Dogsitting Sophie

Yesterday we got up and Sophie, the parsson jack russel 6 months old puppy visited our home at 10:30 am. Her owners had a funeral, so we decided to help them out by dogsitting little Sophie and going for a long walk, so the girl isn't stressed too much. We all know we dogs feel pain others are in.

Sophie, being herself, was full of energy, so we had to calm her down when she arrived, but after a few minutes I started kissing her and wanted to play. Off we went to a long long walk. She was such a good girl, walked nicely on a leash, playfully running with us and trying to nip my ears for some attention.

We walked to the hanging bridge, where we posed like the cool pups we are hihi

Since I am older, I needed to teach the little lady how to get completely dirty and get away with it, so I showed her the dirtiest ponds and mud baths, she liked them hihi.

And tails up we went thru the woods, sniffing, exploring, running and enjoying the fresh air.

Not to be shakespearian but to be cute or not to be, isn't even the question for us. It just comes easy to pups like us hihi.

We ended our trip in the big park, playing with tennis balls for half an hour before her owner came to get her, we snacked, ran, chased and we were totally tired. What a good day it turned out to be for us dogs, we came home at around 3 pm, and I just went to bed. I was woken for dinner and the walk after, but fastly returned back to bed after hihi.

Models and grapes

A few days ago Nina, Maja's sister borrowed our in door greenhouse for a fotoshoot of some models, who hired her to take pictures. Lyra was here, we were playing like mad, running around interupting everyone, tugging the cloth they had and just being pretty assistents. Eventually, after a few hours, Lyra fell asleep under the piano in the living room and I was unable to wake her for more play, hihi.

I should be a doggy model hihi

Today, we woke up early and walked towards the vineyards. We had promised to pick the grey Pinot grapes, for Maja's family friends, who didn't have enough for their big barrel. We worked very hard and picked over 150 kg of grapes for them, of which ofcourse I helped by eating them from the buckets hihi.
Dogs shouldn't be eating grapes and most definetly should not even taste raisins, but a little of it doesn't hurt, especially if stolen from owners hihi. After a long working day, humans sat down to eat and play a few card games, it got so darn hot outside, we were all just hiding inside. I fell asleep on Maja's lap, after climbing into a chair next to her and slept like a baby for a while. After the power nap, Tara, Emma and I started playing again...boy oh boy were we playing, barking, growling, jumping and just being crazy energy dogs. So much fun!
It started getting dark, so we had to leave for home. But spending 11 hours outdoors felt amazing! We got home, I ate dinner and now I am asleep and dreaming, such a perfect day.

Stung by a bee

It has been so long since I wrote a blog, mostly due to the abnormal heat wave that overcame our country, when it's 35 degrees celsius for weeks, one doesn't really have a lot of energy to do much.
It's a bit cooler today so we decided to walk up to the vineyards for a little fun and to see if we can help out with the vines. I ofcourse am of big help, I carry all their wood sticks prepared for the barbeque into the house, since I want to play fetch, this way humans don't need to search for a stick to throw hihi.
Past few weeks have been hot and long, but there has been a few very exciting days, the vineyard house has an old pool, which is mostly a pond nowdays, since it needs a lot of repairs, so Magnus and Maja decided to clean it out so I can swim a little in the fresh water. No worries, we saved all the frogs and it's already back to dirty from our doggy mudbaths hehe.
But today! Today was the first time I got stung by a bee, we now know I am not allergic hihi, but the silly thing hit my eyebrow, and my eye ended up swallen like a balloon...keep in mind, that didn't stop me from running around like crazy and delivering sticks to the people hihi. My eye is already fine, the swelling went down in a few hours and now I am enjoying my afternoon nap, I deserve it, I was very sporty today hihi.
A few days ago, we went for a walk with Sophie, Lyra, Andreja, Nina, Mags and Maja and me being me, I got either bitten a little or I hit myself, which resulted in a pink wound which can be seen on the picture below, I am not worried, I am sure it will turn back to brown once it heals.
Maja and I have a very hygenic routine now, every night before sleep we do the "yummy yummy", which is the name for my chicken flavoured toothpaste, we brush our teeth and go to bed. I lovvveeeee my toothpaste, but I am still getting used to having my back teeth cleaned, I admit tho, I do enjoy our routine...it taste soo gooooddd! Hihi.

Brush once a day and have white pearls like me, hihi

Barking makes me look funny...

Can I get a cookie pretty pleaaaaseee? Hihi

Here are some cute pictures we took in our greenhouse, which is next to the kitchen...us pets always make a mess there and the cats climb all over and make the floor dirty, but no harm done. But these pictures are just so that noone forgets how abnormally pretty I am hihi.

