Spent a very relaxing weekend up at the DiamondG. Loki played with the horses.
Skoll showed some new tricks. He aggressively disciplined the DiamondG dog apparently for making too much noise. Loki would ignore the dog as its barked every time someone came into the house. Skoll pounced on him several different times showing his displeasure. We remain very surprised as Skoll tends to be very mello at home and is often known as chicken-dog.
Well we’re on vacation this week and have a few pics to share.
The old camera died so we started at best buy with getting a new camera. So far its kinda nice. The first Pic has been dubb’d
SadMeg
It was taken with minimal light and no flash to see how well the iso 3600 worked.
The real vacation started with a trip to Maine to visit some friends. Of course first there was the car ride.
Loki seemed to do better than Skoll but they both manged both ways without resorting the the massive volumes of puke our last trip to Maine provided.
On the way we all got a laugh out of an older woman’s plate
This was our first trip to our friends new home. A great place designed for horses. The barn was incredible and the dogs liked all the space to run.
We learned a lot during our trip.
1) Cattle dogs sure can stare but tend to tolerate 2 large furry invaders with only occasional reminders that they are just tolerating.
2) Rabbits must be cages for a reason. Skoll hopes to never see that rabbit in the wild. It might chase him. (on the other hand Loki claims he just wants a taste.)
3) Cats are fun to chase all through the house.
4) “Twig, bark, rock bread” is not healthier than white bread when your family mutinies and refuses to eat it.
5) These things must be herded, circled, watched, and licked constantly. (wisdom via mama-dog Loki)
Ignore any reference to “No woof”
6) When older, they make good ball throwing devices.
Rinse, repeat.
7) This is the self proclaimed FishBoss. (Don’t ask me what it means…)
After returning and all of us sleeping for an unprecedented 11 hours straight we rested with a trip the the range and zero’d in Meg’s new scope for her .22. Amazing what a scope will do.
The next day was ‘The Big E’ and the dogs got another chance to catch up on their sleep. Meg’s first trip to the fair proved satisfying.
We took these pics for some friends. They know who they are.
We trimmed the hedges and put more of the left over stone (from last year’s tree wall) as edging and now the front looks presentable again.
I’m thinking about using some of the larger left over rocks as “steps”….
Just out playing in the yard on a nice Sunday afternoon.
Oh and the ztr found its home
Well we managed to kill off the front lawn. We’ll blame the grubs but it was totally dead. We tried to replace it ourselves but ran into problem after problem and in the end hired someone to do a few things for us.
New walkway
New lawn
and a nice little wall around the tree
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