So a new group today. Open this link in another window:
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept28
There are some videos from yesterday that included the dogs that went home yesterday.
Here is some of what's going on: I have two little dogs that are not too friendly to me.
Napoleon is acting afraid of me but he was lovely-dovey in the van, so I'm not too worried about it. I just have to put the other dogs in another area and sit there and he'll come. He already half comes now. He actually liked my last night but fogot this morning.
Winston is another story. At least I can be near him without him getting mad. He only likes my wife and son. She went to work and he went to school, so poor winston is stuck with me. I though Wellington and Winston might be a good couple so I put them together.
Everyone else: no issues. Ruby is the one messing up all the water buckets, as in the video below, and that is really annoying: put all clean water out and she messes them all up right away. Coco and Barkley are from the same house but they aren't so good eating together after all... Coco is a little bossy which is not what I would have guessed. Barkley HATES horses: I have to reming Jim!
Some geese in one video. They are flying north in the video. They're not ready to go south yet, still grouping up. And when they leave, they fly high up and at night... Not so many this year around the house.
Here's what we got today from my camera (the ones that start with MVI):
6838: Wellington and Winston after breakfast
6839: Wellington waiting to go in the house, Mako howling from the barn, Buddy showing up
6840: Coco Barkley inside the house about to go out with Jim
6841: Everyone out in the yard, Napoleon barking at me, Theo doing a little howl.
6842: all of them standing around me, liltte outside tour
6843: inside, still working on napoleon
6844: he's coming in! all the others...
6845: everyone including ruby and her bucket
6846: short
6847: going over the names with Jim then ruby does it again!
6848: wellington wants to go in the house
6849: geese, sky, winston
MOV movies by Jim:
00018: coco and barkley
00017: wellington
00016: coco and barkley
00015: buddy
00014: buddy
00013: buddy
00012: dosky and tiny
00011: buddy and maybe radar
00010: cabo and buddy
00009: cabo and buddy
00008: buddy
00007: radar
00006: maybe radar
00005: radar
Friday, September 28, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
different dog every day to meet the school bus to freak the bus driver out
go to glencadia.com/videos and look for today!
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept25/
Okay, today we have a trip to the school bus, Ollie catching a frog, Jim working on replacing a door in the dog house.
I've decided to just work slowly on Winston. Keep him around me all the time and wait for him to come to me. No need to hurry. He'll either come around or he won't, since he likes kids and women, he'll be fine.
Two different video cameras. Jim likes to use his own. Good thing he came to take everyone out, I ended up pretty beat from driving this morning. Baby woke me up at 6.
We'll need that new door for winter. It's in now. I want to be able to secure half the space and only heat one room downstairs and 3 upstairs. Except for xmas, that will be plenty for the winter. That's what the construction is about.
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MOV00011: ruby. cabo (running in field)
MOV00012: cabo ruby
MOV00013: again, same two
MOV00014: bill radar and mako by house
MOV00015: bill and radar driveway and field
MOV00016: buddy... off down driveway
MOV00017: tiny and dosky
6788: bill mako radar and winston by porch (aenne has to take Winston because he still hates me. tonight I gave him some wild alaskan salmon from the grill. he still doesn't like me!)
6789: winston, puppy mako baby
6790: buddy ... talking about construction
6791: off to school bus... winston
6792: walking off to the school bus in the village
6793: at the neighbors where the school bus comes... ollie's home! lotta watches... winston... shoes wrong way around again
6794: ollie caught a frog and put him in a dog bowl
6795: frog in a big bucket
6796: jim working on a new door in the dog house... all the dogs hang out
6797: more door repair, lot of dogs
6798: radar, tiny and dosky near by
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept25/
Okay, today we have a trip to the school bus, Ollie catching a frog, Jim working on replacing a door in the dog house.
I've decided to just work slowly on Winston. Keep him around me all the time and wait for him to come to me. No need to hurry. He'll either come around or he won't, since he likes kids and women, he'll be fine.
Two different video cameras. Jim likes to use his own. Good thing he came to take everyone out, I ended up pretty beat from driving this morning. Baby woke me up at 6.
We'll need that new door for winter. It's in now. I want to be able to secure half the space and only heat one room downstairs and 3 upstairs. Except for xmas, that will be plenty for the winter. That's what the construction is about.
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MOV00011: ruby. cabo (running in field)
MOV00012: cabo ruby
MOV00013: again, same two
MOV00014: bill radar and mako by house
MOV00015: bill and radar driveway and field
MOV00016: buddy... off down driveway
MOV00017: tiny and dosky
6788: bill mako radar and winston by porch (aenne has to take Winston because he still hates me. tonight I gave him some wild alaskan salmon from the grill. he still doesn't like me!)
6789: winston, puppy mako baby
6790: buddy ... talking about construction
6791: off to school bus... winston
6792: walking off to the school bus in the village
6793: at the neighbors where the school bus comes... ollie's home! lotta watches... winston... shoes wrong way around again
6794: ollie caught a frog and put him in a dog bowl
6795: frog in a big bucket
6796: jim working on a new door in the dog house... all the dogs hang out
6797: more door repair, lot of dogs
6798: radar, tiny and dosky near by
Monday, September 24, 2007
leaving for the city
no time to go through everything but look in
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept24/
all going home today
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept24/
all going home today
Saturday, September 22, 2007
ollie getting crazy stuff out of the barn. gustov walking buddy, whitman running in the house, cabo chasing a squash
So this entry goes with the folders for sept 22 and sept 21 in the folder glencadia.com/videos.
Cut and paste these links in a new window:
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept21
and
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept22
The themes here are watching my son Ollie find more and more crazy things in the barn as the videos go on... what a mess. And highlights include a puppy yanking a big pit/boxer kind of dog around (Buddy), Whitman running into the house through the hole in the screen, Cabo chasing a squash, Lucinda crazy... Tibet too rough.
So Ella doesn't eat enough. Jim was supposed to bring cans yesterday and didn't so my wife will pick some up... maybe she'll eat that. Mako needs more sleep so he's not in on this round of videos. Beanie's collar: I can't find it.
At one point Ollie mentions Tummy Rubber -- that is the brother of the cat in that video who died and is burried in that bush. Run over. He's whipping some dogs with a horse whip saying, "Not near Tummy Rubber!" He shouldn't really whip dogs... his own... and I'll take that whip away from him. I don't think there is really any danger of him really trying to hit them or of actually hitting them if he tried. Besides, they were running around on his cat's grave! I kind of thought he forgot Tummy Rubber, it was well over a year ago that he died. I guess not.
The videos in the 21 folder (07sept21) are of the yard yesterday before I put them all in the dog house for the night. I think most dogs are in most videos, so I won't label them all here. I'll label today's shots.
