Helen 9 months

9 months old on the 16th of January

30+ Kg happy and healthy.
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Helen and Her Horse Friend

Christmas 2019

 Annual cherry harvest

 Cherry pickers

 Eladio

 Helen

 Max

 Max and Helen

 Playtime

 Maz

 Jac

 Kat

 Mimz

 April insisted on being photgraphed

 Another aspiring photo model Lexi

 Fud

 More fud

 Artichoke

 Apricots in the yard

Grapes in the yard

The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion

During the Christmas holidays we went to the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion, being built near Bendigo Australia, is 50 metres square at its base and nearly 50 metres high. This makes it the largest stupa in the Western World.

A stupa (also known as a pagoda) is the most sacred building in Buddhism. A stupa symbolises the enlightened mind and the path to enlightenment. A stupa is also a reliquary to house holy relics of the Buddha and other highly realised beings. See- https://stupa.org.au/

Lake Mulwala Kayak Fishing

Helen Obedience Class

Helen is 8 months old and about 28 Kilos. American Staffodshires generally are adult at around 20 months old so she has some maturing and growing to do yet.

She (we) have now completed the Older Puppy Obedience Class.

After struggling for the first few weeks we have come through in the end and she can sit, stay, recall on and off lead etc. The stages we will work through over the next year or so are obedience for:

Puppy,

Advance Puppy,

Beginners,

Class 1 and

General training for classes 2 to 5 

Skills we hope to aquare are advanced obedience, agility and hopefully tracking.