I know I know, I have been very slack in doing my blog thing, we have been having so many nice long runs that I come home and all we want to do is crash on Annies bed, (see example above).

Connor has been showing off but he didn't get any more ribbons, I did an obediance trial last night, I got good marks for my stand for examination, recall, change of position and stays but while I was doing my heel work we swung around the figure 8 person and my nose was pointing straight at the tree where Annie had let me lift a leg before I went into the ring, and I remembered there had been some biscuits on the ground there (tiny teddies, to which I am rather partial) and I forgot myself and raced over to see how many I could gobble down before Annie realised I wasn't heeling with her any more....not many as it turned out...she called me and I raced back to her (people outside the ring were heard to say 'what an impressive recall') and we went on with our work out, of course I had sort of blown it but we went on...I lost some more points for not going right down on my tummy for all the 'drops' whilst we were heeling too, that really confused the Judge lady coz she said at the end how was it I could do such a good drop in change of position exersize but not in the heeling?

The stays were a terrible temptation coz I kept tasting them tiny teddies all the way through and glanced over to where they were on a couple of occasions, just to make sure no one else had found them!

This morning we went to the park for brunch after first training with Loki and Freya, all went very well and Annie did a lot of work on my drops, I have a feeling I will be doing quite a few of them this week! At brunch I blotted my copybook and snapped at Kodi the GSD puppy, I am all over puppies right now.

Connor thought he was great fun though, they played and played.

we are both rather tired again now and taking advantage of the fan over Annies bed again.

show off week-end coming up!

We have to go to bed soon coz Annie is taking us to the beach early tomorrow morning, we are exhausted from going up and down the stairs here whilst Annie was putting everything she owns (which is a lot of basically useless stuff) and the litte that we own (priceless soft toys and squeaky toys) into our new H.on.W.

She has nearly done it I think, that is to say that if she hasn't she had better get rid of some of her stuff! the next challange will be if she can remember where she has put it all, that should provide Connor and I with hours of fun just watching her pack and unpack all the cupboards! Just as long as she never forgets where our food is stored.

Tomorrow night Connor is going to show off again, he is filling out and starting to look a lot more matured so maybe the judges will like him tomorrow night.

On Sunday Annie is having brunch out in town at a really nice coffee shop at the museum, well it is sort of nice except for a silly no dogs ruling - when will these people learn? I think she intends to meet up with some of the CMCA peoples in the evening as well, no doubt we will get a good run in between times though.

Next week will be good as she only has to go to work (please excuse the foul language) for 4 days as Friday is a holiday in Darwin, yeeha!

We have also been planning our shakedown trip in the H.on.W, it is having a trip to the car vet next week, then Annie wants to put it's new name up 'Pawsaroundoz' so that we can take it's photo for the Forum. There's not much else to do then but enjoy our new home for 5 weeks and 3 days on the road, we love being on the road.

We will try and get some photos tomorrow.

Hallo again, bit of a slow week, we did train this morning but nobody came to see how good and clever I was...and our posh poodle friend didn't come to play either, shame that as I rather enjoyed playing with her...perhaps she will come next week?
We spent most of the day helping Annie put our things in the new H.on.W, and decide where to put stuff.
Annie also made the table fit better and fixed up the spot where the microwave was so as we can use the space for important stuff like the doggy treat box, you know REALLY important things like that.
Next week will be a bit more exciting I think - there is a double dog show on Saturday night, sadly that usually means we both have a bath but on the up side it means socialising with all the visitors here for the NT Royal circuit too.
Annie didn't put Connor in the Royal but we have about 4 shows to do, then about 3 or 4 OT's for me...if she ever gets her act together and puts the entries in!
Mr Blake is coming on Wednesday to stay for 2 weeks, he is a friend of Bob's, he likes dogs and used to have a Black Labrador like Carlin, Annie and Carlin have met him before, in Mt Isa.

5 years old

Our new home is finally registered in our names (well to be honest it is registered in Annies name, they won't let Whippets have cars in their names, discrimination - that's what that is!) It has NT number plates and we have lots of stuff in there already!

We boyz even got a little drive in it today for the first time!