TODAY
6753: ella
6754: here it the one with the grave
6755: maddox beanie (ollie training gustov)
6756: beanie ella maddox
6757: beanie (ollie tries to catch him) maddox (whacks me with a stick)
6758: bill (eat manure) ollie feeds cat archie -- two dogs with kids
6759: cabo matilda pumpkins
6760: lionel whitman zeppy
6761: lionel whitman (not here, in house) zeppy
6762: here's whitman not in house
6763: ollie has more stuff... heading to hammock
6764: matilda cabo (squash) lionel zeppy
6765: ollie caught a dog for me: cabo matilda zeppy (barks at ollie, not good) lionel
6766: lionel pees on stroller finally sits
6767: lucinda and tibet
6768: lucinda crazy
6769: buddy gets walked by puppy gustov --ollie uses ski pole as hammock brake
6770: tibet and ella (tibet flips gustov)
YESTERDAY
6748: lot of barking
6749: bailey barking, roll call
6750: inside the house
6751: lucinda, more
6752: inside out
Cut and paste these links in a new window:
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept21
and
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept22
The themes here are watching my son Ollie find more and more crazy things in the barn as the videos go on... what a mess. And highlights include a puppy yanking a big pit/boxer kind of dog around (Buddy), Whitman running into the house through the hole in the screen, Cabo chasing a squash, Lucinda crazy... Tibet too rough.
So Ella doesn't eat enough. Jim was supposed to bring cans yesterday and didn't so my wife will pick some up... maybe she'll eat that. Mako needs more sleep so he's not in on this round of videos. Beanie's collar: I can't find it.
At one point Ollie mentions Tummy Rubber -- that is the brother of the cat in that video who died and is burried in that bush. Run over. He's whipping some dogs with a horse whip saying, "Not near Tummy Rubber!" He shouldn't really whip dogs... his own... and I'll take that whip away from him. I don't think there is really any danger of him really trying to hit them or of actually hitting them if he tried. Besides, they were running around on his cat's grave! I kind of thought he forgot Tummy Rubber, it was well over a year ago that he died. I guess not.
The videos in the 21 folder (07sept21) are of the yard yesterday before I put them all in the dog house for the night. I think most dogs are in most videos, so I won't label them all here. I'll label today's shots.
TODAY
6753: ella
6754: here it the one with the grave
6755: maddox beanie (ollie training gustov)
6756: beanie ella maddox
6757: beanie (ollie tries to catch him) maddox (whacks me with a stick)
6758: bill (eat manure) ollie feeds cat archie -- two dogs with kids
6759: cabo matilda pumpkins
6760: lionel whitman zeppy
6761: lionel whitman (not here, in house) zeppy
6762: here's whitman not in house
6763: ollie has more stuff... heading to hammock
6764: matilda cabo (squash) lionel zeppy
6765: ollie caught a dog for me: cabo matilda zeppy (barks at ollie, not good) lionel
6766: lionel pees on stroller finally sits
6767: lucinda and tibet
6768: lucinda crazy
6769: buddy gets walked by puppy gustov --ollie uses ski pole as hammock brake
6770: tibet and ella (tibet flips gustov)
YESTERDAY
6748: lot of barking
6749: bailey barking, roll call
6750: inside the house
6751: lucinda, more
6752: inside out
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
taxes due quarterly or some crap Monsanto super trees
Okay, let's get this blog done first. Then I'll pay taxes and insurance.
I get these forms fron the state that say READ THIS CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU SIGN or something like that and its a few pages of dense something or other, so I put it in the TO DO LATER pile... then I get a bill with a fine and interest for some tax I didn't pay and I don't even know what it is. I want to drop this crap in the lap of my accountant but he was moving... I'll make an appointment with him today, god damn it.
They should have a place with the amount due on the front page and let me just pay that without reading anything. Workman's comp, sales tax, incorporation tax, personal tax, business tax: what is it?
And property taxes: do you know how expensive they are? And I don't even like the damn public school, 7000 a year a send them and I went there once, walked in with no pass because I came through the wrong door and got yelled at, as if I was supposed to figure out which door they had security at when the building is such an architectural mistake that the front door is not even obvious and far from the parking lot and then I see some worksheets on the wall outside a classroom about pollination with picture (filled in, like a coloring book) of bees and flowers when the school is surround on three sides by a massive APPLE ORCHARD. Then there was the art class: picture of the American flag, very creative. And I heard some music down the hall, oh nice, so I head that way and it was the NATIONAL ANTHEM. So I went throught he library with big signs that say TEAMWORK!, COOPERATION!, ICHABOD CRANE TOGETHERNESS! If that worked, the Soviet Union would have buried us like Kruschev said when he took off his shoe at the UN in 1963.
I must have counted about 50 flags in 20 minutes.
Not that I'm against patriotism or anything, if it's patriotism like Ben Franklin's or John Adams, that is thoughtful, changes over time, is based on ideals and quite willing to change allegiances depending on circumstances... This is INDOCTRINATION over here in the country. Not that it's better in New York City, just more chaotic. The city is fat mess.
It's like American First boot camp over there. No way my kids can get that treatment. I guess in 20 minutes, I didn't get to see the desenters parade, the freethinkers ceremony... Damn it. State doesn't recognize a religion? What the hell: looks like a religion, songs and flags and indoctrination. Here's my $7000, enjoy.
Wait, I was off the topic. Now with the weather so perfect and it so clear that it won't be much longer before the outside turns hostile on us, I hate to be inside. But if I go outside, it'll be hard work: stacking wood, fixing the barn, something like that.
I got all my wood split. Most people who want to heat with wood have to bust their ass: cutting, hauling, splitting, stacking. Not me. I have these Monsanto Super Trees, genetically modified. All I have to do is whistle, a tree hauls itself out by the roots, runs up the wood shed and says, "Yes Sir! Orders please!" And I say, "Fall apart and jump in the shed!" Then I'm all set for the winter.
This entry goes with the videos here: http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept18-19/
6736: maddox digging, everyone in this one, in the main yard yesterday afternoon (notice the mellow, late day tempo)
6737: more of the same, matilda in there: she was limping a tiny bit yesterday. today's she fine
6738: baily, buddy, lionel, some others
6740: misty morning this morning... this is a cat getting chased by some dumb dogs (tibet in here somewhere: oh the porch) mako stops by
6741: tibet running in circles around an ancient maple -- mako barking at a piece of wood
6742: out for toot: ella, shy dog, squash (we're wokring on her)
6743: mist, squash filed, whitman, beanie, maddox, matilda, beastie, cody
6744: same crew as before... not coming
6745: hay field, bailey lionel buddy somewhere here.
