Hello, Gerstuhl here!
I am back at kennel Aangenaam. This is where I will get the pups I am expecting to get late in October or so.
It is nice coming back. I was born and raised here, so this is where the best pups are produced. My pups will, thus, be the very best of pups.
Friday afternoons are often great. They are the start of the weekend, when the humans take it easier, and we dogs can do the same.
This Friday afternoon was better than usual. Daniel opened up a package of minced meat and portioned it out among us dogs. This is always great. I wish we could always get minced meat on Friday afternoons.
A hobby of minne is chewing on togs, plasticitet bottles, and other chewy things. This is a nice passtime. It also results in nicely formed stuff.
This evening, Piffy had one of those plastic things I enjoy chewing upon. I waited patiently. As soon as Piffy left the thing, I grabbed it. Life then got more relaxing. Life is good in these instances.
Today I discovered that my blog entry for the day before yesterday was still not published. I do not know why.
I made sure this blog entry was published today. At least, it gave me something to write about for the blog today. There can be some positive things with badly published blog entries anyway.
There is a general election in Sweden next autumn. Daniel was away on a campaign tonight. I think it is too early. Daniel says you can never be too early, people need to be reminded throughout the election cycle. He may be right. I hope he will not be away on campaigns too many times long before the election, nevertheless.
The bad thing about autumn is that it is almost always damp air and wet ground. It rains quite often, it is seldom sunny, and the water does not evaporate as in the summer or freeze as in the winter. It has not been rain all day today, but it has still been wet and damp all around. I do like many things about autumn, but not this dampness and wetness. Life is good anyway.
New evidence have suggested humans were in America as early as 23,000 or 22,000 years ago.
There is no evidence of dogs, however. Dogs were with humans in Eurasia this long ago, so they could easily have been with humans in America as well. In the future, such evidence may emerge. I hope it will.
We still have daylight saving time. This menas that daylight is saved from our morning walks. It is dark. Daniel wears a reflective vest on the outside of his coat. The street lights shine. I rather walk in sunlight than in street light. It will come back for a little while when daylight saving time is removed, then the dark winter mornings are here. I can accept dark mornings in the winter, but it is too early in the year yet. I do not like daylight saving time.
My dear daughter Gertrud was at the veterinärinspektör today for an ultra sound examinationer her tummy. It turnés out that she is pregnant with at least two pups.
For the very first time, I man going to be a grandmother! I am so looking forward to this.
Gunnar is the father of the pups. He is a nice looking guy and a Japanese Show Champion. With my daugher, it will be great pups.
There is a saying that the one who gives, gets the double back. For England, you could say that the one who gives, gets Dublin back. England gave the world the modern democracy, dog breeding, and industrialisation. These are about the most important things ever. Nevertheless, England lost Dublin, when Ireland broke free from the United Kingdom. No matter how good intentions you have, of you are a conqueror, you are always viewed upon as a bad person, and you will not get Dublin back.
After lunch today, I had a little stomach ache. Luckily, I could tell Daniel, and he let me out.
It is good to have so nice humans.
It did not take long for me, then I wanted to come in again. I barked, and was let in.
Apart from this, it was a calm Sunday.
There are too many auto correct functions. When I write a text, I always have to go back to check the words, to make sure auto correct has not changed them into something I did not intend to write. Many people are annoyed with auto correct, so I wonder why the software manufacturers keep including it in their programs. Something is weird about that. I wish they would stop.
There is a federal election in Germany tomorrow. Germany is a neighbour of Sweden, across the sea to the south, and an important trade partner. Our Affenpinscher friend Morran is especially interested in Germany, since her breed comes from Germany. This is like my interest in Japan.
I am not very interested in German politics. Morran and Daniel have discussed the upcoming election, though. Daniel says it would be best if CDU stays in power, even though a shift in power could be a good thing after many years of CDU rule. There are pros and cons, as Daniel says.
