Helen 4 Months

Helen at 16 weeks, walking daily and going to leash free dog parks. Temprament is excellent, no aggression or anxiaty even under stress, very submissive but sociable. Can Sit, stay and come. Training ongoing. Blue eyes are now grey.

Helen 14 Weeks and 12Kg

Helen 14 Weeks and 12Kg growing up fast.

She has now had all her vaccinations and we have started short walks.
Next will be obedience training ans socialisation with other dogs.

Mums 86th Birthday

Today was Mums 86th Birthday, she is getting more frail and has emphysema, bad shoulders and had both hips replaced. Recently she has had some eye problems hence the shades. As she has been pretty well bed ridden for the last few weeks her family visited her in the nursing home or rang through their congratulations.

The cake

 Mum and the new pup Helen

 Birthday wishes

 Some of the grandkids

Two Extremes of Helen

Two Extremes of Helen

Sleeping after dinner

In her 'time out' play pen after a biting transgression.

Helen 11 Weeks and 8Kg

Helen 11 Weeks old and and 8Kg. 3.5 Kg gain in three weeks.

 

Goodbye to the Crepe Myrtle

Goodbye to the Crepe Myrtle in our front yard, after living probably more than fifty years, the house we live in was built in the mid 1950's.
Crepe Myrtle trees live well past 50 years so we assume it was planted sometime after the house was built so could easily have been 60 years old.

Two thirds were dead and the rest struggled to produce any flowers or leaves this last summer. So this week we replaced it with a deciduous flowering Ash, a great shade tree that will give shade to the driveway and the front of the house in our hot summers but let sunshine and light in in our chilly winters.

The wood from the Crepe Myrtle will make fine firewood for the wood fired pizza oven this friday evening. Hmmm pizza - http://wfrblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/hmmm-pizza.html

 

 The new

 The old

In situ