Last weekend we were at the seaside! Yes, I know… I already told you so many times about the beach and the sea and the birds and… But I like it very much, so does my mum. I’ll tell you about it again today!

And I’ll tell you a secret! SSsstttt, do not tell anybody, will you?! We got up very early, real early, earlier than on weekdays to go to the seaside… Doggies only are allowed on the beach on the leash nowadays, you know. But that early on sunday, there is nobody, really nobody! We were all alone and it was low tide and we went to France, oh yes, we did some walking first! And then, me and mum were a bit naughty: I could run of the leash for some minutes, almost ten minutes! Mum made a video! You’ll see me and the French seagulls and the French buildings! 😉

I found a sock and played a while with it! And then naughty times were all over. Back on the leash! For the whole summer, mum says! I’m very happy mum has this very long leash of 10 meters… so I can still summersniff around  on the beach! 🙂 ❤

Well, this WWW we had another accidental “rendez-vous” with one of my (library-)mum’s colleagues! That colleague is the mum of four Irish Wolfhounds! And one of them, black Kato, had a litter of nine pups 15 weeks ago! That’s quite a gang, I can tell you! 😉

So this afternoon I was in the Irish business of playing and running. 🙂 That’s very tiring, they are much bigger and faster! And… they love the water! They went for a swim, I wettened my belt! 🙂 And then, when we were returning to go home, I saw that ball in the water. Of course I wanted that ball! I tried to get it! Just when I arrived and could pick it up, it floated away again. 😦  So I was a pissed and frustrated airelady and I hopped out of the water as quick as I could. (red thing did not quick enough the clickclickclick at that moment-hahaha-you only see the end of the hopping). Mum said my face was priceless! 😉

Anyway, it still stands: I like wednesday afternoons and rendez-vous!

Mum Kato!

What’s that all about?

Saying hello and kissing of course!

My mum does not like fighting! She even does not like tug-of-war-fighting. That’s a pity, because my grandpa Lennox always said it is so much fun! He had that heroic story about it… When he was at mum’s and dad’s place in the very beginning, he was three years old and very, very strong! (he once pulled mum into the hospital, but that’s another story!)
So he was very strong and did not know any command! He had to learn a lot. So at a certain moment after training, dad played tug-of-war with him. Grandpa was dad’s first dog… They were playing but then grandpa thaught he was stronger than dad and got angry! He wanted to be the alpha, he said… So they got in a bit of a real fight!  Who won? Not grandpa! Go figure: how could he ever think he could win from dad??? 😉 He still regretted that when he was 15 years old, he did admit that! 😉

So, now and then, dad plays tug-of-war with me! I’m not half as strong as my grandpa was. Thinking about his story, I just play: I don’t try to fight! I don’t get in any fight! Real fights are never good, says my mum! And in this I do agree with her! That happens sometimes, you know, that we agree! No fights, just playing! That’s fun… but difficult to make pics of! 😉

Yes, there we go!

Head-shaking!

I got it!

Help, I’m lifted in the air… No, I will not release untill you say so! 😉

What a Wonderfull Wednesday!!!! My (library-)mum and her colleague at school had a great idea today! They organised a “rendez-vous” for Mister Bacon (9 months old) and this lady at the huge dogpark this afternoon!

We had a great time. Bacon had the time of his life, his mum said! There were so many friends to play with, we were in the water… Water-business, n’est-ce pas? And no, I still don’t dare to swim as the other doggies did… 😦 But my belly was very wet though! Bacon did not swim neither! He still learns about the water-business! 
We stayed quite some time! Like that, of course! 😉 ❤

When we came home, I got my anti-tick-thing in my neck! And then mum got something out of a package! I was moving my tail already! This comes from the human pup and her shop, I can smell that! What? It is nothing to eat? What? It’s for my toe-nails? gggrrrr. Okay, i’ll sit nicely! Mum explains on this nail-clipper, there is a security-thing, she cannot hurt me! Okay, go on: I’m too tired to protest this nail-cutting! 🙂 😉 Happy mum! 

Look, mum, all these flowers!

Hello Bacon!

Look at these babies! Three months and nine moths! I’m an adult lady, me!

Come on, Bacon!!

Sweet Bacon!!

Getting away from the swimmers!

I still don’t swim!

Bacon in action!

All wet!

Happy me!

Nail-clipping done… rest of the nails is already in the dustbin…

And now, I need my nap!

Mum says I have some explanantions to do… About my new “clothes”. All the way down in South Africa, Wally and Murphy are very curious how I put my new “clothes” on! 😉 🙂

This lady asked her mum to make some pictures. She says it is not easy to dress the lady and making pictures at the same time, but we managed all right. So Wally and Murphy: it goes like this:

1. mum keeps the harness before you nose
2. you put your head in the thing 
3. mum takes an end under your belly and gets it up
4. mum does ‘click’ at one side
5. mum does ‘click’ at the other side

Ready you are! I like my red “clothes”. If you do not like red, choose another colour! 😉 It is comfy to go out and stay on the leash, really!

