Today my parents had to put our family dog to sleep 
it sucks, because I still have Corona and canāt drive to them, so Iām sitting here being all sad and alone 
She was around 14 years old, we got her as a puppy. She had a huge tumour in her tummy. In January the vet said she has some weeks left, but now it was more than half a year 
RIP Cielo!
oh man, thatās awful. hope youāre okay.
Oh no my heart goes out to you Mini. RIP Cielo
Sounds like she was a real trooper though. Surviving way longer than the docs said so.
So my dadās got covid.
Poor guy. Heās got a scary powerful cough and covid makes it sound way worse right now.
He is quadruple vaxxed though so he should be okay. Fingers crossed.
Since Iām the only one not working right now, Iāve got to take care of him for this week while everyone is out.
Hope I donāt get it. (Though I did ā we all did ā interact with him a lot yesterday face-to-face sooo)
Iāve been close a few times now, with my roommate in April and my Sister last month, didnāt get it. Fingers crossed I still donāt get it now.
(And sidenote: Iām glad I did my whole PS4 drive swap yesterday and got it all over with, since heās taken over the basement now to isolate, rendering the console inaccessible to me for the next 5 days. 
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Thank you @Screaming_Meat It kinda sucks that I stuck here at home and canāt visit my parents, but itās okay. We kinda new this would happen someday, we were aware of it. Still hurts, I was 20 when we got her 
@TheChicken Yes, she was tough! She was small, but she was a warrior my parents had another dog who passed away three years ago, he was older and much taller than her but she was the leader 
I hope your father will be okay and that you will not get it, too! 
Did my first ever visit to London yesterday.
Accidentally ordered nonrefundable tickets before understanding the extreme heat on Monday-Tuesday.
And in the morning after ordering tickets somehow injured my right leg toe and couldnāt walk properly.
Because of this the first visit turned out a bit blurry (if I can use this word here).
We just decided to walk down the river from Buckingham Palace and walked alongside it to Tower Bridge, crossed it and went back to the coach station.
Not very exciting visit, but when I recover weāll definitely go there again (and not once hehe) when it will be not so hot there too.
Despite of those 2 things I still enjoyed the city.
Was nice to touch a bit of history 
Both me and my partner have COVID and have been isolating for the last several days.
Iāll let you know if it gets worse, but it seems to be getting better.
Wisdom tooth removal next Tuesday. Epic timing, maybe Iāll eat ice cream and painkillers while playing Ambrose if Iām even in a mood for that. Good thing itās a rather healthy tooth and I also donāt have to pay shit because Iām a student and we have a mandatory health care fee that covers everything.
A family of bird took my (small) balcony for residence at the start of the month.
They made a nest, a couple of eggs, and two baby birds were born a week ago.
It was quite lovely, I regularly had two or three adults looking after the nest and resting nearby, while the new born grew.
Yesterday, the entire nest died in the heatwave. Itās nature, but now Iām still a bit sad.
Iāve got a trio of grackles that nest in one of my palm trees near my pool. They are evil bastards who dive bomb anyone that gets close because theyāre very territorial. If they donāt scare you away with the diving, they sit in a nearby tree and Cackle and Scream the entire time youāre in the pool.
awesome picture for an awesome game.
in other news: iām no longer covided.
Ferocious, badass meme, son! 
That reminds me of the nest that was near my momās house a few weeks ago. It was built in the worldās worst place (a giant opening in a bush like two feet off the ground) and the mother made some of it out of plastic but it was thriving and my mom liked liking at it. She loves watching wild animals just do their things but doesnāt like being reminded of the grim reality, preferring instead for everything to seem like a Disney fairytale. It got washed away in a downpour. I like nature too but I was sad for her.
It also reminds me of a morbidly hilarious reminder of the crushing reality of nature from a few months before that. My mom, dad, brother, sister, and I were out to lunch. A couple of small birds were ātwitterpatingā (as my mom calls it) across the street when all of a sudden a hawk or falcon comes swooping down at like 100mph on top of one of the birds and snatches it away in the blink of eye in front of us while a bunch of other birds from the nearby trees who we think were looking out for something like that and had been trying to warn them (and its former partner) go chasing after it. It was all too much for us process.
Just found a fucking rhinoceros beetle in my back yard. I live in Texas; I didnāt know we even had this species here; how the hell did it get there?
Looks like a Coconut Rhino Beetle, invasive in the US. I say kill it and possibly tell a relevant authority. It most likely came in a shipping container like most Asian bugs in the US do.
Also there are endemic scarabs in Texas. This obviously isnāt one of them of course.
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Uh, I kinda let it go, because I figured theyāre probably rare and important if you donāt see them often around here. Oops. Well, at least he might get gulped by the toad that lives in my yard.
Well luckily they are only truly devastating to palm trees.
In my country it is often advised that if you see a species you arenāt sure is invasive then you should capture it and photograph it to show somebody.
