That post from a few weeks ago about how different American lines look from European made me wonder if you have a favorite line? I also noticed that euro lines tend to have a more snipey(?)look and be a bit smaller, is that correct for the breed? I’m in Europe so I would be getting a euro line but I’m not really a fan of how snipey some shelties look, and tbh would prefer to be a bit on the bigger end of the size spectrum. Finally, what are your favorite examples of the breed(besides your own)/ ideal sheltie look in terms of confo? Thank you :)
Well, US and UK shelties are bred to different standards. The British type asks for a much finer dog overall, while the American looks for quite literally a (modern) collie in miniature. A strong AKC head would be considered faulty in KC and vice versa.
Here's where I answered slightly more in-depth about the standard differences. Here is also a nifty powerpoint on the faults and virtues of the FCI/UK head. Here is also a short one on coat/grooming because it popped up.
You'll hear US line shelties going a little larger on average (the type they're going for is easier to achieve in a larger format) vs British type shelties, but in reality, sheltie sizes are persistently utterly chaotic and you have to look at the growth rate of each individual puppy to have an idea. Sparty has a litter sibling the size of a small house, and that is not uncommon.
I'm partial to a good, moderate, substantial British-type sheltie, but I can also appreciate similarly moderate Americans. If you prefer the AKC type, you'll have no particular problem finding at least a high-percentage line cross in Europe.
There are some pictures of shelties I like here, here, and here - and don't worry - neither of those posts has any of my dogs in them, because I have eyes that I can see with :) I think this dog (huisin's journey to glory) might be missing from those posts though - and he's a 50/50 UK/US dog.
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Ani Reviews: A Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard
I promised you guys a review and here it is. I've never really done a book review before but I'm doing my best to make this Coherent and Helpful.
[Photo ID: a book, titled A Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard by Ginny Stibolt and Marjorie Shropshire.]
Out of all the books I checked out from the library this round, I started with this one because it was the shortest out of all of them--if we don't count the appendix and index, its 101 pages long. You can read where I sort of live blogged a portion of this read here.
I think its a pretty good read! It's definitely a lot more relevant if you are the home owner and most directly in charge of landscaping decisions and such. It gives a bit of advice on how to handle making similar changes in an HOA neighborhood, and provides pointers and resources to other books that can also be helpful in the journey to make your landscape a wildlife-friendly habitat. It focuses on Florida specifically, as denoted by the title, and will frequently remind the reader that gardening in Florida is vastly different from gardening anywhere else. So whether you've been a Florida resident all your life, or are planning on making a move on down here, this book can be a helpful resource if you want to transform some or even all of your yard into a habitat.
After the introduction, the book is separated into seven major sections referred to as Steps. There's Assess Your Property, Plan for Drainage and Stormwater Sequestration, Install Trees, Plant Shrubs, Working with Herbaceous Plants, Build a Wild or Natural Area, and Create Spaces for Human Use. If you're more interested in one part than the others, you can definitely skip around to find what you're looking for. I will say, the Drainage and Stormwater section made my head spin a bit.
I will say this: I don't know if the writers ever fully decided if they wanted this book to be targeted towards those who are already gung-ho about native plants and itching to transform their landscape, or to people who are just beginning to dip their toe into the idea. Overall though, it was a nice and informative read, and the illustrations inside are lovely.
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Okay finally rested enough to talk ab the craft show!
So for YEARS this one has been heaaavily coveted by many crafters and has been hard to get in, but always told that it's worth it. That you'll make your table cost back in like two hours!
Yeah no... had mom not made wreaths, we would have lost money... Anyway super super dead at times like absolutely no one walking around, just the vendors getting up and shopping bc they could. Then it would pick up but you would get maybe 2 interested shoppers out of every 10. 4 if you were lucky.
People adored the boo boo bunnies and cat toys and I sold the most of them. So now I have to make more cat toys 😭. It's not the amount of effort it takes to make them, I love making them. I hate stuffing them with catnip 😭😭😭 but that's why people (and cats) love them. Also need to put bells on them bc people really like the ones with bells, which I stopped doing bc several people kept asking if I thought their cats would eat the bells... like you can cut it off man idc sgdggdgd once you buy it it's yours idc if YOU eat it if that's your thing just give me my dollar
Have to make a card for the bunnies bc it's hit or miss on if people know what they're for (you pop em in the freezer and hold them to a small "boo boo" and use it like a little ice pack, or you can pop out the reusable cube and use ice. Either way it's a cute little ice pack.
