Dogs are animals of integrity. We have much to learn from them.
Year: 2022
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I have made the selection from the sleeping dogs folder. Maybe the last one bends the meaning of sleeping but, nonetheless, they are all gorgeous.
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More photographs in a week’s time.
In the interim, wherever you are, please be careful and take care.
Dogs continue to amaze.
Almost a month ago there was an article on The Dodo website about an English dog that was most amazing.
Here is the story:
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Lost Dog Strolls Into Police Station To Report Herself Missing.
She solved her own case.
Published on the 17th November, 2022.
Recently, after this sweet dog named Rosie somehow ended up getting lost near her home in England, she picked the perfect place to go for help.
She simply strolled into a local police station to report (in her own way) her own disappearance.
“[You] can see her approaching the doors before walking in and taking a seat in the corner,” the Leicestershire Police wrote. “Good dog!”
Here’s footage of Rosie in action:
It’s unclear how long Rosie had been lost, but after making her presence known to authorities, it was only a matter of time before things were set right.
“Our staff fetched some water for Rosie, and made fast friends with plenty of fuss,” police wrote. “Thankfully she was wearing a collar, so a lead was available to contact Rosie’s owner, who was delighted she had been found safe and well.”
Rosie’s own cleverness had made their job easy — though she was pretty tuckered out after the little drama finished unfolding.
Rosie’s problem-solving skills have earned her plenty of praise from people online — all well deserved, of course. But the police themselves perhaps put it best.
“What a lovely, clever dog,” they wrote.
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It is not just Rosie that is a “lovely, clever dog” but all dogs. But, of course, we are biased!
But an important one!
From the 21st November until the 23rd Sunshine Solar installed a solar panel system. But we were then told to wait until Pacific Power had come to the house to put in a new electricity meter. Last Thursday, 1st December, Brent from Pacific Power called by and replaced our electricity meter. He replaced it with a bi-directional meter that when we were producing more power than we are consuming then the surplus would be ‘banked’ to be used at times when we required the surplus.
This was the result of us investing in a ground-mounted solar system.
We purchased the system from Solar Sunshine after doing a great deal of research. Indeed Brent said that they were a great company.
The other thing that we had no choice over was to install a ground-mounted system some 120 feet from the house. Because neither the house nor the roof face East and therefore are no use for solar. But as Brent pointed out last Thursday the ground-mounted system, despite being more expensive, was a good alternative to the roof system because new roof tiles were irrelevant.
The system consists of 30 individual panels capable of producing a maximum output of 65 amps at 240 volts; in other words 15,600 watts!
Yesterday, Cory and Brandon (sp?) came out to the system and checked that it was alright. Plus they gave us an digital application so we could see how much power we were generating, plus more, and they also took some photographs, that I offer you now.
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This last photograph was one taken by yours truly with Cory on the left and Brandon on the right with Jeannie in the middle.
Finally, the ‘app’ is going to be very useful.
Already it shows that last Saturday the array produced 29 kilowatts and then yesterday, the 4th December, the array produced 22.9 kilowatts and these were by no means sunlit days all the time. That brings the total for all 5 days in December, in other words since the system went live, to 91.1 kilowatts as of 15:27 PT on the 5th.
We are most pleased with the company and the installation.
Learning from Dogs 