Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)
Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.
He is advertising two yet-to-be-born litters for $2000.... HA!
He has some adults for sale too, but they are all call for price - One has a breeding flaw. Maybe that one would be cheap! When the time comes for me to look around, I may call to see if he has anything that was returned to him or washed out due to some cosmetic flaw like that, that he would give away. Some of them have great faces. In person, they are massive.
Check out the gallery and stuff, Of interest to me are the pics that show tracking. I have been thinking about joining the Sherrif's mounted search and rescue posse, and to have a trained tracking dog would be neat in combination with that! Trained to love their find, rather than bite him, of course! It is fun to watch the protection bite work, but I have no need for that!
And check out the way the dogs wrap around him when heeling. It is amazing the amount of focus he gets out of a dog. It is intense when he is working his own dogs, but the amazing thing is, he could instantly get the same attention out of Logan when he was there. Wayne has a presence about him, and it is neat to watch him talk to dogs.
Kraftwerk K9 Kamp : Breeder and Importer of Competitive Working Dogs since 1986
One of Jr's problems has always been his handwriting. Yesterday, his doctor (the new doctor we've been with for a few months) said that his handwriting won't improve. He said that those muscles were developed by age 10 and that he should have been sent to Children's Hospital by the schools for therapy to develop those muscles.
Does that make sense? It has always been painful to try to get him to write something down, even math homework when he knew the answers. He could answer orally, but couldn't get it on paper.
The laptop will help with some of that. But I'm not sure I'm willing to say we can't do more to help the handwriting.
Any thoughts?
Wednesday, April 23, 2003
LOS ANGELES -- Lord of the Rings fans around the world are eagerly awaiting next winter's release of The Return of the King, the final instalment of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy. Meanwhile, one person intimately involved with the project has had an advance peek at a rough cut of the film and he is already suggesting that director Peter Jackson has created a masterpiece.
"I can tell you that having seen The Return of the King, it is a great film," says Canadian composer Howard Shore. "It is amazing."
Shore has the mammoth task of creating a musical score for all three sections and this places him in a privileged position because if he is to do his job properly, he must see each movie well in advance.
"You're ultimately dealing with a nine- to 10-hour film," Shore explains. Furthermore, music is an ongoing part of the creative fabric. "You're creating a large musical work, a 10-hour piece, using all the Tolkien languages."
Shore, who began his musical career with the legendary Canadian rock group Lighthouse, won an Academy Award last winter for the score he composed for The Fellowship of the Ring, the first movie in the trilogy.
He's been spending hours watching Return of the King and in the early stages he doesn't even think about putting notes on paper. "It's the beginning process because you just want to absorb it and feel something about it. Then comes the more technical process. How does the music relate to the film? What are the tempos? What are the colours?"
Once the composing is done, the performance and recording aspect takes over in London with Shore conducting the 100-piece London Philharmonic Orchestra and a 100-voice massed choir.
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/story.asp?id=C46CC241-C486-4840-A27C-A4CEDDBC176C
learn 'em well.
I'm at the end of a quarter once again. Several students with absences now can't figure out why they have missed assignments. So, 2 were supposed to be here at 7:30 this morning to take make-up tests. Some others were supposed to work on daily assignments. Thus far, my classroom has been a lonely lonely place. Guess who will NOT be allowed to make up tests next week? (unless it's the guy with a father in the hosp and he lets me know soon that something happened there.)
yeah yeah yeah... no chocolate for you this weekend either.
It's more than that. It's really as if his handwriting is on a second grade level. My handwriting is atrocious. And it's gotten worse the more I work on a keyboard. I have to really work at it to write legibly. So I tend to block print instead.
But I like to write and draw enough that I've learned to control it. He's not interested in those things. I think partly because it is frustrating to him.
His dogs definately have prey drive, they are bred to be police dogs. It is just what they are taught to do with their drive that makes their function. The ones that don't learn bite work will just go crazy for a ball. The dogs are protective, but they aren't aggressive, and it is a very fine line. The bite work is never out of anger, but part of a game. When the teaser takes off the bite sleeve and stops playing threatening games, the dog will lick his face.
I love to watch them work. I used to go down in the morning planning to work Logan an hour, and stay most of the day if they were training, just to watch.
Aw, c'mon, Ruthie, you can let me know your opinion. Privately, if you need to. :^)
about any random topic?
oh, you mean handwriting.
I have terrible handwriting. I was given all kinds of "special" assignments in elementary school trying to make it better. My dad's is really bad too. My mom's is.... oh so perfect.... But, I still struggle with legibility when I have to write.
Interestingly, as a drafter for 15 years I began on board drafting. And I had to learn to letter. Engineering lettering. I can do that. I don't know why. ALL CAPS. Same height, kind of no personality boxy type letters. And I'm good at that. Makes my hand really hurt to do it for long like writing a letter but it's readable (and I rarely do anything that long by hand anymore because of the computer) But, I write checks in engineering lettering. When I go fast you can tell because it's messy but it is readable. Don't know if that helps or would be something to try. His teachers probably want real script huh?
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