I survived ..... but only just!!

Crikey I'm over this .... I survived .... but only just!!  A break in the weather????  I could say something but it would be too rude.  There was a break in the weather. Enough for us to get out the door, into the car, drive for 5minutes to the golf course,  and walk 100 metres through a river of water before the sky opened up yet again.

This is the view out the front of our house.  It sure looked promising, aye??  First blue sky for days.  

She had a coat on of sorts and was carrying a big umbrella. We don't need heavy duty rain gear in Noosa so Mum's not really equipped for COLD, wet weather.  I was NAKED!!!!!  She expected me to chase the stupid ball ..... IN THE RAIN!!!!  Yeah ... like that's going to happen.  The only way I was running was back to the car. Did she ever call me some names.  Wuss was one of them, I recall.  Hmmmmmmph!!  We sat in the car for a while. I taught Mum a thing or two.  Crikey I was busting. Mum reckons I nearly gassed her to death.  She's been feeding me these new treats. Tripe!!!  Crikey they're good but they do give me ... ahhhhh ... to put it nicely ..... tummy rumbles.  The rain stopped again, after a bit, and off we went AGAIN!!  I was no sooner out of the car than I did a whopper of a 'you know what'.  I chased the ball, we walked and walked and I did 4 more 'you know whats'. Yep ..... you heard right!!  FOUR!!  That made 5 altogether.  

At least it's dry here!!

Can you see me?? I'm there!!

See ..... told you!!

I'm a great retriever, aye??

The dams a bit full

Just when we got about as far away from the car as we could the sky opened up again. I was off!!  I ran like you wouldn't believe. Straight back to the car and straight under it. It took Mum a while to get back. You should have seen her.  OMD!!  What a sorry sight.  She looked as if she'd been for a swim in one of the dams.  

Her fingers had turned all pruney and her Raynauds was playing up. Only one finger though. Not too bad, aye??

Serves her right ..... we could've stayed at home. I could have held those 5 'you know whats' in for another day or two. 

There's a great view of the escarpment out there ... you'll have to take my word for it I'm afraid.  

Crikey .... there wasn't any water here yesterday.  

Wow ..... there's a BIG waterfall at the end of this but there's no way we were walking down there to have a squiz.

pretty, aye??

Wanna run ... Love, Charlie. 

Rain, Rain, Rain!!!

Crikey ...... WHY!!!!!!!!  We are on a road trip and it's RAINED nearly every day.  We haven't had any rain at home for so long we almost forgot what it looked like and we go on a road trip and what do we see ..... RAIN, RAIN, RAIN!!  Yesterday and today have been the worst.  The storms ..... OMD!!!!!  I'm not usually worried by storms but you should have been in the storm we were in yesterday.  I was terrified.  I nearly tripped Mum over so many times trying to protect her. She had no fear and I kept trying to drag her inside.  Crikey she's a handful sometimes.  There was hail.  I got all excited for a bit thinking it was snow but if that's what snow's like you can keep it. I got pelted by the stuff and it hurts.  Thank goodness there wasn't too much of it.  It wasn't raining when I woke up this morning. I went out for a pee and it's now 3pm and I haven't been outside since. Mum's tried to push me out the door but ..... NO WAY ... I'm not going out in that!!

The font yard!

The front yard long the other way

The backyard!

More backyard. 

    Ok ... so we are trying the video again .... might work.  

AND it's cold .... must be about 14C.  My ears are cold.  Crikey .... my everything is cold!!  Rain ...... hmmmmmmph .... who needs it??

Oh No!!  Mum says there's a small break in the weather. It doesn't look like it to me.  She's taking me for a run.  I don't want to go.      I'll tell you about it if I survive.

Wanna run ...... Love, Charlie.

Get a load of this bloke!!!

Crikey ..... get a load of this bloke.  He's turning into Murphy.  He's eating a chicken wing. If I were there I'd be eating more than a chicken wing.

