Emily

It has hard work being so cute, and you need a lot of naps to keep your energy.

Day 48: The doctor is in, originally uploaded by Craig Strachan.

A flyer that I found in my postbox. This doctor is offering some remarkable services. He must be highly skilled, and all those services for only R50 (about $6).

Garage parking solution

I drive a large bakki (pickup), and it only just fits into my garage at home. I have found many complicated solutions to preventing this problem, some simple and some very complex (even involving lasers).

Here is what I have been doing for years. It took about 10 minutes to set-up, and it is really easy. All you need it a piece of string, and a small piece of soft wood.

Hang the wood from the rafters, ensure that it just touches the front window. Now when you park, drive slowly until to just touch the wood. And no, the wood does not scratch the window (I used pine which is very soft). Alternatively, use a tennis ball if you are worried about scratched.

Happy parking.

“They” say that you should do something new every day. Well, I saw 2010 in by doing something that I have never done before – opening a bottle of bubbly with a knife – Sabrage!

After Malcolm showed me how it was remarkably easy. I think that next time I should use a sword.

Craig doing Sabrage

It was remarkably easy to do.

And there the cork goes...

Have a fantastic 2010!

Here is a simple tip to always find where you parked your car in a mall. Almost all modern mobile phones have a built in camera.

So, take a photo of your parking bay! The bay number usually tells the floor by colour, and a grid reference to the actual bay. Very useful at the airport.

Simple and you will never forget where you parked!

Found on the back of a Woolworths packed of peanuts. This is simply getting bizarre!

Warning: made in a factory which uses nuts

I don’t think that we need to worry about Emily being a retriever that doesn’t. She is showing clear signs of retrieving and carrying everything all over the house.

This is her latest, carrying her food bowl to the bedroom. Is she hinting or something?

By the way, she is 13 weeks old today, and is already over 10kg.

On our way…

Almost there…

Ahh, made it

I had to post about something besides Emily, so here is a picture of a double cape gooseberry that I found in my garden today. Two individual berries sharing the same cape.

She is practising hard to enter the 2010 world soccer contest. We have high hopes that with her in the team we have a fighting chance to win the competition to be the world champs.

Go Emily!

Score a goal, and if you don’t manage to do that, you can just eat the ball.

If we don’t win at the soccer, we can always enter the tug of war contest instead.

It is hard work being so cute.

I think that Emily is happy, but she never stops! But she is so cute.