Sometimes you feel that everything goes wrong, and you have no idea what will happen next. The best thing in this case to do something new and interesting. So did I. I had enough of  pitying myself, so decided to do something useful. I would to paint some rooms of the house where I’m living. I’ve never tried it before, but of course it’s not a reason to give it up.

So there are the main steps of painting your house yourself.

1. Read every forum about renewing a house. They give you self-confidence. You’ll see how many mentally challenged person could  paint a whole house, so be sure that with your skills it would be a piece of cake.
2. Go to a shop and try to find the perfect stuffs for  painting.  Every paint has a name which reminds you a food, so don’t go shopping if you are hungry You’ll see that the ‘white wine’ and the ‘honey apricot’ means almost the same yellow.
3. Cover everything with nylon and paper. First time you are sure that you could protect the floor. Next time you ‘ll know that it’s impossible.
4. Don’t forget remove spiders from the corners. It’s very important before you fix them forever with the paint.
5. Also remove the cat from the paint in every five minutes. If you have more cats, it’s a real challenge.
6. Write to your favorite forum what are you doing. Be pride of yourself and  try not to read  annoying questions about “and why didn’t you…” .  Of course you know best.
7.  After the first layer  be sure that the second one will cover all of your  mistakes.  After the second layer be sure that  it should be better after the full drying. After the drying put the furniture to the right spots to cover everything.

Somebody posted this link to our forum. Well, there are differences between wet fields, and this one is the absolute winner I think.

It has different types. The Hungarian one: ‘I’ll be there in 5 minutes’ means ‘I’m miles away and there is no hope to see you today’ . The Belgian one: ‘The balloons will up in five minutes’ means ‘have a dinner, take a walk and meet some friends before the show’. The American one: ‘we’ll continue in 5 minutes’ means ‘4.59… 4.58…  4.57… ‘

I had a great weekend in Belgium, at Hyperflite Skyhoundz EC. I really needed something that is unusual and totally different from my weekdays.  So I packed all of my dogs and left home about midnight. I had to stop for almost two hours at night because of a heavy storm in Austria.  First example of Hungarian five minutes: I met the Hungarian team about 9 a.m. in Germany – they left Budapest 3 hours before me. Finally they arrived to the camp about 7 p.m., I don’t know how it is possible.

Our campsite was next to the field. I had a tent for four, so It was really comfortable for all of my dogs, and they left a small place for me also.  There was just a small incident at Saturday night when Stefaan found a Border Collie searching for food. I don’t know how he knew immediately that it should be mine, I just  let Moss out of control for 5 minutes…

Some words about  results. I really didn’t know  what I want, I mean  I wasn’t sure that I would to go to the Worlds.  By the results it seems I wouldn’t  But the D/A European Champions this year are Jozsef Zsiros and Seesco,  Edina and Zsizsik ended on 2nd place in Microdog, and there are some more Hungarian qualifications. And there were some great routines, as Daniel’s, Tina’s  and the pairs of Juergen and Conny.

On Saturday and Sunday  we could see a balloon show at the evening (5 minutes after dinner), it was amazing to see those huge things flying away.  And they can’t come back, believe me Alenka   And time flied also very fast, suddenly I realized that I’m on the road again with the usual travel packs: dogs, chocolate, coffee and classical rock hits. It’s not a big surprise that in Germany  two policemen stopped me and made a drug test . They hardly believed that I passed.

I have three cats, and they have really difficult business and friendship connections with other cats in our street.  Three days ago one of them brought home a beautiful white cat with him. The visitor was really polite, after a few hour went home (OK, he tried to taste the parrots, but that was all). But  yesterday he came back, and stayed for hours. And today also.  I have a strange feeling about this whole thing…

The visitor is a young male with white coat, a yellow and a blue eye and really unbearable voice. I’m not a football-lover, but as the cat tried the first meow (or at least some noise from his throat), I was sure that the name ‘Vuvuzela’ fits perfectly. We will see what he wants: is really friendly and curious, but I couldn’t touch him yet.

Dunaszentpál is a small village about 130 km’s of Budapest. Judit lives there with her family, and this was the second year that there was the ‘Dunaszentpál Cup’ hosted by them. This year there was only about 30 entries, but it was one of the most successful event in this year, with wonderful results.

There was a round of Hungarian Quadruped Series, and something unbelievable happened there… József Zsíros and Blacky finished at 1st place with 95,85 yards – this is a new World Record in Quadruped!

For me the biggest pleasure was that most of the winners of other cathegories were rescued and shelter dogs. Rita Toth and JarJar (a Malinois-mix), Tamas Hoffmann and Ginger (a rescued German Shepherd), Szilvia Balogh and Argos (a Rottweiler-mix), Dalma Karpati and Lily (a Rough Collie) and my Morgan. They are living proofs of that there are great and talented dogs everywhere at the shelters, on the streets or in somebody’s backyard waiting for a chance for showing their qualities.

