Our Random Ramblings

Not fully sure what transpired today -- but somehow we ended up at a dog shelter today -- and brought "Shiloh" home with us. We rapidly renamed him Lupo Speeder -- the latter to keep Cian happy. We'll just call him Lupo.....
Cute, eh?

He is a 10 month old German Shepherd mix -- mixed with who knows what (Australian Cattle Dog mixed with some Pug ???!!) -- he is about half the size of Austin and will probably not grow too much more.
Very calm and quiet disposition (so far). He seems to be fairly smart too -- so we will have our challenges there too. Should be fun.

All in all he seems to be taking to the new surroundings:

Cian was so excited -- he wanted to call his friends and start reading about training too:

Click on the link below for more photos:

Here is the bio and photo that were on the website of the shelter where we got Lupo:

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So finally we get a few days respite from all the work that has been going on around the house.

The painters finished the outside of the house today -- and they really did a wonderful job. We are thrilled with how it all turned out. The photos below won't do it full justice -- compressing an image with screw with the colours and all -- but at least it'll give you an idea of what we are looking at these days.

Here is what it is looking like on the east side:
 

Now remember -- not too long ago it all looked like:

The back view of the house is:

And the front view -- I will take some better photos -- without the contractors sign there (I promise):

And if you need a refresh - this is what it looked like back in July (and for the last 5 years we have been in the house):

So happy days! Some other views:

If anyone is interested in what we did to the house -- the photos of the place while it was being stripped etc are here. 

We think we have a week before they all return and start ripping out our kitchen! 

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