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Due to the huge amounts of Rain Dave has been unable to build his herding yards...
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I am a massive fan of Kongs and recommend them to all my clents as an essential part of their environment enrichment programe or in laymans terms, fun toys for their dogs. The Kong was born out of a frustration of 'Fritz', a former police dog turned brick chewing german shepherd, who's owner tried everything to coax out of his destructive behaviours. After toying with everything from kids toys to radiator hoses he was working on his VW Van he threw the rubber suspension mount to 'Fritz' who took to it immediately and the 'kong' came into being. After experimenting with different rubbers, Fritz's owner Joe Markham began producing and marketing the super strong toy.
Read more: A dog and his owners best tool for Boredom, Chewing and Crating...a KONG.
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I'm not much of a fan of Jewelry and neither is Michael, however symbolism is important to both of us as is having some physical reminders of each other when we are not together. For thousands of years humans have utilised jewelry to symbolise status and we have taken on board this tradition particularly that of wearing rings to recognise our relationship.
I'm not one for anything pretty, I was given flowers once at a housewarming, I almost didn't know what to do.. then I remembered my manners and said "thank you that's such a kind thought". SO when Michael did broach the idea of Relationship rings I was taken aback and used my fathers line of, well "I have a physical job and it will only get caught and Ill lose the finger...".
After some thinking and time and many many people asking about if I was engaged or not, I thought that the millions and millions of people who use rings to show their relationship status are actually on to something. As a behaviourist I read body language to find out what I need to know, how we as human adorn ourselves is another way we communicate. So I caved into common sense and thought more about the importance of our relationship and communicating that with each other, ourselves and the world around us.
So the other day for our 12 month anniversary of being engaged I made us a pair of rings from a small copper joiner I bought at Bunnings (it was damn hard to find the right size) it took about a week to file and buff them on the sly, then nervously I handed them over (earlier then our actual anniversary...yes I'm one of those...) only to find that the bloody things didn't fit either of us.
Thus began an epic journey to find a jeweler to resize these special rings.. most scoffed at them, these tools of beauty and symbols of our commitment, until after at least 2 dozen across countless suburbs I found a Store owner that could resize them...so happy was I.
The idea is that we will have 3 tiers of rings, these Copper ones for our engagement (the green stain will remind us to wear them when we don't and get into the habit so we don't lose them, and think about the symbols much more than just annoying bits of metal around our fingers. Then upon our Civil Union we will amongst other things... exchange Silver rings and Finally when Equality comes to Australia we will exchange White Gold ones...Hopefully by then we will have been in the habit of wearing them and won't lose them.
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This year I am prepared as never before for Birthdays and Christmas... posting and dropping off gifts well in advance...I even shocked myself.
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Chickens are coming out my ears....
My future Husband Michael is the very proud owner and 7 day a week committed operator of a Flame Grilled Chicken Takeaway on the Central Coast of NSW. He seems to have worked there like a little oompa loompa 98% of my knowing him...the 2% being the time I kidnapped him and had him slaving away on the Station up in Queensland...he is in a word a Workaholic.