Just try to drop  medicines three times per a day into a cat’s aching ear, and you’ll see what I mean. The first visible effect of the medication is that the cat is disappearing somehow when there’s something in my hand.

Last week somebody put some pictures to the British Shepherd Rescue forum, and asked: ‘what do you think, could this dog be a bearded collie? It’s living by a house on a chain,  but nobody cares him, looks terrible’.

Of course everybody would to help, some people offered that they would to go for the dog with some strong and scary-looking friends, call the police, etc.  Fortunately they gave me a chance to talk the owner and ask for the dog – you know, I’m a social worker, so I have a tendency to trust even the strangest people. This time I was right. After 10 minutes the owner (an old woman) told me everything about the dog. Her granddaughter brought it 3 years ago, but the dog is totally useless: is too friendly for protecting the house, eats too much and is ugly. So she would to put the dog asleep. I offered that I could take the dog with me, and she said: ‘OK, but take it NOW’. So I found myself with the dirtiest dog of the world in my car. Monday evening 8 o’clock, the best time for find a place for a fuzzy and stinky creature which spent all of his life on a chain. Some quick phone calls: there is a place for the dog by a vet for some days, but not in this statement. Some other calls: there is somebody who could groom the dog, but she needs help. OK, I’ll spend the evening there and help her, no problem.

Benji (as his owner called him)  was amazing, I could do anything with him, was calm in the car and during the whole grooming procedure. Two and a half hours later we found a very happy and friendly dog under the stinky and sticky coat:

In spite of everything Benji thinks that the whole world is his friend. He is looking for a new owner now, and I’m sure that somebody will be very happy with this great dog.

I started to think that there is something about them. First was the volcano in April that blocked most of the European flights for weeks. The next one was the month-lasting rain and storm in May. After that came the flood all over Central Europe. Now the rivers are slowly returning to their beds, and here is the next one.  Mosquitos.  You can’t spend the evenings outside because the air is buzzing. Last night I was sitting in my bed and watching a gnat-council next to the electric insect controller. Maybe we should buy some geckos, but I’m afraid that they will have overweight problems very soon.

If  I’m not mistaken about the plagues the next step will be that all of  our camels will be dead in a few weeks.

There is a Hungarian proverb that says: if you are bitten by a dog, heal it with it’s hair. So the best wellness program after a whole-week-long event was a weekend with a demo and a competition. On Saturday we were at a program called ‘Day of dog owners’. It’s a big event with many celebrities and demos for kids. I usually accept invitations for these programs, because there is a chance to show people something about our training methods, and  it’s good for the dogs also, they learn how to work in big crowd and noise.  As you see, for Moss doesn’t matter where she is, if she has a disc:

On Sunday there was a dog-dancing competition. I was getting tired, so entered ’just’ with three dogs. It was so much fun, although I wasn’t in my best form (f.i. had no voice , so I became a real dog whisperer). At the end Moss get a 3rd place in Class2.

DancerBadger:

Netty:

Moss:

Well, finally we survived our Disc Dog Week. I had fears because of the nice amount of catastophy that happened in previous weeks.  Clouds of volcanic ash, rain and storm for two weeks, flood all over the country… I don’t know how is it possible, but everything stopped for a week, and continued as we finished the official program on Sunday.  The whole thing was far from perfect, but I think it was the best in these circumstances.

First of all: it was a great pleasure all of us to meet Yukihiro Sekiguchi in Hungary. It was his first trip to Europe, and he was our first disc-dogger visitor from Japan.  He was  simply amazing:  opened to everything new,  and never lost his sense of humor and patience. I hope it wasn’t his last visit here, we need a Hiro J

To tell the truth this competition was a real challenge for our poor judges.  Just ask Jeff how nice is the airport of Milan or ask Hiro how was the sightseeing early in the morning while he tried to find a TV-studio… ask and run before it’s too late J  And it was a challenge for me too ,  so my decision is that I’m on holiday from now on, no more organizer work for this year – I would to compete and have fun with my friends, and sometimes to help them in some things, but not to do everything by myself.  If you see me during the summer with scoresheets and tables, feel  free to shoot me.

We’ve had three clinic and a competition during five days,  so it’s hard to remember everything (and when I asked for help,  Dalma wasn’t the best choice as a chronicler :  ‘write that Lily – her dog – was sooo beautiful as she ran through the field’  Thx…). But there were  great moments , thank you everybody, it was nice to see you all again!

If you have no idea what to do…

…listen to the chief judge…

… and be sure that everybody get the idea

A brand new haircut especially for this event:

well…

Our very first competitor in Youth division (she and her dog are in the same weight):

You could see more pictures in Csaba’s gallery:

http://gallery.site.hu/u/csaba76/Frisbee/10052930/100529/2902/

http://gallery.site.hu/u/csaba76/Frisbee/10052930/100529/2901/

See you in Belgium, at the European Championship!