Only my one cousin bought any handwarmers 😭 and her wife had to pay me in $4 worth of quarters sgsgdggddg I was like take your time you could pay me in pennies and that'd be fine too (had a little kid pay me 25 cents for a slap bracelet in various coins and it was so sweet 🥺)
My mom posts our shows on her fb so that family and friends can show up to support us, and the first time since we've been doing these, we had 3 groups of family come in!
But that wasn't always a good thing...
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My mom's cousin brought her daughter and granddaughter, and they talked for awhile and eventually mom's cousin bought a wreath (thank god). And she was like "oh my god this is so beautiful!! 😍" and complimented my stuff as well (but my stuff is more geared towards kids/parents like the boo boo bunnies, so she didnt buy anything from me agdgdgdg)
Then my cousin (not the handwarmers one) came and I used to really love her/she was my favorite cousin... until she moved back to the state and I realized goddamn you're super annoying and have 0 social awareness (in a THE ATTENTION SHOULD BE ON ME! and a never really thinking ab the situations she puts people in when she does shit, way. Not a "I am incapable of grasping social norms/social rituals"/"I cannot control how loud I'm being/why what I say might be considered rude" way.
Anyway she fosters dogs and has 4? Of her own, anyway she always has at least one dog with her at any time. Doesn't matter if you were attacked by one when you were a small child, or that you only have cats, it's a small dog! You're gonna like this one!!
She takes them into the grocery store too 😑. Anyway she brought her foster dog to it and ofc everyone kept coming over to see it and every fucking time she would canvas this dog like "his name is Bob. He goes up for adoption in two weeks at [shelter she volunteers at]" to every goddamn person who walked by.
"But Mar, doesn't that mean she brought customers to you?"
Nope! She and her dog blocked customers from my table bc they couldnt fucking get in with the people cooing at the dog and figured eh I'll skip this one, there's 100 vendors here.
Doesn't mean that every person who skipped would've bought from me, but none of the people who came up for the dog bought anything or so much as looked twice at my shit anyway. 😑
She did tell our cousin to meet her there though bc our cousin's wife is a photographer and she was gonna take pics of the dog at a nearby park. Didn't mention AT ALL that we had a booth, so they didnt really bring a lot of money, they thought they were just gonna say hi to us real quick then go.
My cousin's wife was like YOU DIDNT TELL US THEY HAD A BOOTH HERE?!?! OMG LOOK HOW CUTE!!!!! and they bought 2 handwarmers from us 🥰. And we gave their son some stuff for free as a gift (plus bc they ended up staying for like 2 hours and that shit is only so fun for a 7 year old for so long. But it was more so just Handwarmer Cousin staying to talk to my mom for most of it while her wife, son, and Dog Cousin went shopping/canvased Bob around. But I like HW cousin still so it wasnt bad sgdggdgd I just half listened to them talk while I took care of customers. Sold 1 ornament (the whole show), some cat toys, and I think another bunny, in that time lmao)
But the whole time Dog Cousin was there I was like 😐/🙁 instead of my fake customer service smile bc that smile only lasted until the second person she canvassed Bob to and that was approximately 30 seconds.
She didnt even consider buying anything, or say anything ab our table. Only when my mom asked her if our prices were reasonable. To which we got a "yeah." Then immediately back to Bob. 😐
After they left I went to walk around and goddamn there was nothing really good there except two crochet tables which had little plushies but nothing that jumped out at me.
Did trade a tooth pillow for a small tombstone shaped bar of soap of about the same price with another vendor sggdgdgdgd which was odd but nice
Anyway here's hoping my cousin wont come to the next/last show and that we find fun stuff at that one to buy sgdgdgdg
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okay um… ik it has been a while since i said i would introduce Him but im doing it rn ok.
this is eustace! we’ve had him for about a week & a half now & hes doing very well! winni loves him, cletus thinks hes pretty alright most of the time & beau… tolerates him. adding him has gone very smoothly thanks to the two weeks he was with us in november/december.
for anyone that wasn’t following along… my friend purchased him from a pet store in june, kept him in his crate 23 hours a day, & never worked with him. because of this he would pee in the house/crate & wasy very hyperactive. the only human contact he got was them “correcting” him; he never got any love.
