Yesterday, it was the 11th of november, mum calls it” Armistice”, but I think that my foreign friends talk about Rememberance day. Not sure tough!
Anyway, in Belgium that’s a holiday! So mum does not go to the library and dad does not work either.

And I tell you something! We went to the seaside for two days! Yihaaaaa! It’s only 150 km. 😉 Even grandpa Lennox was coming, kidney-thing or not: he is going strong again, oh yes!

The first day was a bit special! Me and mum we went to the beach! Of course! 😉 My dogness, there was a lot of wind! I think they call it storm! The sea was blustering! At first I was a bit afraid, I admit. But afterwards… ohlalala… I was enjoying this funny weather. Mum said I was acting even more crazy as the wind, she made a fototoot and a little film (without music, wind sings enough, she says). I asked her!
Why? She had a lot of trouble with her scarf and cap, even with the blinking thing! Nothing was staying in his place… hahaha! I had no problems! 😉 My coat is of much better quality then her scarf and cap! My coat doesn’t fly off and I don’t have to run after it! 😉 So I wanted to show my good quality coat!! See the pictures and the film!

Oh yes, and then we met a Welshie, again! Second one in one week! His mum said: “On dirait père et fils!” And my mum said: “On dirait plutôt mère et fils”. That made his mum and dad laugh!!! Yes, I’m a lady, not a sir!!! Anyway, they also said I am a beautiful airedale, so I forgive them their little mistake, wouldn’t you? 😉

Something is wrong, something is very wrong… When mum is at the tv-typing-machine and she says: oooh nooooo! And then again: oh no, oh no, oh no… Well, at that moment I know something is really very wrong! She said so when she read that my big friend Grobber went away for never returning to our dogpark. And she acted the same way when Gracie’s big sister Sadie went to the Rainbow Bridge! Waf, woof, waaaaffff.

What does she say? She’s talking about a kidney-thing? But Lennox is fine for the moment. What’s going on?
What do I hear? Sir Darwin? Sir Darwin???!!! What does she say? Sir Darwin is now at the Rainbow Bridge too? Waaaaaaf, waaaf, ggggrrrrr! Oh noooooo! Sir Darwin with the beautiful ears! He is now with Grobber and Sadie?

How very, very sad for his mum and dad! But mum, will you tell his mum and dad that it is fine at the Bridge? Grandpa Lennox did explain it to me some time ago! And they can remember his beautiful ears and all the other nice things!

Mum, and tell them too that his friends can’t stop eating because they are sad, as I did last week when grandpa was very ill. That’s not good! Tell them this too: in honor of and as a tribute to airedale-sir Darwin, I ate all my dinner! For the first time in a week.

Run free, sir Darwin with the beautiful ears… see you… one day! And please, say hello to Grobber and Sadie for me?

Sir Darwin with the beautiful ears

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When is she coming home, my mum, I have big news to tell her! Something big is in our street!

Mum, mum, let’s go for a walk! Take the blinking box with you, you will see you’ll need it! Really! Come on! Finally, we leave the house! Look, mum, do you see it? You can see it from our house!

Mum seems not too excited! 😦 She says she’s old enough to have seen lots of them! She says it’s a crane they use to built new houses or to renew old houses. A crane? Okay, so a crane-thing… rather high though!

Mum, I think it’s pretty high this crane-thing. And mum, don’t you see it’s moving all the time with this wind? I’m a little afraid. What if it fells down? Then we are in big crane-trouble, aren’t we? 😦

Mum says this big-high-moving-crane-thing will stay several weeks, she can read it on the sign. Well, we do the fototoot anyway, under the moving-crane-thing. I act like a real lady for this fototoot, mum is pleased with me! 😉

Mum and dad were away for a few days with their French friends. Yes, my friends understand immediatly! Big fun because we went to holidaymum’s place! We had a great time: Dixie, Eva, Grandpa Lennox and me! We really did! We played and played and didn’t stop playing!

But then trouble started! No, this time we didn’t do any mischiefs… Euh, well, maybe just a little one: Eva and me were having a very close look IN the dustbin! 🙂

So, no mischiefs, but other big trouble! Grandpa Lennox got ill! At 14,5 years old, getting ill is dangerous said holidaymum, so we had to be quiet. Lennox was vomiting all the time. So his personal vet came to holidaymum’s house and he got different medication syringues and his blood was taken. Nothing helped, he went on vomiting and vomiting all night. Next day his personal vet came again and he got a real infusion. After that, it seemed to get better.

The problem? His kidneys failed! A kidney-crisis. I don’t know that good what kidneys are but it seems very important these kidney-thing! My grandpa Lennox could have died, if I understood it well! But then you are mistaken!! Grandpa Lennox never dies! He gets more medication, other food and guess what? He’s alive and kicking again! Dad and mum are saying all the time: for how long? I say: for ever!

