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Last week, on a lark, I purchased a pair of binoculars from Amazon.com. Now, these aren't your normal, every day, run-of-the-mill binoculars. These one can take pictures of the scenery you're lookin' at through the lenses of the binoculars!
And without further ado, I'm showing you the very first picture ever taken with our new binoculars/camera:
 Red Barn in Distance
It's a shot of a red barn on the property next to the Presto Dog Phunny Pharm, down the hill and off to the right. In the foreground is a field of feed corn that's gone to fallow. And if you look real carefully toward the bottom of the picture, you can even see the posts I'm putting in the ground that'll eventually be the integral part of the fence that will surround the entire Phunny Pharm. Between the dried up corn stalks & the barn, in the center of the picture, is an old farm wagon. I'd love to get that thing as a decoration for my front lawn!
The area's real rustic, with farms & hills our neighbors & scenery. Ya gotta remember, however, that we came from an area that once was pretty suburban. In fact, when I first moved there some 30-odd years ago, the main intersection didn't even have a traffic light. Sadly, it became a hustling, bustling little community that's now straining with a mass influx of people, their cars and the supporting stores and creature comforts that make even more people move into the area.
Bless 'em; they can have it. We made a conscious decision to move to a country environment & we ain't looked back yet.
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Last Updated ( Jul 17, 2007 at 06:24 PM )
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I'll be posting pictures of the Phunny Pharm property (and our dogs enjoying same) pretty soon. Last week, on a lark, I purchased a pair of binoculars. Now, these not only let me look of into the distance to admire the countryside; they also take pictures!
This means you'll be able to see our senior Sheltie, Lyris, Lily the sweet, gentle Sheltie, Declan, the alpha dog of the pack, Dougie, the giant (to the Shelties, at least!) tri-color Collie and little Maggie, newest Sheltie, only about four months old running around our big yard untethered. All I need to do is finish setting posts for the fence, purchase gates, putting rails up, and a few other "minor" (!) details.
I'm just learning how to use the binoculars but results so far have been pretty good. No pictures to post here yet, but I expect to do same in the next couple of days.
Technology, eh?
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Last Updated ( Jul 16, 2007 at 05:41 PM )
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Fence Time @ the Presto Dog Phunny Pharm |
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Last weekend, we hired a guy & his auger machine to dig almost 200 holes on our property, known as the Presto Dog Phunny Pharm. This, of course, was for posts for a fence that'll go into the ground & completely surround the Presto Dog environs.
On Saturday, 7/14/07, I started placing the posts in the holes that were dug in preparation for putting the rails in the posts, that'll in turn allow us to let the Presto Dog pack, consisting of Lyric, Lily, Declan and Maggie, all Shetland Sheepdogs, and Dougie, our tri-color Collie, romp &play in their yard. That won't be the end of this "construction" project, however, We still need to go out and buy two ten-foot gates, two five-foot gates, chicken wire and either a nail gun or a heavy-duty rechargable screwdriver that'll let me afix the rails to the posts. And, I mustn't forget that all the posts still need to be positioned in their holes so they're all even, then level 'em so they're all perpendicular and then fill the holes with dirt to stabilize 'em.
Since we have a few spare posts & rails, I'm thinking about building a small pen that will be used to hold the dogs that aren't being put through their paces. By this I mean when they're not running through agility tunnels, coursing around weave poles, walking over walk-its, jumping over jumps, etc. I'll need to come off the main fence with another 10' section, then go 10' or 20' to the side, then run back to the main fence with a final 10' section, constructing a rectangle 10' by 10' (or 20') by 10'.
Although all this sound like a ton of work (which it certainly is), the end product will be a giant play area for the pack. This is gonna be great & I'll certainly be posting pictures here on the Presto Dog web site of my efforts.
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Last Updated ( Jul 15, 2007 at 09:27 AM )
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In a prior post here on the Presto Dog web site, I mentioned that Dougie, our two year old tri-color Collie, has a definate affinity toward our new Sheltie puppy named Maggie. They're constantly playing together, and one of their favorite games is "tug."
For those of you who may not be familiar with this game, a toy is obtained from the tremendous pile of playthings we keep around for the pack. One dog takes one side of the toy and offers it to the other dog. In this particular instance, Dougie offered the toy to Maggie. The other dog accepts the toy, taking the opposite side and both then start, well, "tugging," pulling this way and that in a friendly attempt the free the toy from the other dog.
Here's yet another picture of giant Dougie and little Maggie engaged in their friendly bout of tug:
 Dougie vs. Maggie
BTW, this is always a friendly game, Dougie is a real gentle giant when he plays with the puppy; they're great pals!
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Last Updated ( Jul 09, 2007 at 08:03 AM )
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