I get these forms fron the state that say READ THIS CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU SIGN or something like that and its a few pages of dense something or other, so I put it in the TO DO LATER pile... then I get a bill with a fine and interest for some tax I didn't pay and I don't even know what it is. I want to drop this crap in the lap of my accountant but he was moving... I'll make an appointment with him today, god damn it.
They should have a place with the amount due on the front page and let me just pay that without reading anything. Workman's comp, sales tax, incorporation tax, personal tax, business tax: what is it?
And property taxes: do you know how expensive they are? And I don't even like the damn public school, 7000 a year a send them and I went there once, walked in with no pass because I came through the wrong door and got yelled at, as if I was supposed to figure out which door they had security at when the building is such an architectural mistake that the front door is not even obvious and far from the parking lot and then I see some worksheets on the wall outside a classroom about pollination with picture (filled in, like a coloring book) of bees and flowers when the school is surround on three sides by a massive APPLE ORCHARD. Then there was the art class: picture of the American flag, very creative. And I heard some music down the hall, oh nice, so I head that way and it was the NATIONAL ANTHEM. So I went throught he library with big signs that say TEAMWORK!, COOPERATION!, ICHABOD CRANE TOGETHERNESS! If that worked, the Soviet Union would have buried us like Kruschev said when he took off his shoe at the UN in 1963.
I must have counted about 50 flags in 20 minutes.
Not that I'm against patriotism or anything, if it's patriotism like Ben Franklin's or John Adams, that is thoughtful, changes over time, is based on ideals and quite willing to change allegiances depending on circumstances... This is INDOCTRINATION over here in the country. Not that it's better in New York City, just more chaotic. The city is fat mess.
It's like American First boot camp over there. No way my kids can get that treatment. I guess in 20 minutes, I didn't get to see the desenters parade, the freethinkers ceremony... Damn it. State doesn't recognize a religion? What the hell: looks like a religion, songs and flags and indoctrination. Here's my $7000, enjoy.
Wait, I was off the topic. Now with the weather so perfect and it so clear that it won't be much longer before the outside turns hostile on us, I hate to be inside. But if I go outside, it'll be hard work: stacking wood, fixing the barn, something like that.
I got all my wood split. Most people who want to heat with wood have to bust their ass: cutting, hauling, splitting, stacking. Not me. I have these Monsanto Super Trees, genetically modified. All I have to do is whistle, a tree hauls itself out by the roots, runs up the wood shed and says, "Yes Sir! Orders please!" And I say, "Fall apart and jump in the shed!" Then I'm all set for the winter.
This entry goes with the videos here: http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept18-19/
6736: maddox digging, everyone in this one, in the main yard yesterday afternoon (notice the mellow, late day tempo)
6737: more of the same, matilda in there: she was limping a tiny bit yesterday. today's she fine
6738: baily, buddy, lionel, some others
6740: misty morning this morning... this is a cat getting chased by some dumb dogs (tibet in here somewhere: oh the porch) mako stops by
6741: tibet running in circles around an ancient maple -- mako barking at a piece of wood
6742: out for toot: ella, shy dog, squash (we're wokring on her)
6743: mist, squash filed, whitman, beanie, maddox, matilda, beastie, cody
6744: same crew as before... not coming
6745: hay field, bailey lionel buddy somewhere here.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
quick note
So the weather has been changing a lot. You'll see that in the video. Even though there aren't a lot of dogs, we've had some issues. Petie can be cranky (although he runs much faster than I thought in a video below), Bailey is a little rabble rouser, and Bettie doesn't like Beastie and vice versa. Otherwise, things are good. Charlie is a little shy sometimes...
6702: out for a toot: loona buddy lionel ozzy layla
6703: same group as above chasing a pumpkin, then I get excited because the farmer set a ground hog trap and loona was heading toward it. i talked to him about that and he just keeps doing it without telling me, damn it.
6704: same group in the hay
6705: cody and bailey thinking about jumping through the whole in the screen door on the porch
6707 cody beastie sagg beastie matilda out for a toot
6708: matilda
6709: charlie going for a walk, sagg cameo
6710: fletcher in the yard
6711: just about everyone all together
6712: juan and diego want to walk-- then everyone comes
6713: around the dog area, petie, buddy, many more....
6714: all of them, bailey, more
6715: everyone being nice out in the yard
6716: hay field: petie, cody, matilda, betty, lionel
6717: ollie giving juan and diego treats
6718: treats for layla
6719: more of ollie giving treats beastie matilda layla
6720: same as above, wardering around barn
6721: more of the same
6722: no dogs, ollie climbing up to his workshop high in the barn
that should do it for now
6702: out for a toot: loona buddy lionel ozzy layla
6703: same group as above chasing a pumpkin, then I get excited because the farmer set a ground hog trap and loona was heading toward it. i talked to him about that and he just keeps doing it without telling me, damn it.
6704: same group in the hay
6705: cody and bailey thinking about jumping through the whole in the screen door on the porch
6707 cody beastie sagg beastie matilda out for a toot
6708: matilda
6709: charlie going for a walk, sagg cameo
6710: fletcher in the yard
6711: just about everyone all together
6712: juan and diego want to walk-- then everyone comes
6713: around the dog area, petie, buddy, many more....
6714: all of them, bailey, more
6715: everyone being nice out in the yard
6716: hay field: petie, cody, matilda, betty, lionel
6717: ollie giving juan and diego treats
6718: treats for layla
6719: more of ollie giving treats beastie matilda layla
6720: same as above, wardering around barn
6721: more of the same
6722: no dogs, ollie climbing up to his workshop high in the barn
that should do it for now
sept. 14 and 15 videos up but will write more later
go to glencadia.com/videos and look in sept 14 folder -- it includes videos for today too but I can't write it all up now -- i will this evening. good luck hunting or come back for a description of the videos and general dog activities.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
september: the best month
Perfect weather, now with the rain under our belt, busy doing stuff like splitting wood, not so many dogs right now, Ollie in school, school bus, the baby settled in....
remember to go to glencadia.com/videos/ and look for today's folder...
okay here are today's videos and then some stories, if I can remember any:
6695: juan diego, my puppy wrestling with butch, me finding a stolen dog food can, lotta says WOW WOW for doggie, listen closely, mako sleeping not here...
6696: everyone wants to get out
6697: beastie running to see kids (i walk) -- talk about how beastie looks like pippi who died... ollie too rough with sister
6698: family, beastie catching, tricking
6699: more catching (my puppy gustov in here: he steals the camera)
6670: more family and beastie
6671: not fair: let's take everyone else for a walk
What stories? Not too much.. Petie is kind of settled in... hangs by himself... cody was a little freaked out and is fine now: still, he can't go off the leash yet I don't think. Mako is sleeping a lot. He's old but it's not like him.
