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The Tales of our Dogs

I decided to do a new page about our dog’s lives through us and my childhood’s memories.

The three dogs live on the sizeable lifestyle property with their mum and dad (humans) outside Hamilton city. We are called Joseph, Jazz and Nova, and we have different types of breed dogs. Our mum is deaf with other disabilities for we look after her and keep her company while our dad is away to work. Dad is a hearing carpenter, and he was a truck driver in many large machinery and trucks in the past. Now, dad is home and doing carpentry in the double garage and in the house.

Joseph is eleven years old, and he is the more senior of us, and he lives with mum and dad from eight months old. His previous owner was his mum’s nephew and niece in law back in 2008. A nephew and a niece in law wanted a small dog instead of a big dog for their young girls. They realised that Joseph is going to be a big dog for their two young girls. Mum asked dad if they were prepared to have a dog or not. They got Joseph and lived in Hamilton City before coming here in the rural home. Joseph’s breed is a bull mastiff x, and its colour was tan with white.

Jazz is four years old, and she is gentle and quiet type black with a few white patches on her chest and four paws. Jazz is quick to hear something odd outside to start barking if she is prepared to alert mum that something is out there. When a stranger came, and Jazz inspected the stranger is excellent or lousy, Jazz can read any human behaviour and emotions. If the stranger is wary, Jazz will nip their fingers when they move their hands (not sign language) while talking to mum. Jazz communicate to mum by dog gesture by learning to point and go into the room where she wants to.

Young Nova is one year and very playful, but a lot of time barking when she wants to play with Joseph. Mum and dad tell Nova to be quiet badly, and Joseph is restlessly, and he will growl back to Nova. Nova is a tan with chocolate and cream patches as her breed is labrador cross and a medium height dog. She is more or less stubborn when trying to chase rabbits or birds because Nova is trying hard to catch a rabbit.

The Tales of our Dogs

I decided to do a new page about our dog’s lives through us and my childhood’s memories.

The three dogs live on the sizeable lifestyle property with their mum and dad (humans) outside Hamilton city. We are called Joseph, Jazz and Nova, and we have different types of breed dogs. Our mum is deaf with other disabilities for we look after her and keep her company while our dad is away to work. Dad is a hearing carpenter, and he was a truck driver in many large machinery and trucks in the past. Now, dad is home and doing carpentry in the double garage and in the house.

Joseph is eleven years old, and he is the more senior of us, and he lives with mum and dad from eight months old. His previous owner was his mum’s nephew and niece in law back in 2008. A nephew and a niece in law wanted a small dog instead of a big dog for their young girls. They realised that Joseph is going to be a big dog for their two young girls. Mum asked dad if they were prepared to have a dog or not. They got Joseph and lived in Hamilton City before coming here in the rural home. Joseph’s breed is a bull mastiff x, and its colour was tan with white.

Jazz is four years old, and she is gentle and quiet type black with a few white patches on her chest and four paws. Jazz is quick to hear something odd outside to start barking if she is prepared to alert mum that something is out there. When a stranger came, and Jazz inspected the stranger is excellent or lousy, Jazz can read any human behaviour and emotions. If the stranger is wary, Jazz will nip their fingers when they move their hands (not sign language) while talking to mum. Jazz communicate to mum by dog gesture by learning to point and go into the room where she wants to.

Young Nova is one year and very playful, but a lot of time barking when she wants to play with Joseph. Mum and dad tell Nova to be quiet badly, and Joseph is restlessly, and he will growl back to Nova. Nova is a tan with chocolate and cream patches as her breed is labrador cross and a medium height dog. She is more or less stubborn when trying to chase rabbits or birds because Nova is trying hard to catch a rabbit.

I will work on setting a new page and it will be dog’s tales blog. Thank you!

Soaring into the skies above Hamilton Kirikiriroa City

A wishes came true in 2014, my family shouted my birthday treat as my age to significant 50. I was thrilled but relief when I visited my go because I sprained my left ankle at Melville High School several days before my birthday. My GP declared I was fit and allowed to go for a ride in the Hot Air Balloon for I used to be a deaf Health Carer in the past and know what I am doing.

