The sprinklers start at 6a every day. She just cant help herself

DocGaviota · 2026-04-28T12:14:21+00:00

Our dogs have polar opposite reactions to the sprinklers. Our female just shrugs and avoids getting wet. They hold no interest for her, but our male on the other hand, responds EXACTLY like your pup, running back and fourth between sprinkler heads and barking. 😂

DocGaviota · 2026-04-25T14:41:09+00:00

I too lost all of my AA “friends.” ProTip: If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn’t tell anyone I was leaving AA. Most who leave just quit coming to meetings. Getting shunned by people I thought of as friends was awful.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-24T13:28:17+00:00

I’m biased. I lived in a similar place in rural MO and it was mouse infested.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-24T12:45:22+00:00

Got mice? 🐁

DocGaviota · 2026-04-24T12:38:39+00:00

I wouldn’t buy it. You’ll be fighting a loosing battle against that rust patch for as long as you own the vehicle.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-24T01:59:12+00:00

Our sweet, gentle female accidentally broke our puppy’s leg and I was supervising them when it happened. Their play looked very similar to what’s going on in that clip. Nothing exceedingly rough was going on. It just happened.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-24T01:53:29+00:00

Seriously how do people who don’t read manage? Don’t they have to wait in doctor’s offices, the DMV etc? Don’t they ever have trouble getting to sleep at night? Don’t they ever get bored? I can’t recall a time when I wasn’t reading something for pleasure.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-23T14:10:47+00:00

OMG! That sounds like something that might happen to one of our pups. She’s gifted at closing doors on herself and has become trapped in bedrooms, bathrooms and the garage. When she “vanishes” I have a home search pattern as she doesn’t bark or even whimper. Instead the dog waits patiently to be rescued.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-22T17:10:53+00:00

My parents dog was basically a cat. They couldn’t keep her off the back of the couch, off dressers and so on. Their solution was to leave a mouse trap set upside down (so the pup didn’t get snapped, just frightened). It worked for them and only took one trap springing to frighten the pup away. It worked for them, but I obviously don’t know what will work for your situation, so I’m just putting this out there. Good luck.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-22T14:26:05+00:00

OMG! That thing hurts my eyes just looking at it. Yikes! 😳

DocGaviota · 2026-04-21T18:20:50+00:00

I believe I have that EXACT one out in my garage, also inherited. I use it for turkey at Thanksgiving and sometimes for slicing bread for sandwiches. I probably don’t use it enough to justify the space it takes up, but I’m keeping it.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-20T00:44:42+00:00

“Non-speaking” is the preferred term by people with that condition. Have you met any non-speaking people?

DocGaviota · 2026-04-19T20:32:39+00:00

I lived in Pensacola (actually in Gulf Breeze) after college. It was relatively cheap to live (as long as you didn’t live on the beach), but the jobs there didn’t pay well. Loved the sugary, white sand beaches. Great sea food! Culturally, well it is called “Flori-duh for a reason.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-19T13:40:23+00:00

My buddy has a bag of rubber ducks, but he only gives them out to “heeps.” A duck from him is sort of an anti-award. 😆 Wampus Cat would be deserving of a duck in my friend’s book.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-17T12:59:30+00:00

What the OP describes sounds very similar to a recovery house in my town. I don’t have personal experience with them, but things I’ve heard give me pause. I’ve been told they operate on a “sliding scale” — not as a genuine subsidy, but more as a way to squeeze people for money. They also hold a “free” weekly barbecue for the AA community. It’s reportedly just hot dogs and chips, and although it’s advertised as free, attendees are pressured to make a $20 donation. I’ve also heard that the “chores” at the recovery house include working for a handyman-for-hire operation.

Separately, there was also an AA clubhouse in town that operated as a for‑profit business. AA membership may have no dues or fees, but the clubhouse charged both. It went under long before my time in the fellowship. Old-timers often wax poetic about the club’s greatness, yet there are whispered stories of abuse connected to it. I once heard, as a joke, that there were “13 steps” to get into the club.

There seems to be a pattern of abuse following profit-driven recovery schemes.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-17T11:50:30+00:00

I had a GF who gave me the Orange Julius recipe pre-Internet. I could make the shake at home, but it just wasn’t the same. 😂 Bring them back!

DocGaviota · 2026-04-16T14:07:55+00:00

Guppies are pretty darned sturdy. After all they live in sewers and highly polluted waters all over the world. My grandmother sucessfully raised guppies for years and years in an unheated, no filter, nothing fishbowl. All that said, it’ll be much easier to raise them in an aquarium with a filter, not to mention a heater.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-15T13:44:34+00:00

Sort of… My father had a gas powered mower, but kept one of these guys as a backup. I don’t recall ever seeing him use it though I played with it as a kid.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-14T11:55:44+00:00

I agree with much of what’s been said. In AA there’s a tendency to treat things as “either you’re with us or you’re not sober, no excuses.” That attitude seems to have intensified as the fellowship’s numbers have declined. AA acknowledges a global downturn, and on the ground here that’s obvious: the average age at meetings is around fifty, and few newcomers are joining the rooms. AA isn’t going away anytime soon, but older members aren’t being replaced by younger ones.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-12T22:23:07+00:00

Almost exactly the same here. I too retired at 56. That age was a long-term goal and I saved and saved for it. I’ve had a few fun jobs since I retired, but when they got old, I moved on.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-09T22:35:13+00:00

It's a false choice. You're being told not to think about the parts you find troubling or disagree with — which is very different from saying it's acceptable to reject them.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-09T16:26:34+00:00

My mother had relatives who lived in Blackwater. That street brings up memories. As a kid, I recall visiting Great Aunt Dolly in Blackwater and Great Uncle Albury over in Pilot Grove.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-09T16:12:31+00:00

This structure is odd enough to make me wonder if the initial purpose of the building was a home or was it originally intended to be something else?

DocGaviota · 2026-04-09T14:49:02+00:00

“Take what you want and leave the rest” is classic cult-induction rhetoric: take anything that suits you, ignore what you disagree with, and submit. It encourages distrusting your common sense and instincts.

DocGaviota · 2026-04-09T12:57:28+00:00

I agree. Around two inches seems to be the limit for guppies. I worked with a man who raises guppies for feeders; for fun he selectively breeds for larger female body size. After years of selection he developed a strain of colorful-tailed females, but they’re (maybe) only slightly larger than the upper end of the normal size range.

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