My horse fractured or bruised a bone. I think he'll be okay.
The neighbor wants to board her horse here. I'm thinking of getting chickens next year. I rented the splitter for a week: a hard long week of splitting and stacking and that will cover about 75% of my heat for the winter, but it will cost me plenty in labor and machine rental. Still cheaper than sending my money to Saudi Arabia but still... a lot of work. Is it worth it? It's nice to have a fire.
remember to go to glencadia.com/videos/ and look for today's folder...
okay here are today's videos and then some stories, if I can remember any:
6695: juan diego, my puppy wrestling with butch, me finding a stolen dog food can, lotta says WOW WOW for doggie, listen closely, mako sleeping not here...
6696: everyone wants to get out
6697: beastie running to see kids (i walk) -- talk about how beastie looks like pippi who died... ollie too rough with sister
6698: family, beastie catching, tricking
6699: more catching (my puppy gustov in here: he steals the camera)
6670: more family and beastie
6671: not fair: let's take everyone else for a walk
What stories? Not too much.. Petie is kind of settled in... hangs by himself... cody was a little freaked out and is fine now: still, he can't go off the leash yet I don't think. Mako is sleeping a lot. He's old but it's not like him.
My horse fractured or bruised a bone. I think he'll be okay.
The neighbor wants to board her horse here. I'm thinking of getting chickens next year. I rented the splitter for a week: a hard long week of splitting and stacking and that will cover about 75% of my heat for the winter, but it will cost me plenty in labor and machine rental. Still cheaper than sending my money to Saudi Arabia but still... a lot of work. Is it worth it? It's nice to have a fire.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
rain! new dogs
I've been remiss in doing videos and blogs and I'm making it quick for now too... but will do more tonight and tomorrow morning... thanks.
Again, you go to glencadia.com/videos and look for the most recent folder (07sept6-11)
Older videos
6619: our puppy, our baby, ollie and some friends
6621: puppy finds a dead mouse, baby in swing
6624: stella, rocky, mowgli, addie, ruby, petie, cocoa, blanco, ozzie, cocoa takes a bath: all from before
6625: emma, inside, open the door, let them out
6693: today when it was drizzling: digging hole, beastie, petie peeing, loona, buddy little ears....
Again, you go to glencadia.com/videos and look for the most recent folder (07sept6-11)
Older videos
6619: our puppy, our baby, ollie and some friends
6621: puppy finds a dead mouse, baby in swing
6624: stella, rocky, mowgli, addie, ruby, petie, cocoa, blanco, ozzie, cocoa takes a bath: all from before
6625: emma, inside, open the door, let them out
6693: today when it was drizzling: digging hole, beastie, petie peeing, loona, buddy little ears....
Monday, September 3, 2007
faerry house, manure rolling, sugar on mouse partol
So a lot of dogs are going home tomorrow and today... CHECK YOU RESERVATION AT GLENCADIA.COM!!!!!
I wanted to get video of everyone out for a romp. Enough yard shots yesterday, So I got most of them before I went in to download video... but everyone went.
Sugar was out for a romp and actually romped but I didn't get the camera ready and she took off running back to the barn to wait by the door to get back to work catching mice.
I had a little conversation with her about this and I thought I video-taped it...
Go to glencadia.com/videos/07sept03 and then read below
Pictures too!!!!
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept03/
Here we go:
6600: cedar, reilly, sadie, blanco, syndney, moses, cocoa, luna
6601: same group as above
6602: hey, the camera was left on!
6603. 6604, 6605: jo, rocky, hanu, grover, phoebe, annie
6606: casper, ruby, ozzie, boxer from harlem
6607-8: mako, genji, my son ollie make faerrie houses with traps and balconies while petting a puppy
I wanted to get video of everyone out for a romp. Enough yard shots yesterday, So I got most of them before I went in to download video... but everyone went.
Sugar was out for a romp and actually romped but I didn't get the camera ready and she took off running back to the barn to wait by the door to get back to work catching mice.
I had a little conversation with her about this and I thought I video-taped it...
Go to glencadia.com/videos/07sept03 and then read below
Pictures too!!!!
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept03/
Here we go:
6600: cedar, reilly, sadie, blanco, syndney, moses, cocoa, luna
6601: same group as above
6602: hey, the camera was left on!
6603. 6604, 6605: jo, rocky, hanu, grover, phoebe, annie
6606: casper, ruby, ozzie, boxer from harlem
6607-8: mako, genji, my son ollie make faerrie houses with traps and balconies while petting a puppy
Sunday, September 2, 2007
sept1-2: something cute, something funny, and no barking
First a funny story about me chasing a Jack Russell under my barn last winter (none of the 4 Jack Russells here now):
http://willep.blogspot.com/2007/04/man-squished-under-barn-on-his-birthday.html
Then, here is where the videos discussed in today's blog are:
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept01
Now, something damn cute from today:
MVI_6492: Gila and Lotta (9 months) -- they sat there like that for quite a while until I tried to get in for a close up
Now the requisite non dog video from today:
MVI_6494: Ollie, 5, flying a kite
MVI_6495: Ollie wants to get some sunflower seeds
Next, I usually do videos in the morning so the energy level of the dogs is higher than most of the day. Right now, as I write at night, there is not a peep out there in the barn. 43 dogs and NO BARKING. It takes a few days to get it like this but everyone is down with the program now. By 6 am tomorrow, it'll be loud again but the rest of the night will be nothing but crickets.
Here they are this evening before I put them all to bed (divide them up and put the blankets down, supper). Highlights: Hanu being nasty to a Casper, not smart, thanks for restraint Casper, Annie doing some weeding for me, and, no barking. Well, not much. Phoebe don't eat that. You can almost hear the geese in the distance:
MVI_6597: almost all dogs in here
Now, I'll go back to yesterday and run down the videos and try to put a little character development in there:
MVI_6546: notice the higher morning, getting to know each other energy... look here for your dog... this might be from Friday, August 31... seems like it.
