs, and now even our crypto wallets need to synchronize with the überclock before we get to spend our Bitcoins. If we don't keep track of time, time will keep track of us. I'm a notoriously bad planner, so I try to buck the trend, but end up right on schedule no matter what.
Woohoo, I finally found someone to go fishing with; a Fishytarian. As a source of food, fish has to be the best. For example; did you ever notice that the size of a Fish always increases after it's been eaten? After living in Minnesota for about 20 years, I discovered this to be a scientific fact with a better than 95% probability in 100% of Minnesota Fish species out of 11,842 Lakes.
Border Collies are worker Bees, they need to be kept busy or they'll get bored. A Dog like River would be much easier in an urban environment as Flat Coat Retrievers were bred for pulling Milk Carts. You don't want your Locomotive chasing alley Cats or biting the customer's children, so these Dogs have a very even temperament and are very easy to control without a leash. The exception is water, if there was a muddy puddle, River was in it no matter what I did.. Keep a good supply of Towels at hand and be prepared to shower with the Dog, they love water but hate to shower alone.
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P.S. Flat Coat Retrievers do not take well to being yelled at; something to be aware of should you ever consider getting one.
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Who does?
All dogs, all children, all of life makes a good teacher on that front.
It gets a bit disconcerting to see how deaf to others we have collectively become if you even try to yell, in vain, "WATCH OUT, you are going to walk into a .....!! Just watch them go boing in silence, I guess.
I don't need breakfast after I've read you. I have stepped into the basket and savour the wordscape before me instead. Even skipping lunch today.
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Sweet of you to say that, but I'm nowhere near the wordsmith you are. Thanks for the compliment.
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Sweet of you to say, but I probably take longer to write up even a single line than you ever would for your entire biography.
You can exemplify the notoriously bad planner of our stars while I will have to settle for the job of thinking double and working hard to choose but one single thought. (Granted: this can't make for great planning either. But I always put that down to being at my best when improvising. Organised chaos is probably the best soil for this houseplant.)
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