Chairs were made for animals hihi

Oh yes they were! Hihi

Liza and me enjoying the jumps of them

Pretttyyy

and this is Mao, the cat we are catsitting

The trip to Logar Valley

The magnificant panorama of the Logar Valley

    Early saturday morning, breakfast and the car safety belt. That can only mean one thing! Roadtrip yippppyyyy. We packed towels (yes I tend to get wet and dirty hihi), blanket for the car seat, sandwiches and waters, phone rang, it was Klemen, I barked...crazy happy excited I started running around the house showing how much I wanna go already, what is taking so long. And so we went, driving about an hour thru Slovenia, among the fields between the mountain cliffs, we finally arrived at the mouth of the most beautiful valley in this country. It just opens up, with white mountain tops gently covered by trees at their feet. What magnificant nature. The Logar valley is the flattest valley I have ever walked, leading all the way up to the waterfall of the river we have in our town, but this water is crystal clear and cold. It's a national park, with romatic little pathways thru the area, which lead to the water fall if you don't take the direct road. We walked about 2 hours to get to the waterfall, meeting people and dogs, played and then I found the best thing...oh yes, the best smelling thing a dog can find in nature...horse poop! Oh my owners weren't happy, I just dived into it, started rubbing my ears in it hihi... the speed of me being pulled away from it was like the lightening, followed by laugher from the people around. Oh come on, can't a dog have a good nature scent. Haha. After a bit, we walked and actually met the creatures who provide such a good smell, hihi, I have met horses and a donkey! Never seen a horse upclose or a donkey in my life. I was scared and sceptic about them, which is good, I didn't invade their privacy, I just looked at them and respected them from afar. After the intial fear, I saw they weren't there to harm anyone, so I just enjoyed their presence and didn't get bothered at all, but I never barked at them, I was polite and so were they.

Already dipped into water and ready to walk

Being calm with other animals

Rehydrating is important hihi

Dry riverbed I was exploring

The waters in the summer subside under the land, making the riverbeds look like a rocky road, I had to explore everything ofcourse hihi. We walked over the road onwards the forest patch and met a big touristic cottage, where a lot of people were and even tho all dogs are supposed to be on a leash, I was kept free most of the time since I behave so well and tourists seemed to enjoy it, comments about how good and trained I am could be heard from people walking by.

Small reststop for people

Here we ate and played, pretty nature

First dip into water a few meters from waterfall Rinka

The water was too cold even for me

And a few pictures Klemen took, so one can see the magnificent nature.

Pascal team

Okay one of me, since I am just supercute

Right before the waterfall, see how behaved I am hihi

Magnus being showered with icy fresh waterfall

What a beautiful day so far. After walking uphill for 20 minutes, we finally got to the waterfall, where the wind was quite strong and the spraying of the cold water got us all soaked hehe. And since I had to explore the surrounding areas, I let go of my ball which the water took down and Magnus had to climb down to get it hehe, but we got it back. A movie right before I let go of the ball.

The waterfall Rinka from afar

 The area was filled with tourists, and the rocky paths were wet and overcrowded, but we got our turn to see it and we safely checked it out. We started walking back, down the steep path from the waterfall when all of sudden, it started raining, and I mean raining, pouring down like mad. Which was quite crazy since we were about 10 kilometers from our parked car hehe. We had to walk really fast by the road to try and get there as soon as possible. We were soaked and tired, since we just walked around 5 hours haha. Fun but cold and wet hihi. We wanted to make a few more stops on the road to see other things we planned, but since we got all wet we had to skip them and plan to do it another day, which is even better since we now have to come back to this area and enjoy the scenery again.

So to sum it up, today I did the following:
- Saw my first waterfall
- Saw a horse and a donkey upclose for the first time
- Enjoyed a good horse poop dive for the first time hihi
- Walked thru one of the national parks for the first time

What an exciting day. Now I am sleeping like a bug, all warm and happy on my pillow on the bed, next to Mag's foot, being hugged by Liza and dreaming of the things I saw today. I also forgot to mention we have baby fish which I can't even see since they r such tiny babies still, but lots of animal love in this house hihi. Cannot wait till the new advanture.

Cottage trip

Two days ago, we decided to walk a little longer, to cleanse our bodies and refresh in the minty air of the nearby hills. The town we live, was built in the valley of surrounding hills, where in the medieval times people built pyres to signal the attacks of invaders to the city castle. Our destination was the Cottage of Celje, which is only 650m above sea level, yet quite a walk from the bottom where we started. We traveled about 20 kilometers there and back, taking a few pauses and drink breaks. We passed an old Beech tree, which is belived to be around 300 years old, it's huge and has a little water spring running under it, where we got to refill the bottles.

The 300 year old beech behind me

Suprisingly there was a lot of people walking the same path, which isn't the easiet to walk for non sportsmen, when you begin you need to walk up a lot of stairs, which are made from logs, making it hard to run up. I was off leash all the time, while Lyra, who came with, was always on the leash since she likes to bark at people. I behaved and didn't bother anyone who passed us by or walked behind, I just enjoyed the scenery and company.

the starting steps, many of them

We met loads of animals on the way, and while we were curious, poor little Lyra came a little too close to the electric fence and got spiked, she cried, but mostly since she got scared, I was kept away from it not to learn the lesson also hihi. I get very curious over livestock, I want to befrend everyone and most of the big animals don't trust dogs, smartly so, since some of us can hurt them I guess. But I was allowed to stare and observe the funny creatures munching on the grass.

If I am not allowed to play with them, I lose intrest hehe

So we took a few pictures of me in the view of the green surroundings and headed home almost in the dark. The trip took us around 4 hours and we were really nicely tired afterwards, so the best part followed, dinner and sleep hihi.

Posing in front of the castle and the valley between

Pretty dog in pretty nature, doesn't get better then that:)

After a good nights rest, we had to get up early and meet with Maja's family for some good old fashioned mushroom picking. It's been a lovely trip, where we found baby shroomies and ran in the forest with Lyra, chasing eachother and fetching sticks and branches.
But I have forgotten to add another very funny movie, which we made after the fridge we won at the coca cola competition arrived and got unpacked, I played the destructive polarbear (with permission hihi) and made holes into the packing. I am strong and powerful hihi. Magnus thought me how the polarbears puncture ice when hunting for seals, so I used the same strategy on the carton and it worked! I made a hole and started bitting the parts away. So much fun destroying things when owners allow it hihi.

Helped putting things in, made sure it was all fresh

And here I helped with recycling hihi