Yesterday morning, we went to the huge dogpark! Big bad surprise! We could not enter! The fences were still there… and I could not believe my eyes! I looked at mum and she had the same stunned face… My dogness, I could cry… 😦

Remember I told you about all the changes in the dogpark for this big summernoise?

Summerfestival, Kita, summerfestival.

Okay, for this big summerthing with 40.000 humans to come… 😉 Well these 40.000 humans left one messy dirt. Another dad told that the night before the men already cleaned with vacuum cleaners as big as houses. And now the special men came to walk all over the place and pick up all the little durt… meter by meter! (inch per inch!!) My poor huge dogpark! My dogness… This made me a bit ill, I did not eat my breakfast when I got home, neither did mum. 😦

Seagulls and crows were all over the place, eating from this unhealthy garbage! Flying away when the big vacuumcleaners arrived! Mum said something about birds and Hitchcock. Did not understand but I did not ask for more bad news, had to look around too much! 😦

Mum says she understands humans want to amuse themselves, that’s okay! Humans like music, that’s okay too. Humans want to listen to that music together with about 40.000 other humans and move a little. That’s okay. Humans want to sleep between the two days of listening and moving on the same place in little houses. That’s okay too. It’s only two days now and one in september. That’s okay… They have to find a place somewhere, big enough, we try to understand that too… I do not understand the last part: why our huge dogpark near a protected nature area? Why mowing all the plants and grass and beautiful flowers? We do disagree a bit on that point, me and my mum: she tries to understand and I do not want to understand. 😦

But me and mum do NOT understand all this garbage around the place! You could not see the grass anymore, and even after vacuuming it was very dirty! Why on earth these music-moving-humans throw away everything on the ground? There were hundreds of bins, another dad said! This aire-lady says that all this is not respectful towards all the animals living next door and normally in the huge park, and these music-moving humans even have less respect for other humans who have to clean up after them…
My dogness, I was so stunned and so sad when we went home! 😦

PS Pics of before and after the summerthing… judge for yourself!

This picture is taken on 31 may… Half way june, the trouble started…

31 may 2015

8 july 2015

Holidays, she calls it! My mum’s holidays are hard working-days for me! I can tell you that! But as mum always says: work is fun too! I like our new business! I really do!
These days we are in the macro-business, me and mum and the red blinking thing.

Now we have finally time to get this figured out, you know! We started with the beach mistery! Mum took such a mistery home! And then we macro-fototooted it. I had to keep an eye on it, you see, I was on guard-duty and of assistence-duty. Maybe someone will see now what it is and tell us… You never know… 🙂

Next we macro-fototooted my hair and curls and paws and nose and…! That was fun, I moved on the wrong moments of course when red thing was correctly ready and I did not move on the wrong moments, hahahaha, when red thing was not ready. I did my very best!! 😉

Finally we tried the flowers. Several times I touched my mum’s arm when she was macro-fototooting! Guard-duty, remember? 🙂 😉

We ended up with a big business: 24 pics of this special toot! Go figure! We aren’t experts yet, far from, mum says. But I think that the macros of me – or parts of me! – are quite successful! 🙂 😉 Hahahaha!

PS Click on the pics, or you do not see the macra-fototooting! That would be a pity, I tell you!!! 🙂

Macro-toot of my smile?

Macro-toot of my log legs? No?

Yes, I keep an eye on it!

Before washing it

The washed mystery!

My hair!

Mum was very pissed at me, she was, but only for a while! Then she laughed! Why?

In the middle of the beach, I was nicely on the leash, with lots of humans and human pups around, I started barking. Mum yelled silently I had to stop it. I barked again and started pulling on the leash. To get mum in a bad mood that’s the best thing to do… I know that! Pulling and barking, a lady! Go figure! 😦
Aha! Then we heard another bark, just one, but that was enough to get mum’s attention. She said, sibilant, you see what you get? Others follow your bad example! And that I had to stop pulling! And only then she saw it too! Yes, mum, there is Jara! You see it too? Finally?! 🙂

Jara Van ’t Asbroek is my cousin, you know. We know each other because we see each other sometimes at the seaside, by chance! Today we played! The business-world is in the genes of our family! Running-business, water-business, ball-business. Jara is nice, she brings the ball back to her dad. I think that is a rather stupid game. Anyway we had lots of fun!

