This morning mum and me went into town, we went to the market on the marketplace! You remember I told you that there are not many airedales in Belgium? And that I often feel as a celebrity because people always look at me and give comments? When my coat is very curly, it is incredible… sometimes it bothers mum really!

Mum says she needs a candid camera to film all the reactions! I don’t understand that. I have to ask some “esplanations” at TnT, they know everything about ‘candid’, I saw on the tv-typing-machine! Guys, can you “esplain” me, please?

Anyway, just for fun, mum started counting… Counting all the times she heard people make a remark about me, in Dutch, in French, in English and even in German, while we passed. Guess what? In less than one hour time, she counted 61 remarks! I asked grandpa if that is a lot or not. He says it is very much, even he can’t count that far! he says he is happy to be a labrador! 

And then I don’t mention the two times, people spoke to us… and asked information about ‘that breed’… Mum explained a lot and I waited patiently, as a lady should do!

Mum had no black-talking-box and no blinking box, so today I choose one old pic…

It’s a coloured day, my mum says… my mum is not only my mum, but she also is a library-mum. Today one of the students brought my mum some flowers because she is loved as the library-mum. That does not surprise me, I love my mum too! 😉 Flowers are very beautiful, mum showed them to me!

After dinner we went out for a walk. We did not enter the dogpark because there was that doggie mum is a bit afraid of (me too, a little bit, doggie pinched me in the buttocks few times one day and I did not like it!!). So we did a nice walk. I don’t mind, new smells and so on always interest me!

Then we met the little nuts-house with all the colours! Mum likes this kind of streetart which makes streets less dull! We already did fototoots with others too. 

We also saw two very, very big trees. Mum says the picture is too small for me and the whole tree! 😉

Now I need a nap, of course! 🙂

Mum, listen, I know you have lots of work, mountains of work, but listen, you promised to show me the fototoot with the daisies. The fototoot I did not want to look at you!

What do you say? First to the green clothes people? Of course not with me, but with grandpa Lennox. This morning his back paws weren’t working anymore. Mum had to help him out of his bed because he wanted his breakfast badly. Of course: he lives for his breakfast and dinner, my grandpa. It’s only his paws that bother him, he always says, not his stomach. So this evening, off to the green clothes with him. He got an injection again, pure steroids. Mum hopes he will be ready for the Olympics again, tomorrow…

Then we went to the dogpark, not many friends when it is raining! Back home! Work again??? 😦  No, mum, you promised: after the green clothes! She says: okay! 😉 Lots of pics and I was able not to look at mum. That was difficult, but I did it. I only looked at the daisies! I was pleased with myself, mum was less pleased with me! Hahaha… that happens… 😉

Now, I have this beautiful harness! Thanks, mum, I’m so proud about it. So I want to show myself, of course, just as a lady does!

There is just this annoying problem! A real beauty-issue! My dogness, I’m so embarrassed! I explained it to my mum, she did not agree! What did you expect?   😦

My coiffure is in a real “bad day” these days! My dogness, yes! My curls don’t curl as they should! Embarrassing, no? I think so! It looks like a bush growing on my left side. And I could live with that, I turn my nice side to you, you see, to show my harness!
BUT… there is the problem in the middle of my back! Seems as if wings are growing there! I’m so ashamed! Everybody who admires my harness, sees it! I asked mum to brush it again! Nothing to do about it, “it” always gets “up” again!   😦

Mum says I have to be patient! We’ll go to the hairdresser’s within a month! A month!!! Mum, can’t you do some ‘scissoring’, as you did around my eyes? No way, she says!   😦

I pity myself… can’t laugh today!

Today I’m still very tired! How come? Because of yesterday! That was a pretty filled day, no time for naps…

First we went to the dogpark in the morning! It really was gent’s day over there! My dogness, all those machos wanting to be the biggest macho! Even my grandpa wanted to act like a six year old… Mum says he’ll never learn! He always was the boss and wants to stay the boss, that’s a clear thing! So, I was the only female and completely ignored by all the rest. But I was happy about that! I was quietly alone in my tree during the rough playing and the fighting! Blinking box missed the fighting of Duke (dalmation) and Django (border collie) (Lennox barking all the time!) though, mum was too surprised… I saw it coming, she didn’t. 

After lunch I could come in the car with mum, sitting next to her and cuddling… 🙂 Where did we go? When we stopped, I did not know where we were! Never been there before! We go in! What a surprise, this is a petshop! And look! That’s mum’s human pup! I see, she works here now since about six weeks! Of course she likes that! And me too! Pic was taken! And I got a new little harness to go to the dogpark. The human pup knows about aire-lady fashion! It suits me very well and it fits to my new collar! (You see this, Molly and Winnie?)

So after the shopping, I had some showing to do! Of we went for a walk and  to the dogpark to show my new harness! I’m a very proud lady!

