Daniel was at a meeting with the political party heis a member of. This was supposed to be a start of the election campaign. There is a general election this September.
I do not know that much about human politics. It does sound good, when Daniel explains the politics he stands for. I hope he will do well, not least for his sake. We will have to see what happens.
It is Sunday, and we do not do anything special. How can you be inspired to write anything in a daily blog, when nothing special happens during the day.
The war in Ukraine is still going on. Russia advances, but apparently not as easy as the Russian government would have though. Appart from this, nothing much can be said about this war.
Paula's father completed the open track at Vasaloppet, 90 km cross country skiing, today. This was good, but nothing that I experienced.
There are times when I wish my life would be a little more exciting. Lazy days are good once in a while, but I did not feel like it today. I hope tomorrow will be a better day.
It was the last of four quarter finals tonight in the Swedish qualification round for the European Song Contest. There has not been any great songs this year, but some many grow on me. We have to wait and see in the final in two weeks.
As always, I miss songs that has any reference to dogs.
Paula and Daniel went to Brevens Bruk tonight. This is a small village within the borders of Örebro commune, but quite a way away. Kenzo, who was born here, lives there. Paula and Daniel did not go there to see him, but his humans, and to participate in a quiz at a restaurant in Brevens Bruk. They came back home happy, because their team had won and they had had a great time. It was fun hearing about it. It was also nice to hear that they had good news about Kenzo, who is greatly liked by his family and neighbourhood. This was a good start of the weekend.
Russia has invaded Ukraine. I have tried to understand why, but the only real reasons I can see is that the Russian government wants to expand its territory. This has been cause of war many tines throughout human history, but is usually not recognised as a legitimate cause these days. However, might trumps right.
I mostly hope the dogs in the invaded areas survive and will not be injuried.
Auction house Christie's in London has an auction of meteorites every year. This year, one of the additional items is a dog shed from Costa Rica, which was hit by a meteorite in 2019. Luckily, the dog was not hit and is in good health.
Apparently, meteorites can go for a lot of money. This particular dog shed is also expected to yield a substantial amount of money. It is almost so that I wish a meteorite would fall down outside our house, just as long as it does not cause any substantial damage on our property. On the other paw, I do not really want to wish for something that might just as well cause damage or injure someone. Life is quite exciting enough anyway.
When we come back home from the morning walk, Daniel always takes the morning news paper from our mailbox. There was no news paper in the mailbox this morning, however.
We researched this and got to know from the news paper company that they had general troubles distributing the news papers today. This was due to the heavy snowfall yesterday and the slippery roads today.
The news paper arrived later in the morning. It was not like this was old news, but it felt wrong not tohave it for breakfast.
The day turned out fine, nevertheless.
We have received more snow today than earlier this winter combined, I believe. It is more than a decimetre of snow on the ground. This makes me want to be a playful puppy again!
The weather has been strange this winter. It has varied from very cold to very mild. Snow has come, gone, come again, gone again. We will have to see how long this layer of snow will last.
I hope the summer weather will be more steady.
Daniel sat down by his computer this afternoon and put in some hours for work. He has a flexible work schedule, which means he can work less than eight hours some days and more other days. This week, he had worked less than the ordinary time, so he put in the remaining hours this Sunday. While Sunday is a day of rest, I could sense that Daniel could rest more easily when he had done those hours of work. It is a good thing he could do this from home.
Not that I want to boast, but today I turn twelve years old. Two of my litters were born on the 15 February and the 17 February, respectively. It is a good month to be born. A pup grows up in spring and summer.
We celebrated with minced meat. This is one of my favourites, so it added to the greatness of the day.
Today is the birthday of my daughter Soya, Aangenaam Queen Kalla. She was born during the Olympic Games eight years ago, which gave us inspiration for her name.
Daniel spent the day on the City Council. This means he could not follow the news from the Olympic Games, even though he was at home and participated on a video link.
We told Daniel the Swedish ladies’ relay biathlon team had won the gold. This was a great feat and we liked it a lot.
Later, we could also tell Daniel that the Swedish gents had won the quarter final in ice hockey versus Canada, 2-0. It is always something special to win against the country where ice hockey had its origin.
