Some moments are a bit strange at the beach… Especially Easter-day was strange at the beach! I could not run off the leash and we could not go to France! Beach was occupied :-(… kind of race…
A gentle sir, putting flags on the beach, imagine!!!, explained that I had to be put on the leash for safety. I suppose so, yes, mum had to be kept safe and that was my duty! Sir was very right! Mum could not go in the race, that was a clear thing. I was glad he saw that too and explained it to mum. She would certainly not believe me! 😉

So we went to another part of the beach: other beach-cars with flags… 😦  Mum, it’s not safe here. And then, there were bizar birds in the air, making strange noises! So I barked.

In the end we went into the dunes, we rest a bit and we made fototoot-selfies! 🙂 Returning home we met doggie-auntie Jara again! 🙂 What a walk!

Easter and nice weather? This spring is really great! Yes, we went to the seaside for more than one day!! Imagine the excitement! grandpa, did you hear it?!
And now I have stories to tell! Several days of work at the tv-typing-machine: it’s too much for one story… And no, this time I didn’t almost drown, I was careful! 🙂

One walk, there was a lot of wind, that’s not new at the coast, mum says! But that makes a rather rough sea. Not all fish are stong enough to stay in the water, mum says… Maybe they want to be dry, just like me? Mum laughs at me! She said to remember Moby Dick!… Indeed, he never came out off the water, so fish like to be wet, I suppose…

Anyway, mum said the beach seemed a real sushi bar this time… oh yes,I saw that! I sniffed at every fish! Mum always said: leave it! But that was not necessary! Fish weren’t good enough to eat! Fish were not fresh and a little bit smelly! So I peed on them every time to tell doggie-friends who come later not to eat them. Soon,  I had no pee left… (And, no, Sam and Ike from Wyoming, I did not roll in them, I’m a lady!)

But then!!! There was the huge thing in the middle of the huge beach. Mum did not put me on the leash so I could have a look long before her. The big thing is full of mussels, a real mussels-shop! hahahaha! Mum arrives and she is very surprised. Mussels are still fresh because she wanted to take one but it does not want to let loose. Mum says that this human thing must have been long in the sea because it became a mussel bed. Can I take one too?
My dogness, that’s not easy! That’s why she allows me to try… Gggrrrr.

PS Remark my old harness! 😦 I have to wear that because mum does not want the good one to drown again! Ggggrrrrr

Weather is fine, mum is not to work… sounds good, doesn’t it? Yes, we go to the dogpark this afternoon! Who will be there? No, mum, I don’t pull on the leash, you are dreaming that. Walk a little faster, will you?!

Look, mum! There he is! I saw him as a puppy! That’s labradoodle Mambo! Let’s party! This guy is ten months old and likes to play! His big sister acts like a real mum although she is only about 11 years old. Mum, look at that: she has her leash around her waist! And Mambo has a bizar collar! What do you say? It’s a gentle leader? I know, that’s for babies pulling on the leash too much! I never had one, had I mum?
Mambo is a handsome fellow! Mum likes him too, he looks a bit like a giant schnauser and she loves them!

We played, me and Mambo, I can tell you that, we were exhausted, both of us! And mum made pics and a video of us, she promised to show them on the tv-typing-machine. She wrote down on a paper where the little mum had to go and have a look! She will show it Mambo too, mum?

Meet me and labradoodle Mambo, I mean: meet Mambo and me!

Mum, he does not stay for the fototoot!

Airedale-world, this is a big day!!

Today I am posting my story number 400! I started telling in november 2011… that was to help my mum, learning how to do this. She needed it for her library! You know, she is a library-mum too! 🙂
I started telling in Dutch, that’s my second language after Wafwoof-language. But my overseas friends did not always understand… Because mum owed me a favour as I had helped her, she helped to translate in English! 😉

We like to do this, we are a very good team. We go for adventures… That means: I deliver the adventures, every-day-life-adventures, and mum delivers the pics and videos. She has a blinking box for the fototoots, I don’t!

Friends in 76 countries read my stories… i can not see who, I only see the little flag of the countries… I show you to them! Your country must be in the list otherwise wordpress does a bad job and I have to protest! Some days my friends, you look at a lot of things! One day, we even got 833 views!

And now comes my question: I want to do mum a very big pleasure, just for fun! I would like to have 1000 views on one day! That would be a surprise! Mum said that would be a record!!! I put with this story a few statistics and I’ll ask mum to put some nice pics too! If you click on the first pic and then see them all… well we should get to 1000 in no time! I’ll tell you tomorrow the results! Come on, aire-force, just for fun this time!!! You can go to old stories and see them again too! 🙂

THANKS and big hugs from Kita!

