Hello people, sorry I haven't been online in a while. Been pretty busy.
About 8 months ago while I was playing online, I got into a friendly argument with a french friend of mine about languages, he said Arabic sounds like a braying camel that's choking on a... ehm
I said that French is a language that God made exclusively for women and not to be spoken by any self respecting man, anyway, things escalated (in a fun way) and we had a bet on which of us would be able to carry a conversation in the other's language first. A 3rd party suggested I give the french guy a 6 month lead, as Arabic is a completely foreign language to a French/English speaker, while French is relatively familiar to an English speaker.
Anyway, the 6 months were up, and as of two months ago, I've been grinding on Duolingo
 @Regen: My cows are great I also got a litter of 7 puppies, and again their mother got mastitis, and stopped feeding them, so I've been doing that with a monster recipe of boiled sweet potatoes, milk, whey an flour. They're absolutely adorable, but they make me walk very slowly around the farm so that I don't step on any of them. The rhythm is: leg forward, no more than 5 cm off the ground, sweep puppy away with the outside of my foot, place my foot, put the other leg forward and repeat.
@Dina: Is that show where they spent half the episode mowing the grass, the other half kicking the ball and the third half showing the surprise of other players and spectators? The episode ending  mid-kick and the goal is scored in the next episode? I absolutely loved/hated it as a kid.
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Anyway, how is everyone doing? how's the family, Regen? And Dina: Your hubby doing ok?
I haven't watched any games yet, sadly. But hopefully I'll get to watch France vs Denmark (I hope France loses so I can taunt my french friend, but it's unlikely.

MAEN all Pyra has good days and bad days, her immune system is weak, understandably, but these last two days were good. I took a video of her and the dogs chasing each other around yesterday.
Hmm, both of you are dropping hints about shows that I haven't watched. I'm interested in league of super pets. Lol
@Regen: Love your new sig. Rofl

Thanks Dina. The wheels aren't practical for this situation, as I said. His hind legs are tucked all the way forward, looking like this >. He doesn't need them anyway, as I saw him walking. Anyway, I'll watch for a few more days before I make up my mind.
About your hubby's computer, a temporary solution is to turn off updates. In Network settings, set your home network as a "Metered connection", which indicates to windows that the connection has a limited bandwidth quota, and thus won't use it to update.

Hello ladies..It's been a while. I've been following the posts but haven't had the energy to reply myself, so here's a little concentrated reply:
@Regen: I hope you and your husband are better now. Are MiniRegenbogen and MicroRegenbogen okay?
@Dina: These baked goodies look awesome. I love baking stuff (pizza from scratch with a heavy sweet dough and stuffed crust is my favorite) and I love buying them. Bakeries are my weakness; whenever I pass one by and they have just finished baking something I have to buy some from what ever it is.
I'm glad things are improving at your work, but how is your computer holding up?

So there's this thing that's bothering me a lot. There's  this absolutely lovely stray dog in my village, very friendly to everyone. I always played with him a bit whenever I passed by. He was kinda adopted by the whole street. About a month ago I saw that he got crippled. Apparently he took a nap under one of the government contractors vehicles and they ran him over. He couldn't use his back legs anymore. I wanted to put him down using the extra strength tranq that I use for surgery on my cows (3 ml will put a 700 cow to sleep for 4-6 hours) , but at the time I only had 2 ml left, and I wasn't sure they'll be enough. I finally managed to get a new bottle about 10 days ago, but by then I saw the dog actually walking on two legs, with his back legs stiff and unmoving. He managed to walk, not crawl, and he seems to find enough food. So I let him be. A few days later the man who kinda adopted him came by to buy some milk and we talked a bit, he says the dog is in a lot of pain and whines a lot at night. Now I'm a little unsure what to do. Should I let him go on? He seems to manage, but I don't want him to suffer. Any thoughts?

Hah. If the shoe fits..
You have no idea how weird it is to read that sentence. It's after 8 pm and the shops are closed...

I've heard about icecream with cola, but all of these sound like rocket science to me.
@Regen: I had Seth Rogen on my mind I'd just watched a YouTube clip from the movie "This is the end".

Not exactly my trees. These 4 trees were technically mine, but not part of my garden. I planted them in the street, 1.5m away from my wall, which is in our law the area called "Service area belonging to Fcrate's land". I don't know the English equivalent, or if there's any. We line the streets with trees here so that we can sit in shade in the evenings, but personally I prefer something productive to something purely aesthetic, so I planted these trees and everybody benefits from them. Mostly it's the neighbours who take the harvest, and I don't mind that. I have my own trees in m garden. But if someone is cooking and needs lemons, they can pick some up from my tree.
The contractors are digging quite deep, and they bulldoze any tree that blocks their way, or even makes their job a little more difficult. Legally, they aren't allowed to do that, but nobody cares, and if you complain, they just claim it was an accident while digging.
Edit @Regen: I've been recruited to move furniture around the house pointlessly every couple of years or so. Me and my 3 brothers. This year: move the sofa to the other wall, move the library where the sofa was, and we now we have much more space! Yay! Next year: Library back to the side, coffee table to the other, see how much better it looks? And how much more space we have now?
2 years later, everything back to the same place it was 4 years ago annnnd: look how much more space we have now! Isn't that better?! *eye roll*
We just went with it and said: "Yes mum, much better." like the little mules we were at least there was 4 of us. Made things easier. But it doesn't happen often anymore since my sister married and moved to America. My sisters in law started having some "Ideas" but I blackmailed them into shutting up

This is interesting. I'm wondering though, do you have a real democracy over there? And she was president, then what? Lost the election because of the corruption rumors and became vice president as some sort of deal?
Today the bulldozer knocked down a 25 year old tree in the next street. Was too far for me to see, but I got there and took a few pictures. I'll file another complaint in the city council. Not that it'll be much help...