Summer's End

It is the last day of August. This is commonly seen as the last day of summer in Sweden. By the calendar, summer is June, July, and August.

Of course, many of the days of these months are colder than what you would like from a summer day. This is because Sweden is a country far to the north. 

I like the other seasons of Sweden as well, but I often miss those warm summer days more, because they are so few and far between. This summer, there were warm days in June and in August, but not in July. Weather is often funny this way. 

More Light

 Daniel took down some bushes outside of one of our kitchen windows. It already shows that more daylight come in now. I like this. 

Driving Force?

There are times when I wonder what Mommy’s driving force was, whenit comes to this blog. What made her commit so much time and effort to it?

When I write this blog, my prime motive is to honour Mommy, to keep the blog as daily as she made it. She did not have this driving force. Was it just that she liked it so much? I believe she liked the blog more than I do, and I still like it. Well, no matter how well you know your parents, there will still be questions you would like to ask them after they are gone. 

Be that as it may, the main thing nowis that I have my own driving force. This is enough for me.

Gerstuhl Left Us

Just as Gehrstuhl, my dear daughter, wrote in the blog yesterday, she went home today. 

It has been an experience having Gerstuhl back. I love her, but she can be a pawful. 

I hope Gerstuhl is expecting pups. It would be lovely, being a grandmother.

My Last Day

Hello, Gerstuhl here!

It has been fun visiting the Aangenaam household again. However, I am going back home tomorrow. There is no place like home. 

I have had fun, especially with Peanut, but I have grown a little tired of him. Somehow, he is not as attractive as just a few days ago. Mum says this is due to my hormones. I guess they can play a part. 

Broken Telephone

Paula's mobile telephone seems to be broken. It will not charge. A mobile telephone needs charging about once a day. Paula says she must buy a new telephone tomorrow. I am sorry for her. This is an expense one would rather not have. 

Darkness

Autumn is coming. Before Daniel and Morran went to fetch Paula at work around nine in the evening, Daniel lit up lamps. It is now so dark at this time (with the weird daylight savings time) that we need lamps to have light.

I do not mind the dark evenings. Each seaason has its charms. It can be cozy to have darker evenings. 

Japanese Victory in Indy 500

The Indy 500 race in Indianapolis is ranked as one of the top racing competitions in the world, perhaps the single most important race. This hear, Japanese driver Takuma Sato won, for a second time after his 2017 victory. Takuma Satoused to drive in Formula 1, but never achieved much success there, despite some impressive drives. His victories in Indycar, however, prove how skilled he is. He makes me proud for my Japanese heritage.

Celebrations

 Paula celebrated her birthday today. This was the first birthday in three years that she was able to celebrate the way she wanted to. Last year and the year before that, she was a patient at the hospital for different illnesses. Those birthdays, she had to celebrate at the hospital. She is much healthier now. The best thing about this birthday was just this, that she was not at the hospital celebrating it. Life is better for her now. This makes it better for the rest of us in the family, too. It was a good day, today.

Birthday Card

 It is Paula's birthday tomorrow. We got her a birthday card. She received it today, because she wanted to.

It makes me a little uncomfortable that Paula got her card a day in advsnce. If she wants to, I guess it is OK anyway. 

Upcoming Pups?

 Hello, Gerstuhl here!

There are chances I and Peanut will get pups in 63 days or so. This is what the older, more experienced Shibas say. We will see what happens.

Mum says it is very gratifying having pups. I do not know about this, at least not yet. It will be interesting to see.

Rice

There are times when we get leftovers as addition toour dog food. This is usually very tasty. Today, however, we got some rice. It is not that I dislike rice, my Japanese heritage would not allow for that. Still, there are many things more tasty than just rice. I do not complain, it is just that it makes me think of different kinds of leftovers. Meat and fish are the best, I think. We will get this another day.

Quite Boring

Paula was free from work today. It makes sense that she can have days off from work in the middle of the week, when she works in the weekends. 

One would think it would be nice to have the day to spend with Paula. It was far from it. She said she was tired and then proceeded to sleep all day. She hardly did anything else. Even though I like to sleep or rest too, this was quite a boring day.

With days like this, Paula might just as well be at work. This is not fun.

New Features

With time, I get more and more used to the new features and the new look of the blog. One good thing is that there is a button just to press, in order to make a new blog entry. 

There are other features I am not yet comfortable with. I hope I will learn how I can use them. We will have to see.

Having Fun

 Hello, Gerstuhl here!

I am having a lot of fun with Peanut. He is a nice boy. We trash plastic waste together, which is fun. We also play in other ways. 

Mum says Peanut may become her son-in-law. We have to see avout that. 

She Is Back

My dear daughter Gertrud is back with us for a while. She wrote about this yesterday.

