"Be prepared and have no regrets"

Yesterday, a network hard disk, which we use to store backup of photos as well as files from our work, broke. When I was browsing some photos of Cookie and Cinnamon stored in the hard disk by directly accessing them from my computer, the hard disk started making strange noise. Then, after a few tries, an error indicator began flushing and the access was lost!

Fortunately, most of the files stored in the hard disk had original copies in our computers, so we didn't lose much which didn't have any other copies elsewhere. Especially, when it comes to photos, we usually store another set of copied files in a computer we use as a storage server, so virtually no photo was lost. It is literally "Be prepared and have no regrets", though we will have to buy a replacement, which is a damage to us in deed!

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Cookie and Cinnamon have entered for the Show Us Some Tongue Contest by Daphne and Pruett. Every entry is great and unique, so check out their website and enter your pic if you haven't!



Cookie's tongue...


Cinnamon's tongue...

Autumn chore

The season has come yet again!! What season? The season of the fall of the leaf!

Our street is lined with huge London Plane trees. They provide nice shade in summer, but in autumn they give us a lot of work. Although the city council's contractors come to sweep leaves on the road along the gutter using a road sweeper truck from time to time, they rarely send their staff to sweep the footpath as well. So, the task of sweeping the footpath falls on us, residents.

Sweeping itself is not a big issue. A problem is what to do with the collected leaves. Because the trees are huge, so is the amount of their fallen leaves. Most households have a wheelie bin for garden waste, but the bins are already full with waste from their gardens at this time of year.

The best solution to deal with this problem is sweeping the leaves on the footpath out to the road when a road sweeper truck comes. We cannot, or are reluctant to, sweep leaves out onto the road when a road sweeper truck is not working in the street, because the leaves may block gutters and drains.

Luckily, our house is located on the right side of the corner of the street with a cul-de-sac, so our turn is the last in the street. So, I can go out and sweep the leaves when I hear a sweeping truck coming into our street, he he...

I like peeing on a pile of fallen leaves!

I like sniffing a pile of fallen leaves!

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Cinnamon at her agility class this week

Happy news from my family

I received happy news from my family today. One of my brothers has just married! They are planning to have a wedding party in September.

He is a very talented man. Watch this video! He plays the bass in multiple rockabilly bands on weekends.




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Cookie and Cinnamon's weight

Cookie - 11.0kg
Cinnamon - 10.9kg

Eat well and run well!

Dear our blog friends, thank you for your birthday wishes for Cookie! I hope Cookie enjoyed his birthday despite being unable to go out for a long walk because his humans were so busy with their work. His mum still managed to have some play time with him, give him a bone twice the size of those he usually gets, and make a special birthday meal for him.

Got a big bone!

Special meat rice balls with vegetable topping

Yum-yum...surely a good day

Beagle Walk was scheduled for yesterday, which we had looked forward to, but we had a heavy rain, so we couldn't go.

This morning the sky cleared up and we had a beautiful sunny autumn day. Today we went to the Hound Racing Club coursing and Cookie and Cinnamon had a lot of running.

Today's entries

Standard Poodles

Golden Retrievers

Humans' lunch

We want lunch too...

Cookie's 8th Birthday!

Cookie turned eight today!

Happy Birthday, Cookie!!!

Thank you, Cinnamon!

Having our own dog was one of our dreams when we moved to Auckland in 2000. Our first home in Auckland was in an apartment building, where we were not allowed to bring in animals. After five months, we moved into a rented semi-detached house. Because most rented houses had a no-dog policy, we thought the house we rented also had a policy like that. But, one day, the owners of the house said 'You can have a dog' when we were talking with them about our dream of having a dog. At first we couldn't believe what they had said, but we quickly brought it into action. We went to see many different breeds of dogs at Pet Expo, checked breed guide books, decided to get a Beagle, and contacted a couple of Beagle breeders in Auckland. It was the beginning of our life centered around Beagles!

Cookie's First Eight Years