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Dallas Design District

Saturdays in Dallas

November 5, 2016

We had an extremely busy Saturday.

We took a 12-mile walking tour of the city with the dogs. I was exhausted afterward, but had a hilarious time.

The Puppy

The morning started at Starbucks, where we ran into an adorable chocolate lab puppy.

Ingrid the Labradoodle playing with a chocolate lab mix in front of the Oak Lawn Starbucks.

Ingrid is only about a year old now, but the lab puppy made her seem like a gigantic monster.

We then headed to the Design District, where we passed the Playboy Marfa statue and randomly ran into one of our favorite bartenders in at a car rental place.

dogs / fitness

Almost Tennis

October 10, 2016

We almost started playing tennis!

I say almost because the primary activity is really sprinting after foul balls before the labradoodle gets to them.

Ingrid the labradoodle hoarding a tennis ball.

Gunter at the Craddock Park tennis courts in the Perry Heights neighborhood of Oak Lawn.

dogs

Trouble

March 22, 2016

I thought that I could trust him.

Gunter is almost three years old now, so I thought that I could trust him outside of the kennel.

He no longer cries when I leave the house, which is half the struggle of puppydom. Gunter also hasn’t had an accident inside since last winter, when the weather was so cold in Minnesota that he went on strike – refusing to poop outside.

It was very distressing for both of us.

dogs / Lowertown

My Homeless Neighbors

April 9, 2015

It finally happened – spring arrived in Minnesota!

February is a hard month. Like a Siberian prisoner, I accept my frozen circumstances and stop hoping for spring.

Then March comes, the temperature rebounds, and I’m shocked like this doesn’t happen every year.

So the snow completely melted, revealing five months of filth, trash, small dead animals, and dog crap. Yes, dog crap – there’s a subset of dog owners who don’t pick up dog shit when there’s snow on the ground. I don’t get it.

dogs / Lowertown

Frisbees and Fires

April 5, 2015

Gunter the Chiweenie and his Easter costume.

It’s around 7:30 a.m. when I walk into the Dunn Brothers Coffee shop near the Excel Center. There are three baristas behind the counter, and two cops inside.

Me: “Hi. I’m going to come back for coffee in a second, but first can I have three large cups of water? There’s a fire at McGovern’s.”

The baristas look at me like I’m crazy. (The cops too.) So I try again.

Me: “You know McGovern’s? The bar across the street? Well I was walking past it with my dogs and I noticed the planter smoking. I think someone tried to put a cigarette out in the dirt last night. I don’t want to come back around later and see the building gone…”

One of the baristas carries the water out with me. The planter is full of charred, smoking dirt, which we douse.

dogs / pictures / the details

The Reluctant Walker

September 24, 2014

I have to coax Gunter out of bed in the mornings.

It’s exhausting. He wouldn’t be so reluctant to go outside if I still put him in a kennel – then shitting in the closet wouldn’t be an option.

Gunter is a Chihuahua Dachshund mix that is extremely lazy.

dogs / Lowertown Apartment / MJD / pictures

Günter’s New Sweater

September 6, 2014

I’m officially that guy who buys sweaters for his Chihuahua.

I used to think “those dog owners” were obnoxious, but clothing is actually a necessity for some dogs.

Günter starts shivering anytime it gets under 65 degrees, so the sweaters help.

Gunter is a two year old Chiweenie (half chihuahua, half dachshund).

This particular sweater is from Walmart.

I got it for $4 on sale.

Gunter is a two year old Chiweenie (half chihuahua, half dachshund).

There’s a myth that good dog clothes have to be expensive.

While certain boutiques in St. Paul charge exorbitant prices, most major retailers like Target and Walmart have decent dog clothes for under $15.

I’m also not one of “those dog owners” who splurges on dog clothing. Who does that?

Gunter is a two year old Chiweenie (half chihuahua, half dachshund).

2013 Winter / dogs / Life / Lowertown Apartment / Thomson Reuters

Life after nine years of blogging

December 3, 2013

This blog is about to have its nine year anniversary, so I figured I should dust it off and say hello.

I started blogging as a middle school student on Diaryland and Livejournal. I moved to WordPress sometime during college and never looked back.

This blog has gone through several iterations over the years.

I wrote longer posts during my freshman year that eventually tapered off into picture posts with vague captions. My junior and senior year were all about applying to grad school, then law school.

My blog really took off during law school and received a couple thousand hits a day. As with many law school blogs, things slowed down significantly after I started working in the real world.

Part of the silence around here is laziness. There’s also some paranoia from the lack of anonymity that my social networks afford.

Maybe I’m just too old to gush about my date-of-the-moment or lack thereof online.

That seemed okay during college, but it feels a little sad now that everyone’s getting married…