MVI_6573: ollie (boy and dog) mako bothering mosese (true love)
MVI_6574: moses and ollie
6575: Ollie dog moses running
6576: Ollie's puppy gustov and ollie the dog
6578: cloud pooping, running to the house
6579: clouding pulling ollie mako ollie dog
6580: more cloud ollie mako
6581: music in the dog house, dog inventory half the dogs, give it a shot
6582: sadie cali kissing rocky kola and annie playing ozzie listening coco casper jo addie not listening at all blanco syndey
6583: ruby daisy boxer kola annie syndey ollie many more
6584: rosie gali hanu red (hanu telling rosie to shut up)
6585: sugar and her mouse hole
6586: opening the door out of the dog area-- this way is closed -- dog supply closet with 5 year holding cattle prod
6587: dusty mako
6588: tupper with jim
6589: tupper with jim again
6590: small dogs rosie gile jack russells
6591: cali being unflappable, cedar playing with syndey other dogs in and out of frame
6592: cute see above
6598: mingus tupper and malachi going home from the woods
6599: more of the above
http://willep.blogspot.com/2007/04/man-squished-under-barn-on-his-birthday.html
Then, here is where the videos discussed in today's blog are:
http://glencadia.com/videos/07sept01
Now, something damn cute from today:
MVI_6492: Gila and Lotta (9 months) -- they sat there like that for quite a while until I tried to get in for a close up
Now the requisite non dog video from today:
MVI_6494: Ollie, 5, flying a kite
MVI_6495: Ollie wants to get some sunflower seeds
Next, I usually do videos in the morning so the energy level of the dogs is higher than most of the day. Right now, as I write at night, there is not a peep out there in the barn. 43 dogs and NO BARKING. It takes a few days to get it like this but everyone is down with the program now. By 6 am tomorrow, it'll be loud again but the rest of the night will be nothing but crickets.
Here they are this evening before I put them all to bed (divide them up and put the blankets down, supper). Highlights: Hanu being nasty to a Casper, not smart, thanks for restraint Casper, Annie doing some weeding for me, and, no barking. Well, not much. Phoebe don't eat that. You can almost hear the geese in the distance:
MVI_6597: almost all dogs in here
Now, I'll go back to yesterday and run down the videos and try to put a little character development in there:
MVI_6546: notice the higher morning, getting to know each other energy... look here for your dog... this might be from Friday, August 31... seems like it.
MVI_6573: ollie (boy and dog) mako bothering mosese (true love)
MVI_6574: moses and ollie
6575: Ollie dog moses running
6576: Ollie's puppy gustov and ollie the dog
6578: cloud pooping, running to the house
6579: clouding pulling ollie mako ollie dog
6580: more cloud ollie mako
6581: music in the dog house, dog inventory half the dogs, give it a shot
6582: sadie cali kissing rocky kola and annie playing ozzie listening coco casper jo addie not listening at all blanco syndey
6583: ruby daisy boxer kola annie syndey ollie many more
6584: rosie gali hanu red (hanu telling rosie to shut up)
6585: sugar and her mouse hole
6586: opening the door out of the dog area-- this way is closed -- dog supply closet with 5 year holding cattle prod
6587: dusty mako
6588: tupper with jim
6589: tupper with jim again
6590: small dogs rosie gile jack russells
6591: cali being unflappable, cedar playing with syndey other dogs in and out of frame
6592: cute see above
6598: mingus tupper and malachi going home from the woods
6599: more of the above
Friday, August 31, 2007
about the august 31 videos
Look in today's folder on the glencadia.com site
6545: requisite non-dog video number one
6546: MISSING! I made it too long and it won't download off the camera... it was a good one though with most of the dogs in it. Canon says there is no fix for this
6547: grover digs a hole, cameos by red cedar cali hanu others
6549: molokai.... north side
6451: ziza and daisy checking out, casper, everyone else just about in the yard
6552: mako moses cloud genji driveway puppy gustov
6553: requisite non-dog video #2
6554: mako says hello to ollie (boy ollie)
6555: more mako and ollie (son) genji
6556: out and about kola phoebe ruby jo others
6557: cocoa and ollie (good catch) kola sadie
6558: red ziza others
6559: rocky cali cedar red others in squash
6560: addie red lola others
6561: addie red theo luna ollie the dog
6562: 2 jack russell addie
6563: ozzy and companion and red hook wiemeriener
6564: theo ozzie casper
6565: same as above-- okay, ozzie is totally reliable now
6566: Jim feed phoebe same crew as above, casper bites a fingers
6567: tupper theo genji
6568: same as above
6545: requisite non-dog video number one
6546: MISSING! I made it too long and it won't download off the camera... it was a good one though with most of the dogs in it. Canon says there is no fix for this
6547: grover digs a hole, cameos by red cedar cali hanu others
6549: molokai.... north side
6451: ziza and daisy checking out, casper, everyone else just about in the yard
6552: mako moses cloud genji driveway puppy gustov
6553: requisite non-dog video #2
6554: mako says hello to ollie (boy ollie)
6555: more mako and ollie (son) genji
6556: out and about kola phoebe ruby jo others
6557: cocoa and ollie (good catch) kola sadie
6558: red ziza others
6559: rocky cali cedar red others in squash
6560: addie red lola others
6561: addie red theo luna ollie the dog
6562: 2 jack russell addie
6563: ozzy and companion and red hook wiemeriener
6564: theo ozzie casper
6565: same as above-- okay, ozzie is totally reliable now
6566: Jim feed phoebe same crew as above, casper bites a fingers
6567: tupper theo genji
6568: same as above
a new cattle dog, old timers, a friday blog
First some reminders: please check your reservations online to make sure the dates are right!
http://reservation.glencadiadogcamp.com/
Then don't forget where all the videos are:
http://glencadia.com/videos/07august31/
Wait, I have to watch the baby a little and will write about the goings on and what's in the videos again in a little bit.
http://reservation.glencadiadogcamp.com/
Then don't forget where all the videos are:
http://glencadia.com/videos/07august31/
Wait, I have to watch the baby a little and will write about the goings on and what's in the videos again in a little bit.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
32 dogs and not a bark or a whine all night... then a howl... and new idea: RADIO for dogs...
Last night it was so quiet out there in the barn I didn't want to even open the door to do there beds and the whole evening routine. No sound. But I did, and they did make noise again but I left the yard open and let them go out whenever they wanted all night because it was so quiet. At about 6 am someone started howling but until then, despite the terrific bright full moon on a crystal clear perfect night, no one barked.
With 32 dogs, that's pretty unlikely.
So here is some of what happened: I've been calling Kola the wrong name. Now I got it. And Luna, we had two Lunas and now only one. They're both happy as can be. Coco seemed to be comfortable in her new digs next to the house -- but then she decided to bark yesterday afternoon and wouldn't come to me at all, so I sent my wife in and made nice-nice. Now we're good again and she's not dodging me anymore.
Molokai Moki Duece Lela and Mingus are all together... Maybe that's 6490 and before I let Lela in that room... they have 2 rooms and 2 yards.
Vern trained Malaki to stay... he's actually very trainable. I didn't get video of that. When does he go home anyway?
Genji stepped on something a limped for a minute or two... he's fine. He's lost weight up here over the past months so we're making sure he eats 2 times a day and as much as he wants. Maybe too much excercise? Maybe worms? His health his otherwise excellent. He's been up here for a long time with no de-wormer... Hey, Hilon, should I do a worm test?