And mum… listen! When is my hairdresser’s appointment? It is time, did you see the nice coiffure of my cousin? You see what I mean? 😉 Need a haircut, really! After this heat, I’m done with this curls! 😉 You too, mum? Too much sand in them? 🙂 We agree, my mum and me! Yeeeey! ❤  Shouldn’t have said so when I was barking and pulling! 😉

PS Film is in the end! 🙂

This morning, very early at the beach… Waterbusiness on his best! 😉
And friends to share it with… wich aire-lady wants more? Not this one! 😉 ❤

These days mum really has too much work. It is the end of something like a year in her library. Students are gone though, but she is still there! She says it wil be better next week: holidays! I understand that word! 😉

But last sunday we were in the old town, strolling around with Dutch visitors my mum knows… They know a lot about libraries! 🙂

Anyway, we were strolling around and dad and the other mum and dad (yes, I know their doggies, already met them!) were visiting Sint Paulus Church. Doggies not allowed, even an aire-lady understands that. So me and my mum we waited patiently outside, in the shadow! And my dogness!
What did I see? Who did I met? An airedale sir! Benjamin! Ben for the friends! He lives next door to the church! Go figure!! 😉

Friendship at first sight, mum said. We were kissing a lot, he even told me secrets! Lots of pics! 😉 ❤

The huge dogpark was full new fences, remember? Showed you yesterday! They even made lots of new paths with iron! They were digging away one of our hills! Go figure! Disaster is not small!

However, one of the hills is stil intact. 🙂 The one with the nice hole to dig in! So I did. And I did! And I digged more! Mum took the new red blinking thing again, we were on our way home, you know. She was filming and I was digging! 🙂 ❤

And then? Almost big accident: some sand arrived on the red blinking thing. I don’t know how that happened, really, I don’t know. But mum was not pleased at all and… Mum, listen, I did not do it, I was in the hole just and came out! I did not throw the sand, how could I??!

Anyway, I had to stop digging and we went home! 😦

PS Red blinking thing is okay, no harm done! 🙂

Yesterday evening we made a nice walk: me, dad and mum. We were walking near river Scheldt at high tide, I like that! Lots to see!

Mum found another game: she and the red blinking thing were playing hide and seek with the Boerentoren. That tower is very well known! And historical! When the building of it was finished in 1931, it was the first skyscraper in Europe! (Not for very long, but it has been the first and only one!!) Yes, really! Only the cathedral is higher! 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boerentoren

Where ever you go near the river Scheldt on the left bank, you always see the cathedral! Cathedral is always in the middle of the Antwerp skyline! People in the Middle Ages, when this cathedral was built, were very, very smart! They exactly knew where to build this famous cathedral, right in the middle! Still today, she is always in the middle! ❤
And other buildings can hide behind her… as we saw yesterday. And we show you.

After the hide and seek we were having a rest. Mum and dad did, I was exploring and inspecting the rest-place. Result? Hahahahahaha! See the pic!

No Boerentoren!!!

If you look very carefully, you can see the tower peeping… 😉

Tower appears a bit!

Tower is coming!

Yes! There it is, our tower!

You see it clearly! Boerentoren is on left of the cathedral.

So beautiful, isn’t it?

Antwerp skyline…

Me, looking around…

Small friend coming nearer and then goes hiding in the grass.

Exploring and inspecting!

Mum, how come my beard is black???

Cathedral always in the middle… Boerentoren on the right side of the cathedral! ??? !!

Antwerp skyline!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boerentoren

Mum says I’m a very spoiled aire-lady these days! How that is possible? I try to explain it clearly! 

As you know, I was ill. Went to the green clothes! Got these nasty syringues to stop peeing a hundred times a day. Syringues worked after a few hours. And then I got all these pills, in little bags with lots of explanations… 😦
I don’t like pills. Grandpa always said they are a usefull and efficient horrors and they are to eat, that was important for grandpa: eating! Sso he swallowed his pills with pleasure every day, just like that! 🙂 And he had to take many: six or seven, I remember, big ones and small ones. 😦

Okay, back to my pills: I do not swallow every pill just like that! I’m smarter! If I don’t want to eat them, mum puts them in something yummy I normally never get: chicken or cheese… Twice a day, my friends!!! 🙂
This morning, no cheese or chicken left! Ohlalala! Pills must be taken anyway! So? I had a wonderfull Spanish feast: mum wrapped all my pills in two (!) pieces of Chorizo salami! 🙂 ❤

Suggestion for all my aire-friends: don’t swallow your pills if you have to take some without them being wrapped up in Chorizo! My dogness, that’s yummy!

Since I feel a lot better and I am more active again, mum and dad decided to get my thought on something else than ‘peeing’! hahahahaha! I really did agree! So off we went for a nice walk in the city! 🙂 ❤

But to go there, there are two possibilities: on foot by the tunnel or by metro. Metro!! Since mum and dad know that the moving stairs to get in and out the metro are not forbidden for big dogs, they were saying they should learn me that. They saw several dogs doing that! I heard them talking the other day! 😉
I did help a little paw! Today, I wanted to go by the moving stairs, I pulled a bit to tell mum and dad I just wanted to try!

We tried! I like it! We did it several times. I acted as a full grown well educated lady who knows everything about city travelling by metro and moving stairs! 🙂 As if I already did this a hundred times: hop on and hop off! And sniffing around to know all the stair-news! 🙂 Pics and video available! 🙂

!!!!!!!!! To reassure all those worrying about my moving-stairs-life: I only will go on them with dad: if something goes wrong or one moment I get afraid, he always can pick me up and carry me! When I am alone with mum, well, we take always the not-moving-stairs! Because she can’t carry me that long and also because she needs the exercise! 😉