Sparky needs some help to change the mood, so I brought the dogs out to watch me mow the lawn. They were very attentive and supportive. I appreciate the encouragement.
I don’t know if it’s the lighting or the 10x zoom, but Indy looks like a blob of melting earwax. Maybe he is trying to make a goofy facial expression.
Sparky learns that dogs are ungrateful optimists.
The guys were having fun, and everyone agreed that Sparky has great toys, but Archie and Indy can’t help thinking that outside the kitchen and solarium, there are unimaginable delights. Sparky is taking it as criticism.
Sparky is having so much fun, he is smiling and drooling like a moron. Even Archie is having a good time and not freaking out. I expected there would be some cleanup after this dog party, but I didn’t expect it would be from Sparky giggling like a school girl and slobbering all over the place.
Some dogs behave better when a leash is attached, so Archie is keeping his. He gets flinchy when I reach for him, so this makes it easier to take him outside.
Sparky was a little nervous about having a slumber party. He wants the guys to think he’s cool, and they do. Indy can’t figure out how Sparky never gets tangled up in the leashes and Archie thinks Sparky isn’t afraid of anything. Sparky can’t stop smiling.
I had a good plan, but we didn’t stick to it. It might not have made much difference.
WSJ: It Now Costs $300,000 to Raise a Child
WSJ: It Now Costs $300,000 to Raise a Child
It determined that a married, middle-income couple with two children would spend $310,605—or an average of $18,271 a year—to raise their younger child born in 2015 through age 17. The calculation uses an earlier government estimate as a baseline, with adjustments for inflation trends.
Before Bill Nye the Science Guy became a garden-variety Progressive try-hard, he used to say “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”
It isn’t plausible that it costs $18k per year to raise a child. Where is the proof?
Sparky wants to have a slumber party with his friends from summer camp, so I am prepping the battle space.
Getting grass to grow always seems like a hit-or-miss deal. It worked this time, so here’s what happened.
What security guarantees could Donald Trump give Ukraine?
Have you ever seen a photo with a more deliberate power move?
“I’m at a point right now where I have a hard time writing science-fiction,” Cameron told CNN this week. “I’m tasked with writing a new Terminator story [but] I don’t know what to say that won’t be overtaken by real events. We are living in a science-fiction age right now.”
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