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We have given Bonnie a companion. His name is Kobe and he looks very much like this little boy, tho he is still a puppy.
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You can see the real deal when I transfer my fone pics file.
 
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Hi, back again. I've been busy from overcommitting again. Also checking out a sharp pain in my side. After investigating my Doctor assured me it was nothing sinister but a bad sprain. She asked if I'd been doing any heavy lifting and I sheepishly said 'yes'.🙁
She then ordered me not to mow or vacuum for 3 weeks.😀

Given the dreadful weather and fires affecting the Eastern States of late, my Perth has been having a mild start to summer. Such contrast, especially to LA with a 34N latitude and Perth 32S latitude. Both on West coasts and similar climes. Differences for sure like terrain, vegetation, population spread, Pacific's weather systems ...
 
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Grier said:
Hi, back again. I've been busy from overcommitting again. Also checking out a sharp pain in my side. After investigating my Doctor assured me it was nothing sinister but a bad sprain. She asked if I'd been doing any heavy lifting and I sheepishly said 'yes'.🙁
She then ordered me not to mow or vacuum for 3 weeks.😀

Given the dreadful weather and fires affecting the Eastern States of late, my Perth has been having a mild start to summer. Such contrast, especially to LA with a 34N latitude and Perth 32S latitude. Both on West coasts and similar climes. Differences for sure like terrain, vegetation, population spread, Pacific's weather systems ...
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Glad for three reasons, Terry. A) that you're back, b) that the doctor didn't diagnose anything serious. :thumbsu: And c) that a similar catastrophe as in LA has not happened in Perth and Sydney.
 
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What breed is it? What's the difference in age? You have two male dogs then? How old can dogs of that breed get?
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Havanese, a Spanish Cuban breed. My Bubbles who left us a year ago and Kobe have almost identical coats. He will be Bonnies companion, a girl and boy combo. She is now 6. We bring the puppy home on Wednesday.

Even tho I have said in the past, 'NO MORE DOGS AS IS TOO HEARTBREAKING TO SAY GOODBYE ' and far too often, we always relent as we need the companionship in our golden years. I guess it makes up for having no grand children. 😔
 
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Also checking out a sharp pain in my side.
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Yes good to have you back Terry. I had a nasty groin strain too from over exerting myself. Simple muscle, tendon, ligament strains are common among men our age. I had been pruning my palm tree and must have stretched too far. I still feel a twinge when I reach for something, even hanging the washing.
 
Richie said:
Yes good to have you back Terry. I had a nasty groin strain too from over exerting myself. Simple muscle, tendon, ligament strains are common among men our age. I had been pruning my palm tree and must have stretched too far. I still feel a twinge when I reach for something, even hanging the washing.
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Exactly the same here but less severe. It seems to be common.
 
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Yes strong and resilient. They dont scare easily because they have not as yet grasped the full concept of fear, unlike us adults.
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Recently there was an article in the 'Nature Briefing' online Web page about how it seems beneficial to kids' mental devopment to take risks and to learn limitations from failures.... ?
Does that mean helicopter parents constantly hovering over their children are actually doing their off spring a diservice?

Like my father with me, I let my girls do their own thing as I had. I was always there for them though when things went awry for them, like my Dad was for me. We'd talk, rarther than me chastising. They turned out fine unlike the daughter from ultra strick parents we went to church with. We took in that poor girl after her so called Chtistian farther banished her.
God save us from such self righteous prigs. 🙏
 
Grier said:
Recently there was an article in the 'Nature Briefing' online Web page about how it seems beneficial to kids' mental devopment to take risks and to learn limitations from failures.... ?
Does that mean helicopter parents constantly hovering over their children are actually doing their off spring a diservice?
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It depends on what precisely is meant by risk-taking, Terry. Parents walk a fine line between being overprotective and keeping things too free-ranging. Children have to be enabled to handle certain risks on their own. No doubt about that. The problem is greater risks, the consequences of which can change their lives dramatically. What guidance and support should one offer here?
Some parents feel smug about keeping the reins slack as long as everything goes smoothly but what if something bad has happened to their child? More often than not, they can just thank their lucky stars if they get away unscathed. With hindsight almost everybody would have childhood stories to share when it was pure luck that they came home alive and intact. One day my daughter remarked "Dad, if you'd known where we played as kids and what could have happened, you'd have come and dragged me home immediately." I could have said the same to my mother. We don't have control over this and I find it annoying when parents try to tout this as a result of their elaborated educational efforts.
 
