if anyone in portugal wants to do a dogsitting, housesitting trade, you could come here and be in this lovely midwestern enclave of the evil empire and spend time waltzing the lakefront and bobolink meadow with my golden boy while i enjoy your wonderful dog life in portugal where i have only been through my sister and in my weak imagination. but my apartment is a hovel with no dog and a critter scurrying in the wall.

i never could sell myself.