Crikey Herbie ..... it's a chook, mate ....... get it!!!

Someone told our Jen that guinea fowl are good things to have on your property.  They kill small snakes and they eat ticks.  We have these horrible ticks where we live and snakes.  Ticks kill us dog blokes. AND cats.  Snakes too I guess but I reckon I'd kill a snake before it killed me.  Get a tick on you though and your dead in three days. They paralyse you. Not a nice way to go I hear.  Most dogs have to take medication to prevent ticks.  Herbie's on medication.  I'm not. I'm a bit iffy with medication.  I've got real short hair and Mum reckons she'd find a tick on me before it did any damage. I s'pose she's right. She does go over me with a fine tooth comb every night but I sure don't want to get one of those tick blokes on me.  I've had one so far but Mum spotted it before it even latched on.  Anyway I'm digressing.  Those guinea fowl blokes???  Our Jen got 3 when they were tiny, wee, babies. She was told to put 'em in with the chooks for a few weeks and then to let 'em go and they would head for the nearest tree and hang around the property for the rest of their days where they would take care of all the vermin. Great idea thought Jen!  Well those guinea fowl had other ideas.  When Jen let them go they just stayed with the chooks.  Talk about good Mothers.  Those chooks looked after them so well  they decided they weren't going to leave home ..... EVER!!  All they eat is chook food and they are BIG now.  No ticks or snakes for them.  Jen reckons they are keeping her broke. I've offered to help out but no-one listens to me.  I wonder what guinea fowl tastes like.  Has anyone tried one??

Crikey Herbie ..... I know Murphs is watching over you but ..... REALLY .....  it's not normal, mate!!

Wanna run ...... Love, Charlie.

Oh My ..... Mum's gone all crafty!!

Crikey!!   Wonders will never cease.  Mum's knitting!!  Who knew she could knit????  I sure didn't.  I didn't think she had any talents she was aware of.  She's knitting me a coat for winter.  How good is that??  Well .... we'll wait and see, aye??  I'm hard to fit. I've got a big, deep chest.  AND ..... I don't like acrylic.  It gets all that static electricity stuff.  Mum's using pure Aussie wool.  Crikey ...... I wonder if she'll ever finish it.  She keeps wishing I was a Chihuahua.  Hahahahahahahaha!!  ME .... a chihuahua!!!  Hahahahahahah!!   Here's what it looks like so far

Getting there! She's only dropped two stitches so far.  She found 'em though so no holes ..... YET!!

This is what it's supposed to look like when finished.  Mum's not putting the bauble things on it. Thank goodness for that, aye??

I sure hope I can parade it for you when it's finished.  IF it EVER gets finished that is!!

Wanna run ... Love, Charlie.

On the road again!!

Crikey ..... it's been a while, aye?  We are on the road again.   We've had a few nights at my favourite beach, Nambucca NSW and we are now in the blue mountains again for 2 weeks. Dad's working so Mum and I are just doing lots of walking and hanging out with friends we have met up here over the years.  It's been cold ....... yaaaaaaaaaay!!!!  AND wet ......  yuck!!  Two days of rain, mist and fog when we first arrived.  Fair dinkum ..... woke Mum up a bit. She's been plaguing all you blokes in snow country for snow pictures and 2 days of rainy, misty, foggy weather and she's over it.  AND when she's talking cold she's talking 17C or 62F.  She reckons that's freezing.  BUT ..... the suns out now. It's still cool but the perfect temperature or so Mum reckons.  I like it.  I go crazy when its safe for me to be off lead. I run and run. I never get tired when it's cool.  I LOVE it.  It's still hot at home.  Real hot and dry. Our Jen's tanks are nearly empty again and she only recently had to buy water.  Looks as if she'll be buying more soon.  The little girls are loving it though. They've got a big pool now. That's where a lot of their water went but it's certainly worth it.  In the temperatures up there you need to be able to cool off and it's not always convenient to head to the beach. They are a bit further away from the beach than we are.  When we leave here we are heading to Victoria.  We are staying at a real pretty place called Beechworth.  I'll try and keep you posted with pretty pictures. Here's some we have taken so far. It's better if you biggefy them.

