Bazzy and the Giant Shredder

Hey hey everyone it is the Bazzy man here. Don't you go listening to old Miss Ellie's complaints about me.

I am tryin' real hard to be a good Aireboy, but she never wants to play and I wanna play ALL the time!
Mum says I am getting better out on walkies, even though I almost knocked her off her feet last week. I didn't mean to, it just kinda happened!

We were pretty busy this weekend.

Daddy's dad Bill is in hospital.

They took out a big tumour and one of his kidney's. The tumour was a cancer, but the doctor says they got it all and he has a 95% chance of it not coming back - so we are all mighty happy about that. He might even be allowed to go home tomorrow.

We all went for a big car ride over to the granpoeple's place. When we got to their house, the stupid poodles Harry and Eddie were out in the garden yapping at the gate.

Miss Ellie and I were ready to GO! But cranky nanna scooped up the precious poodles and took them inside before we were allowed to get out of the car.

Miss Ellie and I zoomed all over the garden, running and sniffing all over the place.

The precious poodles were allowed out later but only into their penned off section of the back garden.

They aren't allowed to play with us - because cranky nanna is scared we will hurt them lol. As if we would!

Daddy picked up this huge big machine thing and put it in the trailer on the back of the car. it followed us all the way home.

When we got home dad put it into the garden shed, but not before i gave it a good sniffing all over.

Then today it came out. Daddy set it up under the gum trees down the back of our garden and started it up. I was a bit unsure at the beginning, but I watched mum and she wasn't scared so I was ok then.

Dad had cut down one of our trees and mum was shoving bits of tree into the giant machine shredder thing. it was noisy and all this green stuff started comin' out the bottom. So I thought I had better check that right out.

Here are the photos of me helping dad with the shredder!

Dad says I am a good helper - yay

See ya everyone - Mr BazzyNator

Bad boy Bazzy - the Dale from Hell

Mum and I think Bazzy is heading the right way for "you're going back to the breeder".
He is sooooo naughty lately.
Daddy says Bazzy has A.D.D. as he constantly craves attention and is doing whatever he can to get it.
You should see how jealous he gets if mum or dad give me a cuddle - he is straight over trying to push me outta the way!
He won't let me play with any toys either.

So mum is plotting to "fix his little red wagon!"
Bazzy is back in training. Back on the correction chain when out on walkies, back to being put into "sit and STAY!" when mum says so.
On walkies lately Bazzy has been going balisitic whenever we see another dog. He almost pulls mum over! He sure is a big strong boy.
So now he is back on the chain on a short lead, mum makes him sit and stay, or drop and stay whenever someone with or without a dog walks towards us.
He also has to walk at "heel' whenever we walk past a house that has a dog.

It didn't help that mum and dad went away on a little holiday and Bazzy was running riot!
Poor Elizabeth just cannot control Bad Boy Bazzy at all!

To Bazzy the world is one giant game and he just wants to PLAY!

Ha ha not anymore Mr B.....

Maybe now I will get some peace?

Miss Ellie.

Farewell to Klaus

We are saddened by the news of Klaus's passing.

We are sending our love to Lulu, Bogart and the kitties.

Sleep well Klaus and know that Bogie will look after his mamma.

There is a new star in the night sky.

Jo, Tim, Miss Ellie and Bazzy

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Bushfires

This photo was taken on "Black Saturday" Feb 7th 2009.

It was taken from a large shopping centre rooftop carpark in Doncaster in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

You are looking towrds Kinglake, which is approxiamatley 40kms from where the photo was taken. The firefront was about 45kms wide at this point.



Today is the 26th of Feb 2009 and this fire is still burning. It has spread north now and is threatening the area around Lake Eildon.

This is where our family goes for holidays. Tim's parent have property up there and we store our ski boat, jet ski's and fishing boat in a shed up next to the lake.

From today all access to Eildon will be closed, as the conditions tomorrow will be terrible. Hot strong winds and temps of 38 - 40c expected.

There are still 6 major fires still burning, with the firefront on this fire now more than 100kms wide.

There are 5500 firefighters trying to work towards getting these fires under control.

These firefighters ar exhausted after working long shifts for days on end.

Heaven only knows when this will end.



God bless the CFA and everyone else helping them fight these fires.



Jo, Miss Ellie and Baz

Sending our love to Bogart

What a sad time Bogie and his mama Lulu are having.
We are sending every single bit of our magical AIREZEN to Klaus - Bogie's daddy.

We are hoping and praying for a miricle right along with Bogie and his mama.

