posing with my girls this once-

Here I am posing with Raga and Nikki in two separate pictures. Raga the german shepherd and Nikki the labrador and me of course the homo sapien. the other dogs are also around on the front lawn

Nikki, mind you, is quite a handful and a real pleasure to hug. I call her my blood-pressure dog because when you hug her she gives herself so fully into the hug that you really feel the hug-warm, present in the moment and loving.

nocturnal activity

activity nay action never stops in our canine household. can you imagine what time this must be happening? well the time is well past ten in the evening, we are typically faced with a powercut situation and since sleeping is really tricky in the summer heat inside for us...we are all out in the back lawn- me with the camera and the dogs with a lizard, garden lizard or some such reptile to catch their fancy.

As you can see in this picture here (picture is disturbed due to the artificial lighting from CFL bulbs and the movement of the dogs) they are looking very eagerly in this brick-heap to trace any sort of motion of those reptilian adversaries. In view of the night, Dash is taking the liberty to use his size to the best of his advantage leaving Raga a bit confused!

stretching

one would think she has really had a hard day's work behind her, the manner in which she stretches here- nikki- forever langourous, forever naughty and enjoying herself the most it seems.

31st dec on the front lawn

today tis 31st dec and soon 2007 would have receded into the annals of history. another year turns and soon we would all have a little more great hair and soon laugh lines too:)

some of my laugh lines will come from watching the antics of my girls as i also record for this moment to share it with you. have a look for yourself.

new kid on the block...my new kids i meant

i shot this video accidentally. i hope to upload it more mindfully though. not sure i did a good job but at least its a first for me. others will follow soon. please click to see the picture. as you see, the dogs were in the lawn of the house. this is the front lawn that overlooks the street. all the girls are running around objecting to the presence of certain other street cousins of theirs. all their aggression is towards dogs, mind you. if anyone would believe any of these is a guard dog...err... no comments on that one. why should i say anything about my own pack? now for a few days the pack is not allowed on this lawn or the other one either - simply because they are quite a handful when they start digging the nascent grass and merrily stomp in with their muddy feet. as you can well imagine, for a single hand to manage those 12 little feet, by either washing them or dusting them is another chore added...i decided the best way is to let them run around in the driveway till the grass grew properly. i do ofcourse allow them on their own lawn (the back lawn) under 'supervision'!!!- obviously my own only. i love them running there. hopefully if all goes well with this video excercise, will make another video of that too and share with you. now over to the front lawn again where you see them now. for now they cannot even enter the lawn AT ALL for i have planted my own flowering plants there. i decided i want to keep this lawn for me and the other one for them. but on second thoughts, even within this lawn only certain areas need to be demarcated as those where dogs need not go and i think those are the two corners of the lawn where you see these people right now. what i am going to do is have a wooden/bamboo 'jafri' done over there and the rest of the lawn is open to them. i think that would be ok. why should i forbid them from any part of the house completely and what fun is it for me to sit alone on my lawn, without my family being there with me?!

times they are a-changing

soon this empty house, this silent weeping lawn, this morose driveway will be abuzz with the sounds of dogs all over-running around, playing, fighting, jostling, chasing each other and what not.
raga was born in a house numbered 367. is it her strong fate-line that is getting us back to a house of the same number? is it the combined destiny of all the dogs? or is it my fate-line that i could choose to come away here, with my dogs and i did?

grass for the lawn

this man here dug out the grass, about 200 feet of it, at the sundar nursery when i went there for the grass. preparing a lawn for the dogs is not all that easy after all. it was october, nearly 12:30 or more in the afternoon, and if you can see the sun was very bright indeed. anyhow today the grass has been watered for the first time and the rest i can do is to pray!...