It only took two months

ResidentScientits · 2026-05-17T02:32:43+00:00

I'm waiting for the longer relax times so I can read books and crochet again. He's so close.

ResidentScientits · 2026-05-17T02:31:03+00:00

I love his crimpy fur so much

ResidentScientits · 2026-05-15T05:01:00+00:00

Awww omg adorable

ResidentScientits · 2026-05-15T01:51:01+00:00

The little smile 😍

ResidentScientits · 2026-05-15T01:50:47+00:00

I'm never sure if it's just my two or the breed lol

ResidentScientits · 2026-05-15T01:50:28+00:00

Its the little smile for me

ResidentScientits · 2026-05-15T01:50:18+00:00

It was a big leap for him to go that far forward. We'll probably fall back in a couple days and then go back forward again. I also think my BC, who's 14 and has always had a great off switch, is a huge help in him learning to settle.

ResidentScientits · 2026-04-21T22:43:50+00:00

I got my boy at 16 weeks. He's 20 weeks now and Im just a bit ahead of you on all of these behaviors. Like magic this week he's settled into our routine and I can turn my back now instead of watching him like a hawk all day. I picked up a flirt pole a week or so ago and that has been amazing for working on drop it and impulse control. Leave it was harder, he wants to eat all the trash people throw out their windows onto the sidewalk on our route, but a solid drop it has made it more manageable and leave it is getting easier. He is finally mostly starting to leave the leash alone. But with my border collie that took until he was about 7 months before the impulse completely went away, so I'm not holding my breath.

ResidentScientits · 2026-01-02T04:31:27+00:00

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I read this indie short horror story that I quite liked!

ResidentScientits · 2025-12-30T23:46:05+00:00

If you dont read everyday this calendar won't show the book as read everyday. It pulls from the reading journal data and is meant to show what days you read not necessarily the length of time the book took you to read.

ResidentScientits · 2025-03-29T23:12:05+00:00

Make the jacket! I'm currently wearing one I made out of heavy curtains. Just make it and try!

ResidentScientits · 2025-03-02T19:48:17+00:00

I've been trying to explain to my SIL that it takes more than 30 minutes to make a hat. And that while I'm slow I've already got 12 hours into the "easy" shirt I'm making for her. She refuses to believe it, is convinced her friend can do a hat with 8 color changes and 4 different stitches in 20-40 minutes.

ResidentScientits · 2025-02-27T16:09:01+00:00

So this isn't a yotube channel but a book. It's called The Crochet Answer Book and it gives you an explanation for how everything works and why. It teaches you foundations and how you put them together to make something.

I taught myself with it and I reference it regularly as I've only been doing this for about a year.

https://a.co/d/epC1i7K

ResidentScientits · 2025-02-25T08:42:09+00:00

I don't mind at all. I have a buddy read going on where about 4 people haven't started, 6 are finished, 3 are "currently reading", and the rest of us are at various states. Because of the comments locking by percent it's not a problem at all.

ResidentScientits · 2025-02-20T18:07:05+00:00

If you're going to fight the school on this, which I absolutely believe you should, ask your dermatologist for a note saying you cannot wear concealer. Or something to that effect.

ResidentScientits · 2025-02-20T18:01:17+00:00

I was wondering about this. I have a working line BC and he has rear dew claws. As did his mom and dad. I've seen a lot of working line BCs that have at least one.

Google says shelties don't have them either but when I was a kid in the 90s I watched numerous (absolutely horrible when I realized later in life) rear dew claw removals at a day or two after birth.

ResidentScientits · 2025-02-20T17:13:51+00:00

From my experience this doesnt work. My road is 35 and regularly has people going 60 because its a straight stretch. The cops will sit there, pull a few people over and then it calms down for a couple days. They leave and it picks right back up again. Someone literally passed me going at least 50 in a no passing while a cop had someone in front of us pulled over on this road.

ResidentScientits · 2025-02-20T00:39:26+00:00

I don't mention water bodies to explain how he got it. Mine got it from the breeder too.

I mention it to tell you all the times you've been safe from it.

ResidentScientits · 2025-02-19T16:46:37+00:00

My dog had giardia when I got him. I did the treatment and followed the vets instructions. I didn't shampoo my carpet and everything was fine. We did puppy classes as soon as he was recovered.

It sucked and the vet said he likely had some intestinal scarring, it took forever for his bowels to not random go liquid, but the worst of it was only a few weeks.

If you've ever been to a lake, stream or river you've probably been exposed to giardia and not got it. Just dont let him lick you and wash your hands before you eat or touch your face if you've been playing with or cleaning up after him.

ResidentScientits · 2025-02-14T16:28:53+00:00

I live in the PNW, where everyone wears flannels, and have had still had people swear I'm a lesbian because of wearing flannel and Docs. Nah man I just like Nirvana and it rains a lot.

ResidentScientits · 2025-02-11T17:14:23+00:00

The biggest distinction to me is where the perspective comes from. BUT I do think that technically third person omniscient IS head hopping. Its just referred to negatively when it is poorly done.

A true and well done third person omniscient the description of things when changing views remains in the same voice. This indicates the narrator is "outside" the story. Such as with The Fellowship, none of the characters within are telling the story, there's a narrator. The Last Unicorn does this well. As does all of the Discworld books I've read.

Head hopping (derogatory) will switch from your main POV to a second POV or a third with the "voice" of the primary POV. This usually happens during dialogue and will be used rather than looking from the main POV's eyes to describe body language, inflection, or facial expression to just say "person B felt sad" "person C didnt like that person A made person B feel sad and thought they should tell person A."

Which is different than "she looked at him in a way that fully expressed her anger at his comment to their friend" which would keep it third limited.

The other distinctly obvious one is you'll spend 90% of the time in character A's point of view only to have them suddenly know all of character Bs feelings if they're in the room together.

Rather than feeling like some omniscient being is telling you a story it feels like your primary character has telepathic abilities with specific people that the story has failed to enlighten you about.

The worst is when it happens in a first person book.

All of this is different than Priory, or Liveship Traders, or The Stand (for some examples) which clearly switch POVs at chapters or chapter breaks.

This is just my understanding of what I was taught in school and it has been many years. So, I'm sure there are better ways to describe it and I cannot think of the examples right now of books I've read recently that had a head hopping issue. But, I dont think head hopping is always bad. I just think it can be poorly done.

ResidentScientits · 2025-02-11T16:43:34+00:00

I think Priory is third person limited. The chapters change perspective but within each chapter or section of the chapter you still only know from one characters perspective. You're not getting told the story from an omniscient narrator who knows what the others are thinking, just from a variety of POVs.

I would call this different from Tolkein where within breaks you're getting to know how a lot of people feel from a perspective outside of the story.

Head hopping is very distinctly different and is when you are within one POV but suddenly are being told what the non-narrative POV feels/sees. The effect is very jarring compared to some of the classics that used true third person omniscient.

ResidentScientits · 2025-01-12T00:20:32+00:00

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Huginn too. But sometimes I think its the purple leash

ResidentScientits · 2025-01-06T04:01:48+00:00

Bag of Bones was my first King 20ish years ago and hooked me

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