Our favourite beach at Nambucca.  It was high tide. Pretty, aye??

Yep .... that's me on the right. The bloke with the surfboard was a real spunk or so Mum said.  Whatever that means. 

See .... told you it was me.  Except for the spunky bloke we had the whole beach to ourselves.  How good is that?  

It was sunny one way but a storm was brewing to the south.  

Pretty, aye??

Crikey .... I wore myself out running.  Had to stop and rest. 

This was taken from a lookout. Another pretty little Nambucca beach.                                  

I've never had any luck with these video things but thought I'd try again. This is in the mountains and we stopped for a breather at this real pretty green spot and there were bellbirds.  Mum loves bellbirds. I hope you can see this and hear the bellbirds. They are very special.  

Mum liked this tree.  She tried to be arty farty but all she did was get a picture that looks like the tree is falling down.  

We stopped to say hello to this bloke AND .....

He took one look at me and got up and just stared at me. What's with that?  All cows give me the evil eye.  

Wanna run ... Love, Charlie.

No ice-cream for me for a while!!!!!!

Crikey ...... am I ever in strife!!  There'll be NO ice-cream for me for a while.  We went to the farmers markets on the weekend and Mum and Dad left me in the car FOREVER!!  More than 87 minutes. Now before you get the RSPCA onto Mum and Dad I have to say that it was 5am and it hadn't got hot yet. I was very comfortable BUT ...... THEY LEFT ME ALL ALONE!!  Dad said he came back after ten minutes but I'm here to tell you he lies .......  It was FOREVER!!!!!  They've left me in the car before. Lots of times and no problems but this time ..... oh my ..... I don't know what happened but I just kinda got frustrated or something and I did a VERY naughty thing.

Uh Oh!!!! Don't think that's going to save anyone in an accident anymore aye??  

This is my apartment in the car. Pretty comfy, aye??  

When I was little I could fit through here but not any longer.  Too much ice-cream.  

But I could fit through enough to do this, aye??  Well I do have a LONG neck.  

Woe is ME!!!  No ice-cream for me for a while, aye!!!!!!

Some light entertainment after the destruction.  Only in Australia, aye??  

Wanna run ....... Love, Charlie.

Remember this bloke??

Do you remember this bloke??

He turned into this bloke!!

The lady that groomed him took these pictures. She said he was perfect. He even fell asleep while she was torturing him. I reckon she must have drugged him. 

HERBIE ...... what a difference aye??  He only looks different. He's still as mad as ever and he still LOVES me!!  No sooner were we home than we had to puppy sit ... OMD!!!!  Is he ever a handful.  He NEVER sits still and he NEVER sleeps. Well he sleeps at night but not during the day. Even after a BIG trip to the beach.  I ALWAYS sleep, big time, when I get back from the beach. Not Herbie!! Don't tell him but it was good to see him again.  It was good to see him go home too though.

I think he likes the beach.

It was a beautiful day.  Real big high tide.  We call 'em king tides. Crikey it was pretty but there wasn't much beach to run on. 

Get a load of this!!  Half a big fish.  Where do you thing the other half is??  Mum reckoned in a sharks belly.  It was just like it had been chomped off.  Herbie and I weren't all that interested in it.  Didn't smell much.  Will be better in a week or two.  

After the beach we went out for brekky.  I'm perfect at sitting under tables. Herbie not so good but he's gotta learn, aye??  He did a pretty good job for a while.  

Yep!!   I even had to share my spot in the car with him. 

And when we got home ...... THIS!!!  OMD!!!!!!

Wanna run ..... love, Charlie.