Paula and Daniel went shopping for the New Year celebrations today. This is important. The celebrations involve a lot of good food. This is good. Good food is great. I am looking forward to the celebrations because of all the good food.
Considering the pandemic in 2020, I am sure 2021 will be a better year.
It is late in December and a rainy day. We have had a few days with temperatures below the freezing point, but not really any snow. This seems to be a dull winter, without any snow. We will have to see what happens in January.
It is the second day of Christmas, and we have taken it easy. The days between Christmas Day and New Year are often nice and calm.
In the evening, however, we heard a cracker. Probably the most stupid of traditions is using crackers to make noise around New Year. The background is old superstition that you would scare off evil beings for the new year. Now people just doit to waste money and scare innocent animals. I cannot believe a cracker was fired as early as today. Do people not have better things to do?
I killed a mouse today.
Our cats Malin and Totte kills mice once in a while. I am tired of hearing the praise they get for this, however well deserved, when I can be just as good att killing mice.
It should not matter that the mouse I killed was a toy mouse.
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. It is the day when we celebrate Christmas the most in Sweden. We spent this day cleaning and preparing for Christmas. It feels better to celebrate in a clean house.
I wish all of my readers a very Merry Christmas!
The washing mashine is a good invention. With it, Paula and Daniel cleans dog beds, sheets, plush toys, and their clothes. It did not work properly today, however. There seemed to be something clogging the drain. Daniel incåvestigated and cleaned, and think he took care of it. I sure hope he did. It would be bad if we would have to buy a new washing mashine in order to have clean dog beds et cetera.
We had some sunshine in the middle of the day. Thenit became overcast and we had rain.
This is typical for the December weather this year. It also means that there was no chance for us to see the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn this evening. Daniel would really have wanted to see it, he said. I am not as disappointed as he is, but it was not fun. We sat indoors watching TV instead.
Today, we have all really taken a day off. I have been able to focus most of the day on my favourite passtime: sleeping.
One of the great things about the holidays is that you can take some time off and really relax. I love this. I wish there were more days like this.
There is just half a month left of this year. It is one 24th of the year. It has been a year when the pandemic has been the most important thing. The virus is bad, but vaccines are on its way. We can look forward to a better year in 2021. I believe it will be better.
Paula and Daniel had some glühwein to drink this evening. They do sometimes, around Christmas time.
I do not like glühwein. It is warm, sweet, sticky, and generally weird. Taste differs, however. I recognise Paula and Daniel likes glühwein and let them have it.
The 13 December is celebrated as a feast for Saint Lucia in Sweden. The main reason is not the saint from Sicily in early times of Christianity, but that this was the winter solstice during the 18th century, when celebrations were first held in parts of western Sweden.
I like the Lucia buns with saffron. Special tasty things to eat are the best things about feast days.
Daniel stayed up until really late this Saturday to write Chrstmas greeting cards. He will put them in the mail and hope they will reach the receivers before Christmas. I hope so too.
Most of us dogs sleep in the bed with Paula and Daniel. The cats do too, when they are not outdoors hunting throughout some nights.
There are times when I sleep in the sofa beside the bed, but this is just to get more space.
Tonight, the Chihuahua pup Piffy is allowed to sleep in the bed for the first time. She really likes it. I can understand her. It is in the nature of dogs to wish to be near the rest of the pack, dogs and humans alike, and cats, when you have got them. I am sure this will go well.
Welcome to the bed, Piffy!
It is the anniversary of the passing of the great Swedish scientist Alfred Nobel. He had no children, and gave his fortune to a foundation who give the proceeds out as the Nobel prizes each year. This day is normally the day when the prizes are awarded. This is, however, not the case in this year of the covid-19 pandemic.
Malin the cat says we can all celebrate her name day today, instead. She has a point.
This evening, Paula realised neither she nor Daniel had used any car today. They were both at home all day. I like this. It is unusual that they are both at home all day, especially a weekday. This is the advantage of the pandemic, when Daniel can work from home when Paula is free from work and at home. This is life at its finest.
Gunde is gone now. I loved him. I wish him all the best and I hope to meet him in the next life.
There are times when I wish no loved ones would never pass away. At the same time, we get pups and grandpups. If no old loved ones would leave, there would be no room for new loved ones. This way, you can have more loved ones throughout your life. Perhaps this is how it is meant to be?
There are Aangenaam dogs living Finland. They can celebrate the national holiday of Finland today. Finland is a nice country, a good friend of Sweden, and where dogs are held in high regard. Long live Finland!
We got our cats early this year. They were born one year ago today, as kittens in the same litter.
The cats, black female Malin and striped male Totte, have become good friends of all of us. I really like them, even though they are not dogs. There are differences in how we communicate, but not so large that we cannot get along.
Paula and Daniel gave our cats their names from childrens’ books characters.
Happy birthday, Malin and Totte!
It is now one year since my dear mother Hailey passed away. We all miss her. It might be that Imiss her the most. After all, she was my mother.
I took over the blog on the same day that Mommy passed away. Hopefully, it makes her proud in her heaven. I do believe I have done her justice, even though I think I am not quite as good as Mommy. With more experience, chances are I will get closer. Let us hope so.
We had a debate today on whether you should spell ”count down” or ”countdown”, in the headline of the blog entry for yesterday. I argued that if you are uncertain in English,you should write the two parts of the concept as separate words. Peanut agreed with me. He is from England, so heis good at English. Allof us did not agree, however. English is not always easy.
Daniel got an Advent Calendar from Paula. It has chocolate and marzipan from Anthon Berg in it. Daniel loves this. Both Paula and Daniel refuse to give us dogs chocolate, they say it is unhealthy for us. Apparently, humans has an enzyme in their body to digest chocolate, which dogs do not have. I am still not quite sure if this is the real reason, or if humans just want to keep all chocolate for themselves. Paula does not really like chocolate, though, so this is a reason the story about the enzyme may be correct. I let it go, there are so many other tasty things, anyway.
