Plums, Timi junior and other bugs around us

First things first, there is a new addition to the street where we walk almost everyday. The old Timi died due to liver and kidney failure, he was old and weak for a few years, but it's always sad when one of us has to go. However due to our selfish reasons (he is adorable as a button!!!), we are very happy his owners decided to get a new dog, one just must have a fluffy creature next to them. This boy is about 2 and a half months old, he is childish, ful of energy and cute! We kiss, then we bark, then we growl, then we kiss again and repeat the entire thing over and over, haha. He wants to play but he needs to stop being afraid first, he is scared of everything poor tiny thing, however when he needs to chew or destroy something, fear does not exsist. Here is a picture we took of him destroying the driveways grass haha.

Supercute!

Second thing is, all three of us dogs have a bad case of indigestion, reason being - fruit! We play with apples and other fruits that fall on the floor and then ofcourse being dogs we chew them up. So our butts are a little bit explosive haha, Tara has it worst, she really over did it, hehe. But owners are giving us rice and preventing us from chewing fruit which isn't ripe yet, and that should solve the problem. But me...oh I am so obsessed with plums! I love them, I could eat all the plums in the world and not care about my tummy! Maja got mad at me, since she is scared I might have problems if I swallow plum seeds, so I bring them to her and she opens the sugary ones and feeds them to me. I love plums! The old wild plum tree we have at our garden project is now releasing all the ripe ones, they are tiny so humans dont really like them, but..More for me hihihi. I don't often let go of sticks I carry around, but for these yummy things I do it gladly. Just can't over do them - apperently haha.

If it's on the ground, it's fair game! Yummy!!!

Maja has been doing a lot of research lately about insects which are endangered due to spraying fields and vineyards, which really need help and which are amazing for our gardens. She is completely in love with bumble bees, those hairy little hard workers, who are the only creatures that are able to polinate our blueberries and other fruit trees with long narrow flowers, due to their long tongues. Cute little bumble butts hihi. We found two today, on two diffirent flowers, and ofcourse we got really happy about it, we really want to provide a beautiful feeding ground for all our little helpers in nature.

Adorable bumble bee boy gathering so much he was yellow

He is feeding on the big red sunflower.

As much as some may get sad due to deer "pruning" their roses, which they do, they ate all our darker colored rose buds before they opened, they actually did us a huge favour, now the rose bushes are growing like crazy and forming so many new buds. We would never have the heart to cut of flower buds to promote growth of the plants, they are just too pretty. Cannot wait to finally find out which color these bushes are hehe, but since they were eaten, they are most likely pink, red or something among those lines haha. For some reasons, our deer don't like light colored roses haha. Picky!

Majestic recovery after their feeding, thank you deer hihi

Summer is amazing, everything is growing insanely fast, we can't even keep up most of the time. I was also learning how to help out by carrying the buckets filled with produce, but I got scared of it since it makes a loud sound if I smack it on the ground haha.

Owners little helper

I help with being pretty, humans do the heavy work hehe

There are so many things we are working on at the moment, keeping busy and filling our days so we don't miss Magnus as much as we would if we were at home being bored and sad. So instead we take care of his vegetables and keep the area pretty hihi. We built a stone wall around the apple tree and planted new hortensias, unsure if the stone glue will hold, so far so good haha. We had help from Maja's sisters step son, who plastered a lot of it on one side, might not be so pretty but it sure works! That side is solid haha. I wasn't allowed to help with the glue, apperently my ears are too long for work like that, especially when I put them into glue cups haha.

Hope it holds, so we can complete it

Mags' veggies are starting to grow and gain color, more and more each day. His tomato plants are something out of this world, we built a huge wall for them to have support, but the damn plants are overgrowing that one also, haha.

Our popcorn, yum yum!

Our only flat peach! Proud! Hehe

Mags' honeymelons and tomatos, hope the wires hold haha

Honey melons - Not allowed to play with, owner says, boo

We started continuing on the second part of the project, building some stairs and leveling out the soil, so it is actually walkable towards the brook, quite a mess down there at the moment, but the pretty begonias make the path lively with color, if only the weeds didn't grow 20 cm per week haha. Time to cut grass again soon.

