Sage and Pepper's Musings

Life through the eyes of two German Shepherds and their staff.

  • Less than a week to go

    Less than a week to go

    Six days and 150 minutes, it’ll be time to step on a Qantas 787 for my 16+ hour flight to Sydney, Australia. Needless to say I am looking forward to it. A continent I have always wanted to visit and a people with whom I feel a kindred connection (well, I am talking the European… Continue reading

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  • Quiet Sunday

    Quiet Sunday

    Nice puppy walk this morning (3 miles); really enjoying the Merlin bird identifier app that uses sound/images to educate me on what’s around. Also the Seek app that does the same for plants (except the sound, of course). Viridian has very well maintained trails, park facilities and pathways. Found quite a large bird feather –… Continue reading

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  • Busy weekend so far

    Busy weekend so far

    So Claudia planted the yellow yucca which we look forward to enjoying the benefits of in the next 1-2 years. I added some mulch to the beds so it looks a bit better. Since Deloitte provides us with a $1k wellbeing benefit every year, I used the remainder of it not yet spent to buy… Continue reading

  • Home project time

    Home project time

    The hairless one wants to mount the TV to the wall. Only hitch is that it has a ceramic tile covering the fireplace surround where the thing is going to be installed, so that complicates things. Having procured some tile drill bits, he’s off to the races. Sitting over coffee, he had the bright idea… Continue reading

  • Adventures with the hairless one

    Adventures with the hairless one

    It’s been an interesting week here. Lots of dog walks and trips in the car with our noses out of the window. The hairless one has a project to put all the home theatre gear into a rack (which he’s done) and then hoist the TV onto the wall (which he has not). Those yellow… Continue reading

  • Home at last

    Home at last

    Well, the final process of buying our new home went very well. Our closing on Thursday 27th April took all of eight minutes and that morning we brought over some stuff to the new house. Friday was moving day and Olde World Movers of Euless did a fantastic job of transferring everything between houses. As… Continue reading

  • Morning dog walk – and more packing

    Morning dog walk – and more packing

    Took the woofs back to our new home community this morning for a 2 mile walk around the park trails. We noticed that the pool supervisor was on duty. Back home to do more packing. Made significant progress and reorganised the box stacks in the garage – this one is the audio system stack for… Continue reading

  • Dogs and meat

    Dogs and meat

    So, lovely quiet Easter weekend here – had a nice time walking around the trails in Viridian and hanging out with the dogs. And tonight – it’s meat time…. Continue reading

  • Pepper’s day out

    Pepper’s day out

    So given Pepper’s sweet and calm disposition, I took her to meet one of my friends. It went well, of course. Afterwards, we came home to chew on things… Hard l Continue reading

  • More progress

    More progress

    Visited the house today and it’s looking good – the appliances have been delivered and the dishwasher and cooktop have been installed. Our neighbour’s house has the back grass in place and some of the front landscaping done. After dropping Claudia off for her EGA chapter meeting, I went to Lowes for more boxes and… Continue reading