We are going ….

We are terribly sorry we haven’t been able to visit any of you of late or reply to your mails.
The last couple of days have been extremely busy. We just finish ticking off one list when a new longer list crops up from nowhere!!

We are trying to get most of our ‘Shift to Delhi’ related issues sorted before we start for Goa.
After all, Goa is supposed to be a sabbatical and we don’t want to spend our time there thinking and planning about what needs to be done when we are back in Hyderabad!

We just want to cut down our ‘To Do’ list to a minimum so we can relax, explore, take photographs, eat and just enjoy the sea….

Oh! We forgot to tell you!
We did find a really nice sounding place to stay in Goa.

The lady Mummy talked to informed us ‘No swimming in the Pool’ and ‘Damages must be made good in cash’.

We really do not understand what pool she was talking about.
The sea? But she can’t stop us from swimming in the sea, it doesn’t belong to her.
Was she, by any chance, talking about the swimming pool in the resort? But who cares about a tiny swimming pool when you have the WHOLE sea to yourself?
Silly woman!

And what is this thing about damages? Why should she think Mummy and Daddy would damage something? Mummy does sometimes bang things when she is angry but they are pretty well trained and not inclined to ‘Damage property’!

We think the lady in question will learn to trust us better after she meets us all.
The most important thing is that she said ‘Yes’ in spite of all her apprehensions.

It is supposedly a studio apartment close to the sea and we hope to go for our morning walks in the beach! Mummy is rather excited that she will have a nice little kitchenette to try out all her yummy sea food recipes!!
Hope this place lives up to our huge expectations!!!

Our car got a make-over today.  Brand new tubeless tyres which are far safer than the ones with tubes and a huge lying-down space at the back.
Yes, the rear-seats have been removed and a comfortable new mattress installed so we can sleep if we want to.

It will be a long drive, nearly 14 hours. We mean to start very early on the morning of 25th, say around 3 AM, so that we can be in Goa by evening.
But then, we have also kept the option of making a halt midway if the journey gets too tiring.

We are a little worried about Shadow. Though he is very tough and smart, he is still just a puppy. This is going to be his first real long trip and we are worried he might tire.

We will be carrying our satellite net connection and are hopeful we shall be able to sit by the sea and blog by moonlight!

But just in case the net fails us and finding an alternative gets too cumbersome, we want you to know that we might disappear for about a week because we are going on a BEACH HOLIDAY!

YOO HOOO…!

We promise to come back with heaps of new stories to tell. Please be safe and keep wagging till we see you again…

Wags,

Buddy, Ginger and Shadow

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY BOY

When Buddy came to live with us some 13 months back, I wasn’t very happy. I had been the sole princess of all I could survey for so long…
But today, I know he knows that I think he is my most exciting playmate, my forever friend and the BESTEST brother a girl can ever ask for.

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And I want to Wish my dear brother a VERY VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
Buddy, We all love you heaps. And we feel blessed to have you in our lives.

We were lucky to get this cute picture of him as a tiny little puppy from his earlier family. Oh! Wasn’t he just too adorable?

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Here he is today, all grown up and handsome and so adorable still.
Can you imagine, he turned five yesterday ? He neither looks nor behaves his age though!

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There was no birthday cake. If you remember, his tummy wasn’t very good till a week back and we decided it would be prudent to let him be on the ‘careful’ diet he is on.
The cake has been postponed, not cancelled, Buddy. Mummy’s promise!

We both got vanilla ice-cream and cream-milk (Instead of the low calorie, low fat milk Mummy usually gets!).
In the evening, we started off in search of a quiet and peaceful place fit for a special birthday walk.
After a long drive, we found this little rocky hill with just a few scattered groups of people enjoying their own private picnic. They seemed totally disinterested in us which suited us just fine. (Though Mummy always wonders how anyone can not want to come talk to a lovely Labradudette and a Handsome Labradude!!)

We had a lovely time exploring the new place and as dusk set in, we walked into the sunset and bid the birthday-sun goodbye for yet another year.

