Ty guys! No time to type more but ty
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I’m also a wait-and-see-er.
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Spoiled, sharing similar sensitive story
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Our dogs have killed/eaten (until we get them to drop it) a large number of field mice and the occasional rabbit over the years. I’ll admit that it never even occurred to me to worry about it. So for me, if no symptoms come up, I wouldn’t worry too much, but you can always call your vet to see if there is something in your area that might be worth treating ahead of time.
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I know this answer will vary widely, but how much do you spend on mobile games?
For ages I never spent a cent, and now I spend some, but there are in game packs that cost like $25 or even $99 for a single purchase. I’m just wondering what other people think is reasonable for a monthly game budget.
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Ty all! Yes, my initial reaction was definitely wait and see. But I also fall prey to “farm girl, nurse, daughter of nurse, treat anything myself until it needs emergency care I can’t provide”. With the toddler around I’m trying to be a little better about that 
lol. Get into the habit of seeking advice and all. (I don’t know if I’ve ever called my pediatrician for advice come to think of it lol). Just wanted to be sure I wasn’t being grossly negligent or anything. 
Gross but funny?
esp since the dog mouth kisses the baby so often 
I prevented that last night post Incident, but still. They’re um… very affectionate with each other. Latte thinks it’s hilarious.
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About the gross
All the rabbit should have worn off the dog with drinking water, etc by now. Your baby is going to have a great immune system. You don’t need daycare to get exposure when you have a dog!
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And I have a random dog question - how do you gauge how much exertion is too much for puppies? I think we pushed it yesterday - didn’t realize it was over 5 miles round trip with much elevation change, and Pickle hurled (cookie, not wildlife) shortly before we made it back. It wasn’t heat because the weather is super weird this spring. Is there a good rule of thumb? We don’t have many options to bail out of a hike before we get back to the truck around here.
At least there are no sore feet.
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That’s always been my figuring. She’s also a prolific sampler of the various objects nature has to offer. If there are pinecone and gravel specific bacteria, she will be well exposed 
it’s also been fantastic botany practice for me- I’m very good at speed IDing plants now, and have had a breakneck refresher course about natives and common invasive species.
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Puppy joints are probably a concern before exertional boundaries I think? Especially in large breeds, I’ve always read you need to be pretty careful about high intensity play, jumps, and long distances until all their lil bones fuse up.
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I’ve kept it to zero just because if I spend $1 then why not $2? Why not $5? Why not $10? Etc. And then it adds up before I realize it, so I just made a boundary for myself of zero.
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Yeah…it really does add up. I would prefer to not add up the last 4 years… Even though, it’s probably $5-15 a month.
We don’t spend any on mobile games, really. My husband does google surveys and will sometimes use that money to buy a mobile game, but we don’t do any IN GAME spending. I think that’s a big difference. Pay to play models can really suck you in. Buying a game as though it were an old school console game you intend to play through is a different scenario re: slippery slope I think.
So: No “gems etc”, yes to “you spent money making this and I’d rather pay to purchase it then be advertised to endlessly”.
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My wife spends a fair amount but it’s part of her fun $ budget.
I just got into a game that I’ll probably sink some money into every month as well, but again it’s part of my “fun money”.
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I wonder if we have large breed concerns with these guys - they are 5.5 months and are now 35 pounds. Our vet says they may get to 50 but likely not much more. To me with my likely skewed perspective, that’s a medium dog at most.
But I do think we have been told to keep things a little less for a while for these guys - think we’ll shoot for shorter distance or less elevation for another month or so (and then we’ll likely have to keep it reduced because of heat).
Speaking of immunity, though, both dogs learned how to drink out of our water bottles yesterday! 
[Edit - we did have a collapsible bowl for them, but they decided bottles are better when they saw us using them.]
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Mr Darling has bought a few $25 and even I think one $95 pack in a game that he plays a lot. My personal boundary is $0 ever, but I think his is: is this a one time purchase with a one time bonus/guaranteed rare thing/event specific thing. Paying $0.99 for extra lives over and over is where they get you I think.
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Does anyone know if the AMEX Blue preferred card considers Wholefoods as an Amazon purchase? The sign on bonus I got has a 20% cashback for Amazon purchases (up to $200 cash back) and I’m just wondering if I can order Wholefoods through Prime Now and if that will count.
I used to be really into Forge of Empires and I did spend more than I would have liked on the game a few months in a row. Like $50!!! and then I had to really stop myself from doing it. It was just so easy my CC number was saved in google pay and I could just click a button and order more diamonds…
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the shadowy one got trading cards from the fake game they are following closely, and then there is another set that we will probably get? (Blaseball is like baseball only with random number generators to create the games, and players can get put in a vault or turned into peanuts and you can vote to protect certain players each week or steal from other teams, and sometimes the sun goes supernova and if a team gets more than 10 runs than it cycles back to 0?)
So that is like $100 on games (between that and clicky dragons) over the year for our household.
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Opinions welcome!
I am replacing my awful concrete sidewalks/stairs in a couple of weeks. I’m also removing the brown wooden deck and continuing the new concrete to make a new patio, extending it out to the right side of the house to make it wider and more usable. The goal is to build a screened porch over what will start out as a patio for now, but it will be a while before I can afford that. Hopefully sooner than later, but probably at least a couple of years depending on my sales at work.
The question is: what do I do with the patio portion of the concrete? Leave it plain concrete and buy a cute rug? Stain it? Stamp it? Plain will be a bit boring maybe, but I’m just not sure about staining or stamping. Also… I’m a bit boring lol. I won’t ever do tile or anything. The sidewalks and new patio will be at the same height, not different like what’s there now, and I’m not sure about different things being right next to each other. I want it to look decent as a patio as well as a screened porch later on.
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I’d probably just do rug and patio furniture. Then you can change the look down the road. I think stamped concrete will look dated quickly.
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