This turns out to be good Olympic Games for Sweden.
Nine years ago today, I gave birth to my first litter of pups, the boy Lunar Shore and the girl Lunar Mare. All of my litters where great experiences, but the first is always special.
Happy birthday, my beloved pups!
It is Valentine’s day, a day when love is celebrated.
For my part, I have already had my Valentines. They have given me pups. This is many years ago now. I let the younger dogs celebrate Valentine, if they want to. Love is great, but now my love is a friendship love for my humans, the other dogs, and the cats.
I hope you all have a nice Valentine’s day!
Sundays are often nice days of rest. Today, however, I would have liked to do something more, like a longer walk. It was not exactly great weather for a walk, but I am not picky. I hope it will be a better day tomorrow.
We had another rainy day today. It was a lazy Saturday, but the most special thing was that it was a day in February with a few degrees above the freezing point and rain, not snow.
In the Olympic Games, the Swedish curling ladies lost a game to China. This was an effort of China, which is much lower ranked in curling than Sweden. As a Swedish patriot, and because I dislike that China is a dictatorship and a country where dogs are often mistreated, I would have liked Sweden to win. In sports, however, no results are sure from the start, which is a great part of the charm. I still think Sweden has a better chance at medals than China.
In the Olympic Games, the Swedish skater Nils van der Poel won gold on 10,000 metres today. He won gold on 5,000 metres last weekend. He must be the foremost Swedish participant of these Olympic Games. I have a hard time to imagine who could beat him to become the Swedish athlete of the year.
Scientists in the UK claim to have made a major breakthrough in constructing a fusion power plant.
Fusion power is what powers the stars. It is when hydrogen atoms are smashed together to produce helium and energy. It would be clean and efficient, but the construction of a fusion reactor has still not been made. It has proved difficult, even for bright humans. I hope the latest thing really is a breakthrough.
A neighbour came by us in the afternoon. He asked if we missed a dog. Daniel told him we did not, but went out to see what it was about.
It turned out that a woman had walked her dog in the forrest nearby, but the dog had been scared of a loud noise and run away. With the help of the number plate of the woman’s car, our neighbour could get help from the police to identify her and call her family. Soon afterwards, the woman came back from the forrest. The dog had run home and was safe. Everything turned out well.
If a dog run away, it is nice to hear the dog come back home safe and sound. This was better news than another Swedish gold in the ongoing Olympic Games.
In the northern parts of Scandinavia, the Sami people are indigenouos. They are citizens of Sweden, Norway, Finland, or Russia, but share a Fenno-Ugric language and a common history. They celebrate their national holiday today. Congratulations to them for this! May they and their dogs have a nice day.
In the middle of the day, Piffy got to get out on a walk with Paula and Daniel. They were gone for a long time. I would have liked to come along, I like to go on walks, especially in beautiful, sunny weather as we had today. Piffy was lucky this time. I hope I can have that kind of luck next time. Other than this, it has been a good day.
The 2022 Winter Olympic Games have started. So far, I have not watched it. I wish the Swedish and Japanese athletes well. The bad thing is that the Games are hosted by China, a communistic dictatorship where they are evil against dogs. I do not like China, it should not have been allowed to host Olympic Games. We will have to see whether I watch anything, or keep up my boycott. There are other things to do.
Apparently, I gorgon to write anything in my blog yesterday. I cannot remember what happened than made me forget. This must be better. A daily blog is supposed to be daily.
Stay tuned, the blog will continue to be, at least mostly, daily.
We got a postcard from Gothenburg today. It was from Daniel’s brother Elias and his family, with their new address. They have moved to Gothenburg. Now they live in south central Gothenburg. This is fairly close to Gothia Towers, where there usually is a big dog show in early January. It must feel good to have so close to a huge annual dog show. Our closest annual dog show is in Askersund, 50 kilometres from here.
We hope Elias and his family will be comfortable with their new place of living.
We had temperatures below the freezing point today. Snow started to fall in the morning. It soon stopped, however. We did not even get a level layer of snow, just a few snowflakes like dots on the ground.
It is 1 February and winter should continue for at least another month. If so, I want snow. What is the use of cold days, when there is no snow on the ground? We will have to see what happens.
