Flowers and fun

Past few weeks we have been super busy, spending most of our time having fun and being outisde. Working like crazy at the project and building the little paradise we want. Magnus is leaving on the day that is Maja's birthsday so he wanted to spoil her a bit and we drove to a place she holds sacred hihi, but before we went there we drove to the vets for some supplies (booo ear cleaning solution), food and cookies. I was shaking when I saw where we were going but once we arrived and Maja went in without me, I just needed to go and join her, no matter how afraid I was. So I pulled Mags and he took us into the clinic where Maja was, man oh man was I happy to see her hehe. We gathered all the stuff she bought and drove out of town, to a place I was once before but Mags hasn't seen yet. A place where horses are running outside and the smell of flowers is intoxicating. Maja's favorite flower nursery called Valner.

All the halls inside are filled with tables of pretty flowers

It is quite a big place and such friendly people, dogs are allowed in but my owners don't want to take me inside since my tail is really happy and wiggly all the time, wouldn't want to smack something down or break any flowers haha. Wise owners. So our friend was watching me while my owners were inside admiring the place and making up plans which flowers to buy and in which color. Dahlias, begonias, daisies, so many pretty flowers to chose from, so we got those and plenty more of diffirent varieties, but the smell of them, mmmm I had to nibble on a carnation which was closest to me haha. We ended up buying so many flowers we couldn't fit them in the car haha, but we somehow managed and started driving back to town and to the vineyards. The weather wasn't on our side, it was raining and cold, really not pleasant. Once we arrived and Maja's parents saw all the boxes with colored flowers they just stood in awe, their beauty was overwhelming. Maja kept looking at our new flowers and hoping the rain would stop, so she could atleast plant one haha. They also bought her mom a beautiful mini sunflower in a pot, it's very symbolic to her and Maja, she gets one every year. But this sunflower is supposed to be in a pot and not outside since it's so gentile. But the rest of us  have to wait for ours to grow a little bigger, we planted to many down at our little park. This year is going to be very colorful at the project, looks like the long winter did all the plants really good, well all apart from begonias, which were crazy low price and well haha my owners went crazy and bought so many, but how can one not, they are simple majestic. The non stop series as the picture below shows are a must have, so we got these beauties to grow in our shade also.

Hopefully tomorrow the sun will show itself a little and we can take some pictures of the plants and the newly developed area at our zen project,  it is coming along so fast, even with Maja being ill for a week or so, we managed to also complete almost all the construction needed below the lowest park is built up. And the fruits and vegetables are just going crazy, what on earth are we going to do with all these paprikas while Mags is away is beyond me haha. But our potatos!!! Our potatos are just exploding, no bugs either, since we planted those smelly plants around them. They are so huge already and starting to bloom, soon we will be eating our baby potatos with butter and salt and just be happy. Yum yum, cannot wait! But now, I am going to get the rest I need to be super energic tomorrow when the owners are planting, maybe they will allow me to help them dig holes hehe, probably not, but I will atleast be able to run around them like crazy and fetch some sticks hehe. We will post some pictures if the weather is nice.

Azaleas in bloom and Emma the sheep

Yesterday Emma came for a visit, we promised her a spa day after the vet visits she had lately, and she is now healthy and happy enough to be groomed and bathed. We have never attempted to give Emma a puppy cut grooming, which means all the fur is cut down to about a centimeter, somewhat what my owners did to me after all the antibiotics ruined my fur. Emma was in real need of a nice short haircut, since her skin needed some refreshment after all the invasive treatments and the oily laxitives which glued together the fur on her thighs. So down she came by car, we wanted to show her it's not only driving to the vets when she enters a car. She unlike me hates driving, she gets car sick and now, when she came down to us, she saw it can be fun where she is going to also.

Once we got home, after a long relaxing walk with us, she layed on the bed, on our grooming blanket - the blanket my owners use, so us dogs can lay and sleep on the bed when we are being given a haircut so the hairs don't go all over the room. After a few long hours of sleeping next to her, she became like a little fluffy sheep. Her bubbly butt was so adorable, and her fat belly didn't seem so fat anymore. Well she is a bit on the heavy side but in this "new skin" she is just a cutie hehe. Her long beautiful curls will grow out again soon and she will feel a lot better again once the fur can be combed and maintained nicely. She does look funny but sooooo cute haha.

A little before and after picture to show the amount of work which went into the short cut, which my crazy owners did with scissors to avoid hair curling which is a side effect of shaving.

Emma with her uncontrollable fur in march 2013

Haha sheep shape today, such a cutie

She was a real sport while being cut to such short hair and I, well I was kissing her all the time and being supportive to what she was going thru.
And now an uber cute picture of our furry little butts, well...mine is tiny, Emmas is like a ball, but I love her hehe.

Hehe that's my little fatty girl, adorable!

Today was fun when we were up at the vineyards, we were so lazy we actually called for a ride up. The air pressure was extreme and it felt like it was really heavy to even walk, let alone work. But we enjoy the area so much, we couldn't sit still. Magnus was a good boy, he cut the grass on our little zen project and me, well I collected sticks and carried them around the newly cut area haha. I am so stick obsessed that both vineyards are filled with sticks I left behind, you never know where one might need a stick to play with, so it's best to make sure they are all over haha.

But before I forget, I need to mention my paw. It was not an insect bite, but a small grass/branch thing which got stuck under my skin. After the swelling went down, we thought it was over, but the paw swell up again after I was secretly licking it. And then, when I was laying in bed, my owners saw it was licked (I deny everything hihi) and a small black piece was showing. Once they pulled it out with pincers, we saw how long and hurtful the thing really was. They felt bad for not taking me to the vet, but I have to admit, it was no need, since it took a bit to get to the surface and we sorted it just fine. Now my paw is pretty, unswallen and healthy again. But we took a picture of what it was and how it looked.

Ofcourse I have to sniff it, it was in my paw, so it's mine hihi

Close up of the wound, which is now all healed and furry

But to go back to today, the pride of my owners, their rhododendrons and azalea bushes are almost all in bloom, some due to the extreme heat have actually stopped blooming within a few days sadly, but, most are still in full bloom and an amazing sight to look at. So ofcourse I had to pose for the pictures hihi. Keep in mind the area is not even close to being finished and most of the fences and stairs are still in the symbolic stage hehe.
The azelea hill, will in a few years become one huge collection of bubble like blooming colorful bushes and the tiny fern in between will create pretty feathering. The hill has 10 azaleas and 5 rhododendrons which are still small all apart from one. But with years they will grow and become prettier and prettier, cannot wait hihi. So now we have 11 azaleas and 10 rhododendrons planted in our project.

Baby azalea bushes, under the spruce

Our pride and joy, the rhododendrons from last spring

Even among such beauty, I am still the prettiest

The blueberries under me where I am not allowed to go

Cooling off under the Tayberry arch

Both archways will have a lot of fruit this year

Pretty boys

Mags being greeted on the second vineyard

It's as if it is no longer spring in this country, as you can see the sun is very warm in the evening, this picture was taken at around 6 o'clock and temperatures were around 25 degrees. Quite summerish already and the grass is growing wild. But so much fun running around with no leash with my girls, playing in high grass and getting dirty while we work on the lower side of the project. More pictures comming soon hihi.