Wellington is not supposed to be in general cirriculation but he seemed to like it. I took him back out of there. I told them not to put him with the others, he's unpredictable, but he loved it... and did fine. So I was wrong.
Gila is good at sneaking out when we open the door. She runs right to my son. That's in the video.
My neighbor set some traps in the woods on the way to the hay bales without telling me . He's a farmer, catching ground hogs (more death per pound for tomatoes or watermellows than beef), but I was pretty shocked when I saw them... so that field's out of comission until we talk about the situation.
No way can I do this blog on a Tuesday. I am wiped out from a busy Monday run to the city.
The weather is perfect, the dogs get alond incredibly right now... it's spectacular. I think because there were only 3 newe dogs on Monday, the group really knows each other now and they are all used to the routine and just comfortable. If you were here right now, you would not believe that there are any dogs here.
Check this link (cut and paste into a new browser window) and read comments below. Choose the file size and format you prefer in the folder below:
http://glencadia.com/videos/07august29
Okay, videos:
6487: ghenji and cloud head down the pine road from the barn to the horses, before ghenji tripped.. cloud always heads this way
6489: yard shot with all dogs almost. wiley and wellington, nice early light, moses yiping, stroll inside and see guys working
6491: oh, and innovation, new radio for the dogs: classical didn't work so they get classic rock now. i hated whatever grabage the classical station was playing. sappy druel.
6492: i hate this music, walking around the barn dog area
6493: out in the field reilly cedar roling, ghenji limps, cocoa, theo, wiley, ruby, others
6494: garabage run, zeppy, cocoa
6495: gila, ghenji, loading for dump
6496: son ollie with ghenji, gila and his puppy gustov
6497: more gila and ollie
6498: rosie red hanu daisy lola theo moses
6499: lola hanu red
6500: moses red theo lola hanu rosie NICE CLOSE UPS
6501: sadie coco
6502: sadie and coco
With 32 dogs, that's pretty unlikely.
So here is some of what happened: I've been calling Kola the wrong name. Now I got it. And Luna, we had two Lunas and now only one. They're both happy as can be. Coco seemed to be comfortable in her new digs next to the house -- but then she decided to bark yesterday afternoon and wouldn't come to me at all, so I sent my wife in and made nice-nice. Now we're good again and she's not dodging me anymore.
Molokai Moki Duece Lela and Mingus are all together... Maybe that's 6490 and before I let Lela in that room... they have 2 rooms and 2 yards.
Vern trained Malaki to stay... he's actually very trainable. I didn't get video of that. When does he go home anyway?
Genji stepped on something a limped for a minute or two... he's fine. He's lost weight up here over the past months so we're making sure he eats 2 times a day and as much as he wants. Maybe too much excercise? Maybe worms? His health his otherwise excellent. He's been up here for a long time with no de-wormer... Hey, Hilon, should I do a worm test?
Wellington is not supposed to be in general cirriculation but he seemed to like it. I took him back out of there. I told them not to put him with the others, he's unpredictable, but he loved it... and did fine. So I was wrong.
Gila is good at sneaking out when we open the door. She runs right to my son. That's in the video.
My neighbor set some traps in the woods on the way to the hay bales without telling me . He's a farmer, catching ground hogs (more death per pound for tomatoes or watermellows than beef), but I was pretty shocked when I saw them... so that field's out of comission until we talk about the situation.
No way can I do this blog on a Tuesday. I am wiped out from a busy Monday run to the city.
The weather is perfect, the dogs get alond incredibly right now... it's spectacular. I think because there were only 3 newe dogs on Monday, the group really knows each other now and they are all used to the routine and just comfortable. If you were here right now, you would not believe that there are any dogs here.
Check this link (cut and paste into a new browser window) and read comments below. Choose the file size and format you prefer in the folder below:
http://glencadia.com/videos/07august29
Okay, videos:
6487: ghenji and cloud head down the pine road from the barn to the horses, before ghenji tripped.. cloud always heads this way
6489: yard shot with all dogs almost. wiley and wellington, nice early light, moses yiping, stroll inside and see guys working
6491: oh, and innovation, new radio for the dogs: classical didn't work so they get classic rock now. i hated whatever grabage the classical station was playing. sappy druel.
6492: i hate this music, walking around the barn dog area
6493: out in the field reilly cedar roling, ghenji limps, cocoa, theo, wiley, ruby, others
6494: garabage run, zeppy, cocoa
6495: gila, ghenji, loading for dump
6496: son ollie with ghenji, gila and his puppy gustov
6497: more gila and ollie
6498: rosie red hanu daisy lola theo moses
6499: lola hanu red
6500: moses red theo lola hanu rosie NICE CLOSE UPS
6501: sadie coco
6502: sadie and coco
Monday, August 27, 2007
my son gets knocked over, splashing in the dog pool, horse cameos: day 2 of the blog
Today I will make sure to get Coco and Cocao in there, Blanco, Moka (hey what is this, the Starbucks menu?), Addie and Lela (Williamsburg hounds), and a bunch I didn't get before...
With Coco I finally decided that she was cool with the dogs but still nervious with me. Since she's quiet, I put her in the area right next to my house. Then she can see us come in and out of the house all day. That's working nicely.
Branco is in there too to be with Lady Day. Vern is scared of Branco and I have to clean that area now... I can't believe he's scared of Branco, the most mellow old fellow. But he says he growls at him... and it's pretty messy in there.
Other video highlights: Hector swims in the yard, or splashes around, Annie is learning how she wants to be with other dogs, and she should tone it down for her own sake, so I broke Lucy and Annie up -- bad combo. Lucy was also going around provoking. Two peas in a pod today. But they're all walked, fed and watered now, I re-arranged the groups and I do not hear any barking at all anywhere.
Oh, and Jaka get sprayed with a hose. She likes that, although in the video it doesn't look like it so clearly. Ruby also likes that. Ruby is all over this one too.
And we go past the horse fence -- you get a few horse cameos in there.
That's offen how it goes: by the time the dogs settle down and I figure them all out, it's Monday and everyone goes home and a new bunch comes in and everything starts over again.
Okay go to http://glencadia.com/video/07august27 and look for the numbers.
VIDEO UP AFTER NOON!!!!!
MVI_6473: Coco over in the front cage by the house with a dirty camera lense, our dog Gustov, my baby screeming, Lady Day and Branco, Moses (who was later sent back to barn for excessive barking during baby sleep time), and a puppy falling in a bucket.
MVI_6473: Jaka getting her morning rinse before it gets hot.
MVI_6475: Yard with tons of dogs, including a lot of barking and Cocoa being cool. Tons of dogs.
