Hoping to be back to normal!
July 20th was my last post. Here are some of my own photographs taken while Maija, my daughter, Marius, her husband, and Morten, their son were with us. That was after Alex, my son, had come to see us in June.
Here is Morten, who spent hours caressing and fondling Brandy, our largest dog.
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His other passion was exploring for gold. We have Bummer Creek flowing through the property. It is called ‘Bummer’ because as the locals would have it there is no gold to be found. But that didn’t stop Morten spending time looking for gold!
And this is Maija (photo slightly out of focus).
The next photo shows Maija and Morten strolling along the creek.
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Above a shot showing Marius and Morten looking for the illusive metal!
I close with the Morten and Marius hoping to see a trace of gold in the gold-pan, and Maija looking on.
My next post will be on Tuesday.
Learning from Dogs 
It’s always good to have family visit for a while and appreciate the good in your surroundings. I’d be hugging the dog too.
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Marlene, it was a great visit and Morten was a tribute to his Mum and Dad. Brandy is a very huggable dog!
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Brandy is a beautiful dog. I assume he is old. He has a grey muzzle. Great photos by the way. When our kids were young we used to visit Natural Bridge Caverns north of San Antonio here in Texas. They had a constructed creek or like an aqueduct. The kids put bags of sand in there and those bags of sand contained pretend gold and jewels. They were panning for the gold and jewels. They had fun.
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Thank you, Thomas. Brandy is 9 but he is a very large dog and his age puts him in the autumn of his life. He is a cross between a Great Pyrenees and a Mastiff and weighs 150 pounds.
We are fortunate in having Bummer Creek running through our land albeit we had only been in our house for five days when the bridge, then a wooden one, washed out when the creek was very high following many days of rain. That was in 2012.
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Yes very large dogs have shorter lifespans. Leonbergers live 8-10 years but it may be a little bit more now with the efforts from the Leonberger Health Foundation International. As you may remember our Bronco lived an unusually long life for a Leonberger, almost 13. 150lbs is a lot, more than our Leonberger was when he was not overweight. He was 167lbs at one point but he was overweight so that does not count. Normally he was 140lbs. Bummer creek seems like a fun place for the kids. Too bad about the bridge.
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