These warm summerdays? One good thing about it! We go to the dogpark in the morning, when it is still rather fresh and we stay there for a long time! So, we meet lots of friends, our “summerfriends”.
One of these friends is Juju! I only see her in summertime. 🙂 And she is the one with the ball with a tail! I would like to get that ball too! Every year again, we play the same game… Last year, I was frustrated, could not get the ball… but this year, in the end, she gave it to me!   🙂

And then there was Truco (with the two different eyes) and his dad. Truco’s dad was sitting in my tree, reading something on his black speaking box… would like to read that too, of course, so I tried to distract him… hahaha! Truco was cheering although he said I would not be able too read it. But I did.  😉

Proove of all this is in the blinking box! 🙂

This morning…

One year earlier…

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Mum has this friend, a very good friend for a very long time! They met at boarding school wwhen they were 12 years old… So they know each other for more than 40 years. Grandpa says she was already there when he came and her grandpa-dog became 16 years old before going to the bridge!

Anyway, mum’s friend is at the Belgian coast for a month every year. She likesthe beach and spending time there! At the beach, there is this custom, excisting since ever! Children make paper flowers, collect shells and start their shop! They buy and ssell flowers. Money? The shells!

Mum’s friend makes of these flower, very nice flowers. She started making them for her kids and she still does (her human pups have pups of their own now!) for children at the beach, to make them happy. As you understand she is an expert after all these years. So mum sked her to make some for her, finally! 😉

Well, she did! And now I have these beautiful beach-made-flowers near my bed! Mum is in love with the colours, they make her smile… 🙂 Fototoot of course! One special flower for a very far away-friend… 😉

I’m all excited! I really am! 🙂
I have these very nice and enthousiastic American fans in Berlin. Yes, yes, they are from Michigan but now they live in Europe, in Berlin in Germany! And you know what? Since a few days they have Islay, a little airedale girl. She is ten weeks old now and just arrived with her new mum and dad. I looked at the pics, together with my mum: not once, but several times! Islay willbe a city-girl just like me! She’ll be a real city-lady, in a city bigger than mine! Oh waaauw!!

And then I got a little curious. Mum, tell me… Was I as little as little Islay? Mum thinks I was smaller at that age… Mum, show me pics, will you, of me at ten weeks? Mum said she would search on her computer. I arrived at seven weeks, so mum did some counting to ten weeks and found some pics. What do you say, mum? Was I a naughty little one at ten weeks? What was it about that wallpaper-story? Oh, I see it on the pics. My dogness, that was not me, mum, impossible! Mum laughs!
And I was not playing that much with toys but I was annoying grandpa? Hahaha, grandpa, you hear this?

Ggggrrrr, don’t talk me about you being a baby! ggggrrrrr! Has the Islay-baby a grandpa? Tell her not to disturb him too much, will you?!! 😉 I know what I talk about! 🙂

Well, little Islay, live your life as it is meant to be: healthy and happy, warm and active, curious and lazy, naughty and brave, stubborn and gentle… live it in the real airedale-city-lady-spirit!

Today is about good news, bad news and good news! Lot of news! hahaha!

First the numbers… That was the first good news: More than 100.000 views on my story-telling-pages! Well, that is special… when me and mum started this, her friend from the library who learned us this, well he made a joke… He said try to get 100.000 views and laughed with it! Mum’s friend follows too and is impressed by the more than 70 countries from which friends are following… Well, let’s go on fototooting and telling and go to 200.000! 🙂

Than the bad news! Me, I was going to the green clothes! I explained it to mum:I’m all healthy again! No poo-pee anymore! Nothing helped! Off we went to the green clothes. Dad came too… Ohoh, that means injections…   😦  They hold me both then because I don’t like that! First I had to sit on the scale: 23,500 kg (= 51,8 lbs). Green clothe said: Perfect. 🙂 I know, I’m the perfect imperfection, that’s what mum always says. 😉

Then to the consulting room. No, I do not jump on the table. Ggggrrrr, dad is more stubborn than I and in one second I’m up there. Mum giggles. Green clothe is nice. He says I’m wearing a very nice collar (Molly, Monty, Winnie and Taffy: you read this???). He’s petting me while examinating me! He’s nice: he gives treats! All green clothes are nice at this hospital: they all give treats (if you are not ill) (http://www.vvd-dierenkliniek.be)
So I got three vaccinations, a little later than normally because I was ill… remember. Mum has no pics but I asked her to show my passport, especially for Islay’s mum, to show how it is in Belgium. Our green clothes say that this is important!

