It’s already nearly halfway through November. So far we’ve had nice sunny days, with hard frost in the morning. I can live with that!
Indy
Hoar Frost
At the Ottawa Valley Golden Retriever Club Obedience trials this past weekend (31st October – 1st November 2009), Tyra got her three legs for her CD with two first place ribbons! She had her “Tyra” moments, like trying to stick her nose in the judge’s cosmetic bag on the table and flipping the judge’s hand out of the way during the stand for exam to get a better view of what was going on outside the ring. Still, she did it in style 🙂
Thanks to J-P for taking our picture!
Sunday, October 18, 2009 Posted in cars, dogs
Paul & Tanja just set off for a ride in the Stag to Tremblant. Paul is meeting up with the triumph club for a group ride
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 Posted in dogs
Ok – so this is my first ever attempt at carving a pumpkin.
The template came from the online site of “Better Homes and Gardens” and is supposed to be a German Shepherd Dog.
Here’s Armin modelling next to the finished pumpkin for comparison
It was once thought that dogs see only in black and white. However, this appears not to be true and they can distiguish between some colours.
So it would appear that:
WE see RED, THEY see pale yellow
WE see ORANGE, THEY see pale yellow
WE see BRIGHT YELLOW, THEY see pale yellow
WE see GREEN, THEY see pale yellow to white
WE see TURQUISE, THEY see white to pale blue
WE see DARK BLUE, THEY see mauve
WE see DARK PURPLE, THEY see grey
In the sport of agility, it’s important for the dogs to be able to see the obstacles clearly against the background in order for the dog to safely negotiate those obstacles. For that reason, the contact obstacles are painted in a contrasting colour to the contact area and the weavepoles and jump bars are striped in a contrasting colour. This is where “contrasting” becomes subjective. Bear in mind that dogs don’t see what we see, so what might seem like a contrasting colour (e.g. orange against green) is actually a same-shade to a dog!
Food for thought!
Graphic above comes from an article by Mark Plonsky
There are two very interesting articles in the January and February 2009 editions of
Clean Run covering this subject and more. Well worth checking out.
I’m following a course from the PPSOP called “The Art of Food Photography”. Who’d have thought taking photos of food could be so hard! The first assinment is supposedly simple. Take a photo of something like an apple or an orange in natural light. Then take a photo of something with texture, like bread or a muffin. I found out that oranges have lots of texture and the stale loaf of bread I had in the cupboard didn’t look very appetizing. I fished out four rainbow cookies from a project I did a couple of weeks ago and shot those instead.
Monday, January 19, 2009 Posted in dogs
Three of the dogs are off to Alta Vista today for their CERF eye exam. It’s Marco’s first time with the drops. Should be fun trying to get them in!
A little late reporting this, but Matthew finally took his driving test on Thusday and passed. Hooray!
Saturday, January 10, 2009 Posted in agility
Took 4 of the beasties out to RedGate for a fun match today. They all did pretty well! Ivan’s coming along nicely. Indy’s still a bit of an airhead.
It was cold. About -14C during the day but the sun helped make it feel warmer than it was.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Posted in agility
First agility trial of the year. Morningstar in Kingston.
Tyra didn’t get off to a good start on Friday. Took down bars and avoided the tyre. Dropped her to 22″ specials the rest of the weekend and she came home with 11 Qs!
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