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Monday July 02, 2007
Friday June 15, 2007
Thursday June 14, 2007
Tuesday September 05, 2006 Just as I thought it was cooling down enough for the dogs to start exercising again it goes and warms up again! Oh well I can put off getting the kickbike serviced for another couple of weeks.
What we need on the kickbike is a better rear brake, its got a 10 or 12 inch rear wheel and mountain bike v brakes. I find I have to squeeze the brakes really hard and we are getting through brake blocks at an amazing rate - maybe two samoyeds are too much.
Thursday August 31, 2006
Tuesday March 14, 2006 At home my wife got fed up with the fan noise from our main home computer ( generic AMD pc running solaris 10) so I had to move the computer. So I acquired some sunray hardware and a couple of ethernet to wireless bridges, installed sunray software 3.1 on the server and away we went. The DTU screen and keyboard are in the lounge where the adsl line comes in, the server is off in a distant room with only 802.11g between them.
This worked but screen refresh was slooow - video just didn't work, time for a change. So I bought a couple of ethernet over mains units - 85 Mbits/sec, just plug them in, wait a few seconds and they just worked. The only problem is that the configuration software that you need to change the passwords and set a encryption key is windows only, although the vendor says that the signal doesn't go through the meter I am not convinced ( could someone explain that?)... But now the sunray screen updates really fast so that was a good thing to do.
Wednesday August 31, 2005 We are back from our summer holiday. We went camping on the Harlyn
Sands camp site just outside Padstow in Cornwall. If you saw a
family with two white dogs in that area it was us. We saw two
other Samoyeds but they were all single dogs.
The campsite is about 100 metres from the excellent Harlyn Bay Beach and was generally very good..
Cycling allong the coast road from Padstow to Newquay takes you up and down some very steep hills especially the one into Mawgan Porth on the East side and the dip near St Merryn. The children enjoyed the Camel Trail from Padstow to Wadebridge, its an eleven mile round trip on a flat wide trail, my only concern was some adults who sped allong the trail at high speed even though there are lots of wobbling children around.
samoyed
Thursday July 07, 2005 The grass in the park is long and full of deer ticks I have removed three from Finn's face today, it must be the only place his fur is thin enough for them to find skin. I bought a packs of "tick twister" little plastic hooks with a split in the end like a claw hammer, you get the tick in the split and then rotate the hook around the tick until it releases. A fabulous little device and the packet refers to www.otom.com.
Finn's been to the Vets three times this week. First to have a microchip fitted, second time a few days later to see if was still there as I found it poking out his skin, and the third to have a replacement fitted
It's been a big Samoyed spotting few weeks, we saw two at the Farnham Carnival and on the way into the vets for the third time we met another..
Friday July 01, 2005 The snails are off for a long holiday to the south coast to meet some new snailey friends,
to celebrate their departure here's an image of the big one and the smaller ones just hanging out...
snail
Tuesday June 28, 2005 The weather is hot and the giant african landsnails have been at it again. Just as I am trying to sell them they go and breed again. We started off with two hand sized snails and after the winter we now have one giant one, a dozen 3 inch snails and a dozen 2 inch snails living in two tanks. They are quite interactive but seem to have an aversion to garlic!
Thursday May 05, 2005 I don't think I can be accussed of apathy, I recently came across
this site sled dogs
and I started thinking, the samoyeds love to pull, in fact they can't
help it. So whilst I save up for kickbike
they got to pull me round
Farnham Park on a microscooter this evening. We don't have the proper
X-back harnesses but they do have well padded walking harnesses with a
chest strap so off we went. It took a few hundred yards for them to
work out what to do and then we were off - quite terrifying. The
only problem was the rear brake kept smoking as I tried to curb their
enthusiasm. Now they are asleep.
Saturday April 30, 2005 Finn, our youngest samoyed is huge compared to Cleo. She is nearly 18 months old and weighs about 35 lbs, he is 7 months old and is almost 60 lbs, will he ever stop growing? The vet has reminded us that puppies of large dogs must have their exercise limited to avoid joint problems in later life so he is limited to 30 minute walks.
Finn has had a problem ( I won't go into details but it is at the end without teeth!) which has been very uncomfortable for him. He hasn't been able to sleep for a couple of nights which has stopped me sleeping as well - it's just like having small children all over again. The vet has cured him with a very unpleasant procedure and some antibiotics and he is catching up with his sleep.
Sunday April 24, 2005 Friday afternoon the samoyeds and I went for 6 mile walk around the army training ground that runs from Farnborough airfield to Church Crookam and up to Upper Hale. It has quiet paths through pine trees, a high escapement edge with a ancient fort that over looks the airfield. We saw some lizards and adders (in fact Finn walked right over one of them - I better find out the first aid for a adder bite on a dog, I don't fancy carrying a 70lb dog 5 miles home.
Saturday we did the same thing but my eldest came with us, it was a lovely warm day, so warm the dogs swam in a sandy pond on the edge of the water catchment area and now I have two yellow samoyeds and a house full of sand!
Sunday the kids came for a walk that we found in a small book of walks around Farnham. We started from the railway station at Bentley just off the A31. Six miles later (and one very nice pint of beer) we got back, hardly any distance on road, lots of paths across fields. Of course the fences have stiles and all of these did not have dog holes, so I had to lift both dogs over them..
Now it is raining - oh well back to work