Raggedcoyote - DOG DAYS

(by alex_rivap)

some beautiful old botanical illustrations from a gardening book I own  ❀

Five minutes of practice in 40 seconds, with my honorary bulldog. Look at those shoulders.

For our sport, the dog loses points in position changes if they move forward during the sequence. If they can't respond promptly and hold the cued position that is also a point deduction. In a sport where every point counts we try to build strong understanding of not just the verbal cue, but also how to transition into the position without extra forward movement. A dog can't do those transitions without proper conditioning, so there's lots of upkeep to keep positions trial ready.

Static positions are extra hard for a dog as dance-y and prone to vibrating as Cake but I'm not mad at this

Franz Kafka, 1912

Nikolay Punin, from a diary entry featured in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

Bald eagle

Types of brain fog:

Brain is primordial sludge & you are drowning in it

U are a ghost and nothing is real

Mental equivalent of attempting to stream some high-res video game when all you have is dial-up

The thing you want to articulate is *right there* but you're just scrabbling at it like a cat continually failing to catch the bird on the other side of the window

The Void