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Happy Birthday to my Sadie

 
Today Sadie turns five years old. She and all her litter mates were a big surprise. When my cousin came home from his honeymoon his dog Bell had a littler of puppies that no one knew were coming. The first time we went to see them I knew that Sadie was meant to be ours. Her two favorite things are her soccer ball and my Hubs. She would follow him anywhere. Every morning when he leaves for work she herds his car and sits at the top of the lane and waits for him to come back.

 
Sadie is afraid of our goats and horses. When she was a puppy she touched her nose to the electric fence at the same time as she touched noses with one of our lambs and got a big shock. In her mind I think that she believes that the lamb shocked her. We joke around that she thinks that the animals shoot lasers out of their eyes to shock her, because she refuses to even look at them. So instead of herding animals she herds the car and our gator. Border collies tend to be obsessive compulsive, and she is. Just not about chasing sheep!

Foofindoofin

I took a walk this evening and Finny (also known as Foofindoofin) tagged along. I find him sitting in this spot a lot. Waiting for the goats to come and hang out by the fence. He lives for the goats to come to the fence. Miss H has been taking him into the paddock at feeding time. He likes to play with the goats. He bites them on the neck like they are dogs. Cocoa has given him a couple good head butts, he doesn't seem to mind.

He sticks pretty close to me most of the time, following me just about everywhere I go. He likes to snuggle up when I don't feel well. His behavior seems to be getting a little better. It's been a while since he has overturned a full trash can. His one vice is digging holes, but we're working on it. A friend suggested to sprinkle black pepper into the holes that he digs in. I am willing to try it.

It's a good thing he's so cute! 

  
  

Water, Sharks and Other Sea Life

We had a great week on vacation. I enjoyed every bit of it. I perked up after Sunday and was able to enjoy my time away.

We had some interesting sea life encounters, in all my life I have never seen so much aquatic life at our favorite beach, Bethany Beach Delaware.

We always see porpoises every year sometimes close to shore and sometimes a bit farther out. I love seeing them. I have seen them jump out of the water on several occasions. 
 
But this year we had several encounters with other sea life. In one afternoon we saw 3 sharks, fins sticking up out of the water just like in Jaws. I could hear the music playing in my head. At one point there was a fin approaching a woman floating in the water and it came with in a foot of her. Everyone was yelling at her but she didn't hear them or see the shark. She was un harmed but a bit shaken up. The lifeguards said they were harmless baby sand sharks, but nothing makes seeing those fins in the water at all comfortable for me. I don't care how little they are.

 
We also saw a lot of skates in the water. They didn't bother me as much. They just flapped around a lot. Several  of our girls got brushed by them in the water.

While we were at the beach a whale was spotted off the shore of Ocean City Maryland, not far away from where we were. That would have been an amazing thing to see! The girls kept us pretty entertained though!  

Finny Friday-The last straw

I know it's not really Friday, but I have chemo tomorrow so I am posting today. I have had a pretty good week not including Monday or Wednesday. We will just call those days unpleasant and move on.

You see I have been having a problem, a problem with this, this boyo. He has been a bad boy this week. He has been on a rampage and it hasn't been pretty. He started off chewing Little E's tennis shoes that had been left to dry on the porch after a field trip and a dip into the bay. Then he started rolling in, well I'm not sure what it is he has been rolling in but lets just say it's NASTY! Out of the last 6 days he has had 6 baths. Did I mention he does not like his baths? He runs and hides as soon as he sees the hose.

Then came the day, The day it all came tumbling down.  His innocence was lost he could hide it no longer. He spent a nice day outside in the sun and clean air. I was happy that he was so happy to be outside. Until I found these, Miss H's riding boots Very expensive riding boots. I lost it, he could see it in my eyes and he took off!

 

After I caught up with him he could not deny it. I could see the guilt on his face. He knew he had done a bad thing.

We had a long talk about his behavior. I think it did the trick. So far so good, no more boots or shoes have been harmed. 

He made me promise and I am going to hold him to it. No more chewing!

He is still rolling in NASTY and we are working on that.

He is very very lucky that he is cute!  
 

Flitting

I spent a good part of my afternoon on Saturday trying to get a few shots of the hummingbirds that come to my feeder. They are fast little buggers!

I got buzzed a couple of times, It always startles me. I never get used to it. It was nice to sit a bit farther away with my zoom lens.

I had a lot of company too, other than the hummingbirds.

It's hard work being Finny!