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Back home, there was Ginger-Garlic Chicken for dinner. After a hearty meal Buddy went off to sleep, making sure to confiscate the book mummy is reading so she won’t shirk from typing this birthday post for him!
(She is still late though. This was supposed to be published yesterday night, on his birthday. But we guess we can excuse her. She had a lot to do)

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Buddy’s Birthday Wish:
To go visit a beautiful quiet beach, splash in the waves, listen to the wind sing, watch a sunset and leave some paw-prints for someone to remember him by.

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Buddy’s Birthday Resolution:
To donate to the local Animal Shelter

Mummy has promised to help him keep his resolution.
It will be easier than to fulfil his wish. The nicest and nearest beach is about 750 kilometers away. But Mummy has promised we will make it happen too.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN, BUD BOY
May all your dreams come true.
Heaps of licks and wags,


PET PRIDE is where you can get your birthday registered.

Go meet BoZo n his Human who hosts this meme.

Also Thanks to Cookie who is flagging off a new meme ' PHOTOS of ALL FIDS 

MUMMY AGAIN!!

Hello Friends,
Here's mummy again with her 'Random Shots'. And as agreed earlier, she has included us too in the end.
Hope you like her pictures.

(Mummy's attempt at photoshopping (Is that a word?) a shot of artificial flowers)

(Mummy calls these 'DIFFERENT FACES OF THE BEACH')

(YUMMZZ! Barbacue..!)

(From Daddy's Garden)

(You can almost see the engine right at the front of the train from around the middle!..Mummy forgot the name of the station the train was passing through)

(A quiet evening at home)

And of course, YOUR"S TRULY

(This is from one of our Holidays. We were tired and resting on a hotel bed after a fun-filled, active day. Must get Mummy to tell you about that trip someday)

Wags,

Ginger and Buddy

TRUE COLOUR THURSDAY #10

TANGERINE, a variation of the colour ORANGE, denotes JOY

YOUTHFULNESS

 EXUBERANCE AND ENERGY.

Touches of TANGERINE infuse warmth and life into any décor. When mixed with natural hues like Olive Green or Brown, it helps create a nature-inspired ambience.
Tangerine with pink however creates a rather psychedelic effect!!

(This Tribal-Design necklace of Ivory beads in a brown leather string came in this bright carry bag. Mummy assures us neither the Ivory nor the Leather is real.)

Many personality tests define people who like TANGERINE (and various other shades of ORANGE for that matter) as friendly and affable, perhaps because this shade is said to rouse cheerful and exuberant emotional reactions.

It is also said to promote appetite which is probably why it is abundantly used in restaurants, usually in combination with RED (We are thinking of KFC!!)
TANGERINE is a tertiary colour, the primary ones being RED, GREEN and BLUE.
If you are in the mood to read about ‘THE COLOUR WHEEL and THEORIES of COLOUR’ you can click HERE

But while you are at it, please don’t forget to let us know how you liked our collection of TANGERINE for this week’s TCT.

(Our Chew sticks)

(Construction site Tangerine)

(Tangerine windows)

(Celebrating Diwali-Festival of Light with Tangerine flowers)

 

(A Tangerine Dholak)

(A papier-mache lamp-shade)

(A Tangerine sunset-Majorda Beach, Goa)

AHH! Mummy's bookshelf!

(Love Gerald Durrell)

(Coelho is so difficult!)

(It is not anyone's Birthday again!)

(Mummy's favourite Coffee cup collection)

(Inside our refrigerator)

(Daddy's Guitar)

(Ginger's Squeaky ball)

(We live in D-6)

(A Tangerine Plug)

(Artificial Flowers with Olive leaves)

(Someone knew about our TCT!Tangerine Cables!)

(Daddy's shoes)

(Mummy's Embroidered Bag)

(Spicy, sweet and salty tea-time snacks. Sorry, we got only the picture on the box-cover. They were all devoured before anyone thought of the camera!)

(Daddy's daily cup)

Ginger was really tired after that LoooooNG photo-session and fell asleep while modelling for mummy's dupatta!!.....

Buddy decided he could pull it off better and had the 'LAST LAUGH!!'

Wags,

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Thanks a lot, BLUE for having started this lovely meme we so enjoy.