Morran comments that the colour of CDU is black, just like her coat and the majority of mine. I do not know if Morran’s argument is valid, but I like it, anyway.
It is Friday night, and we all go to bed, well aware of that tomorrow is Saturday and we can sleep until late in the morning. Saturday mornings are great.
Paula and Daniel have mobile telephones of different brands. They have different chargers. Paula cannot charge ber telephone with Daniel’s charger, and vice versa.
The EU Commission has now proposed new rules requiring all mobile devices to have the same type of chargers. While this may be convenient, some manufacturers say it will impair innovation.
I guess there are merits to both arguments. I would want chargers of the same sort for all devices, anyway.
Everythong is all right. lite is great.
There are days when the apps do not work the way you want. This is one of those days. Once you deal with it, life is great again.
We had some herring for lunch today. It was actually Paula’s and Daniel’s lunch, but I got to taste some. It was very tasty. Our Chihuahua friend Pepe also liked it very much. He has got good taste, the little fellow.
I wish we would have fish more often. Fish is good food.
For the first time since before the pandemic, Daniel has been away to work as a ring steward at a dog show. It was a Dachshund specialty here in Örebro.
Dog shows are good for many many reasons. They give breeders chances to evaluate their breeding and to meet other breeders. Many dogs think they are a fun activity with their humans. They also add to the economy of the clubs who run the shows.
I am glad Daniel could work as a ring steward again. He will do the same tomorrow. It is also good to have him back home, now that it is a show in our own home town. Life gets better when the pandemic does not affect us as much any longer as it once did.
Daniel was at the office for a while. Work from home is still the norm, but he had some things to attend to. Then he came home, pitom other clothes, and left again. This evening, he will be away again.
I like going on walks, but going to and from the centre of the town like Daniel does today is much longer. I am glad I do not have to go here and there like this.
Paula has hurt her right arm a couple of times. She was operated at the hospital the day before yesterday. At first, when she came home, it did not hurt much. She had pain killers to deal with the pain. The real pain has arrived today. This means Paula has had the need for a lot of support. The other dogs and I have been close to Paula and supported her. We all believe she has benefited from this, Paula is included among those who believe this. Life will become better.
It is the 15 September. On this day, sixteen years ago, my mother was born. She was the first pup born of the first litter of kennel Aangenaam. This makes the 15 September the ultimate birthday. It is even better than my own birthday in February. Being the first pup of the first litter of the best breeders there are, must be the ultimate birthday.
Life is good. I have my mother to thank for it.
There are days when we do not get our ordinary dog food. This was one of those days. We got minced meat of pork.
Did you know that meat is derived from the Swedish word ”mat”, which means food. This os because meat is food, amd food is meat. Anything else than meat is not really food.
Paula and Daniel had sushi for dinner. I rarely ask for food when they eat, but sushi is so great that I could not discipline myself. Respectful of my Japanese heritage, Daniel took a piece of sushi with his eating sticks and gave it to me. I took it from the sticks and ate it. Sushi is eaten with sticks, you know.
Since Daniel is a politician, he participates in meetings some evenings. This evening, I took some part of it as well. I sat in Daniel’s lap, in front of the camera in the on line meeting. I made a success, people asked to see more of me and asked about me. Daniel told them a lot. I charmed them with my looks. This was a huge PR success for our breeding. Life is fun when people say such nice things about you.
For the first timein a while, we have had rain. It has been raining almost the whole day. It is nice to stay indoors in this weather. We did go out now and then, but kept it short.
Rain is good for nature and for the water level in our well. Still, it is annoying when you have to be outside in it. I hope for a lot of rain tonight, but no rain at the morning walk tomorrow. We will have to see if this wish of mine come true.
Ten years ago today, my grandmother Sunni wrote her only entry in her daughter (my mother) Hailey’s blog. It was for the ten year anniversary of the terror attacks primarily on the World Trade Center in New York, USA. Grandmother wrote about it, since she remembered that day from when she lived in the USA in the early years of her life. Her humans had been very upset, which also affected all of her dogs.