Second part of the garden, work in progress

Everything has pretty much recovered from the heat wave, slowely starting to bloom and be colorful again. We water both parts everytime we go up, so the pretty plants have time to recover from the sun. 

Dahlias finally started blooming again

Our only white rose so far, pretty and happy

Daisies gone wild, so have the weeds boo

New grass slowely growing, can't wait to play on it

My ears are getting better and we have a check up on tuesday, hopefully all is well. Or getting to that. It is annoying to get medication twice per day, plus cleaning, plus adding drops to enchance the medication, but...if it will make the pain and discomfort go away, I don't mind. I have been really good with it lately. I have noone to hide behind since Mags left hehe. 

But before I forget, Maja got me a tiny coconut from the store, she thought it would be fun for me, since I love toys and it's hairy and heavy, so I play with it and smack it around, and can't destroy it haha. Fun toy! Smells good too hihi.

Haha, so what if I look silly, it's so much fun!

And I often want to steal some produce from places, but I have never ever destroyed anyones garden, or walked over plants in Maja's moms vegetable garden. I was thought to walk the paths or around, and I fully respect that even now. However I do wanna taste things they sort pretty in baskets and such hehe.

I didn't like the green beans at all!

 That is a small picture update of what I am up to lately, I am pretty sure I forgot a lot of things, but it is so late and I am so tired. Tomorrow we have a slack day and I get my bath, which I am not looking forward to. Now it's just medication and of we go to sleep.

Almost a month...

Tomorrow a month has past since Mags travelled away to Norway, we miss him indescribably. 

But we have been keeping busy and doing what we love the most, spending time in nature and trying to focus on the good things, like cuddling and playing hihi. Monday we have the vets office, which I am not looking forward too, but we have been good with ear cleaning so Maja expects nice results. We do hope the eardrums are intact and we can slow down with the steroid drops. 

The garden is recovering from the heatwave, some flowers still havent gathered the strenght to bloom again, but we take care of them with plenty of water and food in forms of fertilizer. They seem happy, apart from Begonias, which are completely crazy in full bloom, and for some reason those tender little plants are becoming immune to my tail slaps haha. 

I have had the best fun yesterday, Maja and I had to dig Mags' potatos out before they get pests or start overgrowing, and I got to dig...Oh how much fun that was, I was so happy, I even ran and gathered all the rotten ones which she threw away hehe. I don't think that in all the digging work I have ever done I ever had this much fun. I barked and jumped and just wanted to search for more. If I wasn't such a clutz, my owners would let me be a rescue dog. That would be fun! 

Our first ever homegrown potatos, awesome digging fun!

Berry bushes are abundant in fruit and in full ripe soon, also the blueberries, which we built "fort knox" around haha, there is no way that we would let the birds eat all the berries this year, last year we didn't even get to taste them! They are starting to gain on the blue color, making them fat, blue and yummy. So soon! Yay!

The net fort we built to keep the birds from stealing

Yummy blueberries

The tayberry was a shocker tho, it has produced so many yummy fruits this year, that everyone is pleasantly surprised. People keep stealing them for pies and icecream before we arrive up, hehe, but we can't really be angry since we are aware they are yummy and with this plant there is plenty more the next day. The tayberry is a hybrid between a raspberry and a blackberry, but so much better then both. Emma keeps laying under the climbing bush in the shade, and since the fruits sometimes fall on the floor, she has this pretty dark pink polkadots on her fur after haha.

Third half bucket we picked so far this year

Crazy plant, so many thorns, but yummy

Not to even mention Mags' paprikas, which are just adorable, those are not immune to my tailslap as we discovered haha, but I only managed to knock one off the plant, not more. Hehe.

Mavras F1, cool colored paprika, I want to play with it hihi

The bottom part of the project is doing great also, the tobacco plants look so pretty one would grow them as decorative plants, but the sunflowers next to them are also starting to open up their yellowness making the area very adorable. 