Coming home, I had a nice ‘meeting’… Long time, no see: the cat of the neighbours. I’m a little afraid of him… Sssstttt, don’t tell anyone! When I was 8 weeks old, I met him for the first time and then he was an angry one! But now we are distant friends. I want to play but he never wants. He sits and looks at me… But he is nice, very nice! Neighbour (his dad) says he is surprised we get along so well. No fighting with this doglady as he otherwise does! Neighbour does not know aire-ladies don’t want to fight, I think… 😉

There are a few sentences we fear, grandpa and I. When mum says: I’m going to do some cleaning…… Then we both try to be the most invisible dogs ever! Are we afraid of the vacuum cleaner? Oh no, what are you talking about, we even sleep through that noise! What the problem is?

Before the vacuum cleaning starts, we get brushed. Grandpa does not like it, so I don’t like it. I learned that very quickly. I’m not afraid of storms, grandpa does. During the first storm with mum (when I was 11 weeks old), we went outside in the rain and wind and thunder and lightnings because I should not be afraid of it and because I should not copy the behaviour of grandpa. Very smart mum… but for the brushing, mum was less smart… so, I imitate grandpa and I don’t like it.
Smart mum brings grandpa in another room now when I’m brushed, and then I don’t mind that much. Can’t loose my face before grandpa, can I?

So, today was brushing time! Mum puts on the ugly trousers (that’s the signal)… Brushing time is treats-time too! That’s the good part! I asked mum to film a little bit (not all, it takes too much time) and to make pics!

And then??? She said something about grooming only in the beginning of july. She can’t see my eyes anymore? Scissors? Who is that? Oh, grandpa is not here, I can’t ask him. More treats? I got a bit suspicious. What’s that? She opens the treats-bag with that thing too… 
Guess what? My mum “scissored” the hairs away around my eyes! I was a very good girl, she said. But I kept my eyebrows of course! My doggie-mum’s dad would be very proud of me, she said. She says, I have such beautiful eyes she wants to see them! This time I agree with her!

Well, well… tonight holidaymum was in the dogpark. Yihaaa!!! But with her came Lokum and Fritz. This Fritz-guy, well, my dogness, he is special!

First of all, he always wanted to jump on grandpa Lennox. Holidaymum did not want him to do so because grandpa didn’t like it at all. His hips don’t allow all those jumping dogs… Talking about stubborn? Well, that’s what you can say about Fritz! 😉 He was put on the leash for some time.

Then he came after me… Haha! I’m bigger and I can run faster and… I can climb! But we played a little bit, he always run after me.

Then holidaymum wanted to go home… Guess what? Fritz did not want to come… So holidaymum said that I should be her assistant! I did, I always do what holidaymum asks! 🙂 I made him run after me and brought him to the little gate and to holidaymum! My mum was so proud of me! And I got 2 treats! One from holidaymum and one from my mum! 😉

When mum goes to her library… She is not only an airedale-mum, she also is a library-mum, you know… So when mum goes to work, and I stay with grandpa and dad, in the park mum always meets a little doggie called Boubouche. When Boubouche sees my mum, he barks and pulls on the leash. Her dad gets him of the leash, although that’s not permitted and Boubouche runs as fast as he can to be cuddled by my mum. That’s something I understand. When his dad arrives, he goes back on the leash… I never met Boubouche. 😦

Mum and me went to the park for a walk on Friday morning! And guess who we met! Yes! Boubouche! He did not recognize my mum, he did not see her! He only saw me of course! He seems to be a nice guy! He’s smaller than I thought, but he is a nice gentleman! 

When we went on, we passed by the pond, with the fountain! Mum, look! A rainbow! Do you see it too? Is that Grobber and Sadie and sir Darwin and… saying hello to me?   ❤   It is beautifull, isn’t it?   🙂   Can you see it on the pics?

This afternoon was rather busy. We went for a long walk. Weather is fine, it is a bit like summer here these days. But not too hot though, otherwise we wouldn’t walk that much.

First thing that happens? Big surprise! We met two wheaten terriers. Mum never saw one, a real one, in her whole life! Now, we met two of them. With a very friendly dad. He told mum a lot, in French, she had to translate for me. So he told that he wanted two airedales but could not find dales so the choose the wheatens. Very sympathetic ladies!

I was not completely recoverd from mum”s surprise when I got the surprise of MY life! Walking trees! My dogness, I was barkless, so amazed I was! Mum had the blinking box in her hand! We went on in that street, I can tell you, we fell from one surprise in the other! At least, I did. Mum says I was so surprised I acted like a real lady: I forgot to pull on the leash, I forgot to bark, I forgot to whine…
Tell me! Did you ever see an adult horse, smaller than an airedale! No, no, not a cuddletoy! A real one!!! And more than one!

And goats, and gooses and… We walked for two hours to see everything! Nice saturday!