Year: 2011

Take time to indulge in the bliss of simple pleasures in life.

First rain of the season!

Yes folks, that’s right, Snooki Doodle here is the first pig my parents have trained to the DogWatch Hidden Fence system. She is a crack up! She comes when called, loves acorns, and proudly wears her DogWatch collar along with the 4 dogs she lives with 🙂

What a great Sunday we had! After breakfast, we took Penny and headed down to the art show along the beach. We walked through beautiful Chase Palm Park on the way back to the car. After lunch in the backyard, I cut Casey’s hair, worked on a painting, then we took the dogs to the reservoir, had dinner, and watched a movie. Back to work tomorrow though!

We went up to SLO today to visit Robby for his 23rd birthday. He completed a triathlon earlier in the day, so we went out to dinner and had dessert in the park. What a great trip! Happy Birthday Robby!

Working on Tanda’s birthday present

Playing his new guitar in the backyard

Yesterday we headed to San Luis Obispo to visit Robby. He had designed a new layout for all the club’s work cages in the big engineering hanger at school. His design improved the flow, functionality, safety, overall community feel, and work environment of the hanger.

A few weeks ago the big wigs in charge saw his designs and gave him the go ahead to completely remodel the inside of the building and the whole project was finished ahead of schedule last week. He and his techs were in charge of ordering new fencing, clearing out the hanger, removing all the old fencing, cutting new poles, welding everything together, adding gates, and then putting everything back in. Robby gave us the grand tour and it looked amazing!

The inside of the huge hanger

I have been working with my Dad installing Dogwatch Hidden Fences and training dogs to the system so they cannot leave their property. It is a lot of hard work and fun-here are some recent pics of our adventures!

Casey even joined us one day to do an entire installation in Santa Ynez

Our early morning view of the valley

Securing the wire in the trench

Flagging

We came across this guy while working

Penny comes along to help train the dogs

Today we rode our mountain bikes up the infamous Farren Road in Goleta. The weather was perfect and when we got to the top of the hill, we had a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean. What a great day 🙂 Over the duration of a few days, we had tons of great food with family-mac n cheese, waffles, burgers, bbq ribs, steak, lasagna, and of course brownies! We love you Casey, happy birthday!

This is the view from Farren at dusk, looking out over rolling hills to the ocean, with the Channel Islands in the distance-the oil tanker lights are just starting to twinkle on the water.

Lunch in the backyard with my parents 🙂

Fetch on the beach

Frisbee Golf with Tanda and Richard