It is amazing that my youngest daughter is already old enough to be considered as a mother of pups of her own. Time flies. I love my daughters, but sometimes, I still see them as the small pups that they omce were. It may feel different, omce I see Gertrud’s pups.

I Am Back

Hello, Gerstuhl here!

Today, Paula and Daniel came by. I got to comr with them back to kennel Aangenaam. This is, apparently, because I have started to be in heat. 

It feels good to be back here. I like it here, even though I mostly like it even more at my present home. Nevertheless, a little change now and then is always good.

We are still not sure how long I will be here. This depends upon how long I will be in heat. We will take it from there. 

Sun

 We have had sunny weather for many days now. It is almost as if we have forgotten how to have rain. Well, not quite, but it was a lot of days ago we had rain. It is about time soon. The growth in our garden needs rain. Our well needs rain. We will see when it will come.

Hamburgers

Rumour has it, Paula and Daniel went to a hamburger joint to eat lunch today. None of us dogs got to come. No left overs were brought home. Still, the rumour persists.

I wish I had got to come. I would have enjoyed hamburgers. I would not have made a scene or in any other way made the visit to the hamburger joint hard for Paula and Daniel. This did not happen, though. Perhaps we will never know if the rumours are true.

Barking

 Daniel worked from home today as well. In the afternoon, we annoyed him vy barking a lot. It was not our intention to annoy him, of course, we just wanted to allert him to the many odd sounds outside. Then Nils-Olov stopped by, so we did get a visitor. If it had not been forus dogs barking, Daniel would not have realised so quickly he had a visitor. He must be happy we bark, at least somewhat happy.

Still Working from Home

While Paula was working a day shift, Daniel was at home today and working. He is still able to work from home as much as it suita him and fits with his work. We enjoy this. Even though it is quite boring that Daniel is just sitting at his desk working, it is still much better than if he is away from home, at the office. The more family members at home, the merrier, we think. It makes life easier.

Doing Nothing?

We watched this old, black and white Swedish movieon TV this afternoon, with a story from the 19th century. One poor working man was envious of a woman who owned a farm. He said that if he owned a farm, he would never work. I guess he did not know anything about the responsibilities of owners of farms orother enterprises. The owners often work much harder tham any employee. Perhaps it was this naivete that kept him poor? They say humans are the most intelligent animal, but I am not sure this is true for every human.

Gardening

Paula’s parents, sister, nephew, and niece were here today, helpimg out with some gardening and looking around in the yard and in our buildings. It was nice to have some help. We have a big garden, so it needs quite a lot of gardening.

I would have helped, had I had the time. Totte the cat helped, anyway. This was well done of him.

The Lawn

 The lawn was mowed this Saturday. It needed to be shorter, it had grown tall for way too long. It is easier to walk and runon a well mowed lawn. It also diminishes the risk to get ticks, because ticks climb straws of grass in order to attack innocent mammals. We are lucky to have humans who mow the lawn and who remove the odd tick that we still get. It is soon autumn and the tick season will be over. So will the lawn mowing season, because the lawn give up growing. In this way, autumn is better than summer.

Friday Night

It is Friday night. For dogs, it is the end of a working week as watchers of the house. In the weekend, our humans are at home more of the hours of the day. The weekend is a good time of the week. Friday night is the start of the weekend, thus, we are having a good time. Life is good.

Beavers Won Legal Right to Remain

Fifteen families of beavers have been given legal right to stay at their chosen locations along the Otter River in East Devon. This is in line with a reintroductions of beavers in Britain, a formerly native animal that had been extinct. The beaver dams have been found to enhance other kinds of wildlife and to prevent the risks of downstream flooding. It seems like a situation positive for all. Ilike happy news like this.

Late Night Sausage

This week, I cannot help but writing blog entries about food many times. Paula cooked some sausages late at night. There were enough for all of us to get a snack. Sausages are great food, a great way to serve parts of meat. I liked this late night sausage.

Minced Meat

Is there anything better than minced meat? It is meat, so it is tasty and it is healthy, and it is minced, so it is very easy to eat it. 

This evening, Paula and Daniel served us some minced meat. It was a nice evening in the kitchen, while they cooked food for lunches further on in the week. The minced meat was great. I am happy.

Chocolate

Paula and Daniel had some chocolate tonight. None of us dogs got to taste it. Humans never allow dogs to taste chocolate, they say it is toxic for us.

Mommy had a theory that chocolate is not toxic, but just so tasty that the humans want it for themselves. I am not sure I believe this. There are other things that smells better, like meat and cheese, and our humans often let us taste these things. 

I can live without chocolate, especially since I often get other tasty things to eat. Life is good even though you cannot have everything.

New Interface

The interface for my blog host has changed. I am not sure why, I have yet to discover any significant advantages with the new interface. For now, I will just go with the flow and accept the change. Eventually, I will get used to it.

Hard Day

Paula had a very busy day at work today. We tried to comfort her, when she came back home.