Next week a friend of Bob's is coming to stay and Annie and us are going to live in our H.o.W for 2 weeks whilst Mr Blake is here.

On Saturday I was 5 years old! I had my party on Sunday though so as Daisy and Carlyn, Jan and Kodiak could all come along too - I blotted my copybook though, whatever that means, I frightened young Kodi the baby GSD and Annie was very cross with me.

Annie bought me 2 toys for my birthday, I have a 'cookie monster' who is blue and a green loopy frog who actually ribbits at me if I drop him!

Connor got a ape who makes monkey noises if you drop him so he wasn't feeling too left out.

We made a new friend today, she is a cream colour standard poodle and her name is very posh, it's Hermarni or something like that.....she is 2 yrs old and she loves to play wizzies, she is nearly as good as a Whippet at that game, in fact she is actually better than Connor! I think she is coming for another play again next week.

Connor got an email from his little sister Alice yesterday, then today he got another email from his other sister Shari, it all made me feel very lonely and sad coz none of my family send me emails at all. Connors family are going to have a party when we go down for our holidays and stay at Auntie Karens place, I hope they let me play too....I wonder where all my brothers and sisters went?

Alice, Shari and Wyatt - Connor's brother and sisters

when they were just little pups.

The new motor home is really ours now! We spent most of the week-end putting things in it and playing around it, nice size for wizzing around I might add, and generally getting to know our new home.

It is really quite surprising as although it is so much bigger than our older campervan it doesn't have quite as much storage space, but it does have a lot of living space for us to do what we do best, lounge about!

Annie let us try out the bed, which was quite comfy thank you, and we liked the dining/lounge area too. There is a door to another little room but Annie is being a bit funny about that and it makes me wonder what she isn't telling us!

our new kennel on wheels has arrived

Connor and I are so excited, these people we don't know came to our house this afternoon in a lovely motor home and spent some time talking to Bob, then Annie came home from work and she did not even come and talk to us and give us cuddles straight away, like she usually does. Instead she stayed downstairs looking at this motor home.....after a while though she came to see us and said ;'well boyz, it's here!' and let us down stairs so we had a bit of a sniff around and all that, but right now the people we don't know are staying in it so it does not really feel like ours just yet.

It does look rather comfy though, I must say!

Annie sez when we have it to ourselves we will put our stuff in it and set things up just the way we want it and that will be exciting and fun too, have to remember exactly where she puts the dog food, what's that Connor? Oh yes, and where she stashes the doggy treats as well.

Queens Birthday Week-end - 2010

I am fascinated, how come The Queen, you know that lady in London who wears funny things on her head and has a poor taste in small dogs, gets to have a Birthday long week-end when the rest of us only get 1 day?
Annie sez we should all get our birthdays off work, I think that we should all get long week-ends myself...
Anyway, we did not get invited to her birthday party again. Still they probably only had cucumber sandwiches and tiny little cakes, not nearly as nice as Connors birthday menu.
We have had an interesting week-end, on Saturday we went to the dog park - always fun and this time was no exception as we met Costa a baby Hungarian Goulash, no Vizla puppy who was just the right size for Connor to play with, then we met a baby Boxer who was a bit scared of us too then decided we were good play value - which of course we are! Then we met Wipit who is a baby Whippet blessed with very unimaginitive peoples - he was very cute, all white but for 1 black ear, he has a mum and dad and 3 children to play with, we found the 3 boys a bit scary as they were very full on and noisy but we loved Wipit and will meet up with him again.
Then it was off to get the dog meat in bulk. After a lovely long afternoon nap we went to Glenti, the Greek Community Festival which was extremely crowded but mmm Greek cake crumbs were very yummy, there were also a lot of interesting other bits that people had dropped, something a bit odd called Calamari and something very delishous that Annie said was bits of Yiros.
Sunday was a much quieter day but we did get another excursion, to put up some For Sale posters in all the Backpacker venues for our old Campervan, we got lots of pats from young ladies who all seemed to have the same tale - they all missed their dogs at home, wherever 'home' was! Why didn't they just bring them along I thought to myself?
Our new House on Wheels is on it's way here, it is now in the NT!