Seems that way with so many choices to do things from swimming to boating to sightseeing to eating out, is all within seconds to minutes from our actual home! Ahhh Florida our home, where we live and staycation, since staycay is soooooooo easy to do!
Our pool and our boat are right in our own backyard literally, the convention center is a couple of miles away, as well as museums, and farmers markets, theaters for live entertainment, and movies too, less than five miles away! Amusements are as close as an hour and a half to three hours from home.
Did I mention beaches?
Yes, we have them too!
Fishing, waterskiing, probably parasailing too, but I do not know exactly where, since I do not do that, ha! (Not that I do any of the others anymore either, but we do have them available if YOU want them!)
Fine and medium dining is within minutes all different nationalities of cuisines and chains too!
Italian, German, American in barbecue/seafood/fine dining etc, Chinese, Thai, Indian, Irish, fast foods from every chains that they're!
Hubby is out getting Wally's Barbecue that just so happens to be cooked by a chef from the Cordon Bleu school, the owner!
Anywho, in spite of all those advantages we have not been making use of many of those lately.
Today I watched many doggie training videos for mini/standard Australian Shepherds, since I have found out they are wired differently, although extremely intelligent!
Very high energy! Yes! For sure!
So I threw the ball more today and spoke with my lower voice register to teach him who's the BOSS!
He has been barking and playfully biting, but now he has his adult teeth, it does hurt, but as of yet he has not broken the skin and never ever does it viciously, no growling involved, only in play!
The barking is due to him seeing himself in our bedroom mirror, he thinks it's another dog I suppose, wonder if that is so smart? Yep, we have recently allowed him onto our bed, actually he is quite agile and had not asked permission, but we have made it quite clear to him that it is to be a quiet space. Thus my using youtube for the special dealing with training sites from people that have Aussies!
One owner had trained her Aussie for when hers barked or bit, she either held their muzzle closed or stuck her finger in their mouth with saying a deep low "no!", both that I have tried and had seemed to work. Yelling and smacking, heaven forbid does not get through to this breed or any other for that matter!
Unfortunately, it was still too hot to play outside.
But Hubby surprised me with a neat little harvest of one of our crops picked last evening and cut up this morning: Very small compared to previous ones, has to be the heat, a pineapple! This area was the pineapple capital before Hawaii!
BUT SWEET!
Finally got a cool down with a pour down! Look at that rain total of nearly an inch and half, 1.42 in little over an hour! And still pouring!
Be careful what you wish for comes to mind, over and over again!
Tis the season!
Happy good night to all!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
Our pool and our boat are right in our own backyard literally, the convention center is a couple of miles away, as well as museums, and farmers markets, theaters for live entertainment, and movies too, less than five miles away! Amusements are as close as an hour and a half to three hours from home.
Did I mention beaches?
Yes, we have them too!
Fishing, waterskiing, probably parasailing too, but I do not know exactly where, since I do not do that, ha! (Not that I do any of the others anymore either, but we do have them available if YOU want them!)
Fine and medium dining is within minutes all different nationalities of cuisines and chains too!
Italian, German, American in barbecue/seafood/fine dining etc, Chinese, Thai, Indian, Irish, fast foods from every chains that they're!
Hubby is out getting Wally's Barbecue that just so happens to be cooked by a chef from the Cordon Bleu school, the owner!
Anywho, in spite of all those advantages we have not been making use of many of those lately.
Today I watched many doggie training videos for mini/standard Australian Shepherds, since I have found out they are wired differently, although extremely intelligent!
Very high energy! Yes! For sure!
So I threw the ball more today and spoke with my lower voice register to teach him who's the BOSS!
He has been barking and playfully biting, but now he has his adult teeth, it does hurt, but as of yet he has not broken the skin and never ever does it viciously, no growling involved, only in play!
The barking is due to him seeing himself in our bedroom mirror, he thinks it's another dog I suppose, wonder if that is so smart? Yep, we have recently allowed him onto our bed, actually he is quite agile and had not asked permission, but we have made it quite clear to him that it is to be a quiet space. Thus my using youtube for the special dealing with training sites from people that have Aussies!
One owner had trained her Aussie for when hers barked or bit, she either held their muzzle closed or stuck her finger in their mouth with saying a deep low "no!", both that I have tried and had seemed to work. Yelling and smacking, heaven forbid does not get through to this breed or any other for that matter!
Unfortunately, it was still too hot to play outside.
But Hubby surprised me with a neat little harvest of one of our crops picked last evening and cut up this morning: Very small compared to previous ones, has to be the heat, a pineapple! This area was the pineapple capital before Hawaii!
BUT SWEET!
This year we also have a bumper crop of mangoes and avocados too!
Be careful what you wish for comes to mind, over and over again!
Tis the season!
Happy good night to all!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