Grandmother Sunni is not with us anymore. Dogs very rarely live for up to twenty years. The attacks on the ninth of September 2001 are remembered by many humans, but not by dogs. Still, we accompany our humans in commemorating it today.
These attacks are often referred to as ”nine eleven”, after the American way of saying dates. This is the reason for my headline today.
Paula and Daniel tookit easy tonight. They shared a frozen pizza for dinner, heated in the oven. (I could have given you the name of the pizza manufacturer, but would not get any revenue for the commercial value of the fact that I would mention it, so I do not.) I got to taste some. While I have tasted better pizzas, frozenpizzas are comparatively cheap and this was quite tasty for the cost of buying it. I liked it. We could have frozen pizza more often, if I were to decide.
It can be a little annoying when you run into an interesting piece of news a while after its publication. This happened to me today, when I raninto this interesting piece about the inheritance of dogs’ coat colours. Scientists have unraveled how coat colours are inherited and can trace one aspect back to relatives to modern wolves two million years ago.
It is not a short article, but far from long. I recommend that you read it.
It is twenty hears ago to the day today, that Paula and Daniel married each other. This was long before I was born,of course. We have celebrated the anniversary today, however, and we have had fun.
It is a good thing Paula and Daniel found each other. I would not be, ifit had not been for them. This can be said about a lot of other dogs as well. We are all grateful for this.
Congratulations, Paula and Daniel!
My daughter Gertrud is named for Paula’s mother Gertrud. While my daughter had her birthday yesterday, Paula’s mother has her today.
Paula and Daniel went to Paula’s parents’ this evening to celebrate Paula’s mother. They brought greetings from allof us dogs and cats.
Birthday celebrations are always fun, but we had fun at home as well.
My last litter ofpups were bornon this date. It was Gerstuhl, who sometimes writes in this blog, and Harry, who moved to Upsala. Gerstuhl was here for two weeks until yesterday, but left before we had the chance to celebrate her birthday. She has a good life. I hope Harry has as well.
Happy birthday, my dear pups Gertrud and Harry. To me, you will always be pups.
Hello, Gerstuhl here!
It is time for me to go home to Solna again. My humans come and pick me up today.
This has been a good time at my breeders’ place. I have come to be friends with Gunnar. He is a somewhat grumpy Shiba male, but he does have his heart in the right place.
I might come back later in the autumn. This is if I am expecting pups, in which case I will get them here at my breeders’. I hope it will be so, it seems so interesting to be a mother of pups.
The Prime Minister of Japan, Yohsihide Suga, has announced that he will resign. He has just been PM for about a year, but his approval points has gone down substantially. The ruling LDP will certainly fill the post of PM with someone else from their ranks. It will be interesting to see who may get the job.
Hello, Gerstuhl here!
It is somewhat disturbing that I am not in heat anymore. My darling Gunnar is less nice to me now. I still like him, but he treats me like just another dog who annoys him. Gunnar is a loner by heart. While I understand this view of life, I still think he could be a little nicer to me. After all, he was so nice while I was still in heat. Male dogs are weird in this way, they should be able to be civil without me being in heat. Oh, well, life is nice, anyway.
The 1970’s Swedish super pop band ABBA will release new music. This is huge, according to Paula and Daniel.
I do not really care. Music is not a big thing in the ears of a dog.
Hello, Gerstuhl here!
It is the last day of August. This is the last day of summer. It is, however, not the last day with my darling Gunnar. I have lived with him for a while now. He is a very nice fellow.
It has come to my knowledge that my humans will come get me this Sunday. I love them, butin a different way than I love Gunnar. I look forward to seeing them again, but I will miss Gunnar. Gunnar has told me he will miss me as well. We will certainly see each other in the future. Until then, we have some days until Sunday is here.
