The Day Before Christmas

It is the day before Christmas – at least in Sweden. Christmas starts at Christmas Eve in Sweden. This is good. We do not have to wait until Christmas Day, as in some other countries. We have Christmas tomorrow. This is good, it means we get to start eat Christmas food.

Actually, we had some Christmas food to eat today. We cooked some of it, so we had to taste it, to see if it was good enough. It turned out it was. 

Evil Acts

The Russians are killing Ukrainan prisoners of war. This is evil acts. It goes against the laws of war. We would consider it murder.

We hope no Ukranian military dogs are murdered this way. 

Cleaning Out the Fridge

We cleaned out the fridge today. This gives us more space to fit in new groceries for Christmas. Cleaning can be good. 

Christmas is a good holiday, because it means a lot of candy and good food. We love to celebrate the birth of Christ this way. 

Christmas Gifts

Paula and Daniel bought their final Christmas gifts today. It is good that they are done with this.

We dogs finished our Christmas preparations long ago. It might be that humans should follow our lead to a more laid back approach to Christmas. 

Brush Up

On the 12 January, our local kennel club will have a brush up for ring stewards. This is to make sure all the ring stewards are up to date with new rules and regulations for dog shows.

Daniel published the invitation to the brush up today. Several ring stewards have already told him they want to come. This is promising. We hope the brush up will be a success. 

A Nice Visit

A visit to a veterinarian can be really comfortable. I came long to a veterinarian today, because Polly’s granddaughter Honey had an appointment. The veterinarian dig not do anything to me.

If Honey would have lived with us, this blog would belong to her. She would have inherited it from her grandmother Polly. I am just a custodian of it. This made it extra exciting to meet Honey. She was not very interested in discussing the blog, however. I am not sure why. Perhaps it is because she would have wanted to have the blog, but this may be wishful thinking on my part.

Anyway, the veterinarian appointment turned out fine. Honey is perfectly healthy. This is good. 

Chips

Paula and Daniel had chips with their dinner tonight. I got some of the softer ones. While I don’t normally like potatoes, I liked these chips. 

Daniel told us chips are called French fries in America, while crisps are called chips there. I guess Swedish has borrowed the American word. Then Daniel told us that in Australia, both crisps and chips are called chips. This seems like it could cause confusion. I an glad we do not have to think of such confusing things in the British English we use in Europe, nor in Swedish or American English.

First Time

Paula worked as a ring steward at an official dog show for the first time today. This was just the day after she was finished.

We wonder if this is some kind of record. It usually takes time to send the signed protocoll of trainee services to the tutor of the theory course, who will then sign it and send it to people at the headquarters of the Swedish Kennel Club. In this case, the dog show this weekend was managed by the Swedish Kennel Club itself. The tutor and all of the relevant people from the headquarters were there, so the protocoll could be signed and registered at once, and Paula could be authorised. 

This is great. We may have a record holder here at home.