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!
Dear Molly and Winnie, Taffy and Monty (ladies first! 😉 ) ,
What a surprise! You really did surprise me! This morning the postman brought a package. That’s not unusual these days, with mum’s friends all over the world, these days. But today, the package was adressed to me! To ME! Kita, that was on the box! Speaking of a surprise, well, this was one! In my whole life, I never got a package with my name on it! Grandpa Lennox said those things happen only to ladies, he never got one, in 15 years! 😉 My mum gave it to me to unpack! Surprises got bigger and bigger!
Dear Molly and Winnie, you are such fashion ladies! You really have good taste! Did you remark on the pics I have a red leash? This collar fits exactly with the leash! My dogness, you are very fashion-talented! All my fashion-dreams came true: I have a red collar with air-ladies on it! Oh, I almost can’t believe this! Oooh!!! Thank you so very, very much. In Dutch I say: dank je wel! I’m very happy with it! 🙂
Dear Taffy and Monty, you guys, you know what a lady needs as a diversion in every day life! First of all you completed my ‘farm’. Now I have a cow and a doggie too! My chicken and pig will be happy! But then, you remembered I like to play with empty bottles! But the bottles were very well hidden, you guys have lots of humour, haven’t you! It took me almost 20 minutes to find the bottle that I heard but could not see! Finely I found it and almost unpacked it. Mum filmed it! Thank you so very, very much, you too! Dank je wel! With this I can play for hours, mum says. After an hour she put it away! 😦 She says I can play again tomorrow. Thanks a lot, guys!
Dear Molly, Winnie, Taffy and Monty, I thank you with all my lady-heart! I love you silent-wednesday-gang! 🙂 ❤
Mum made a long film (after the pics), especially for you, you can play with me in that way… Maybe others will be bored, but maybe you like it! Don’t mind my mum always saying I can not chew on it, I should “krak”=make noise with it! 😉 My apologies for her silly behaviour in the movie! 😦 😉
My mum has lots and lots of work. So this wednesday we did not go to the dogpark in the afternoon, but we went in the evening and for a long time! 😉
And who was there? Arkan, the huski! One of my favorite young gentlemen! I did all I could to get his attention so that he would play with me. When I finally had success 🙂 … there came Sammeke (in English: little Sam). This young adolescent with too much hormones wanted to play too… Little bit disturbing… In fact, so disturbing, Arkan walked away… 😦
Pics tell the whole story, mum says! And the movie too! 🙂 Oh, also this: you can hear very well, we live in the city! The noise you hear, well that’s the highway (around Antwerp city) nearby!
Good news and bad news! The good news first? Yesterday evening my grandpa went to the vet’s place! He had to go for his annual vaccinations. The poor one, he does not like it at all, he simply hates it, my grandpa. Said he gained weight again because of his special food for the kidney thing… Less treats for him. 😦
That’s bad news, yes. But that is not THE bad news! He also got another shot of anabolics! Doping! You understand the very bad news? We can’t go to the doggie-olympics for the relay run, when they start organising them! 😦 Would not be fair to go in competion, with that doping. Grandpa says we can run anyway! He is always such an optimistic guy!
Mum said that if I want to go to these Olympics I can train another discipline: the circle-stay! That’s an awfully difficult discipline, at least for me! For those who are not familiar with it. It goes as follows: in the dogpark or on the beach or somewhere else where I am off the leash… I have to sit or lay down (I can choose) and I have to stay. That part is okay. But then mum walks away and makes the stay-sign. That’s okay too. 🙂 But then mum walks around me, a whole circle and I have to stay, I can not move… Oh, that’s not okay! There always is a moment I cannot see my mum!! 😦
But if I really will, I can… 🙂 Mum filmed the bloopers too… That’s the training, she says!
If you ask me… the aire-family is not only an aire-family… It is also a parcel-family! Oh yes! On mondays mum has to work very late, till 20.00! So she comes home late! But there was another surprise for her! A parcel, again!
This time it did not come from so very far away! It comes from the country of the silent-wednesday-gang! Oh yes! I think that’s pretty far away, we can’t go there for a walk! So there was this parcel! In the parcel, nicely wrapped in very special paper, there were two airedales! Tell me!!! Two airedales in a dogpark with lots of poppies! That’s confusing, I already explained that… (for those who missed it: https://everydayanairedale.com/2013/07/13/poppies-poppie-poem/)
And mum wanted me on the picture with those two dales! Okay, mum, I’ll come up… Did not work that good. but she has a pic! 😉 She should not complain! 😉
Mum is very happy with the two airedales and the poppies! She loves them! 🙂 And now we show them to all of you! Mum says thank you to the airedale-mum who made them!!
Mano, I was in France, but I didn’t see you! Grandpa laughs, he says I had still 800 kms to go further to our friend Mano! Ohhh, so…
Anyway, I was in France, yesterday! Grandpa did not come, he needed his rest after the training of earlier this week. Mum and dad needed papers out of a machine, a big one! A nice sir did help a bit… he even did not pay attention at this lady. He was in a bit of a hurry! The big machine was in the railwaystation, mum said… What’s that? Oh, the train-place! Yes, I know about that. We have a big one in Antwerp too! One of the 14 most beautiful train-places in the whole world! We are on number six in the British list. You don’t believe me? Just look! http://nl.metrotime.be/2014/04/21/featured/de-14-mooiste-treinstations-ter-wereld/
Newsweek in the States did put us on number four in their list! Which list you take, we are always in the first ten! 🙂
But I was talking about France! Mum says I will become a real French lady, all these times I already went to France, by car and on foot! They have nice flowers in France and a nice little harbour too… We did not visit the big harbour… grandpa was waiting, waiting for his dinner… Can’t come too late, can we?
We are champions, we really are! Mind my words! We go to the Olympics and we’re going to participate in the relay run! Mum says we must be joking… Why? She says doggies are not allowed! Doggies no, but airedales and labradors??? They are allowed, no? Mum says no! My dogness, how stupid! We should start a petition to organise recreative-fun-Olympics for doggies!
Anyway, my macho grandpa always says he was a good runner in his younger days and yesterday he said, maybe a little overconfident, that he still is! At 14 years, 11 months and 1 week!!! And he said he would show it too! He said we would do a relay run. I really did not know what he was talking about, I only understood: run. That’s what I can, yes, but him? He said he would show and explain, mum and dad learned him that when he was younger: the relay run!
So he did! My dogness! Took a while before I understood, I run everywhere normally, but yes, we did a lot of training! Guess that we’ll be ready when they organise recreative-fun-Olympics for doggies. Won’t we, grandpa Lennox?
Anyway: we got already our medals yesterday! Chicken treats and fish treats! Lennox got double treats! 🙂 We snored all evening and grandpa says: no training today! Next training? Only next week? 😦
Breakfast… I do not like it that much… Grandpa likes everything that can be eaten: breakfast, lunch, dinner, treats, grass… whatever.
Me, I prefer dinner! Me, as a real lady I enjoy dinner. Me, I taste what I eat, I’m a mindful lady… Let’s not talk about grandpa today! Just watch him: I have my doubts that he does taste anything, eating that quickly! 😉
Hey you, young lady! Talk about yourself or shut up!
Don’t call me a liar, they’ll all see and hear it in the movie! 😉
Every day an airedale: Kita 