Oh to be a puppy!
Luna has been sleeping in the house more. Mainly because the combination of night-time freezing temps and damp have given her a finer appreciation of being (relatively) warm and dry inside.
Because of this, we’ve given-in on “the couch issue.” Our change-of-heart stems from enlightened self-interest – if she sleeps on the couch she is more likely to sleep through the night – and not wake us up.
And besides, she looks so damn smug and happy when we wake her up in the morning. Who could resist that?
BTW, that’s a six-foot-wide cushion on the couch.
p.s. Luna turns two-years-old today (June 15th). We’ll have a little party for her this weekend.
Luna looks sooooo content and cozy.
Luna looks like a dog after my own heart.
Ahhhhh to nap that well. 🙂
I think that’s when I’m most jealous of my pets – watching them sleep.
I wish I could be so oblivious to world around me that I could spend hours and hours just blissfully sleeping the day away.
Of course, our housemate can do that, and we don’t really think of her as a pet (just sometimes). 😉
Well actually in my world I think it’s the other way around. George is jealous of the way I can sleep. 🙂
Hi keres!
I have just discovered your blog and Luna. I was browsing the net for Great Pyrs as I have myself one, a 6 years old boy. We live in Budapest, Hungary, on the other end of the world!
Luna looks so sweet!
Cheers
never turns down a soft surface, he was so exhausted from playing for an entire five minutes the other day that he fell asleep sitting up.
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That’s what I like about Bud, he’s so versatile.
Bud looks like he just got through one of those courses that he has to jump and run. He’s got a real smug look about doing it. 🙂
Hopeful doesn’t care where he sleeps just so long as he’s in the sun.
Like that pile could let go at any moment … 🙂
I thought that too. I guess you can tell who the worry-worts are. ;
A very sound strategy.
In fact, more dogs should be put in charge of strategic planning.
All the ducks, sans the two drakes, are standing on the roof of one of our sheds. Either they are doing it to get away from the boys (quite likely, as Boofy has been behaving badly), or they are trying to warm their big webby toes.
but what I really like about this picture is the view of the hilly countryside.
Yeah, we’ve got a great view, in just about every direction.
Tasmania had the most recent volcanic activity of anywhere in Australia (around 400,000 years ago, if I remember correctly). So, while most of Australia is flat, most of Tasmania is hilly.
This goes back to our “poor soils” discussion, which I was actually thinking about yesterday when we were having 100kph winds. Hardly a branch came down, and none of those were any big. If we counted of deadfall for firewood we’d freeze. The trees here are very adapted to strong winds.
What the trees here do drop is their long strings of bark. Which helps put nutrients back into the soil around their bases. Very clever.
It’d be nice if our trees wouldn’t shed limbs in high winds — we wouldn’t lose our electricity nearly as often.
I like volcanic topography — got any columnar basalt?
I’m a big fan of columnar basalt – especially Devils Tower. Tasmania is one of the few places in the world with dolerite columns, and Mt. Wellington, which rises above Hobart, is topped with them. I’lll try and find you a photo.
Fascinating geology — sounds like a really fine place to go hiking.
Here’s a photo of the Organ Pipes.
And another.
And one from the top of Mount Wellington looking down onto Hobart and surrounds.
I really like the looks of those cliffs. Now I’m really ready to go hike there (except for the unfortunate lengthy travel time and cost of the airfare).
I think it took about 22 hours to get to Hobart from LAX, including a short stop-over in Melbourne. So yep, it’s a looooooong flight.
But you could keep your costs down by staying in our spare bedroom, if’n you ever get this far.
The great thing about exploring Tasmania, is that it really is a jammed-packed little island, with nothing more than a four hours drive away, and most things only an hour or two from a Hobart.
never made it to Tasmania on my trips down under, would love to get there and NZ…and you’re absolutely right on the trip…Denver to Melbourne was @ 26 hrs. w/ layovers in LA and Sydney.