Shiny Happy Dogs

Finally the zephyrs have ceased, and the sun has burned its way through the clouds to pay us a visit. So with warmer temperatures, no sand blowing in the eyes, and a bit of pent up energy we took the canines to the beach. They were thrilled to be racing along the water's edge, tearing up the sand, and generally terrorizing any oceanic fowl silly enough not to take flight at first sight or sound. You can see them taking a momentary cooldown breather in the gentle surf. Now before you get up in arms saying "Hey man! You can't let your dogs off leash down there, even if it is WAAAY off season!" Just look below for the original image.



Ok so I'm still working on learning my new image tools, but I thought for a first run... not too shabby. Although even I can see where the blending needs to be better, and some of the "fill" needs work. Regardless it was an afternoon adventure that hopefully also yielded some semi-decent footage of our three-legged wonder galloping (if you can gallop with three legs, that's what he does) along the shore. I may edit some tonight and then we have the requisite holding time before google will give you a gu... er... post your video.

In other news, the power here seems a bit... unstable. It's dropped every day we've been here (usually in the middle of the night), and today twice. Wouldn't be so bad except I was composing this message the second time it dropped! Well that and the fact that for some unknown reason the TV in the bedroom comes on once the power comes back. I've never heard of this, and never seen a television that behaves this way. I suppose it's good if you've fallen asleep, the power has gone off, and you've got work in the morning so it tells you to reset your alarm, but still quite odd.

No good shots of the workmen next door, although... strangely there seemed to be quite a few more on the job today. Perhaps several were sick yesterday... more on that later!