Sweet memories

Yesterday evening we had tickets to see Samsara. It's a non-verbal movie, kind of documentary really, filmed over five years and in 25 different countries that explores the wonders of our world. It was fascinating, I must say. I think it comes out end of the month or so. I highly recommend it if you are a self-discovery path.

The weather is changing a lot and at the same time I decreased my beta-blockers dosage for a month. I start having headaches again but you know what they say, don't change 2 things at the same time, so now I can't be sure where they come from !

This morning wasn't too bad for our walk. 

Both girls did well and had fun, although separately.

Now the sky is very dark, my head is pouding and we are waiting for the rain.




Project 365+1 - Day 227 : Bronze

I have several photos for today's word.

In the park this morning I found several leaves, I can't help thinking that they are a sign we are going towards autumn. Yeeeeeek ! ! !

After having avoided the bookshelf and its books, I thought it might be a good idea to check them all ( just in case, lol ! ). Additionally to a lot ( and I do mean a lot ) of dust, I found this below, I had completely forgotten about.

3rd is Bronze so I thought it's appropriate for today's photo.

It was won by Rhea many years ago and this is the story.

You know Rhea is extremely disobedient, what you don't know if that she actually improved a lot. Rhea has always been a bit difficult so when she was 4 months old, we decided to take her to a puppy school, thinking she might have some fun, socialize and learn a bit of obedience. She certainly excelled in the 1st two, the last one was another story.

The school was called the armchair dogs. I'll never forget them and I doubt they will forget us either.

We were not expelled from the Puppy School because I guess they needed the money, lol, but each Tuesday night when we arrived, I could see the faces of the guys, showing " Oh my God, they are back ". Yes, that bad !

Rhea was extremely sweet, her problem is she wanted to show it during the class. She managed to corrupt most of the puppies, as puppies at this age love being corrupted anyway. She would start an exercise with me, like we walk along other puppies on lead and we behave, it would work for 30 seconds, then she would jump on one of the puppies and start playing. Of course all the others were joining in . You could see all the masters struggle to pull on the lead to get their puppy back and the teachers having a wave of despair on their face.

Rhea's favourite game was " go to your master".
You had to go at the end of the room. The guy was holding Rhea without lead. I was supposed to call her, he was supposed to let her go and she was supposed to run to me and it never really went to plan as she was always running in the opposite direction towards the other puppies.

On the last day at puppy school we had a small competition by groups of 3. When it was our turn for the last exercise ( and we, well " she " had messed them all up already ),
I went to the end of the room, I called Rhea, he let go and she ran towards me and I thought " bless her " and everybody relaxed and said " Wow ! " but 10 meters before reaching me, she did a 90 degrees turn and ran to say hello to all the other puppies.

She got everybody by surprise : All masters were ready for their turn, so the puppies weren't on lead, they were just gently holding on to them. All the puppies started running away around the room with Rhea has a leader. Just imagine Rhea little devil in front, 7 other puppies running after here, the masters calling their dogs ( who didn't care for a second), the teachers trying to re-establish some order. It is really funny now and we still joke about it, but at the time, it was kind of humiliating. You can't catch one puppy wanting to have fun, so imagine 8.

Anyway it took quite a while and a lot of treats bags that the teachers completely desperate started opening like anything, but all puppies were back eventually. Then there was the medal ceremony. No wonder we finished last of our group, but we still got a 3rd place medal. I think we only got it because they had to but giving us a medal ( even only 10p worth ) after all the bags of treats they needed to use, I think they never swallowed it.

Oh : and we didn't apply to the next level course they were organizing. Instead we went to another puppy school. May be one day, I tell you !

Take care everybody, xxx