MVI_6476: Reilly, Blanco, Storm, others in the yard
MVI_6477: Addie cool, lots of playing, Lucy barking at Hector, piles of dogs
MVI_6478: Ollie ignoring a comotion, dogs everywhere but Ollie stays calm and collected, Elvis gets in front of the camera, two golden doodles, Hector splashing, Storm, Moka and Annie in a tirangle
MVI_6479: Lucy and Annie don not get along. Lot of other dogs.
MVI_6480: By horse fence, Princess Elvis, Ghenji, Amari, Murphy, Moka, Cacao and the fences are confusing and we can't seem to get it together... then we do, Evlis and Moka tumble
MVI_6481: Same group as above with me trying various pronunciations of Cacao in order to get him to turn around. Same group as above and a pretty funny video here.
MVI_6482: Same as above with rolling.
MVI_6483: My son tries to catch Rielly who knocks him off his bike. Also in on this: Remy, Ruby, Miles, Lela, Ghenji, Murphy or Murphy look alike... who is that dog with long black fur and brown who isn't Murphy? Yikes...
MVI_6484 and 5: same group as above
MVI_6485: Williamsburg Hounds
See a lot of you tonight. I need to go get the rental van and then get a nap in... see ya.
With Coco I finally decided that she was cool with the dogs but still nervious with me. Since she's quiet, I put her in the area right next to my house. Then she can see us come in and out of the house all day. That's working nicely.
Branco is in there too to be with Lady Day. Vern is scared of Branco and I have to clean that area now... I can't believe he's scared of Branco, the most mellow old fellow. But he says he growls at him... and it's pretty messy in there.
Other video highlights: Hector swims in the yard, or splashes around, Annie is learning how she wants to be with other dogs, and she should tone it down for her own sake, so I broke Lucy and Annie up -- bad combo. Lucy was also going around provoking. Two peas in a pod today. But they're all walked, fed and watered now, I re-arranged the groups and I do not hear any barking at all anywhere.
Oh, and Jaka get sprayed with a hose. She likes that, although in the video it doesn't look like it so clearly. Ruby also likes that. Ruby is all over this one too.
And we go past the horse fence -- you get a few horse cameos in there.
That's offen how it goes: by the time the dogs settle down and I figure them all out, it's Monday and everyone goes home and a new bunch comes in and everything starts over again.
Okay go to http://glencadia.com/video/07august27 and look for the numbers.
VIDEO UP AFTER NOON!!!!!
MVI_6473: Coco over in the front cage by the house with a dirty camera lense, our dog Gustov, my baby screeming, Lady Day and Branco, Moses (who was later sent back to barn for excessive barking during baby sleep time), and a puppy falling in a bucket.
MVI_6473: Jaka getting her morning rinse before it gets hot.
MVI_6475: Yard with tons of dogs, including a lot of barking and Cocoa being cool. Tons of dogs.
MVI_6476: Reilly, Blanco, Storm, others in the yard
MVI_6477: Addie cool, lots of playing, Lucy barking at Hector, piles of dogs
MVI_6478: Ollie ignoring a comotion, dogs everywhere but Ollie stays calm and collected, Elvis gets in front of the camera, two golden doodles, Hector splashing, Storm, Moka and Annie in a tirangle
MVI_6479: Lucy and Annie don not get along. Lot of other dogs.
MVI_6480: By horse fence, Princess Elvis, Ghenji, Amari, Murphy, Moka, Cacao and the fences are confusing and we can't seem to get it together... then we do, Evlis and Moka tumble
MVI_6481: Same group as above with me trying various pronunciations of Cacao in order to get him to turn around. Same group as above and a pretty funny video here.
MVI_6482: Same as above with rolling.
MVI_6483: My son tries to catch Rielly who knocks him off his bike. Also in on this: Remy, Ruby, Miles, Lela, Ghenji, Murphy or Murphy look alike... who is that dog with long black fur and brown who isn't Murphy? Yikes...
MVI_6484 and 5: same group as above
MVI_6485: Williamsburg Hounds
See a lot of you tonight. I need to go get the rental van and then get a nap in... see ya.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
day one of the dog blog
This is a new thing, writing a little comething about what goes on around here everyday or two or three. We'll see if I can keep up with it. I think it would be fun and people would like it and walking around when stuff happens I think to myself, "If I had that blog going I could write about this." But then... I don't and I forget yesterday.
So this is no substitute for trolling through the videos in the folder, where I dump them.
So let's inaggurate (and there is no spell check in the browser and I'm not writing it in some word processing and cutting and pasting because I want no extra steps or I won't do it) the dog blog with a really great little video:
(Note: quicktime MOV are higher res and slower with better quality as a rule of thumb)
Here my new little puppy Gustav takes old Lady Day for a walk. That is really cute. I tell you, cute stuff like that happens everyday.
The next problem I had was distinguishing between Princess (manhattan), Greta, Phoebe, Noah, and Miles in videos. In person, I can tell them apart but I challenge the owners to do it in these videos:
Here's Addie, Rosie, everyone else, Lucy winning at fetch... you'll hear Vern talking in the back about Branco, who doesn't like Vern and won't let him in the room (or is that en excuse not to clean that room?).
Ollie and Murphy... some other fellas here in the barn:
Where's Koda? By herself...she didn't want to get a long.
So that's some of the barn shots. There are a lot more from today and yesterday. Go back to the videos folder and look around.
And we take everyone out for a toot every day. They might go off to the hay bales:
Lot more of that run in the folder.
Today my wife and family went to clean the school day (clean all the toys):
Yesterday Ollie hung around to make trouble:
(Vern gets a ride to work with his aunt).
But Ollie also helps out. I can tell Amani is good with kids without knowing if she lives with kids or not.
Here is another horse field. Amani is actually pretty fast, despite her mellow disposition.
Oh, and Theo came back in the next video:
Here he comes back and we go to the swamp formerly known as my pond (man, is it dry!)
Dogs like it. Miles, Remy... who else is in here? Brooklyn Princess.
Here I let a bunch of fluffy dogs (Milo, Cedar, Jo) with no leashes (and Suki).
In the next few videos you see where we went.
And I built a caged area by the pond and took some smallies there (Gila, Rosie, Red, Matilda, who else?).
I thought I could leave them there but they didn't like to be so far from the house. It is water front property but they don't see the value of it. It's now really mud front property but it'll be water front property next Spring.
Where's Moki? Moki systematically KNOCKED OVER EVERY BUCKET in the barn. You might say it was an act of civil disobdience, non-violent resistance. But resistance to what? What did he hope to achieve?
I kind of think the goal of his action was... well.. to knock all the buckets over. So he's allowed to run around whereever he wants for a few hours every morning and evening and can go in only one room in barn -- so I only have to refill one bucket.