Itis the 31 of August. By the calendar,it is the last day of summer. It has been a sunny and fairly warm day. I have liked it and I believe this weather will continue for a couple of days. Summer may very well continue into September, if the weather is right. I like autumn too, but it does not have to start yet.
At the Belgian Grand Prix in Formula 1 yesterday, it was so heavy rainfall that there was no real race. The cars went around the lap twice, after the safety car, then the race was red flagged and discontinued.
We have had much rain in August, but far from the kind of heavy rainfall as they had in Spa in Belgium. I am glad we have not.
The Formula 1 organisation has now decided to review the rules, to see if it will be possible to avoid such events as yesterday. We will have to see what rule changes may come about.
A radio host in Florida who made a name of himself criticising vaccines got sick with covid-19 three weeks ago. He has now died. He even used to call himself Mr Anti-Vax.
I guess this man’s next of kin would now have wanted that he had vaccinated himself against covid-19.
Sometimes, as it is often said, karma is a bitch.
Hello, Gerstuhl here!
I have been back at my breeders’ for almost a week. It has been a week of constant rain. If there has not been rain falling from the sky, rain has still been left on the ground and in the trees. It is very humid and cold.
This is not the place I remember. It used to be better weather here, if I remember correctly. Prehaps I am just nostalgic. I do remember days with good weather, however. Will there be any of those this time around when I am here? I do hope so.
Nevertheless, life is good here together with my new friend Gunnar. We have really hit it off. This is great.
Sometimes, you wonder avout the great questions in life. The questions like: why are we here, what is the purpose of it all, why are treats so tasty? Then you just settle with the fact that life is full of wonders.
We have got wifi at home. Thisis usually a great means to communicate with the big world out there. Sometimes, however, it does not really work. I cannot see any pattern for when it works or not. It works well most of the time, but then you can just lose the connection, for no apparent reason. We have to be glad for all the time it works, but lesser downtime would be even better. It works when I upload this post, anyway. This is good.
Yesterday was Paula’s birthday, but I did not write about itin the blog. This made some readers to ask why. It is a very simple reason: Paula celebrated a week ago, when her parents, sister, nephew, and niece were here on a crayfish party. We did not forget the birthday yesterday, but it was just a little extra celebration between Paula, Daniel, and us dogs. Now life is back to normal again.
Hello, Gerstuhl here!
This is my third day back at the place where I was born, Aangenaam breeders. I have come to know a very handsome dog called Gunnar. He is not the friendliest dog I have met, but once we got to know eachother, we have gotten along fantasticly great.
It is nice to be able to come home once in a while. I miss the humans I live with, but when I am with them, I miss this place. Life is good, when you can go back to both.
Now and then, unknown numbers dial your number on the telephone and try to get a call through to you. I have learned not to nswer such calls.
Daniel got calls from unknown numbers on two different occasions today. He dismissed both. I am glad he did, since this is what you are supposed to do. There are too many weird people out there, trying to contact you through unknown numbers.
Life would be better without calls from unknown numbers.
Daniel took his bicycle to the office today. The weather was promising, with sunshine and all. Once he was done and would ride home again, the sky opened up for a heavy rainfall. When Daniel came home, he was wet from head to toe. He hurried to change shirts, then he was happy again.
I am glad I did not have to go out in the pouring rain. Water is all rightto drink, but I am not fond of it falling on me from the sky. Rain is good for al, the growing things and fills up our well. Still, I want water in some instances, but not all.
I am glad I could stay indoors throughout the rain today.
For various reasons, we got food very late in the evening today. This made me more hungry than usual, but it also made the food taste a little better, once we got the food. I do not blame our humans, they did give us food, like they always do. It is just that some days, the food comes a little late. I do not mind.
It was raining heavily all morning. It was like a shower of rain all the morning walk. Luckily, we all agreed to cut the walk short.