Hey Stybar, you see me?

Kita in Antwerp says: thank you! 🙂 ❤

That’s us!

I bark!!

Grandpa assists too today

I explain to Moby Dick that he is moving! He is a bit excited!

me

On the table…

Yes, dancing!! See the pointing finger?? 😉

Mazzy, me and Manyroses

Me and my mum! 🙂

Hello grandpa Lennox

Nap!!

Yep, finally!!!

Like this and SMILE!

Mum, can I have such a toy? Please? Can I? Not today? 😦

As said yesterday, the almost-drowning-part was on the way back from France to Belgium… not so nice a memory… 😦

Besides that the walk was great! I played with little Arthur going to France. In Bray Dunes, we had a drink, my mum and me, on a terrace with a very nice sir! I got my big drink for free! 🙂 Only mum had to pay! 🙂 I was thirsty and finished it all, so did mum with hers! 🙂

Not far from Bray Dunes, mum called me and did put me on the leash. What did she see that I did not sniff or see before her? A dead animal! 😦 That’s not a fish, mum!! What do you say? What do you think? Is it a little seal? The poor one…

Back we went… I won’t mention the almost-drowning-part again,  😉  but what came after! I stayed with my mum, very safely at her side. She wanted me to run to get warm! I was completely wet, so was my harnass and my collar… Remember? 😦

Mum learned me a new command at the seaside! She says: Sea! And points to the water! I should run all over the beach to the water, she follows me but less quickly! 🙂  Away from playing children and other humans who maybe don’t like doggies, she says… Mum does not like running…
When I’m in the mood and when there are not too many other attractive things 😉 , I do what she says! So after the very wet story, was I in the mood for a little running? I was thinking thoroughly about it and decided: yes! And I run!

Blinking box has the proof! But look carefully or you won’t see me, I seem to disappear from the video! But i’m there, I even come back!!! 😉 🙂

Told you yesterday that I almost drowned… mum’s fault, fault of the wistle language… Well, it all happened on a very long walk!
Me and mum were walking all the way to France and back to De Panne! Along the seaside! During such a long walk (8 kms = 5 miles) lots of things can happen!

Surely with an airedale at your side! 😉

And I’m not talking about the almost-drowning-part now! That was on the way back! No, when we were going to France, I met a nice gentleman: Arthur. A real kind fellow! Two years old! His mum and dad rescued him when he was only a few months old – have to tell that at grandpa! – and he is a mix of breeds. They don’t know which! Never mind all those talks about breeds, he was such a nice and playful guy! We run and played for more than 2 kms. Then little Arthur went back home! 😦
I really liked him!
Liked his mum and dad too! I got treats and Arthur said I could finish his drink! His dad said I was a very nice and careful dog although I’m much bigger than Arthur! This time I did not tell I was an airedale-lady, it does not matter anyhow when they are so friendly and nice! 🙂 That’s what mum always says!

Mum had the blinking box, of course! 🙂

Easter holidays, nice weather! Yes, we ride to the seaside!

But… I almost could not tell this anymore!
You know I’m the airelady who likes trees and climbing, As the mum of Sam en Ike says: I’m an air-lady. I do NOT like to get wet paws. This lady does not like the water that much! At the seaside, you have to wet them, your paws,  there is the sea, you know. So okay, I wet my paws a bit in the sea water. When sea is rough or when I have to rescue my mum (remember?), well my belly gets a little wet. I hate that! I really do: I run as quick as I can to be safe and dry!

And then, there was this accident! Mum’s big fault! Oh yes! She is to blame!
On the beach are little rivers and little ponds, never deep! Mum crossed such a river to go near the sea. I stayed at the other side… Mum called me to film me with the blinking box, she called me with the wistle language, so, off I go, trhough the water!

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did not feel the beach anymore, my paws did not touch the ground anymore! Help, I was drowning! But this lady moved her paws (mum called that swimming!) and I got further and then I could stand again! Mum was so surprised that she pushed the wrong buttom on the blinking box! So, no long video, just a little bit! It will teach her to call me not knowing if the water is deep or not!

Went to explore the place delict in my way, climbing a little bit and staying dry this time!!! 😉

I was completely wet! My harness too! It took all evening and night to get dry, me in my bed and the harness in the kitchen! My dogness, what a wet adventure! From now on, this lady will look out… 😉