And now? I’m the one in trouble, mum says. I don’t want to eat! Only when she does the training exercises with me and she gives me a treat, I eat it! Mum is clever, after 6 or 7 exercises and treats I saw she was giving me pieces of my food in stead of treats! So I stopped exercising! Mum gets a little worried, I think!
We went for a walk! Yes! We exercised and I got a few treats, real ones, which I ate! 🙂 Of course. Mum says I’m tired and a little depressed, because of the illness of Lennox. I don’t know, I just don’t eat! 😉 We’ll see tomorrow! If she starts talking about the people in the green clothes, maybe I’ll eat!

For now, grandpa and me, we take a nap! 😉

Mum says I live my third autumn! I don’t get it! I really don’t get it! So I asked my grandpa Lennox! I’m only two years old, my next birthday (still few months to go!) is my third birthday and mum says I live my third autumn and I live it now!!! Grandpa Lennox looked at me and looked again. He was thinking, I saw that! Result? He didn’t understand neither! 😦

Anyway, because my mum loves autumn we make walks in the city and in the park. And yes, with the blinking box for the fototoots! I like these autumn-walks! I know when it’s autumn! There lot of colours, lots of fruits and nuts on the ground and lots of smells! But mum does not allow me to smell some weird little things: she calls them mushrooms! Rooms? Rooms? That’s very little for a room! Mum says that I can not eat these rooms, i would be ill! Who wants to eat rooms? This time, I agree with her! 🙂

Sit down and look at you for a nice pic? Why should I do that? I look where I want to look today! 😉 Fototoot or no fototoot! Be sure about that! i look at autumn now, not at you, mum, I’m sorry! And I’m not the only dog loving autumn! 🙂

Message for Féline: pic 35 and 36, mum made them on our walk home after our wednesday-appointment! 🙂

Last saturday morning mum asked if I was in the mood to be a good girl! Me? Always, mum, always! 😉 So my mum said I could go to the market with her. Market? What was that again? Seems that it was long ago that I went there with her… Grandpa Lennox says it’s a kind of shop, but outside… Okay, I come!

These human places are very weird! Look at that! Lots of clothes but there are no humans in them! And there! Human heads without body! My dogness, mum, how do these heads walk home??? Weird!

But I understand that! French products! They smell very good! That’s for eating… mum, do you buy some? Not today? Oh, that’s a pity! And there! Yummy, chicken! Not for today? What a shame!
Well, what’s for today then? Fruits? Okay, I want an apple!

Mum, mum, look! You said your leg was hurting, the other day! Look there, you can choose a new leg if you want to! By the way: why are the heads at the other side of the street and the legs over here?
Your market is a weird place, mum! Really! I don’t understand these humans, loosing all their body-parts and clothes anywhere, not collecting them! If I do so with my toys… well, you sigh a lot. Why do you not sigh? 😉

I am so very, very, yes really, very proud! I did it! I became friends with the dark stone dog and he let me drink out of his bowl!
Surely the white one spoke a little word to the dark one, but anyway: I dare to go close and I had a drink! Yihaaaa!!

Mum almost didn’t believe what she saw. I did not bark, I pulled a little on the leash, yes, to go closer! I was thirsty! Politely asked if I could drink… 😉 Guy said that beautiful ladies are always welcome to have a drink! 🙂

I invented a little game! In the dogpark – yep, that’s the place for games, no? So, in the dogpark there is a table, as you all know! Mum does not want me on it! 🙂

So, when we are in the dogpark, she watches me! Almost all the time, when I’m near the table! 😦

Then, I run and I’m doing my pooping-business! I know very well what comes next! Mum takes the little bag and is cleaning the poop, and she goes to the bin to get rid of the bag! That’s my moment! she does not look so I jump on the table! Another mum or dad calls my mum, points at me, mum sees me and she yells: Kita, get off! I know it, I already jump off when she turns to me now! The other mums have great fun!

I know my mum would like to have a picture of me on the table, but that’s the game now: I get on when she does not look, and I get off before the pic! Everybody is very amused! I’m a smart girl, I really am! I’m smarter and quicker than my mum! Teasing my mum with this table-game every morning!

TODAY! Well, two mums working together are smarter than me… I was on the table, Giva’s mum was keeping my attention the whole time… I was even sitting on the table ;-)… I forgot my mum! Just for a few moments, I forgot my mum! The result: she won! She has her pictures of me on the table!

So this morning we went to see the dogpark! Gate was closed. That’s good news! No big cars in the dogpark! That’s even better news! The best news? Fence is ready!

Yes, I could off the leash! And of course, we had a big inspection-tour around! Not only inspection of the fence, also did control the new gate for holidaymum and finally, my tree! Hard work! 😉