Adventures in Real Estate.

My house is now on the market. There is a For Sale sign at the bottom of my driveway - cunningly placed so as to avoid anyone else reversing into the ditch (it didn't take very long to get the Real Estate agents car out). I'll be having my first home open this Sunday, which has led to a flurry of cleaning windows, vacuuming up precious piles of French Bulldog fur etc etc
The agent rang on Tuesday afternoon, he had some people who wanted a look around the property. It was short notice, but I said "OK, I'm home at the moment, it'll be fine." Of course after wandering around the block, they had to come inside the house, which meant I had to corral the dogs, as they are very enthusiastic about visitors. Unfortunately Rolli believes having his harness on = going out, but it was too hot for walking*. So we stood in the shade near the fishpond and waited, and Rolli bounced up & down on the spot, and screeched weird, banshee like screeches, so we all knew he was NOT PLEASED! Luckily it didn't take too long for the inspection, as Rolli is an old dog, and he needed a little lie down after all that excitement.

* The charming flat face of the French Bulldog means that they can overheat very easily, so we have to be very careful in warm weather. Too hot for walking is not really hot at all.

RSS Feeds

So the task this week was to explore the world of RSS feeds. What a good way of filling in time, searching for websites that are interesting and that I want to subscribe to. Really, I could have spent all day poking about on the net, hopping in and out of sites, searching for various topics.

I subscribed to a variety of sites, ones that appealed to me for different reasons.

Unshelved  http://feeds.feedburner.com/Unshelfeed

Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day http://feeds.feedburner.com/PHM-PhotoOfTheDay

Andrew and Alan's Over-the-Top Adventure http://the-over-the-top-adventure.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Africa Travel Blog  http://www.uyaphi.com/blog/?feed=rss2

FBRNetwork News http://fbrnetworknews.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome http://www.geekologie.com/index.xml

Libraries Interact http://librariesinteract.info/feed/

I have a couple of library related sites there (I find Unshelved to be very true to life!), Andrew and Alan's site is by a friend of mine travelling by Harley Davidson around most of Australia. FBRNetwork is an American French Bulldog rescue site, it's great to read the stories of happy endings for maltreated dogs. Geekologie looks interesting and quirky, and should be fun to follow. I dream of an African trip one day, so that one is fairly obvious. Finally, the Powerhouse Museum Photo of the Day project looks really interesting also.

The Libraries Interact site has a list of Aussie Library Blogs, some of which are informative, some are fun and quirky, and some are really out of date! I'm not really sure how RSS feeds could be used in the library, although I'm sure the tech-heads among us could come up with something. Perhaps a blog for staff to share ideas/news etc without sending emails. Maybe a site for customers to sunscribe to, with news of upcoming events and changes, new books etc. It is an area for growth, that's for sure.

Cool shelving technique.

I was browsing on Flickr, using the tags "books" and "dogs" (of course).  I  found this really interesting image : -  http://www.flickr.com/photos/santos/1704875109/

It's quite common for customers at the library to ask about a book they had read previously by describing the size and colour. This picture shows how beautiful it would be if we did, in fact, shelve by size and colour!

I also think a library pug could be good for morale!

Why a blog?

This blog is part of a training course at work called Learning 2.0 Basics. The first task was to create a blog, supposedly to discuss our experience of the course. I felt completely lacking in enthusiasm for that, but finally decided I could discuss my dogs, and maybe work my way up!
So I have created a blog, made a couple of entries, and added a couple of pictures. That took a while to sort out, but I got them there in the end.
Mind you, Kasha would prefer me to PUT DOWN THE LAPTOP, and pet her some more.

My Frogdogs.



ROLLI

This is Rolli. He is 12 years old now - doesn't the time fly? Seems like only yesterday he was chewing everything in sight on the car journey home from his breeder. He enjoys food, walks, sleeping, and chewing things up. Unfortunately he also enjoys killing innocent creatures, such as bobtail lizards. Although he is old, he is still faster than they are. He is a geriatric serial killer.





KASHA



This is Kasha. She is 10 years old, the baby of the family. The day after I brought her home we flew to Hobart. She was tiny, and I think she slept all the way.

Kasha believes everybody is a new best friend, including the vet.

She enjoys eating, playing soccer with her tennis ball and sleeping on  my lap while I watch TV.

Frogdogs

Frogdogs = Frenchies = French Bulldogs = Bouledogue français.

Fat, furry and fun.

Really, the more the merrier, if you can stand the snoring!