Even though there’s lots of space to walk around, when you’re moving, your dog should be attached to a dog-safe seat belt or ride in a secured crate. If you have to make a sudden stop, they’ll be protected. Protect them against sunburn. Dogs, especially those with short hair, white fur, and pink skin, can get sunburned. Limit your dog’s sun exposure during the day and apply sunscreen to their ears, nose, and coat before going outside.

In ancient Egypt, the Nile River flooded each year, usually beginning in late June. The people welcomed this event, called the Inundation, because the floodwaters brought rich soil needed to grow crops in what was otherwise adesert. Like the portrayals of girls in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, Abreu offers brave and unvarnished renderings of complicated female friendships, painful sexual awakenings (with an LGBTQ twist), and gritty dialects, but she is in a category by herself. Her prose is bold and direct, and her characterization of two similar but different girls on the cusp of adolescence is as vivid as anything being written today.” Panza de burro» o «Mar de nubes» dependiendo donde esté ubicado quien observe, se le dice en las Islas Canarias a una masa nubosa que se forma en verano y actúa como una suerte de pantalla solar. Given that Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, it’s not hard to find. Learn how to find the Dog Star in the night sky here. Sirius, the Dog Star, is the brightest star in the sky. The Dog Star in AncientEgyptThere were two kinds of houses in our neighborhood, and they were all jumbled together. Some were old, like Doña Carmen’s and my nana’s. Those ones were stone and had small inner patios with bedrooms laid around them. Patios with roofs made of wriggly tin that my nana called wiggly tin and that people had started saying gave you cancer. A patio that let in a light so bright, a light stored for so many thousands of years, that it set all the canaries aflutter in their cages and had them singing out of control— peepeepeepeepeepee—from the first glow of day until nightfall. And the ferns and the bougainvillea that crept through the gap between the front door and the wiggly tin roof were out of control too. When the light hit them, the plants shot up so fast it was like they were walking up the walls, like they were dancing on the walls. Like the tide. A force of nature. It drags you. It submerges you. And, all of a sudden, it leaves you stranded on a rich and prophetic insular world of women and low, grey, clouds that merge with the sea. It is pure poetry. A book that carries you and makes you feel a place As the summer goes on and the heat becomes ever more oppressive, friendship simmers into obsession, desire into intimate violence. No one in Egypt knew exactly when the flooding would start, but they noticed a coincidence that gave them a clue: The water began to rise on the days when Sirius (known to them as Sothis) began to rise before the Sun. Sothis and the Inundation became so important to the Egyptians’ survival that they began their new year with the new Moon that followed the star’s first appearance on the easternhorizon.

Bring along fresh water and a bowl, and a tarp or tent, so you can set up a shady spot when you stop. Keep a spray bottle filled with water to spritz your dog with to cool them down. The story covers little snippets from a summer in the early aughts, with focus on minute details from our 10 year old narrator’s complicated friendship with a girl from her neighborhood named Isora. For example, a chapter could be called “Jesus’s Little Head,” which is a small detail of an engraving on the headboard of her friend’s dead mother, and the story is about an early childhood lesbian experience. A young girl comes of age on the island of Tenerife in the 90s, exploring her friendship, envy and sexuality. Clouds hang low overhead, at times obscuring the island’s volcano, or the fumbling of its young residents. The writing is part poetry, part prose, at times stream on consciousness full of bold, specific details. Sé que la autora pretendía eso: que no fuera ni fisquito de fino y que se plasmara la realidad absoluta. Pero en mi infancia y en mi adolescencia esa realidad era otra.

Keep Your Dog Healthy in Summer

Three woman who join together to rent a large space along the beach in Los Angeles for their stores—a gift shop, a bakery, and a bookstore—become fast friends as they each experience the highs, and lows, of love. Give your dog a shady spot to hang out on hot days or keep them inside where there’s air-conditioning. Doghouses are not good shelter in the summer because they can trap heat. Abreu] provides a unique perspective into romantic feelings buried within a friendship. Much like EdnaO’Brien’s The Country Girls, Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, and Lorrie Moore’s Who Will Run theFrog Hospital?, the novel is a portrait of the intensity of love, desire, and frenzied obsession at such a pivotal age.” There’s another reason that the dog days don’t correspond neatly with the heat: The stars in Earth’s night sky shift independently of our calendar seasons. Countless stars dot the night sky. Learn how these celestial objects form, how they are classified by brightness and temperature, and what happens when stars die. The hottest days?

No imaginaba ni de lejos que estaría escrito con los dejes del lugar que describe en un intento de meter al lector en la piel de aquella gente, en los rincones de aquellas casas, de aquellos lugares... Pero el intento a mi me resulta desagradable, leo, y no he contado las veces pero se que son excesivas, la palabra mierda, escrita en español o en inglés... leo también las aventuras de dos niñas, una dependiente de la otra y esta otra con cierto trastorno, y me parecen aberrantes los temas, los únicos dos temas que tratan. Me ha recordado varias veces a los libros que últimamente he leído en los que lejos de escribir con el diccionario en la mano, se dedican a transcribir la pronunciación de las palabras que todos pronunciamos mal pero que escribimos a la perfe Dogs of Summer resists nostalgia and sentimentality while preserving the freshness and vibrancy of the narrator’s voice . . .Tenerife in 2005 offers a vivid depiction of early aughts girlhood that captures the precarity of puberty and the intrusion of the outside world within an isolated community, most notably through the growing impact technology has on everyday life. Unlike Ferrante, Abreu doesn’t shy away from the grittier aspects of girlhood—rather, she revels in all their glory . . .an intimate portrait of girlhood friendship that treads the often precarious waters of obsession, codependence, and sexual violence." High near the volcano of northern Tenerife, an endless ceiling of cloud cover traps the working class in an abject, oppressive heat. Far away from the island’s posh resorts, two girls dream of hitching a ride down to the beach and escaping their horizonless town.In 26,000 years, the dog days would completely move all around the sky,” said Schaefer. “Roughly 13,000 years from now, Sirius will be rising with the sun in mid-winter.” The best treatment for heatstroke is prevention. Limit the time your dog works or exercises in hot weather. Choose cooler periods of the day for training and exercise sessions. Provide plenty of cool, fresh water, shade, and frequent rest periods when it’s hot. Isora alzò il suo pugno pesante, lo trascinò lungo il fianco fino alla mia faccia. Lo tenne sospeso in aria ma solo per un attimo, solo perché mi restasse impressa nella memoria la forma dei suoi diti scuri chiusi. Lo abbassò di colpo. Lo abbassò di colpo come sul muso di un maiale, come quando intontivano un maiale per poi ammazzarlo. Caddi seduta per terra. Guardai le nubi in cielo e erano come piombo. Enormi, lente, quasi d’argento a forza di grigi. Qualcuno gridò oddio, hanno ammazzato la ragazzina! Vidi il sangue colarmi sulle cosce. Brillava, come palline liquide di glitter rosso, come il vecchio smalto da unghie di mia madre. La bocca mi sapeva della tazza d’acqua di zio Ovi, la bocca mi sapeva della bocca di Isora quando ci baciavamo dietro al centro culturale.” In ancient Greek, Sirius means “glowing” or “scorcher” so it makes sense that they named this star after the extreme summer heat in the Mediterranean. The myth behind Sirius is that he is the loyal pup of the hunter, Orion. Most novice astronomers are familiar with Orion and can at least identify Orion’s belt in the night sky as three stars forming a straight line. In Athens, for instance, Sirius will rise around the middle of August this year. But farther south, it’ll happen earlier in the year; farther north, it’ll happen later.