May modern medicine, Bogie's kisses and Lulu's love help Klaus get through this illness.

Although we live on the the other side of the world, they are our friends, and we share their pain.

We are keeping a vigil, and waiting for something good to happen.

Sending lots of love and all our healing AIREZEN..............watch out its comin'.......

Miss Ellie and The Bazzynator

State of Emergency

Hi everyone, it's Jo here and sorry to Ellie and Bazzy baby, but I am hijacking your blog.

As most of you know we here in Victoria are currently experiencing the worst bushfires in Australia's histroy at the moment.

The heatwave of last week, where we had days and days of temps over 45c and the continuing drought have both contributed to the whole state of Victoria being so dry that it was inevitable that we were in for a bad bushfire season this summer.

February is the worst time for us, as the heat of summer is at it's hottest, and we have already had 2 months of summer sun, just enough to dry everything out even more.

The tragedy is not over, the fires are still raging and although we have had a cool change in the weather this week, the forecast is for it to get hot again by Friday and once again to have winds blowing from the north - this means hot desert winds.

The areas hit the worst are just out of Melbourne in the surrounding hills of the Yarra Valley and at the end of the Dandenong Ranges flowing into Gippsland.

These are beautiful bush areas that in parts have quite a lot of small towns, so there are a lot of people living amongst the bush.
And of course these areas are home to many many native animals.

The concern is that the fires of the Kinglake/Healesville area will join up with the fires of the Gippsland area - this would be terrible.
The fires are both already huge and burning out of control. There is no way of putting them out, just trying to put in firebreaks to control where they head.

We have more than 3000 volunteer firefighters in there, we have also had teams of firefighters come in from New Zealand, Tasmania, Canberra and South Australia to help. The army are also now helping out and doing what ever needs to be done to save the towns under the most threat.

It has been declared a National Disaster, and it is not over yet.

Please say a prayer for the families of the 173 confirmed dead, the 1000 that have already lost their homes and for the poor people doing everything they can to save lives and homes at threat.

There have been amazing stories of survival - including my husband Tim's cousin, who with her husband and daughter hid in a steel shed on their 10 acre property in Kinglake and huddled under wet blankets while the fire raged straight through their property destroying everything except the shed. We thank god they survived. They have said it happened so fast there was no time to get out.

We are safe and have not been in any threat of danger.
I am hoping & praying that the friends I have in high risk areas will remain safe.

As I said the fires are still a high danger to a lot of towns, the weather conditions are not going to help.

Please pray for those at risk. It is truly horrendous.

Anyone wanting to help can donate to the Red Cross - they have set up a Bushfire Appeal.

Sorry to hijack the Dales blog - they said it would be ok, but just this once :)

Jo

we're back in action

Hi ya everyone, we're back....mum was a bit slack about letting us blog, but we are back in action now!
We had a really nice Christmas, I got a nice yellow duck with a squeaker in it (thanks G&B) and Ellie got a big pink octopus, but of course I stole it off her and she let me have it!


Ellie doesn't really play with toys much anymore, she spends alot of time just lazing about.
Every now and then she gives me a good game of bitey face and she will play shake 'n kill with a toy, but mostly I steal them all off her, so she doesn't bother.
Mum says I am a bully and that I should share - uh-uh, I don't think so mum.


Our mum got all adeventurous too and baked us some speacial doggy biscuits.She got a doggy cookbook for Christmas more than 2 years ago and has never ever used it - well she finally dragged it out and gave us a treat. Now our mum doesn't really like cooking all that much, so it was really nice of her to bake jsut for US!
Daddy says here is the evidence that mum does indeed know where the kitchen is in our house.

Ellie had a nice munch on hers, while I wolfed mine down real quick and went inside looking for more.

They were herb and garlic flavoured low fat dog biscuits, because mum has put me on a diet - geeeeeez, that is so not fair, mum knows I just LOVE food.

We had a big fright on New Years Eve with the kids from next door letting off fireworks right outside our house. Mum was over at the neighbours place but she came home to check on us and we were both very very scared. So she went and spoke to the people next door and they stopped all the awful noises.

Too late, we were already terrified, so mum stayed home with us and tried to keep us both calm.

It's summer here now and it is starting to get really hot. Mum has given us both hairecuts recently, so that we can cope better with the heat. Poor old miss Ellie struggles with the really hot days now.

Mum has been leaving us inside with the air con on whilst she goes off to the office all day.

Better go, I think she's coming and I am not supposed to be in the study on my own (I still chew things)

See ya ...............Bazzy