Later in the day, the rain was over. Then we could stay out for a longer time, making up for the shorter morning walk. It turned out good, regardless of all the rain in the morning. It feels good when everyone is in on a decision, this time to cut the walk short, and it turns out to be a good choice.
Paula was supposed to work at the court of law today. She got up early in the morning, only to read a text message that the proceedings were cancelled and her services not needed anymore. This was a great disappointment. I can understand this. It is like when this blog belonged to my late mother, I was supposed to write the daily entry, but she beat me to it. Life can be disappointing when you have to do something you do not want to do, but also when you want to do something, but your chance to do thisis cancelled. I feel sorry for Paula.
We had a crayfish party today. This is a Swedish specialty that most humans in Sweden love.
The party involved Paula, Daniel, and Paula’s parents, sister, nephew, and niece. These are all nice people. It was an early birthday celebration for Paula, because her nephew and niece will be with their father next weekend and could not celebrate at that time.
Peppe made friends with everybody.
It is difficukt to know what to do avout a day like this. We had rain in the morning, so Daniel put on a coat when we would take a walk. During the walk, we didnot experience a drop of rain. It was sunny weather and Daniel felt the coat made him too warm. In the afternoon, we had rain again. Daniel had had plans tomow the lawn, but he could not do this when the grass was so damp. I am not sure if he was more sad than relieved over this. Changing weather conditions are funny, in a way. As long as we stay indoors, however, we do not need to care much.
We got another Chihuahua friend today. Sir Paddington is a black and tan Chihuahua. This must be the very best colour combination of a Chihuahua.
We had some smörgåstårta today. Thisis a Swedish mix between a sandwich and a cake, and it is really tasty. It is Paula’s favourite food. I guess it is among my favourites, too, though I like pure meat better.
If you have never had smörgåstårta, you should. It is like a combinationof the best dishes there are (except for pure meat). Try it, you will like it!
Daniel started working again today, after a few weeks of vacation. It have been good weeks for all of us. Even though Daniel works a lot from home, he is more available for us whenhe is not working. We understand that Daniel needs to work to earn money, money is necessary to buy food and treats. It is still a nice thing when Daniel does not have to work, but can devote more time to us dogs. Well, life is good anyway.
The small dogs went with Paula and Daniel to the Ånnaboda Lake today. They got to swim in the lake. In the summer, it is warm enough to do this.
I am glad I got to stay at home. Swimming is nothing I fancy.
It is late summer now. When we are in August, summer is soon over. In September, it will definitely be too cold to swim. We take care of the last days of summer, but I like that I do not need to swim.
It is late in the summer and thunder and rain have visited us. Thunder is rather nice. It is a good thing that none of us who live here now are afraid of thunder.
Daniel often says that autumn is his favourite season. In some ways, I agree. There are fewer insects flying around and ticks are disappearing. Autumn is soon here. This is good. I wish the flying insects and ticks would always be where they are by late autumn.
A dog charity in England have had dogs in their care create paintings. The paintings are then sold to raise money for the charity.
This is a good initiative, I believe. It is always a good thing to give money to a dog charity. If you get a dog’s painting in return, it is a plus for all parties.
I want to see news on more initiatives like this.
The Swedish equestrian team won the gold in the team competition today. One of the horses was All In, for whom Peanut has received his pedigree name. We are all happy for this third Swedish gold of these Olympic Games. This must surely be the foremost Swedish sport victory of the year, despite the other Olympic gold medals, world championship gold medals in orienteering and skating. It would only be surpassed by an Olympic gold in a dog sport like agility. However, alas, there are still no Olympic competitions in dog sports. As long as thisis the case, equestrian sports may be the foremost sports. Go, All In!
It was the final in the ladies’ Olympic tournament in football, Sweden versus Canada. Sweden started out great, but made a less good second half. It went on through the additional time to penalty shots. Some team needs to win. Unfortunately, the Canadians were best at the penalty shots. They won the gold. Over all, the Swedish team has done a great tournament, but it did not end well enough. We should be happy for another silver, nevertheless.
