I am back in Sweden, trying to make the best of it, despite the terrible weather that chocked us all!
Winter in the end of April! According to meteorologists quite normal for this part of the world, but just not what we all expected!
Since a whole year has passed from my last post I wouldn’t even think of trying to fill the gap.
There was one summer, one fall and one winter in between. Quite ordinary. Nothing unusual happened in that time except the fact that we all got a bit older. But this is normal.
First Prima, the Christmas baby, celebrated her 8th birthday.
Then Ruda, a mature lady now, became 10 years old! Fortunately it doesn’t seem to bother her much!
And in March the puppy had her 4th birthday! Maybe it’s about time to stop calling her a baby?
The winter was spent in Spain, third time in a row. From the beginning of November until the end of March we enjoyed sunny and warm days while people here in Sweden experienced one of the toughest winters in recent years.
I’m so grateful I can leave all this behind and live my life as I like it! Outside as much as possible, without freezing and without snow!
I think the doggies are happy too even if we don’t follow the same style of life as we do at home. I still haven’t found a space to train obedience reasonably close to the village we live in. There are some places I could adapt for training by cleaning piles of dog poo first, and sometimes I did, but it just wasn’t so appealing. And somehow everyday training, which is such an essential part of our life here, isn’t that necessary there.
We have our walks with some of the neighbours and friends from the village.
We make short trips to explore new places in the area and are getting more and more impressed!
After a very dry and hot summer here in Andalusia some rain has fallen in the end, letting wild flowers to explode!
In a very short time the brown was replaced with green and the lake of Viñuela was recollecting its water reserves.
Oh! And we have got a new friend in the house! Well I should rather say I got a friend because the dogs, especially the two Belgians would like to do everything to keep the bloody cat away!
But she is clever, very smart. She makes small steps and the dogs are more and more allowing. We will see what happens next year! She doesn´t have a home, her owners moved away and left her behind. But she knows how to provide the food for herself so I don´t worry for her!
I miss my Spanish life but now we are here and trying to adjust to a different tempo of life. We wouldn´t be able to survive the extremely hot Spanish summer anyway!
A lot has been done in the garden and there is a lot to be done.
Slowly we are coming back on the training ground and check if there won’t be very shameful to start in some spring competitions with Ruda. I haven’t given up the dream about the champion title and she is still very fit and willing! I’ll give it a try!
Brita has to polish some exercises from class 2 so I need some time to prepare her. Last fall she competed in class 1 with an excellent result, got almost 300 points of 320 possible.
Right now it´s a bit complicated to find time to train as much as I would like.
The garden needs a lot of my attention and energy now but I´m trying to do my best! I always start the day with a walk and training and then continue in the garden, so the dogs get the best of me.
This is the very first time I have done updating on my phone. The pictures aren´t that good but the work could be done much quicker!
Who knows, I may repeat the same procedure before another year passes away.
I wonder how we were able to live without our smartphones once!