in november i asked to take him to do a “board & train” type thing as she had texted me saying eustace had chewed through his crate & was chewing the carpet & her bf threatened to shoot him. afterward he was better, but they didn’t continue doing (the very basic) things i did with him at my house, so he regressed. he started biting “for no reason”.
end of december she told me she was getting rid of him & asked us to take him. we eventually agreed. when i was talking to her about everything before we took him she told me she “fucking hated him” & whenever she talked about how she tried to make it work, she would always say that she had spent $3000 on him. basically only talking about how it affected her, & not anything about the feelings of the dog.
anyways. we have him now & hes getting more love than he knew was possible. there is literally nothing wrong with him except that he is a puppy. he literally just needs basic training. he is behind for his age but that is all her fault lol. his main problem is that he has no idea how to relax outside of his crate, but he is getting better. he is extremely sweet & when he stays in one place long enough he is quite the cuddle bug. you would never think he had ever bit anyone, much less hard enough to gush blood.
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GEN Z ON THE TRACK! 001
pairing: f1 grid x antonelli!reader, ollie bearman x reader
summary: the newest addition to the f1 track... is gen z through and through
extra information: kimi antonelli is your younger brother, you're reserve for mercedes, george broke his arm so you're stepping in. you and ollie have rivalry. (you can imagine u raced for any f2 team)
fc: no one
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guess whos on the track for the rest of the season 🥳
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lilyzneimer my favourite driver!
➥ ynantonelli my favourite mclaren person!
➥ oscarpiastri excuse me??
➥ landonorris i thought we had something yn 😞
kimiantonelli thank god shes gone from here
➥ ynantonelli 🙄
paularon cant wait for the peace
olliebearman (we're cheering cos youre gone)
➥ ynantonelli fuck you too
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➥ ynmywife NOT THE PR TEAM COMING FOR YNS ASS
mercedesamg so excited!
lewishamilton 😎
➥ ynantonelli cant wait to over take you!
logansargeant pls spare me
➥ ynantonelli no one is safe ❤️
yukitsunoda yipee
➥ ynantonelli yipee!
charlesleclerc dont run me over
➥ ynantonelli no promises you fraternize with dogs
➥ olliebearman YN IM NOT A DOG
➥ ynantonelli your words not mine
➥ ynantonelli i was talking about leo
alexalbon YAYY
➥ alexalbon this is lily i lost my phone
➥ ynantonelli LILY!
➥ ynantonelli leave alex.
➥ alexalbon yn its me again wtf?
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YN Antonelli retires from the rest of the F2 season to race for Mercedes-Amg in Formula 1. Antonelli is stepping in for George Russell who broke his arm for reasons we still do not know. We wish YN the best of luck in Formula 1.
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ynloml wishing luck to the drivers instead
➥ ynmywife FR
user09 who was she on top of in the first picture?
➥ user59 nah man yn was holding kimi up
➥ user42 yeah shes crazy strong
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yn antonelli seen with a man before her home race in Italy.
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kimiantonelli ok what
➥ user09 even kimi didnt know 😭
ynloml NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ynsno1fan this feels like an invasion of privacy
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she took these if u care
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ynantonelli no one cares
➥ olliebearman no one asked
ynantonelli ew
➥ olliebearman says u
ynantonelli jumpscare
➥ olliebearman dont u have a boyfriend
➥ ynantonelli cant believe u have a girlfriend
charlesleclerc i have a daughter in law??
➥ oscarpiastri i have a sister in law??
alexanderasaintmleux tell her to come over
➥ kimiantonelli YOU KNOW WHO THIS IS
➥ landonorris pls tell us
paularon cutie
➥ ynantonelli oh!
➥ paularon so its ok when u do it to ur friends but not when i do it
➥ ynantonelli yeah?
➥ paularon flipping sexism
user09 YN AND OLLIE GONE?!
➥ user48 my ship broke and sank like the titanic
➥ ollieyn what if theyre dating each other
➥ danielricciardo nice try they hate each other
➥ user59 DANIEL?????
