Cold & Clear

Bailebroc Ziggy

How.... Indeed?

"The playfulness and joy of a dog, its unconditional love and readiness to celebrate life at any moment often contrasts sharply with the inner state of the dog's owner-depressed, anxious, burdened by problems, lost in thought, not present in the only place and only time there is: Here and Now. One wonders: living with this person, how does the dog manage to remain so sane, so joyous?"

from STILLNESS SPEAKS by Eckhart Tolle.

How... indeed?

Nature As A Teacher

"You need nature as your teacher to help you reconnect with Being. But not only do you need nature, it also needs you.

You are not separate from nature. We are all part of the One Life that manifests itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all completely interconnected. When you recognise the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you!"

taken with gratitude from STILLNESS SPEAKS, by Eckhart Tolle, 2003

Bailielands Bruce & Gerrardstown Blue Lady

Gerrardstown Blue Lady aka Ruby ( Knockroe Big Boy x Shannon Of Gerrardstown) and Bailielands Bruce aka Brucey ( Wicklow Lad Of Gerrardstown x Coco Chanel)

Lucky Blue at 6 Months & Proud Mum Angel

Here is Angel in her little coat, proud mum of Lucky Blue below who is now 6 months and as big as mum and of Rocky who is feautured in other posts and is now 20 months and a mere 10 hands something :)

And Now For Something Completely Different! Dowsing!!

A long time ago when I was maybe 16 or 17 I was on holidays with Mum & Dad one summer and we were touring the Ring Of Kerry. I can't remember the town right now but we were coming down a steep hillside into it when on the roadside was the quaintest Irish cottage and little garden with a huge billygoat in it.

We stopped to take a photo as Dad loved this sort of thing and the owner of the cottage came out a hoary bear of a man. In the course of chitchat as you do he told us he was a water diviner! And he took out the hazel rod and demonstrated by walking over a buried stream in his garden.

All very well but then he let me have a go, nothing and then Dad, bang! Straight down! Come on says he I'll help you and he took one leg of the branch and I the other and we walked side by side across the grass. And on the mysterious spot I saw and felt the wood twist in my hand like a living thing! I will never forget it, bang! Straight down, Awesome.

That was that and many years later I used a homemade pendulum to deal with a difficult situation I did not consciously know what to do with. The answers it gave me transformed my life and today I felt a sudden surge of curiousity for the subject and went to Mr Google for some answers :)

Here's something about it here :)

http://www.book-of-thoth.com/article1766.html

Perhaps it might give you a helping hand :)

Basic Grooming Kit For Glens

Basic Glen Grooming Kit at Kennel Bailielands from left to right... Large Coarse Slicker Brush, Small Fine Slicker Brush, 8 blade Defelting Rake, Heavy Duty Nail Clippers, Double Sided Coarse Stripping Knife.

More Glen pics for New Year

Oscar & Shannon

Shannon

Nonek, Oscar and Shannon

Sona, Nonek, Oscar & Shannon

Oscar in the middle, Sona on the left and Shannon on the right and yes they are eating frozen horse apples