That Y chromosome can be a heavy cross to bear. Some do it with more grace than others.
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Especially since women tried to turn all men into Dylan Mulvaney.
We just built a new fence for our dog 
I like it because you canāt see
It and I can still enjoy the forest 
greenscape.
We used 20 4x4 posts and 5 ft no climb horse wire and ran a cable wire right along the bottom.
Not that he has ever gone anywhere but a neighbor saw a bear the other day 
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He still does not look happy.
What kind of place do you have it looks like a rural area. Are you up in the mountains or out in a forested area?
Itās a forested neighborhood in a Pleasantville type suburb.
It is actually a suburb? Must be pretty nice, looked like it was out in the country with plenty acres and maybe a Brook. How did you find it?
As long as you are happy.
This other Marine officer told us about it and my husband got command of a jump wing at JBLM in Tacoma. I found the house on the internet and bought it from CENTCOM (Florida) and left a two hour inspection contingency and took a chance.
I flew out and got rear ended and totaled by a teenage girl on her phone. It was a huge mess but here we are renovating it, after renting it six years using only FaceTime 
whew
Every tenant paid on time and nobody broke a single thing which renewed my faith in humanity and America 
ā¦all through COVID, we could have been hung out to dry.
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You have owned the house for SIX years? I am a little confused, your husband got command of a jump wing in the area, so you moved into the house then transferred to Europe so you rented it out for five years? Is that right?
If so you are one lucky gal, especially being an absentee landlord. Did you read what happened to @willowleaf? A freaking nightmare,
Thatās right, we lived there 24 months and then went to War College and then Africa Command.
What happened to Willowleaf?!
I screened people rather harshly since I couldnāt risk needing to travel home and getting stuck outside the EU. If you only choose excellent credit scores, itās like wearing a PFD.
It is very fortunate you exercised good due diligence and discipline aware of what the consequences would be if you didnāt. Is this the reason you took control of this and not your husband?
@willowleaf from what I could gather from her posts found a new house with a much better drive, storage and work space and being enterprising bought it and rented out her old house. Rented to what appears to be two Yuppies during Covid and with the Federal mandate that tenants could not be evicted during Covid, they just refused and didnāt pay rent even though they were fairly liquid. There was absolutely nothing she could do and from what it seems this went on for a very long timeā¦ I would have went to jail.
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Yes, I handle it because I know how to say no to some very good people if they havenāt managed their finances. The best predictor of the future is the past, often.
Because I also said no to the COVID vaccine, I couldnāt afford to risk having to fly home to handle
any problem tenants.
This is the second time you have referred to this, once with the sale of a vehicle. Are you saying your husband is a push over?
There is no way I would try and manage a property from Europe. I would have sold it but you and your husband must really love that property and now you are doing a major renovation with Madovan Contractors.(?) See, everything works out in the end.
In his private life, yea. One canāt be bad ass all the time I suppose. Itās an attractive combination but not suited to being an absentee Laissez-faire landlord.
Iām a very objective and accurate judge of people and sometimes it isnāt pretty.
To bring it back to dogs, I train the dog, he UN-trains the dog.
When our last dog died, he told me the only thing he regretted was not letting the dog do anything he wanted everyday of his life. The dog was a fatty. A sweet fatty but a fatty.
AT ALL to say the least. Seems like you all make a good pair.
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That last picture is not your dog. i have never seen a more unhappy animal in my life.
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But there was another dog in the SUV with your beautiful husky type dog that was not fatty.
āI am a very objective and accurate judge of people and sometimes it isnāt pretty.ā
This from the woman who met her husband on a ship buoy.
Koa was a fatty and died of cancer at ten.
My other Aussies have lived to 15.
My husband fed him too much (corn, soy) so I am not allowing that with this new dog (Luka)
I am making this one eat low carb. I buy the cheapest hamburger meat and cook it for him with a small scoop of no grain kibble.
I notice he is always hungry but too bad, welcome to the club.