With every shot I did a very small bark to tell I felt it. Green clothe giggled and said I’m a vocal type! What does he mean??? 5 treats?  🙂  Yes, I’ll jump off the table all by myself, thank you! What does he explain? Come back in four weeks? For 5 treats? Of course! Treats were very small, but 5 treats are 5 treats! 😉

And then? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Mum says it is too hot to go to the dogpark this afternoon: 30° C, in the shadow. In the sun it is a lot more, she says… So we go to the park for a lazy walk. That’s what she says…

Lazy?… We met a rock! Mum said something about Dusty to be very pleased in this situation? Why? He climbs on it? Not in trees but on rocks? I have to try that too! Ohohoh, it’s not easy, this rock climbing… Sit down? No way!! He is quit a hero, Dusty! I prefer my tree! 😉

Then we had a rest in the daisies-grass. At least, mum had, I was sniffing around. Mum said she did not see my most beautiful side, while resting! 😉 lol!

Afterwards we went home and mum was going on with this kind of spring cleaning! In the middle of summer! 🙂 And? … She found me! I mean: she found the drawings of me when I was about 7 or 8 months old. It was a birthday present of one of mum’s friends. For a long time the drawings were on the wall, but now mum is going to get them in some wood before putting them back, she says… What does she mean???

Anyway, I take a nap… zzzzzz….

Mum, why are there no friends in the dogpark? We have holidays, why don’t they come? What does she say? Maybe they have no holidays?

Mum, really, I don’t know what you are talking about! What does it mean “apporteren”? Oh, you throw the toy and I fetch it and I bring it to you?? Do you think that I think that is a good idea? Bring it to you? If the toy is for me, why should I bring it to you? Explain me that! Oh, you will throw it again? What for? To fetch it again and bring it to you?
My dogness, that is a bit silly, no? But if I can do you a pleasure to play this silly game with you, well, let’s try! 🙂

Okay, she throws. I’ll run after it! Now she calls me, I go to her, without the toy! Seems not be how it should be, I go back to fetch the toy. Now I run to mum.

Sit, Kita! Sit! In the hand!

Ohohoh, she has a treat? I sit. And then I give the toy in her left hand, I get the treat from her right hand! Mum is very pleased! Very pleased!

Well done, Kita!

She throws again? Think this must be the same procedure! Okay: run, fetch, run, sit, give it, treat. Think I like it a bit. ❤ Again and again, even without treats! And again… 6 times! Mum, this is enough! Enough is enough, this toy is mine! I stay here. 
What do I see? A little friend entering the dogpark? YES!

Toy is forgotten!

When we go home mum says this is quit some news… me bringing the toy to her, several times! Mum, listen, I’m a lady and I (sometimes) can behave like a lady, just to please you! 😉

By the way, mum was so impressed that she forgot to check the blinking thing. She tought she was filming, but she only has pics… You’ll have to dream the running! lol! 😉

This afternoon in the dogpark: big alert! When we came in: there was that huge machine! No one else to see to guard the park! My dogness, do I have to do this now?

Okay, I barked! And barked again! Then mum and me we saw the dad of the machine and we had a talk. I mean: mum did the rest of the talking, I did the cuddling. I sniffed at his pants, he is a dog-dad too, so I could cuddle! 😉

The dad and his machine were mowing the grass in the dogpark, mum explained later! That’s super! Thank you, machine-dad!

Mum, really, the world today is very bizar! I told grandpa about what I saw today and he says this is very strange, indeed! We don’t understand. 😦

Why those boats sail in the streets? Normally they need water to sail in? No? And my dogness!! You always told me that our Moby Dick had to be in his water-house and I could not play with him. He can not live without water, that’s what you explained to me… Why these fish are they not in a water-house? Tell me that! They will swim in the street??? It must be strange anyway, because all those people are looking at them!

Ouf, the giraffe is still in his crate, with the children… 😦
But mum, did the storm make this bizar sand-creatures? And why can’t we go near them? Storm makes this for us to play with, I think! Strange! Even the human pups can not touch!

Mum, heeeelp! Help these horses! They are nailed on that circus-thing and are turning around all the time! They must get sick! 😦 Please, do something, now!!

Everything is well that ends well! We met Mila: a very nice puppy border collie. Hello sweetie! Back to normal life! 🙂