Coffin Bay 2010: People

Just to remind you of Paulie's BIG fish

Well, here's my little fish...

The fish were really biting that day. Megs wanted to take a photo of me fishing, so I let out just enough line, so that you couldn't see the tackle in the pic. A hook was only just in the water and that is what it caught. Needless to say, baby tommy rough was thrown back in the water and told to come back when he'd grown up!

Here I am with some better looking fish - a gar fish near my face and a whiting in my other hand.


And this is how I caught them - alongside my Dad, with some bait and essential nutrients (tea and shapes) in between us.


Here's Paul and Dad with their whiting after our first day out fishing.



Paulie's enjoying his lunch break


Megsie is out on the boat with us



Here's the boat.


And here's John's boat which we went squidding in at second creek.


This is the very awesome Team Poseidon


And here are some more family photos



This is the deck of the house that we stayed in


And the view of the house from the boat. Ours is the "shack" on the left of screen. Mum is on the deck.


And finally, this is the one and only photo that was taken by my camera at Casey's 30th. Sorry petal! I should have been paparazzi, but I was still in holiday mode!!!

The Blogger is Back!

I've been awol for a little while now. It's been a busy time and I haven't really figured out how to organise all the little parts of my life at the moment.

My new job is going really well. I'm learning lots of new things and meeting new people. The change is really working for me and making me a happier person. At the moment I'm feeling like it's the right thing to do, but part of me is also thinking that I'm almost 30 and doing a job that I was practically doing when I was 20. I've just got to keep looking at the bigger picture and seeing that I'm building up my skillset and expanding my horizons and all of that junk. I also know that it will get more complex and I'll have to stay on top of everything and be really organised and the role will probably end up being what I make it so I just have to make it interesting.

I redesigned one of our websites while my boss was away last week. I'm just waiting to get his approval before it goes live and then I'll post the link here so you can admire my handy work. Just don't view it in IE6 or it'll look like crap.

Because I'm provided with my own computer at work and when I get home, I really don't feel like sitting in front of the computer, I'm not using my laptop very often, so I hardly see my outlook calendar. This is why my planning and organisation skills for my home life have gone out the window. I actually bought a paper diary recently, so I'm going to try and use that. Maybe I can keep it in my handbag.

I guess the other thing that people ask me about are our babies. The puppies are doing well. There are some snappy and growly moments, but they're settling and becoming further apart (the snappy moments that is, not the puppies). Morgan is a destructive beast. She's teething too, which isn't helping. After she destroyed most of the toys we've had around since Myf was a puppy, we've had to go out and buy a whole new collection - all of them with the words indestructible in front of them. Let me tell you now, they're lying!!! She's very cute though, which makes it hard to tell her off.

We're taking Morgan to obedience school. She had her first class last week and that went pretty well. Like Myf, she has difficulty focusing when we're around other dogs/people. She's the youngest in the class though, so she's doing pretty well to keep up with the bigger dogs. She does sit, drop, come (most of the time, although Myf's taught her selective hearing) and we're teaching her 'look' this week - that's part of our homework. I've already forgotten what the rest of our homework is. OOPS!

Well, I'm about to start putting up some of the photos from our Coffin Bay holiday (finally). I'll organise them into subject headings, and just give brief descriptions since I've already done the whole holiday story.

Travelling Pets

This is the first instalment of the Holiday Album.

We left Melbourne early in the morning when it was cold and the sun was just rising.

By the time we hit South Australia, it had shaped up to be a lovely day.

Myf didn't see much of the day. She spent most of it sleeping, although she did change positions a number of times.

Mum and Dad's cats, Oscar and Marco, had to go to the cattery and because it's just down the road, they manage in a small carrier. They are not pleased with the mode of transport, however.

The New Addition

I'm going to start by saying that I would have liked to have done a photo entry from Coffin Bay before I did this post, but I've been feeling a bit of pressure to get these photos on the net, so I decided to do this post first.

We arrived in Adelaide not long after 9pm, after our massively delayed flight from Port Lincoln. We had originally arranged to collect Morgan at 7pm, but after a few phonecalls to the breeder, we managed to arrange to drive straight up there from the airport. The breeder lives about an hour north of the city, so it was a VERY late night for all persons involved.

I think it's pretty safe to say that it was love at first sight. She's adorable. Here's Paulie and Morgan and their first kiss.

By the time we got home, it was after midnight. Paul's parents had just had their carpets cleaned, so we'd put down some plastic sheeting to catch any accidents. Well, the night had been so eventful and it was such a long car ride, so she fell asleep in the middle of the plastic sheeting and didn't wake up until around 4am.

As with most young 'uns, Morgan plays hard for a short while and then collapses and sleeps for a while. Here she is collapsed in the middle of Barb and Alan's kitchen after a particularly tiring play session.

Not unlike other puppies, she's into EVERYTHING! Here she is having a go at Barb and Alan's garden. We have to keep a chew toy within arms reach, so we can distract her with it and hopefully at the same time teach her the correct items to chew on.

We collected Myf from Granny's house the morning after collecting Morgan. Morgan came along for the ride so she could meet more of her extended family and get to know Myf at Granny's and on the car ride home.

We were a little worried about how the two would get on, but we needn't have worried at all. They seemed to click and get along fine.

Here's the first family portrait. And one of the rejects - there were many when they kept sniffing and licking each other.

Morgan had cuddles with Granny and Kate before we headed back to Adelaide.

The two dogs have since had much time to acquaint themselves with each other including a long car ride back to Melbourne.

They're adjusting to their new lives quite well. Myf has always been by herself, so it's a massive change for her. She does seem to enjoy the play fights, but tires of the constant attention from Morgan and does growl after a while. She is becoming more and more tolerant as time goes on and seems to be chilling out a little.

Morgan is a piglet. She guzzles down her food and then tries her luck at Myf's. Because Myf couldn't care less, she leaves her bowl unguarded. We have to work on this because it is quite time consuming guarding Myf's food for her or trying to get her to eat when we put the food down.

Morgan just loves attention and can't handle being left out. So if we're giving Myf a cuddle, Morgan will stick her nose in. This results in a bit of growling from Myf, which then provokes some snapping from Morgan. Aaahh, fun times. Haha!

From all that, it seems that Myf got the rough end of the deal here. Poor love. But one of the main reasons for getting Morgan was to calm Myf's anxieties and make her happier. I think we've started down that path already. With Myf, we've had a routine for leaving the house. If we stick to this routine, Myf knows that we're coming back and she doesn't stress out. One of the factors is that we can't leave together - one must go, then the other. Well, since getting Morgan we've been able to leave the house together. Yeah, it's only a small step, but hopefully it's a sign of things to come.

Now that I've bored you with the story, here are some more pics of the babies...

The destructive little Miss has now chewed all the stitching off Spots' nose.

Play fighting on the dining room floor.

Playing together out in the park.

As you can see, Myf's ears are Morgan's main target. Myf does get her own back though, and when she get's truly fed up, she just puts one paw up to stop Morgan from running into her, and Morgan goes flying backwards. No-one's hurt - I think it's just Myf's way of saying that she could do her serious damage if she wanted to, so back off.