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Our new puppy Kobe has had an adventurous first day. Spent a lot of time exploring our back yard but got a BIT TOO CLOSE TO THE POOL FENCE WHICH HE CAN SQUEEZE THRU. So we will have to prevent him by laying a mesh barrier along its perimetre.
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Pics, please, pics, ...
 
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The round world re enactment by the 100 year old Bean car is nearing its completion with
Warren Brown and Matthew Benns back on home soil and heading to Sydney via the hot,
desolate central Qld route.
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An earlier time and place for the pair of intrepid Aussies.
 
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There's a big motor museum near me I never tire of visiting.
Old old cars and motorbikes. Love them.
They had an open MG day a while back with many folk bringing their aged MG cars. Over a hundred! Some new MG owners brought their now branded Chinese MG's and I smirked along with others. Cheap, gutless and made to a budget. 😅
 
In the Open Australian Tennis tournament I do like Djokovic as a player and a person.
I don't blame him for getting upset by the ways he's been mistreated here.
I'm watching him play Alcaraz typing this. Another great player.
 
looker-on said:
It depends on what precisely is meant by risk-taking, Terry. Parents walk a fine line between being overprotective and keeping things too free-ranging. Children have to be enabled to handle certain risks on their own. No doubt about that. The problem is greater risks, the consequences of which can change their lives dramatically. What guidance and support should one offer here?
Some parents feel smug about keeping the reins slack as long as everything goes smoothly but what if something bad has happened to their child? More often than not, they can just thank their lucky stars if they get away unscathed. With hindsight almost everybody would have childhood stories to share when it was pure luck that they came home alive and intact. One day my daughter remarked "Dad, if you'd known where we played as kids and what could have happened, you'd have come and dragged me home immediately." I could have said the same to my mother. We don't have control over this and I find it annoying when parents try to tout this as a result of their elaborated educational efforts.
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Back when once I was a young I was a fairly strict teacher but gave out more praise than admonishments. Always looking for ways to praise some needy or dysfunctional kids.
My ex wife was stricter than me with our two daughters, like with "wait till your father gets home" warnings I rarely followed though with. I'd seen enough of rough kids to know mine were OK. My girls were more a worry to me with their physical antics. Big tree climing and adventurous in so many ways that left my heart in my mouth. We lived up in the semi rural hills of Perth with the inlaws' farm nearby and I was a volunteer fire-fighter, rode motor bikes and a bush walker, shooter, fisher, .. ... so I think my role modelling involved risk taking. Mea culpa.
With my girls now 40ish they like telling me of some of the shenanigans they got up to. I surprise them with my own tales.
My 8yo grandson has his own little motorbike now. It's passed down for sure.
I sent my grandson some extra protective gear.
 
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In the Open Australian Tennis tournament I do like Djokovic as a player and a person.
I don't blame him for getting upset by the ways he's been mistreated here.
I'm watching him play Alcaraz typing this. Another great player.
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I follow the tournament too and was pleased to see that our young hopeful Eva Lys surprised everyone by making it to the round of the last 16. She didn't know that she'd won some 200000 Euros prize money.
Am waiting for Zverev to get his first GS title. Time may run out for him.
Also watched Collins' match against your Aiava and disliked the way she dealt with the hecklers in the crowd and also what she said at the conference later. Yet I learnt I shouldn't since "We get sick of vanilla tennis players, right, that don't give us anything. This is character." , Chris Stubbs, a Fox Sports reporter said.
 
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