Just watching my cousin try to explain to her kids the difference between brothers and "fur-brother" I'm dying

It's like otoh we are all siblings of life etc. (wolves = bros / homies)
OTOH "white" America (non-reservation etc.) super duper dotes on doggos which is fine, and cool, but we still have some carryover issues in my (extended) family about dogs do not go in beds, do not go to work/school/sit at dinner table etc. because we had to be kind of strict-ish to

blend in and now it's in a very ???????? /SHRUG/ space

But related my Mom is going crazy trying to explain that Robbie is a SERVICE dog because see above + it's like how no matter what I am saying, if I start saying something my Dad doesn't know about because I read more than him, and he fucking trained me to learn so he wouldn't have to read so much (no joke) he still thinks I'm 5 years old and have no

woops

idea of anything whatsoever

So my Mom is baby of her family and they tend to be like "Silly [Mom] she doesn't get how things must be done" etc.

((tbf true on my Dad's side too, but worse for him))

ANYWAY -- I hope to go read on beach today so I can be there with Robbie and both he and Mom won't go nuts

I hope you can go! Reading on the beach sounds lovely

yessssssss Mom was out on the beach reading last night (I told her to promote Kyle's book but she did to like 3 people so she might have been reading Home Repair is Homicide) and Dad was like "she can't be...? It's DARK CC" but she was she fell asleep

Robbie was in paradise like "YES SERVICE DOG RESPECT"

and he gets to protect me today so that'll be good

I did it!!!! I made it out there

With my 2nd & third and idek cousins

(common tradition/rule for tribes is just EVERYONE is cousin fuck it )

Finally met my cousin (literal not slang in this case) kids' which is wild because they're already 6 and 3 and super cute >;3 kopperhed genuinely you'll adore them if we can swing this out next year. Mom brought bubbles and they were thrilled. Played with Robbie until he was like "I'm done >>;" rofl

the older one is starting gymnastics

Which yes duh (my cousin was like nearly pro in gymnastics but stopped in college to focus on schoolwork but yes 95% of my memories of her when we were younger was her gymnastics competetions and winning medals etc. lol)

Extra nice because the last like.... 7 years??????/ Yes????????????????? fuck. I have NOT been making it out much. u_u; Time flies.

The haze is SORT OF ISH clearing from the Canadian wildfires (mind you, SOUTHERN Maine...) but the health warnings are there and my lung was NOT working as great as I'd like /FLOP

BUT ALSO LIKE a;lskdja;lskdjsklj I still did make it out so that's good!!!

And cousin was crazy impressed by how fit Moosey is now moosechangerpat

My reaction to kids is like my reaction to dogs: i tolerate them if i have to

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hi

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Yes but they're shy and polite

Feral , but also

Is your biological clock going off?

fuck no

I told them not to say it too weird in case you thought that

And then I said it weird

It's cute

I won't bully anymore, but I have to tease you once in a while.

<3