Breaking news! Lots of new things, these days!

First of all, I have a new habit! I can make my ears rest too! I just do as my mum does! She puts her hand and arm on this thing in the car. I tried to rest my paw on it but it was not comfy at all! But my ear on it, that’s great! Ear rests and I can hear good! 😉

I got new “clothes”. Since my water-business is very successful, mum says I’m destroying my harness! It often is wet and it does not dry quickly. So she got me a new one for the dry occasions. We’ll never put it on during waterbusiness-hours! 😉

And then!!! We went out with my new “clothes” on and there we saw impossible big birds, making a strange noise! New birds in the area of our home! Had to bark a few times to alert everybody! Mum was not pleased… so I stopped the warning-action! 😦

On mondays mum is a library-mum till late in the evening. So I decided to go and get her. Of course I asked dad to come too, that’s easy to understand. He is the one with the supscription for the metro. If I take him with me, I can ride for free, you see! 😉

I had to wait patiently in the playground before the school, I can’t go in the building, you know! But one of mum’s library-students came to talk to me: she recognised me from mum’s calendar in the library! Isn’t that special?!! 🙂

Finally mum came out of the building! Speaking of a surprise! Think I start a new business: a surprises-business! Then mum had to show me her mailbox of course (books and dvd’s and newspapers and… arrive there, you see!). Off we went back home! Taking the tramway, tram goes under the ground, in the metro, later on!
Do your police-officers put advertisements for themselves everywhere too or is that only in Antwerp????
On our way home we met mister Plantin and his fish and other animals… Pity, my shark was not there!

I give more explanations with the pics, if that interests you, you have to click on them! 🙂

She is going to come out of that building!

I waited patiently and kept myself busy!

There she comes!!

We have a look at her mailbox!

Yes mum, I see it clearly: that’s the name of your school! Biggest school for adults in Antwerp!!!

There’s a tram! Police-officers advertise for themselves!

We have to change and get on another tram in the metro. That’s where we met mister Plantin and his fish…

We were in the back, so I can see everything! That’s what I like!!!

Me and mum were up early today! Oh yes, we went outside for a run. That means: I run, she walks. But I would prefer her to tell me next time that there is a lot of wind. Not just a lot of wind, a big lot of wind!

We went to the beach. Part where the sea never comes, well, the sand was moving in big speed. We hurried away from there! That means: I hurried and did it quick, poor mum was slower… 😉

And the sea? Sea was a bit bizar, the sea threw soap foam on the beach! I got this soapfoam everywhere: in my fur, but also between my toes! Felt strange in the beginning but later I got used to it. 🙂
But my “coiffure”! 😦  This time mum laughed at me and my bad-hair-day! That’s human language, I call it a bad-fur-day! 😉

Mum was taking a lot of pictures of the beautiful sky and rather rough sea and of course of me, the proud lady with the ugly “coiffure”. 😉

PS Chef Maurice: you know what I mean, don’t you? I saw a pic of you with the same “coiffure”! And by the way: your mum is the only one with a complete correct answer! Congrats! 😉 Hexes mum was near too! 🙂

Yesterday mum was watering the plants on the balcony. Normally I don’t mind, but this time I thought it was time to do some inspectionworks! 😉

So I did. Made my work of it, surely when I heard downstairs neighbour-lady was outside. But she had no time to chat today! 😦 That was because mum forbid me to bark to get her attention! 😦 
But I looked around and saw that the black new schoolbuilding is almost finished now. That’s a school for future sea-men! They surely will learn about the tides, won’t they, mum? Will they go in the river Scheldt as I do, mum?

Hahaha, Kita! No, don’t think so. They will be on big ships!

Why is she laughing at me? 😦  Anyhow, plants do great on our balcony! They have flowers! ❤ And bamboo is growing well, I measured it! 😉

Bamboo is growing!

Yep, pplants have nice flowers up there.

Black schoolbuilding almost ready!

Forbidden to bark. Neighbur does not see me

Everything under controle, we can go in now, mum!

This morning, very early, before all that rain, we had so much fun, me and mum! We were laughing all the time!

First we played with the coloured tail. Yes, I was in a good mood and I brought it back 11 times! Sometimes you have to please your mum. Surely when the treats are yummy, you understand? Then I started chewing on the thing and I had to give it back, it disappeared in mum’s bag. 😉

Then mum wanted a fototoot in my repaired dogpark as you can see in the pics. I did pose in funny ways and mum did laugh! So did I! bloopers enough, mum said, now a good one! hahaha, i just walked out of the picture! Hahahaha. Then I was tired of laughing and I lay down for a nice pic. 🙂

Off we went, back home. But then we passed by the new street art. Mum had the short leash and she had to hold it because of the traffic, difficult for good pics, but we have some. We were giggling again, of course! 🙂

In the end, in our street, we saw the orange humans, they are working in the trees! Me, I was jealous, could not go and help! 😉