Hamilton Kirikiriroa Cricket Stadium and Hamilton Lake

Floating, floating up toward the skies in the basket of the Hot Air Balloon. The weather was foggy first in the early hour of the morning, suddenly the sun came out through the misty and clouds as glorious outbreak sunshine streaming over the Hamilton Lake. The silent chilly winds breezing around us while we were in the basket soaring up in the skies.

It was a clear crisp morning, and I was admiring how much has Hamilton Kirikiriroa City grow so far since I was a young girl growing up in Hamilton Kirikiriroa within the neighbourly – vast farmlands, mountains and the Waikato River runs along with the city. Thinking back, the population of people living in Hamilton Kirikiriroa was around 42,212 (dated 1961), and today the population has increased to 176,500 (dated 2018). The word “Kirikiriroa” means “long stretch of gravel”, and the vast lands is approximately 110 km2 (42 sq mi) on the banks of the Waikato River and encompasses the nearby towns of Ngāruawāhia, Te Awamutu and Cambridge. Hamilton City is listed number four of the urban growth of New Zealand. But wait, an agricultural service centre, Hamilton now has a diverse economy and is the third fastest-growing metropolitan area in New Zealand, behind Pukekohe and Auckland.

Speechless and disbelief that the city of Hamilton has proliferated each year and Hamiltionains work together with the City Councils. Many years I involve with the councillors, support groups of the disAbility organisations, Health Board and many other groups as a deaf advocator. We, people/children with disAbilities/D/deaf people/children have the rights to access and making lives more comfortable and more accessible to get around the city and the rural areas.

Time goes by as we were flying in the air with wonderful awes, ahh, catching the local sight of the landmarks, looking out miles away toward mountains and many more. Hours by as it was time for landing down at one of the local farmlands while cows grazing their feeds and look at us puzzling. We were preparing for bumping and thumping while the basket landed firmly on the cow muck grounds while alone black cow watch silently at us.

My partner who travelled with the co-pilot in the ute and tracking the balloon to ensure for safety. The co-pilot was communicated with the pilot who was with us in the basket of the hot air balloon. We landed on the property of the farm between three local farms – Puketaha, Gordonton and our home Eureka without a hitch and safety landed on the ground. The pleasure of the ride was not over as we watched the men, including my partner wrapped the balloon and loading the basket onto the trailer. We headed out to The Cook Cafe and Bar in Hamilton East for the lovely prepared breakfast and champagnes.

It was a remarkable memory of the ride in the hot air balloon, and the following day it was my birthday for the family booked the 9th. But the weather was not fair on the 9th, so they shifted to the 8th, which was the perfect morning. Oh, I wish for another ride when I turn 60/70 years old! Nothing will stop me from having another ride if the price is right for us.

Coffee, coffee, coffee beans

Business – Drink my Coffee

I was looking for a different approach to a job as a deaf distributor of the ‘Drink My Coffee’. Why not? I take the opportunity to do something other than working in the office.

I have started working my way through sending out the messages on Facebook, Twitter, and trying to complete one new website – Chooice at the moment. Perhaps I will try to put in the Linkedln site if they will approve the listing. There is only Neighbourly website, and they would not let me put on a personal Neighbourly due to the rules. They want me to put under business which cost me more than they asked. Yes, it is tough for me to decide whether I go ahead or not.

The company: Drinkmycoffee is a social enterprise to create employment opportunities for disabled New Zealanders. We are doing this by creating jobs for people to manufacture and distribute premium coffee and enabling people with disabilities to be self-employed, selling the coffee.

We drank this coffee most of the time when we are at home after a long day work, and it has got mild blend flavour like caramel and malt biscuit taste. It has no bitter or pungent taste for most people who do not like these taste.  

Preparing coffee beans plunger grin
Freshly Brew Coffee

I made a coffee cake by using this coffee plunger grinds soaking in hot water. It came out ‘authentic’ coffee cake than the supermarket coffee product with a real taste bud. My partner makes the coffee icing to go with the coffee cake because he loves using thin icing on any cake even he used authentic cold coffee into plain ice cream, which softens and refreeze overnight.

So what are you waiting? Let buy coffee beans, plunger or espressos through me for Christmas. It is not too late to order by next Monday or come back in January 2021. https://chooice.co.nz/product/coffee-beans-in-250gm/ or through my Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/drinkmycoffeejenz/?view_public_for=113737557158379