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live from the Imola GP, YN Antonelli's radio
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lando we can be world champion i said
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maxverstappen can u delete the middle picture pls and thank you
➥ ynantonelli nope ❤️
charlesleclerc the caption 😕
➥ ynantonelli i told u no ones safe
kimiantonelli im telling mama u drank champagne
➥ ynantonelli im telling her about you then
➥ ynantonelli and your actually underage
olliebearman congratulations i guess
➥ ynantonelli thanks i guess
➥ oscarpiastri wtf just happened
➥ paularon ^
➥ kushmaini ^
➥ arthurleclerc ^
➥ kimiantonelli ^
➥ landonorris you guys are gonna ruin their one civil moment
lewishamilton good job 😎
➥ ynantonelli thanks lewis !
maxverstappen cannot believe u beat me
➥ ynantonelli girl are just better !
➥ landonorris real!
➥ maxverstappen lando you're not a girl
alexanderasaintmleux YAY
➥ ynantonelli ILY
kellypiquet so proud of u bby
➥ ynantonelli 🥹🫶
lilymhe cant believe how far you've come !
➥ ynantonelli STOP ILYSM
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when the plans make it out of the grid (i didnt invite ollie)
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user09 i wonder what a grid hangout looks like
➥ ynantonelli it has: kimi almost falling off the boat, alex almost falling off the cart, arthur getting pushed into the sea, logan thinking he got stung by a jellyfish, lewis teaching toto how to ride a bike, ollie being scared of horses, oscar and lily being in their own world, and paul being too busy taking photos to order his food
paularon bro posted the worst photo of me
➥ ynantonelli news flash: you look like that all the time
lilyzneimer YOU'RE SO GOOD AT TAKING PHOTOS
➥ ynantonelli ur so photogenic its super easy 😍
ynantonelli guys charlesleclerc and alexanderasaintmleux came too
➥ ynantonelli they just had to leave early cos leo didn't like paul
➥ paularon pretty sure he didnt like ollie
➥ olliebearman nah bro pets love me especially cats its prolly kimi
lilymhe STOP SO THATS WHY U LEFT EARLY
➥ ynantonelli idk what ur on abt
kimiantonelli cant believe both u n ollie left early to go to ur bf/gf
➥ kimiantonelli wait
kimiantonelli YN ANSWER MY CALLS
➥ ynantonelli no ❤️
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YN Antonelli wins Singapore GP ahead one lap of everyone else. She kept the lead since lap 7 of a 62 lap race. After her win, she jumped out of her car and jumped into F2 driver Oliver Bearman's arms. The two were believed to have shared a rivalry on the track during YN's F2 days, but perhaps that rivalry was all fake.
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kimiantonelli nah bro she dead
user09 THATS ACTUALLY CRAZY
user82 i need time to process this
ynmywife so the rivalry wasnt real 😭
paularon ok what
ollieyn YES
user54 the one race kimi's not in the garage 😭
totowolff what
➥ user58 bro calling the pr team asap
landonorris what did i tell you
user28 I TOLD YOU ALL
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user58 ok but she looks so happy
➥ user32 fr
user11 the way ollie twists her to hide her from the cameras
user41 height difference i need 😣
user53 theyre so hot
user92 wait so whos the wag
➥ user42 deffo ollie
user43 kimi prolly fuming
➥ user98 what is he gonna do hes like 5'6 😭
user48 they havent said anything yet the interviews are in a bit
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loverboy ❤️
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lovergirl ❤️
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kimiantonelli im gonna run u off the track
➥ premaracing no u wont
paularon kimi's gonna kill you
user09 THE FIRST PICTURE IM FOLDING
oscarpiastri who taught u how to take such good pictures
➥ olliebearman yn 😭
charlesleclerc MY DAUGHTER IN LAW
➥ alexanderasaintmleux nuh uh shes my daughter only
alexalbon crazy u didnt even tell me
logansargeant this is a wild revelation
kushmaini im scared for u dude
premaracing our favourite driver and wag
➥ olliebearman ynantonelli they called u a wag u gonna take that
➥ ynantonelli pretty sure they called u a wag
➥ premaracing ^
lilymhe YOU GUYS ARE SO CUTEEE
lilyzneimer oscarpiastri learn how to take pictures like that pls
➥ oscarpiastri ok 😞
ynantonelli ollie baby u were meant to turn the comments off 😭
➥ olliebearman oops
ynantonelli i love you
➥ olliebearman i love you too
a/n OSCAR WON YIPEEE i lowkey feel bad for oscar tho like the way lando ignore him on the podium, mclarens lowkey messed up for this
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