Merry Christmas

Season's Greetings, Merry Christmas, and/or happy whatever else you do, or don't, celebrate at this time of year ...

Dogs, Cats and Crochet ...

I was just posting something to my main blog ( www.aykayem.blogspot.com ) and I also included this photo of the scarf ... on the dog ...



note the cats on the bed WITH the dog! LOL ... the dog only chases the cats if they run ... btw - the dog is called Diesel ... and that is Pixel (who is almost 17 years old!) lying almost on top of him ... and Spook is half out of the corner of the photo (she is the one who came and sat ON the scarf as soon as I laid it out on the bed)

actually, I was going to just post some other photos here, and had this editing window open too ... and accidentally put the photo and stuff on this one ... luckily I noticed before I posted it - LOL

Now for the other photos - the ones that I was going to put here!

... they will have to wait until later - have to go out somewhere shortly so I will save this as a draft and finish putting the photos in whenever I remember to log back in and do it!

... A few weeks later:

I wonder what photos I was going to put here?

Oh well ... I guess I will just add the one I was going to post now (I found this draft here when I logged in to post one photo here, and a few others to http://www.aykayem.blogspot.com ) and then I can post the others when/IF I remember what they were ...

so ... in the meantime ... here is Diesel, sleeping on one of his favourite places, in one of his favourite positions ... weird dog!

btw, the blue thing in the bottom of the photo is a cushion cover I did, in Tunisian crochet, a few years ago ... the light blue (and dark red but you can't really see that in the photo) design is done in cross stitch after the thing is crocheted ... I think I made up the cross stitch cat design - it is cats because the friend who wrote the cushion cover pattern (and taught me how to do Tunisian crochet ;-) loves cats.

gee - the stuff I have just written about now matches the title I gave this post when I first started writing it!

LOL

Mmmmmmmmm, coconut ...

This might work ...
(if it does, it is a video of Diesel, eating some dessicated coconut that was past it's "use by" date ;-)




if it didn't work, then I guess you will just have to go and look at it at http://youtube.com/watch?v=eQnfT6QpjYU

Cute Puppy + Water = ?

This is the same cute puppy as the other photo (this one was taken within a few days of that other photo too) ... we went and watered the trees, that our Landcare group had planted, next to a pond ... and, of course, Diesel had to go for a swim ...



yes - that is grass he is standing on - you can see why the trees needed some water!
(it was hot, it was dry, it was windy, and this photo was taken 2 days before the bushfires came in to Canberra in January 2003)


Here is another photo, same place, a couple of weeks later ... same dog, after doing the same thing, but this time he found more mud ...




and ... a few days later, same place, same thing again -
(except this time we were not watering trees - it was a stinking hot day and the kids wanted to go there for a swim!)




and ... if you can't find mud - then some dust will do!
(the joys of living in a new estate with all the building sites/piles of dirt/etc nearby - and yes - if you look closely among that dust, you can also make out the shape of one very grotty child who was definitely going straight in the bath/shower when she got home!)



oops ... where did the evening go?!

... I will find some more photos to put in here later (ones when he is older, and covered in even more mud/etc ;-)

goodnight

a silly cat thingy, and a cute cat thingy ...

This blog seemed like a good place to put this URL
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4057591681481453187
(maybe I should resist the temptation to go look at "featured blogs" that come up on the log in page when I log in to post stuff on one of my blogs? :-)

of course, while I was there, I had to type "cat" into the google video search thingy and see what else I found - there were quite a few silly things,
and ...
... a cat riding a pony!
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5990602603926912016

NOT Spot :-)

... but a blog called "Spot" just has to have a picture of a cute puppy in it!

His name is Diesel



(he is 3 years old now, but he was only a pup when this photo was taken, in January 2003)

A blog called "Spot"

Why a blog called "Spot"?


Why not?


When I was learning to read at school, we had a reader about some kids and a dog called Spot, when my kids were little they used to like books (and the TV show) about a different dog who was also called Spot.


On the TV show "Star Trek" the android, Data, has a cat called Spot.


So ... after some absent minded daydreaming earlier this evening (about how my other blogs are here on blogSPOT) ... I decided to have a blog called Spot


Now ... I guess I had better go and edit it and add my bits to it, and change a few of the weird colours that it has on the template that I used. (knowing a little bit of basic html comes in handy ... could also be dangerous too I guess - especially seeing that the only html I know is what I have worked out/taught myself while messing around with web pages and blogs and stuff! ;-)