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taxes and dogs
Sunday, February 7th, 2010 01:00 pmI've started filling out my tax forms. There's one part that always gets me... First of all, the instructions for line 10 say that you must either use the worksheet for calculating the value, *or* when certain conditions apply you must read some other publication to figure out the amount. So I spend some time deciphering the confusing conditions to determine that I need to do the worksheet. But then the worksheet makes me refer to Schedule A, so I start filling out Schedule A. Then Schedule A says to put down the value from line 38, and I think "wtf?? I'm still on line 10, I haven't gotten to line 38 yet!" Then I eventually realize that the worksheet was referring to the Schedule A values from last year's form.
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I've got some videos to post. When life hands you a dog, make cute dog videos. Right?
It's hard to do yard work when Zorro is in the yard. She goes crazy when I start raking or sweeping. The first time I raked on the outside of the fence while she was in the yard, she starting screeching and barking from the other side of the fence, in a frenzy to get at the rake. She sounded like someone was beating her. Just now I was trying to sweep the walkway, and she did it again. She was wagging her tail though, so she must think it is some kind of game, or that the broom/rake is some kind of animal.
Last week one evening when Q and I got back from eating out, instead of one dog in the yard, there were two! My neighbor's little chihuahua-bulldog-mix puppy had gotten through a gap under the fence between our yards. That puppy must be about the same age as Zorro, and they've been playing a while, running back and forth on other sides of the dividing fence. But that evening, we couldn't tell if they were playing or fighting. It seemed quite rough, and Zorro seemed worn out. We were able to separate them until the neighbor came to retrieve their dog, and I put some bricks down to block the gap in the fence. I had been worried that the other dog might be male... Zorro's at an age now, about 5 months, where it might be possible for her to go into heat and get pregnant, but the vet wanted to wait until she was 6 months to spay her. I was relieved when the neighbor said the other dog was female too.
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I've got some videos to post. When life hands you a dog, make cute dog videos. Right?
It's hard to do yard work when Zorro is in the yard. She goes crazy when I start raking or sweeping. The first time I raked on the outside of the fence while she was in the yard, she starting screeching and barking from the other side of the fence, in a frenzy to get at the rake. She sounded like someone was beating her. Just now I was trying to sweep the walkway, and she did it again. She was wagging her tail though, so she must think it is some kind of game, or that the broom/rake is some kind of animal.
Last week one evening when Q and I got back from eating out, instead of one dog in the yard, there were two! My neighbor's little chihuahua-bulldog-mix puppy had gotten through a gap under the fence between our yards. That puppy must be about the same age as Zorro, and they've been playing a while, running back and forth on other sides of the dividing fence. But that evening, we couldn't tell if they were playing or fighting. It seemed quite rough, and Zorro seemed worn out. We were able to separate them until the neighbor came to retrieve their dog, and I put some bricks down to block the gap in the fence. I had been worried that the other dog might be male... Zorro's at an age now, about 5 months, where it might be possible for her to go into heat and get pregnant, but the vet wanted to wait until she was 6 months to spay her. I was relieved when the neighbor said the other dog was female too.
