すっかり更新が遅れてますが、学校が始まっています! でもまだ休みモードから抜け出せずにうだうだと毎日過ごしています 先週末は最後の週末を思いっきり楽しむ為の充電プチ旅行に行ってきましたよ これから3ヶ月、私もディーンも学生生活最後のセメスター を迎えます! ディーンはエンジニアのマスターコースを2年前からフルタイムで 働きながら勉強しています。本当に頑張って来たディーンさん。 そして私も2年のディプロマを終わらせてその後4年間の大学で学んで来たので 結局6年間勉強してきました。 それもこれも今学期で最後。これで私も彼も勉強が終わるので最後思いっきり頑張る為に 充電!そして自分達にご褒美旅行。 真冬のメルボルンですがビーチで思いっきり犬達と走り回って遊び、 宿泊先のコテージも露天風呂と薪ストーブ、そして夜は海鮮鍋! かなり快適で 心底暖まってきました! あーーこれくらい広い庭が欲しいぃぃ 帰ってきたくなかった。。でも やる気がでた! あと少し、頑張ろう まずはコテージの写真から!素敵ですよね!? ご近所は羊だけ!ペットフレンドリーです We had a fabulous weekend at Walkerville, near Wilsons prom last weekend to warm us up from the bottom of our heart to get ready for coming up coldest winter season + very last semester of our student life! We will be both graduating from our schools in November! How exciting, and yes, we will be very busy!! Such a inspiring property and cottage! its all made by recycled materials, owner did build on their own. Beautiful and very cozy. lot of beach running and walking around 5 acre property, wood stove fire, out door big bath and we did Japanese hot pot! wow, that was perfect combo for warming up.And yes, we are ready for Semester now! Pictures are from the cottage. Nice isn't it?? VERY Pet Friendly, with private acrage backyard and outdoor Japanese style (?) Bathhouse.
Its hard to believe, but here in Melbourne is middle of the winter! We have freezing cold days and snows in the mountain. but luckly, we had 23 degrees day yesterday. We spend this precious warm day at rental agility yard. Dogs even had a proper swimming in the doggy pool! Here are some videos from today's practice. we did Daisy Peel's Blind Cross sequences. Still need to practice que timing but Koto and Niah were doing great!
Little English Caption here! Yesterday's trial was Totally lost!! I couldn't get any Clean Run, out of 5 runs! Slipperly Ground, Running 2 course at once, and being tired. But it was sure fun day and so many thing to learn, I know what to train and our good/weak points. So much more on to do list for re-train, but great experience! Here is a little high light for Koto & Niah doing great job for me !
I recently bought "wide lens" which enlarge the camera's perspective wider. It is so useful to capture our narrow backyard and also perfect for recording Running contact training :) I can see their stride so well now ! I am now desperately want to pull down that huge "Annoying" cloth line that is standing in the center of the yard (and not doing anything).. Without this cloth line, we can do so much more agility practice.. We have asked our real estate agency over a year ago that we wants to pull down and replace it for them, but No answer from them. But at least, our owner are very generous and did a lot of work for fixing this house for us. Now we are finally have new fence :) Hope They will say yes someday.
休みが始まってあっという間に1週間。 とにかく学校の事を考えず、漫画を読んだり溜まっていた映画を見たり 琴とニアとアジをしたり長ーい散歩に出たりとのんびり〜 今週から琴とディジーピールのブラインドクロスのレッスンを始めました。 琴はいつでもヤル気があるので琴とのアジトレは楽しい! ニアも一緒にトレーニングしてますが、彼のブラインドはかなり良いのでビデオは無くてもいいかな。 ニアとは最近ランニングA Frameを始めました。まぁまぁいい走り出し! It's been already one week since my mid semester break started. I have been watching movie, reading comics, walking, and mainly playing with my dogs! I started to re-train Koto's Blind Cross. Oh-I love her enthusiasm so much! It's so much fun! Niah's Blind Cross is very good- so this is mainly for Koto :) But we did Running A-Frame with Niah recently, which went well!
Dave Munnings Training his young dog Fame (sister of Stig) with Lisa Frick. Dave's body language is incredibly CLEAR and in perfect timinig. Good to watch the end of video has bloomer! Just amazing!
What a happy surprise! We had nearly dead tree in the back yard and we were thinking it is lemon tree. Dean cut all the branches that was really sick - then made it all naked and gave a lot of care to recover from disease. He made hand made garlic, chillie and vinegar splay to kill white fly, and lot of organic fertilizer. And we've got Lemon!!! hmm.. isn't it too big for lemen? yes, it was a Grape fruits tree! We don't have that many this year but at least 10 grape fruits will be on our table soon :) Apparently next year will be full of grape fruits ! how exciting! yay! なんとも嬉しい驚き♥ 庭に病気にかかって白いハエに攻撃を受けて腐りかけ、死にかけていたレモンの木があったのですが、旦那が全ての枝を切り、こまめにガーリックやチリ、ビネガーなどでつくった手作りのスプレーを白ハエにかけたり手作りの肥料をこまめに与えて愛情を込めて1年以上ケアしてきたのですが、気づいたら沢山レモンが出来た!!喜んでいたのもつかの間、レモンはどんどん大きくなり、実はグレープフルーツだった事が判明! 早速本日初味見をしたのですが、ウマイ!やっぱり無農薬、そしてよみがえったばかりだからか、新鮮プルプルなお味! 旦那偉い〜 :)今年は10こ程しか出来ていませんが、来年は沢山実をつけるそうです!楽しみだ
Writing Thesis is keeping me very busy! I have submitted 2 major project assignments, so I can only concentrate to work on thesis now on. I feel really need a serious break to reset my mind! Start fresh mind. Really exhausted working all day until very late night.. Few more week :) Here is some photos of Melbourne early winter. The moment of relaxzation, We went for walk at Museum sculpture garden again! Most of the leaves are gone. I also like winter tree. Nice to see that Naked tree structure. Love this season! Good bye leaves, see you soon in spring! 卒論とその他の2教科の課題提出に追われすっかり更新できていませんでしたが、 2教科は終了!あとは10月まで卒論とそのプレセンテーションのみ。 少し余裕ができそう。 でも朝から夜中まで考えてるとやっぱり精神的に疲れる。。 うーん、はやく休みにならないかな。。琴とニアとの散歩が結一の休み時間。 例のミュージアムの彫刻公園をまた散歩してきました。 メルボルンはすっかり冬模様。殆どの葉は落ちて木々は裸になってきています。 新緑の春も好きだけど、木がどんどん変化を見せてくれる秋の方が好きです。