at the beach again

Here we are at the beach again. We just love it up here!

The seagrass was covered in magical star-shaped seed heads.
They blow around in the wind and we chase them.

We also fetch sticks.

And check out everything that anyone is doing.

Dive off the dunes.

And just enjoy the wonderful light on the water.

It's pretty good!

never take your eye off the ball

Kay brought in two new balls from the car and put them down on her dresser. She didn't think about it, but in a few minutes, I had a bead on them. I sat and looked at them like this.

Ten minutes later, I was still looking at them like this. I don't think I even blinked.

Focused staring, it works every time. Eventually Kay couldn't resist me and she picked one up and threw it. Ha! The game was all on then.

The balls would ricochet down the hall and we kept missing as they rebounded. We played until our tongues were to the floor.

Because the hallway is scheduled to be repainted soon, it didn't matter so much about all the slobbery tennis ball marks all over the walls...

For the finale, we got to chew and chew on them to our hearts' content. They were wonderfully chewy and kind of just squished in your mouth, but you could never quite get a bite out of them. Kay brought them from America. We love them.

looks like such fun

I just found the coolest Airedale blog from a young Dale in Germany. He is doing all the things I wish I could do - schutzhund and tracking. Real dog work! I would love to have a go.

Then I found out, he is only two years old - what a clever pup he is. His name is Exe vom Bismarkstein. Lucky that Google translates the German to English, but even without it, the photos are inspirational!

Now that Kay is back from overseas, we are hitting the training hard to try and get ready for some trials before the weather gets too hot. We have quite a way to go before we are as good as Exe.

birthday meet-up in the park

We met up with Fozzie and Ringo last weekend to celebrate our birthday.

Ringo, Gracie, Ruby and Fozzie

It wasn't raining, but it had been through the night. There were some lovely big patches of mud.

Ringo really, really liked the mud. See it all the way up his legs.

The rest of us were a bit more dainty - we only have muddy socks. We had lots of fun and chased balls and each other.

Aren't my brothers handsome? I'm very proud of them, even if I did growl a lot and acted really tough. They don't call me 'savage sister' for nothing.

it's my birthday!

Hi, it's Gracie here. Guess what? I'm turning two years old today!

Here I am with my mum... I'm only a few days old in this photo. Real puppy love!

I soon looked like this.

Then this (at my first show)

And then this when I was about a year old....

And now I'm as big as Ruby!

I am meeting up with Fozzie and Ringo tomorrow for a birthday party in the park... except it is forecast to be raining. I will post a picture of the three of us, if we manage to get one between the rain and the romping around.

training Miss Yellow

Here is the final puppy training video. This is Miss Yellow puppy at 10 weeks. She has stayed with us a bit longer because she is flying to her new home in Brisbane today and needed to be that bit older before going on the plane.

Like all the puppies, she will do just about anything for a bit of hot dog. Here she shows what she has learned so far.

So now, Juliette and Tim... it's up to you guys to keep those hot dogs coming!

She is such a clever little girl.

puppy in a pot

More puppy playing video. This was from our last day all together. Things sure have quieted down now that there are only four.

The last bit of this video is Pink trying to get into a flower pot.