There are new rules on how to win Oscar awards for movies. You now have to have diversity on and off screen in order to be eligible for awards.
I guess the mostly historically correct film Patton, about white men who fought the Nazis in the Second World War, would now be ineligible for Oscars. It won the Oscar for best film, and several more Oscars, in 1971.
It is nineteen years ago today that Paula and Daniel got married. We celebrated them with style. This is one of the most important anniversaries for all of us dogs. If it were not for the marriage of Paula and Daniel, who knows what would have happened tous? Who knows if I would have even existed? I love Paula and Daniel! Congratulations on your day!
It is Paula’s mother Gertrud’s birthday today. She is the one whose name my daughter little Gertrud got. Paula and Daniel was there to celebrate yesterday. I would have liked to come, but I was busy. I heard the celebration was a success, I hope the true birthday was as well.
Hello, Gerstuhl here!
It is my birthday today. I turn three years old. It has been some great thre years so far. Since I live a good life, I believe the next three years and many more will also be great.
I had a nice birthday.
Sweden lost to France in the Nations League in football, on home turf, 0-1. It was close, but a lost game is still lost. France is the reigning world champions, so it is not really shameful. It is still a result we cannot be happy about. Sweden will hopefully do better in coming games.
Daniel went outside to chop wood for a while this afternoon. Not fun for us, who were left indoors, but good preparations for the cold days of winter. When winter is here, our humans sometimes light fires to make the house warmer and cozier. This is one of the great things about having humans: their control of fire. Winter will be good.
Paula and Daniel came home this evening after running some errands. Paula was very happy about a new bed she said they have bought. They did not bring the bed home, though.
The new bed is due to arrive next month. I believe in it when I see it. A new bed may be nice, but just talk about it does not really convince me. I want to try it out, to rest in it, before I am sure it is here and that it is a good purchase. We will have to see when it arrives.
There are days when nothing special happens. This is one of those days. It is Thursday, normally a working day. Paula was free from work today, however, and Daniel was working from home. Due to the pandemic, it is not odd that he sits at home, while at work. It is nothing special. There you have it, a blog entry about nothing special. I believe I can have something more interesting to write about tomorrow.
India has banned over a hundred Chinese apps over security concerns. Even though these are not banned in Sweden or the EU, this is a strong signal you have to be very careful before ever using them. I would advice against it. China is a dictatorship and they have little concern for the wellbeing of dogs or humans. We should not support anything from China.
Our Toy Poodle friend Laila has problems with her right ear. Dirt often accumulates in it, and Paula and Daniel have to clean it for her. We are lucky to have our humans, who do this. Even though Laila is uncomfortable when her ear is cleaned, she feels much better afterwards.
I am lucky to be a Shiba. Our standing ears have much lower risk of getting in the kind of trouble that Laila’s right ear has.
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.
Daniel took down some bushes outside of one of our kitchen windows. It already shows that more daylight come in now. I like this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