Hello, Piffy here again!
This afternoon, Paula and Daniel took me and Viola to the Ånnaboda lake. We had to swim a bit. It was quite fun for a little while, but I prefer life on terra firma. It was a nice outing, anyway.
Peanut was pleased with the equestrian results in the Olympic Games. A Briton won the gold, Peanut is from Britain. A Swede won the silver, with the horse All In, for whom Peanut has got his name. It was a grand slam of sorts for Peanut.
Hello, Piffy here!
Morran, Viola, and I got to go with Paula and Daniel to the Ice Cream Temple. It is an ice cream cafe in a park about a kilometre away from our house. Paula and Daniel had someice cream, we were there for fun. It was nice to do something other than the usual stuff. I can live without ice cream.
We sat up until late this night. It became too late for me to write a blog entry for the second of August. I always strive to write a blog entry every day, as it is a daily blog, but it does not work every day. I hope you like my blog anyway.
August is here, the last of the summer months. It is not as warm outside, as it was many days in July. We will have to see how the weather will be in August. I guess it will be less warm. Autumn is closing in on us.
Daniel use to say that autumnis his favourite season. I do not know if I have a favourite season. Each season has its pros and cons. We still have summer for another month, though, which is great.
Hello, Piffy here!
This is the first day I can celebrate my birthday. I was born exactly one year ago today.
We celebrated with the Swedish specialty smörgåstårta. If you have not yet tested it, you have a great treat to look forward to. Smörgåstårta is like the greatest sandwich you can imagine, upgraded to a cake. It is more than great.
I thank all of my friends for their congratulations.
This afternoon, we watched the quarter final of the ladies’ Olympic football tournament. Sweden played Japan. Since all of us Shibas usually root for Japan, but also forour home country Sweden, this called for a heated debate. Peanut, who counts England as his homeland, where he was born, decided to root for Japan. Laila, our Poodle friend who was born in Japan, sided with Peanut. Javier and I rooted for Sweden.
Eventually, Sweden won, 3-1 (1-1). None of us were deeply disappointed.
Peanut was, however. disappointed that Australia won her quarter final versus Great Britain. As an English dog, he rooted for the British team. For him, it was a small comfort that Australia has the same Queen as Britain has. It is still a sovereign country, as he pointed out, not a British colony or dominion anymore. Nevertheless, this result will call for all of us to root for Sweden in the semi fonal versus Australia, which is not a bad thing.
Hello, Viola here!
I am one of the two Chihuahuas who are so close friends with Polly, that we are allowed to write entries in her blog. The other one is Piffy,
Piffy and I ran around in the living room this afternoon, barking at each other, for fun. Polly told us to stop. She tried to take a nap, but we disturbed her. She told me that if I could just calm down, I could write about it in the blog. This was a nice offer, so I did calm down. I believe Polly got herself a nice nap. This was a good trade.
Piffy realised that I had misspelled a few words. I have now corrected them. I think I am excused, since I am still a pup, but it is better to write correctly.
There were fewer bils to pay this month than usually, Daniel said today. While I do not really understand the concept of paying bills, I know that the fewer the bills there are, the better it is. There is more money for dog food and treats, if there are fewer bills to pay. This is good. Life is good.
We are having a late night, now that neither Daniel nor Paula are working days. Paula just said we can have an even longer night up, because it is just eleven o’clock. I like this. It is nice when we all are gathered in the livning room and just hang around. This is life as it should ideally be all the time. Life is good.
There was bad connection for a while today. This was because it was thunder and lightning outside. The bad weather affected our Internet connection in a bad way.
It was actually quite funny. The host of the Swedish Olympic Games broadcasts on TV said that there would be bad weather in Tokyo. Immediately after she said this, we heard the first
In the Olympic Games, Sweden beat Japan in the gentlemen’s handball. I am not so ure what to think of this. I am born and raised in Sweden, but I am of a Japanese dog breed.
