Rainy days

Sam and Rosie seem to love it when it rains. They don't really care about getting wet, in fact they enjoy it! So long as they get to play in the mud. Here's what we came home to one evening...

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Rosie was covered in mud!..................... And so was Sam!.........

Both of them covered in mud, and sitting in their beds!!!

The very next morning and they're both clean again!
Guess where all that mud went??
*grumble grumble grumble*
...mud on my white walls...
*grumble grumble grumble*

Make me clean my walls will ya? You know how difficult it is to get those stains off?? I'll show you... BATH TIME!!!

Ha ha! Who's laughing now?!

After a whole lot of playing and mucking around, they collapse in an exhausted heap for a snooze. At last, some peace and quiet for Noon and me!

Sometimes they sleep inside...

And sometimes they sleep outside.
This is Sam giving his best "go-away-leave-me-alone" look to Rosie.

No such luck, she crawls in on top of him anyway.

Rosie is FAT!!!

It's official, Rosie's a tad overweight! The vet said so!

Even at 28kgs (and significantly less than Sam's weight), she's been deemed a little too rounded for her size. So it's time for our fat little girl to go on a diet. We've been advised to cut her food by a third and leave it at that until she loses a few kilos.

Guess the piece of cheesecake I gave them this morning didn't help...

Meanwhile, here are some more puppy pics of her that I dug up from my archives.

Pretty isn't it?
The grass, I mean... before she decided it looked better all torn and dug up!



Here she is, enjoying her (then) new rope chew toy on her (then) new futon mattress. Check out those sharp little puppy teeth. They were lethal, I tell ya!


That's a cheese-flavoured rawhide chew. Was funny how she ended up with yellow lips and tongue after a while.


If you hadn't noticed by now, Rosie likes to chew! Anything goes... even the spiky plants and ferns we have in the yard. This was our neighbours' kids' ball kicked over our fence, we thought we'd let her play with it a little and then return it... Bad move! A couple of minutes was all it took for her to puncture it. Ooops, sorry kids, we'll buy you a new one if you like.

Wedding Slideshow

Have decided to upload the slideshow file shown at our wedding in Thailand. It's a montage of old and recent photos of Noon and myself, along with the song we chose to be "our" song.

Some of the animation and effects may look a bit corny, that's because Noon and I had no creative control over its making. We just provided the scanned pics and the song, the studio took care of the rest and gave us the final product as is. But corny effects aside, we still kinda liked it :)

Just a warning in advance, the file has been resized to make it smaller, but it still weighs in at over 10MB so you really do not want to be on dial-up when attempting to download it.

Having said that, here's the download link - Wedding.wmv (10.6MB)

Enjoy. And if you care to, let us know what you think.

A day at the beach

Well, not really a whole day... more like a couple of hours.

Brought Sam and Rosie to a beach which was also designated off-leash area for dogs a couple of days ago. We'd been to the park so often that we thought a change in scenery would be good for them. Plus being a legitimate off-leash area meant we could let them run to their hearts' content chasing birds and the like.

They seemed a bit intimidated by the waves initially, especially when it washed up on them and got their coats wet on the bottom. But they did have fun chasing Noon and I around and kept running back and forth between us as we walked along. Kept a close eye on them just in case coz we were afraid they might just dash into the sea. Neither of them had actually swum at the beach before, although Rosie likes wading around in ponds of still water.

They both went exploring a fair bit, up and down the little sand dunes. Didn't stray too far from us though... kept looking over their shoulders at us as if to asking us to keep up with them. We didn't, and after a while, they got the idea we weren't going along with them. Then they'd both come bounding back to Noon and me.

They also met up with other dogs along the beach too. Sam loves playing with newfound friends; don't let his size fool you, he's still a puppy at heart and once he sees another dog, he has selective hearing loss and will never heed any calls to return. I personally don't like this in him - his size makes him intimidating and seeing a huge dog running right at you doesn't instill a whole lot of confidence, no matter how friendly it looks! Kids are a major concern as well, since Sam and Rosie love kids and like nothing better than to tumble around with them and lick their faces silly. I can only imagine the apprehension that goes through the parents' minds when they see Sam bounding up to their toddlers. Gotta get this under control, methinks.

Anyway, on this occasion, Sam and Rosie met up with a friendly dog who was happy enough to run around with them and play tag for a little bit. They got quite a good workout doing so, giving Noon and I a bit of a break from keeping them company the whole time.

And what do you do when you're buggered from all that running? Plop your butt down under the cool and comfy shade of the beach umbrella! That's my Mum in the pics, Dad got displaced by Sam when he came around all dripping and wet. They look pretty content, don't they? Cheeky little buggers!

When they looked like they'd had enough and didn't want to run off anymore, we brought them home. Had to wash them off to get rid of the salt and sand. Don't think they liked that part very much, kept trying to run off, but that's the price you pay for having fun at the beach :)