The challenge for Lens Artist this week is “Cats and Dogs” hosted by Tina. I’m not a cat person in any way at all and have never owned one. I’m always slightly wary of cats, you never know when they will strike. Give me a dog anyday.
I know the saying is “A Man’s Best Friend” but my two fur boys are also mine. Zac and Rufus have been with us for 9 and ten years. Both were adopted from rescue organisations. They were both apparently one year old when they first came to live with us. We think though that Zac was older and Rufus was younger. They love each other like true brothers and can’t do anything without the other.
I put together a small collage using Canva instead of uploading many different ones.
Rufus and Zac are so much part of our family, I can’t imagine living life without a dog around.
I’m running out of space for this blog and it’s so time consuming deleting old posts and finding the photos that are attached. Do I upgrade for more space or spend time deleting old posts and photos?
Patti is the Lens Artist host this week and she has challenged us all to find the details in our subject. Post three photos from different angles.
I’m not quite sure I’m on the right track with mine! Maybe I’m biased but I think Rufus is extremely photogenic.
The last one is a tad blurry, but it was taken on the spur of the moment. Looks 3D or as if I have cut and pasted! You can probably guess that he’s excited for his dinner. Although you would think he hasn’t eaten in a week.
This week’s Lens-Artists Challenge is from John @ John’s Space and the theme is humour. Looking back through my archives I see I have plenty of funny ones. I love taking photos of signs that seem to make no sense apart from the person who wrote them! I’ve also included a gallery of my naughty dogs.
First a joke!
Who got this the first time? Not me!
Sadly did not see Tommy Shelby
Expensive rice and porridge to the right
Please wear the long
My family is used to me by now getting them to do all sorts for a photo, although my son wasn’t too impressed when I asked him to pose for the one of the right.
The various poses of Zac trying his hardest to get comfortable
“Who did this?”You can hide but you can’t run
Rufus wins the prize for the naughtiest dog, guilty or not guilty?
A couple of puns to finish off and I have to say I am still laughing! Please tell me you think they are as funny as I did
The month of June for me started with quarantine and is ending with lockdown! Plenty of time for blogging.
WEEK ONE
The first week was spent at home in quarantine as we had been in Melbourne and Sydney the previous week. It was only 11 days as the 3 days in Sydney were counted as part of that. My daughter’s partner very kindly brought our two boys back to us from their little vacay in The Big Paws Hotel.
What to do about their walks though? Dear Hubby (DH) opened up our two side gates and created a mini circuit around the house. He very diligently walked around and around for an hour every day. At first the boys followed and thought what new game is this, but just after a few days grew bored with this as I did! He also decided that our bougainvillea needed cutting back and as a verge collection was coming up, we tackled this head on.
Somebody is protesting against no walks!
A huge job
We relied on the kindness of friends and neighbours and some online shopping for our food and wine.
One day I had a surprise visit from a good friend and we sat outside, socially distanced and had a lovely chat. She brought some beautiful tulips and a small bag of exotic fruit, lucky me.
The beautiful tulips she brought as a gift.
WEEK TWO
The second week we were able to get out for dinner and celebrate our 30th Wedding Anniversary, definitely something worth celebrating. We had dinner with very dear friends at a restaurant called Dilly Dally.
Not too much change 😬
This week was also the first time I had seen my two adorable grandchildren for nearly a month.
It was good to catch up with these two precious bundles. I could also get back to my weekly activities of zumba, Bridge and Mahjong.
WEEK THREE
This week was much the same as before. I did venture out with a girlfriend one night to our line dancing class. Not the boot scooting kind but more dancing in lines. Such great fun and we get plenty of exercise doing this.
Our couches are getting ruined by our spoilt boys so I ordered a couch cover for one of the couches to see if this would improve things.
Not quite what I had in mind!
WEEK FOUR
It was Book Club this week and the book this month was The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Kranostein. This was not a book I could relate to even though it had some pretty good reviews. There are 11 of us in the club and I think most enjoyed it.
Our Girls Games Night was also this week and it was my turn to host. My son and his girlfriend bought me a Murder Mystery game for my birthday. Even though it’s meant for male and female, my friends were all okay about some of them dressing up as men. It was a brilliant evening and everyone made such a great effort with their costumes.
A Slice of Murder
Also during this last week was my Grandson, Lachie’s third birthday, what excitement that was. He sure did receive a lot of gifts.
My little lumberjack
Last of the month from today’s walk around the lake.
I hope everyone else had a good June also, look forward to hearing all about it over at The Changing Season hosted by Ju-Lynn this month. Next month Brian at Bushboys World will be hosting.
I don’t walk often enough but now Spring is here it’s about time I got out a bit more! Trouble is I don’t like walking alone so I’ve started to take Rufus again. My dear hubby takes both dogs every day for two hours, so Rufus had a little treat this morning.
Perth skyline
There are still wildflowers in abundance along the path and I also found a raspberry bush, I was tempted to pick a few, maybe I’ll go back! All the footy teams were out for their Saturday matches.
To stop him licking his paws!
Sadly I had to leave Zac as the two of them together can’t behave