It would have been nice, if Sweden would win against Japan in the final game. Then Sweden would get the gold medal and Japan the silver medal. In the beginning of the tournament it is another matter. I am ambivalent. What should I think? What do you think?
Paula and Daniel have beds that can be elevated into different positions by a remote controlled electric motor. This is cool.
The remote control to Daniel’s bed has been broken for a while. He got a new one the day before yesterday, but it did not work. He went back to the store to complain today. It turned out the new remote control must be initiated to the bed in a certain manner, and nobody had told Daniel or Paula about this. When Daniel came back home again, he tried to do what he had been taught. At first, it did not work, but after some tinkering and experimentation, it did. Now the bed works the way it should again. We are all happy for this.
The Olympic Games in Tokyo started today.
Whileit isin Tokyo, Japan, home of the Shiba breed,you have to take it seriously. At the same time, there are no dog competitions on the Olympic Games schedule. This makes the Games less serious. How can you claim that Games of all nations and all sports are there, when no dog sports are there? It is ridiculous.
Well, dog shows will soon start again.
Ten years ago today, a terrorist killed 77 people in Oslo and on Utøya, Norway. It was a Norwegian who was angry with the established political parties and was weird enough to commit mass murder because of it.
We watch a direct broadcast from Oslo, commemorating the victims and what happened. It feels important.
I wonder how many dogs lost humans that day.
For Sweden, the Olympic Games in Tokyo started today with the ladies' football tournament. Sweden best the favourite USA, 3-0. We are happy for the victory.
The official opening is yet to come. The main things is that it is in Tokyo. I like to see many views from there.
It can be cozy to lie in cramped quarters sometimes. This evening, I crawled in under the sofa in our living room. This was also a place where noone else came, so I was not disturbed, but they were close by in the living room, some on top of the sofa.
The down side with lying under the sofa, was that I had to struggle for a while to come out from under there, when it was time to go out for the evening. It was worth it, though. I will get in there again, when I feel like it.
Daniel is happy that his football club Djurgården won today, in the Swedish football league, versus Sleipner from Uppsala, 5-1. This is a good victory, but it is still not enough for winning the Swedish Championship. We hope, for Daniel's sake, that Djurgården wins the Championship.
Paula roots for Örebro, but they have played so badly this year they have no chance of winning.
Paula’s parents invited Paula and Daniel to a barbecue this afternoon. I wish I could have come. Grilled food is so tasty. It is not just the cooking method itself,it is also that grilled food is often nice meat.
I do get enough to eat. It is just that human food is often more exciting than dog food. Humans usually eat different things each day, while we dogs often get the same food every day. Ilike our dog food, but it could be better if we got different food more often. Grilled meat would be great.
The Appelate Court of Scania and Blekinge has sentenced a man to several years in prison (judgment 14 July 2021 in case B 1895-21) for possession of narcotics.
The narcotics was detected by a dog working for the Customs. Yet another time, thus, dogs prove to be of great use for humans. There just is no better way to detect drugs than with the help of a dog’s nose.
Daniel's summer vacation started this afternoon. We will have more of him in the coming weeks. This is nice.
Once in a while, Paula and Daniel have smörgåstårta for dinner. This is a great Swedish dish, a mix between a sandwich and a cake, but better.
Tonight, it was time for smörgåstårta again. I do not think they celebrated anything in particular, but I liked it anyway. You do not have to celebrate inorder to have smörgåstårta, even though people often do. I got to taste a piece, it was just the way I liked it.
I wissh we had smörgåstårta more often.
It is hot weather these days. As it is in the middle of July, this is not surprising.
We are lucky our house keeps the temperature indoors down. Houses are not just great for staying dryin the rain and warmin the winter, they are also good for staying cold in the hot summer days. This makes me happy.
