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The oddest selfie I have ever taken. The Boston Red Sox are pretty bad this year. The local sports radio station, which lives to tear apart struggling local teams, has been having a field day. The Red Sox are for sale! Their manager shows up late for games! They're moving the team to Vermont! Ahhhhhhhh! And that's just NPR.  The Red Sox are an inescapable part of living in Boston. Though I was kidding about NPR, a few weeks ago the local NPR station (WBUR) did spend 15 minutes breaking down a Red Sox trade. Usually, NPR announcers can't pronounce players' names correctly. It's a different kind of town. Around 10:30 p.m., during a rain delay. That's what has made the tradition to city life a difficult one. It's a different kind of town. Obviously, I've  had some trouble  getting myself,  my dog  and The Wife  acquainted . One thing we were not prepared for: Humidity. July and August are pretty miserable months just about anywhere, but to have them as your

There's a lot of stories about Boston. There's a little dog park up the hill from our condo that's about an acre of open land. At the top of the hill, there's a large rock with a plaque that tells of the park's history as a military for the British in the 1600s and the Americans in the late 1700s.  A more recent story involves skunks. To an outsider, "Boston" and "skunks" seems like a contradiction, but they're everywhere in Eastie. I saw one within my first few nights of living in East Boston. You see them only at night, in fact, but you see them relatively often.  The Wife heard a story at the dog park up the hill about the skunks. Supposedly, the skunks were brought in by the city to control the rat population. Maybe they've had success with that. I have yet to see a rat in Boston. Join the smelly side, Daisy. There is, however, another mammalian in East Boston, and it was always likely they would meet. Daisy Duke is an affable chocola