It gets hot here too!

So today, we did get over the 35 degree mark, not as hot as other places in the world mind you, but for us on the west coast, its on the warm side. So, being as it's my day off, a trip to home depot I did make and purchased two things - a water cooling type fan (blows air through a mat that's kept wet, which cools the air) and a screen for our front door (having lived here now 15 years this coming weekend, thought maybe it was time to invest in a screen).

So, the cooler went together well, and am quite happy so far with the performance. The screen, well it's up now, but not till an extra trip to home depot to grab a major part of the screen that broke itself - defect - hopefully not a sign of it's potential longevity. It's finally up, and working well, except that it looks somewhat invisible. I tested it with the dog - sure enough, just about walked right through it. So hence, the solution - paint something on the screen - thus the following pic's. The funny part was, Rebekah and I were watching from the inside and Connie was painting away with a paint brush - but from where we stood, it seemed she must be using invisible paint - this is what we see...some green tape, and her swooshing the paint brush across the screen - with invisible paint...we can see nothing - I did consider getting a video camera as it did look rather odd.



So then I went outside, and behold, she is using real paint. Of course, it's double the work as she'll have to paint both sides, and hopefully it will make sense to the dog and she won't try to run through it. I'm invisioning 3 1/2 hours of work down the drain the first time someone rings the door bell!



At least now, for the moment, we have air flow through the house. The weather's supposed to continue hot all week. Need to enjoy it while it's here!

Family Room

Well, again it's Koala, this time in one of her favorite positions, laying on her back. I'll lay down for a nap, and she's on the floor, laying normally as most dogs do. Then I'll wake up and somewhere she's flipped herself over, like this...

But, when she is laying normally, and she's sleeping, and then she awakens to find a camera sitting on the floor in front of her, she looks something like this...

Day 2

A much better picture I think - she will prefer this to the previous one. The sun does enhance her coat. Here she is, looking out the front door, over her domain. I do wonder, what actually does go through the mind of a dog while they're just sitting there. What does a dog ponder about.

Day 1 - What should I write?

This is a pic of Koala, with the face we see. She shows us this face to make us believe this is how she is feeling at any given time, so that we think she is quite a content, happy dog.

However, just the other day, when Koala didn't know I was looking, I caught her in a pose where her guard was down, and was showing through her face, what she is really feeling most of the time...bored!! Two seconds after this pic was taken, she saw me and quickly changed her composure to the pic above, once again wearing her pasted on smile...her happy face!