We have had a nice day today. Nothing special happened at home. In the evening, the smaller dogs went with Daniel and Paula to have dinner with Paula’s sister. When they got home again, we watched a new episode of the Midsommer Murders. The episode was bad, not allmurders were explained, but it still had that cozy rural English feeling that you expect from the series. Ove all, it was a great day.
There were arguments and discord between Paula and Daniel tonight. There sometimes is. You cannot always be friends. Still, I would want Paula and Daniel to be friends all the time. It would be for the best, not just for them, but for all of us dogs as well. I take my part of the responsibility to make this a peaceful and respectful home. I wish our humans would sometimes do more of the same.
Italy won the final of the Euro 2020 in football on penalties.
Peanut is very disappointed, English as he is. Nevertheless, Italy was worthy winners.
Dogs are not only writing blogs, as I am. The Welsh Corgi Pembrokes who live with the Queen of the United Kingdom have written letters to dogs of the Queen's staff, and have received replys. For those of little faith, it is the Queen and her staff who write the letters. I know what I believe.
In the World Championship in Orienteering, Sweden won gold today in the relay for both ladies and gentlemen.
Orienteering is a great sport. It is about finding your way through the terrain with a map and a compass. Dogs would not need the map or the compass, but humans do. It is exciting to watch the competitions on TV. It is great that Swedes are the best at it.
Peanut is celebrating tonight. His country of birth, England, won the semi final versus Denmark in the Euro 2020.
Most of us rooted for England, but Paula would have wanted Denmark to win. It is another Scandinavian country and a long time friend of Sweden, so I understand this. Daniel said he has always had England as his second favourite in football, after Sweden, and he did not change his view tonight. He also pointed out that he wants Sweden to be the generally best football team among the Nordic countries, which he would have less proof of, had Denmark went on to the final.
It was a good game. Denmark did it well, but England did it better and were worthy winners. Denmark can be proud of the semi final.
In the first semi final, Italy and Spain played evenly. It had to be decided on penalties. Eventually, Italy won.
Javier rooted for Spain, because his father was from Spain. The Chihuahuas rooted for Italy, because they have relatives there. Personally, I had no favourite. When analysing the whole tournament, Italy has been better than Spain and deserve the place in the final on Sunday.
The Italians will meet England or Denmark. I will root on either of the latter.
There was a documentary on TV tonight about the origin amd behaviour of dogs. While it was well made, amd would have been interesting for someone who would not know much, it did not tell me any news.
I guess this is a downside of being interested in science about digs – Iusually already know what is toldin documentaries and articles. I am still glad it was aired, because others may have learned a lot.
My maternal grandmother Sunni always celebrated the fourth of July. She was born and raised in America and this is the national holiday of America.
Sometimes, I wish I knew more about America, and could visit it. According to my grandmother, for as long as she lived, it was a great country. She liked Sweden and her life here as well, but she loved America. For my part, I have lived my whole life in the same country. It seems more exciting to move fromone country to another. It may be too late now. I can still celebrate grandmother’s country. Go, America!
England beat Ukraine in the Euro 2020 quarter final tonight, 4-0.
If Sweden would have won against Ukraine last Tuesday, Sweden would not have fared better. It will be difficult for Denmark to win the semi final versus England.
We will see what happens. This European Championship has had many surprises. This adds to the excitement and is good. I would still like to get a little more forseeabiloty, I think, but perhaps not.
In the Euro 2020, we have reached the quarter finals. I was disappointed that Italy won versus Belgium. I had a great grandfather from Belgium, so I would have wanted the Belgians to win. You cannot have it all, though.
There may be a new wave of covid-19 in Europe, the World Health Organisation warns.
While covid-19 does not inflict disease in dogs, as far as I know, it still affects us, if our humans get the disease. I hope the increased vaccinations will help. People need to continue to keep social distance, at least to some degree. We do not need more dogs who lose humans to covid-19.
