An Early Start and Holly gets a Trim!

Hi Woofers!

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Freddy and Eric de Ferret here!

OK, the weekend has arrived again and The Missus is off up the village hall again with her ladies doing a bit of glue slapping.

Now, that means we have to get up early so that she can get all her card making stuff up the hall and get back to let Old Two Legs take us down the beach in the small car.

Today OTL has a bright idea, Let TM take the small car and we will go out in the big car!

Good idea wot?

Only problem is, we have to go early so we can get back to claim our parking space, parking around here is at a premium at weekends!

That means we got down to the beach when it was dark!

OTL decided to play with the controls on the camera trying different settings, some worked, sort of and some didn't work at all!

First he tried a hand held shot of the moon but the shutter speed was too slow and the moon looked like it was dancing all over the sky!

Then, just for fun he changed the settings to 'Automatic' to see what the camera would do.

Well. the camera decided it needed flash and this is what happened.

The moon was still fuzzy but that was because of the clouds!

He decided that astrophotography could be left for another day and went off looking for something a little closer to earth!

Me, by flash!

Again, left on automatic, it didn't do a too bad job but the auto focus was terrible and took ages to find me!

As we got closer to the beach the light got lighter and it wasn't so dark, auto focus looked better but both Holly and I were facing the wrong way!

Woofers farewell!

Having decided that woofer photography can wait until the sun came up he then set about trying some 'Landscape Photography' but really what he wanted was a tripod. Still, it wasn't too bad, hand held and all that!

Sheerness by moon light!

It was still dark when we got back home so Holly and I headed for bed while OTL started poo shovelling!

We had a visit from the Bookkeeper to collect last months paperwork but he didn't stay long 'cos he still had the flu!

OTL kicked him out as soon as possible, we don't want any germs in our household!

After all that, Holly was invited into the bathroom and she thought it was just to get her butt washed but no, she got the full works, soaked and shampooed and rubbed and scrubbed!

I was hiding in the bedroom, I wasn't getting anywhere near her in case OTL got any ideas!

After getting washed and sploshed, she then got trimmed and snipped and shaved and baldified!

OTL was working on her claws and managed to cut into the quick on the black claw. You just can't see where the quick is on a black claw like you can on a white claw!

Normally if you cut into the quick it starts to bleed and the way to stop it bleeding is to block the claw end with some soap.

In this house hold we have the liquid soap, not the old fashion soap bar, so OTL had to use some of that stuff he calls Vaseline to seal the claw.

Of course, Holly is licking the stuff off he paw and it starts to bleed again! In the end, what with her licking and OTL applying copious amounts of Vaseline the bleeding stopped!

OTL has put a bar of soap on next weeks shopping list, I hope he never has to use it!

We got a visitor tonight, Auntie Shirley who went to the U.S.A. with TM, should be fun, with a bit of luck the muggins should be good!

See you all tomorrow!

Luv,

Daisy, Holly, Miss May, Miss Wendy, Freddy and Eric de Ferret.