Here's the water spiller:
These guys are spending their days out in the woods. Why? Mingus can jump the wood fence, Duece was involved in an incident in 2006 for which his general yard priviledges have been revoked, Malaki is just plain crazy and Holly is too much dog for little or older dogs. So they go here until dusk:
What else? Red has the hots for Bella... everyone has the hots for Bella. Bella has to eat by herself, she gets mean for a little girl. Here they are:
What else? Wellington is fine, Wiley hasn't run away, Castro is calmer... Addie is comfortable. All these dogs are in videos too.
This blog has been fun. If I didn't mention your dog it's because he's over in the torture area with Michael Vick. You know how many Michael Vick jokes I've had to deal with? Jim (who is videos somewhere too) says a customer said, "Dog camp, isn't that the kind of place that tortures dogs?" Jim had no idea what to say to that. But then this person handed the dog over and we took him/her up here. What kind of question is that? Of course we torture dogs.
Okay, enough terrible jokes. All the dogs are fine except that I am sorry to report that .... kennel cough is back. We have been vaccinating and have other methods of treatment available -- so if your dog is coughing let me know and I can help out.
I thought we had this licked. Apparently not. Other than that, things seem good. Our scared dogs -- Ollie, Addie, Castro -- have mellowed out. Our runaway -- Wiley -- is not going anywhere. Our older ladies are fine-- Lady Day, Emma...
Oh, and Jim got bit when MurphyBrown got stuck in some horse wire last week... His arm is fine. And he didn't quit, which is great for me. I really need him: he's fixing the fences right now while I right this and he fixed my van and he shows up after driving... one tough Texan, as a Texan should be.
I found some cigarette in the van and my first thought was "Damn, he smokes, now my van is going to smell--- " then I cought myself. How could my van smell worse than it does when a dog... when somone's dog... well, it can smell pretty bad. Now that I think about it, I wish Jim would smoke some big old cigars in there. That would help a little.
Oh, Emma and Emma live on the same street in Brooklyn. Emma is going to be out first grooming victim-- nails cut, teeth-cleaned, hair done... new service costs $40. Jim's daughter-in-law will do it....
That's it. Got to glencadia.com and click reservation if you need to amend or make a reservation click video if you need to see your dog and we'll see you all later.
So this is no substitute for trolling through the videos in the folder, where I dump them.
So let's inaggurate (and there is no spell check in the browser and I'm not writing it in some word processing and cutting and pasting because I want no extra steps or I won't do it) the dog blog with a really great little video:
(Note: quicktime MOV are higher res and slower with better quality as a rule of thumb)
Here my new little puppy Gustav takes old Lady Day for a walk. That is really cute. I tell you, cute stuff like that happens everyday.
The next problem I had was distinguishing between Princess (manhattan), Greta, Phoebe, Noah, and Miles in videos. In person, I can tell them apart but I challenge the owners to do it in these videos:
Here's Addie, Rosie, everyone else, Lucy winning at fetch... you'll hear Vern talking in the back about Branco, who doesn't like Vern and won't let him in the room (or is that en excuse not to clean that room?).
Ollie and Murphy... some other fellas here in the barn:
Where's Koda? By herself...she didn't want to get a long.
So that's some of the barn shots. There are a lot more from today and yesterday. Go back to the videos folder and look around.
And we take everyone out for a toot every day. They might go off to the hay bales:
Lot more of that run in the folder.
Today my wife and family went to clean the school day (clean all the toys):
Yesterday Ollie hung around to make trouble:
(Vern gets a ride to work with his aunt).
But Ollie also helps out. I can tell Amani is good with kids without knowing if she lives with kids or not.
Here is another horse field. Amani is actually pretty fast, despite her mellow disposition.
Oh, and Theo came back in the next video:
Here he comes back and we go to the swamp formerly known as my pond (man, is it dry!)
Dogs like it. Miles, Remy... who else is in here? Brooklyn Princess.
Here I let a bunch of fluffy dogs (Milo, Cedar, Jo) with no leashes (and Suki).
In the next few videos you see where we went.
And I built a caged area by the pond and took some smallies there (Gila, Rosie, Red, Matilda, who else?).
I thought I could leave them there but they didn't like to be so far from the house. It is water front property but they don't see the value of it. It's now really mud front property but it'll be water front property next Spring.
Where's Moki? Moki systematically KNOCKED OVER EVERY BUCKET in the barn. You might say it was an act of civil disobdience, non-violent resistance. But resistance to what? What did he hope to achieve?
I kind of think the goal of his action was... well.. to knock all the buckets over. So he's allowed to run around whereever he wants for a few hours every morning and evening and can go in only one room in barn -- so I only have to refill one bucket.
Here's the water spiller:
These guys are spending their days out in the woods. Why? Mingus can jump the wood fence, Duece was involved in an incident in 2006 for which his general yard priviledges have been revoked, Malaki is just plain crazy and Holly is too much dog for little or older dogs. So they go here until dusk:
What else? Red has the hots for Bella... everyone has the hots for Bella. Bella has to eat by herself, she gets mean for a little girl. Here they are:
What else? Wellington is fine, Wiley hasn't run away, Castro is calmer... Addie is comfortable. All these dogs are in videos too.
This blog has been fun. If I didn't mention your dog it's because he's over in the torture area with Michael Vick. You know how many Michael Vick jokes I've had to deal with? Jim (who is videos somewhere too) says a customer said, "Dog camp, isn't that the kind of place that tortures dogs?" Jim had no idea what to say to that. But then this person handed the dog over and we took him/her up here. What kind of question is that? Of course we torture dogs.
Okay, enough terrible jokes. All the dogs are fine except that I am sorry to report that .... kennel cough is back. We have been vaccinating and have other methods of treatment available -- so if your dog is coughing let me know and I can help out.
I thought we had this licked. Apparently not. Other than that, things seem good. Our scared dogs -- Ollie, Addie, Castro -- have mellowed out. Our runaway -- Wiley -- is not going anywhere. Our older ladies are fine-- Lady Day, Emma...
Oh, and Jim got bit when MurphyBrown got stuck in some horse wire last week... His arm is fine. And he didn't quit, which is great for me. I really need him: he's fixing the fences right now while I right this and he fixed my van and he shows up after driving... one tough Texan, as a Texan should be.
I found some cigarette in the van and my first thought was "Damn, he smokes, now my van is going to smell--- " then I cought myself. How could my van smell worse than it does when a dog... when somone's dog... well, it can smell pretty bad. Now that I think about it, I wish Jim would smoke some big old cigars in there. That would help a little.
Oh, Emma and Emma live on the same street in Brooklyn. Emma is going to be out first grooming victim-- nails cut, teeth-cleaned, hair done... new service costs $40. Jim's daughter-in-law will do it....
That's it. Got to glencadia.com and click reservation if you need to amend or make a reservation click video if you need to see your dog and we'll see you all later.
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