Lone Pine Lodge

I noticed last year that Saffron loved the snow, it seems it is either a coincidence, a family trait(Kandi and Saffron are half sisters and share many more distant ancestors than their father)or a Sheltie trait because Kandi went a little mad tonight after being taken for their last walk and insisted that the garden door be opened for her to race around the lawn in the snow, closely followed by Saffron. When they came back in, a bribe of biscuits was necessary to get them in, they decided that my very small and crowded living room would be their playground tonight and I got some action pictures of them. Let me reassure those of you who do not know the breed, they are playing not fighting.
( Cut for size )

Taken from Cheezeburger.


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I haven't don e a lot in the 6 months I have posted sporadically and you know the high points(or in the case of the fireworks, low (See my December 4th entry) other wise my life has been a round of chaufeur duty, walking the dogs and house work. Except for my adult education classes, I have continued with my art class under our new tutor Lindsey. She was horrified when she took over from Stewart that we hadn't been given lessons in the basics such as shading, colour mixing and tones and shades and numerous other things that I now know how to do but can' remember what they are called, so last term produced very few pictures but a much more confident artist. In December, Beth, myself and two others from our art group went to the NEC in Birmingham for a craft show. Sue had already booked me for a week to help her put up the other half of the garden fence that we had started in the spring soI drove over from her place to Birmingham and Beth drove the other two up from Newport. I had to drive half the distance they had to travel but left at roughly the same time because they had motorway all the way and the best I had was A roads . Any way we we did meet up and went into the tutorial we had booked. It cost us £50 but we walked away with about £60 worth of materials in the form of an A3 size water colour book of paper, good quality, paint brushes, also good and 8 pots of the acrylic inks they were demonstrating. I now have 16 pots of them as Beth enjoyed the tutorial but her heart belongs to water colour so she gave hers to me. In the afternoon we broke ranks and wandered off on our own to explore the stands. The others concentrated on the arts side but I left there with art materials, beads and findings and a couple of knitting kits and no money. I also subscribed to a knitting magazine that I buy every month nay way and got a craft trolly, like this but in pink ( cut for large photos )

It's doing the rounds again.
Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.
The story runs that,on one warm summer day, he dozed off under an apple tree and was awakened when an apple fell on his head.

I have no idea what this says about my love life but the book was Terry Pratchett Snuff and no he wasn't talking about Newton.

There has been a birthday party going on in a neighbouring street for most of the evening. The music and voices puzzled Saffron and Kandi when I took them out for a walk earlier but they just shrugged it off. Nearly an hour ago I took them for the last walk of the day and the party was still going on but this time they ignored it, until the first firework went off with a god almighty bang. It startled me and terrified them so much pulled their leads out of my hand and ran off towards home as fast as their feet could carry them. By the time I got in sight of my front door there was no sign of them but Saffron scuttled round the uphill corner and had almost made it to the house before two more rockets went off, flashes and whistles this time, and she shot back up and around the corner again. I followed as fast as I could praying that they were huddling at Beth's front door. They weren't they were huddling in side her neighbour's house with said neighbours, who are animal people, trying to comfort them. They had brought their grandchildren out to watch the fireworks and had left the front door open in case the youngest got frightened and wanted to go back in. Brian went next door to Beth's to get her to open her back door and then came back to hand the dogs over the fence to her so that we could stay in familiar, for the dogs, surroundings with out having to come to the front of the house while there was any danger of more fireworks. It took them almost half an hour to get to the point of getting off the settee on which the three of us were sitting leaving almost a third it vacant(they were both huddled as close to me as they could get) to get a biscuit from Beth. Kandi brought hers back to eat on the settee in safety so I decided to try getting them home. It took a lot of soft talk and persuasion and a little brute force to get them round the corner to get them home and now a full hour after the first band that sent them flying they have stopped panting and Saffron is dozing, Kandi is still alert and keeping her eyes on me. I would like to go and shoot my distant neighbour if I could be sure exactly who it was but next time there are sounds of a party we are staying in doors.

A cousin of mine, who knows how mad about wild life I am, sent me this link.

http://www.dogwork.com/owfo8
The ultimate in slow motion bird life for me.

Sue had three of her dogs entered in an agility competition at Monmouth a town less than about an hours drive away from me and 4 hours away from her so she asked if she could come and stay the night before and after with those three, while friends looked after the rest. Since we are both now retired and I had no commitments I said come for the week and bring the whole gang and she said OK. So for the last week I have had 9 dogs , 4 large crossbreeds and 5 Shelties, 3 hers 2 mine, my small cottage with 2 humans. The living room is the largest one in the house and that is only 10 foot by 12 foot. We had wall to wall dog and where there wasn't a dog, a dog bed or human furniture there were dog toys. I manage to trip over a combination of and toy on Friday and twisted something in my right thigh, on Saturday I stood on one of the toys and hurt my left foot so for the last week I haven't known which leg to limp on. I have to go walk my and my cousin's dog now so I will tell you about the rest of my adventures with dogs next post.

Taken from quarryquest

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Your dominant hue is blue, making you a good friend who people love and trust. You're good in social situations and want to fit in. Just be careful not to compromise who you are to make them happy. Your saturation level is very low - you have better things to do than jump headfirst into every little project. You make sure your actions are going to really accomplish something before you start because you hate wasting energy making everyone else think you're working. Your outlook on life is bright. You see good things in situations where others may not be able to, and it frustrates you to see them get down on everything.

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