We have so much work left on this side, but it is too hot at the moment to even attempt it. But we will soon get to it, which is exciting to think of since there will be so many roots I get to help with again hihi.
For some reason when we fed the birds during winter this year, they managed to plant so many sunflowers all over the vineyards, making it fun and less monotone with the green. We like sunflowers, me especially, I eat everything I can if I am next to it, studies show some animals eat them to reduce the insects close to them, but I think I just find it fun haha. Good thing we planted over 50, and some extra are from the birds hehe.

Most important thing down at the project is the life around us, we meet so many animals, who don't really care if we are there or not. Poor Tara has a real problem with squirrels, they provoke her so bad, poor girl can stare at one tree for hours without realising she will never ever, ever, ever, be able to catch them haha.

Patience is a virtue...in some cases haha

We also built a little working station next to the newly painted birdhouse, we used an old oak barrel front for the table, using the pipe hole as a hanging opening for tools hihi. I was so tired by the end, just by trying to bring all the sticks I could find around, that I nearly fell asleep while posing for the picture haha.

Cold shade feels nice after hard work hihi

But the thing that stayed most in my memory from this week is...I finally met him! Yes him, the thing which makes loud sounds and eats our roses. Well he ate the kiwi leaves also, and some other stuff, but as much as we should be annoyed with him eating all the rose buds, without us knowing which colors they are when they bloom, he is truly majestic. No fear at all, he walked down to us and then realised there were three dogs and humans at our spot. So he casually turned and walked the other way to get to the place where his family is. He does this everyday, poor Tara and Emma actually try and chase him, haha which makes them so tired they could sleep all day, poor silly girls. However we did meet him, I managed to sniff his track, while he was a few meters away. He was looking at Maja and me while we walked up the second vineyard and took a few moments to check us out before he decided we weren't worth the hassle hehe. And then he started hopping away, he was too fast for me to follow, which I am not allowed to anyways. My owners think we need to co-exsist, and this prevents me from running onto a street after some wild animal and getting hurt. I like it, but it's nice to track also hihi.

Such camoflage colors, what a beautiful animal!

We also met these cute fat baby birds, whose parents made a nest in the grapevines, they were silent and only had their beaks open as if we were gonna feed them, two days after the pic was taken, they were big enough to fly away.

Adorable!

So all in all, not much happening, but fun outside and relaxed days. We are never bored, but we do miss one in the pack.

Oh ps: everyone knows how pretty I am when I am clean and nicely combed. My hair is silky and shiney. Well this is me before my owners clean me up, I look like this almost everyday, I am truly a handful haha. There is a reason why I am named to be the dirtiest dog when having fun outside haha. This time I found the heaviest log I could lift to carry around. Plus my ears, oh yes, I carry my ears on top of my sticks if I have a chance haha. It was very heavy and I was very tired, but...yipppppiiii how fun it is to be dirty and free.

I met some water and mudd on the way to the project hihi

Fireflies and the heatwave

As much as we all wanted the rainy season to pass, the temperatures have now gotten out of control.
We try and go to the project to work, but we have to spend half the day hiding from all the crazy sunrays which are not being hidden by a single cloud. It is getting to the point, where we cannot eat, sleep or cool off at all. I refused to eat many times, untill Maja figured out a delightful trick, cold probiotic yogurt on top of my kibble. Noone can stop me from eating that haha. But the days, the days are so overly heated, that I keep sleeping and trying to find weird cold places to lay. During the day I sleep infront of a ventilator which is making it somewhat better to be in the middle of the town, when temperatures reach 34 degrees. The concrete and pavements in town get so boiling hot, my pads would burn if I walked them. Not good, not enjoyable. So we are mostly driving to the vineyards to avoid any damage or heat strokes. Once up there, the cool shade of the forest make it a lot better, we can even work late afternoons, like we usually do, and it doesn't hurt to take a dip in any kind of water I can find, so basically, I am wet all the time haha, that and dirty hihi. We made a video of me helping with digging out the roots, so everyone can see why I am very valuable as an assistent.

Today was hot but fun, we decided to clean out the extra room in the house, which will become an office my owners say. Once we gathered all the old furtniture and trash, we drove it to the place where trash is welcome, a landfill. We arrived in an overfilled car and the area was very cute and nicely sorted. I could even run around and explore it. Noone was there apart from the workers, too hot for everyone else.

The grass next to the garbage sorting containers, pretty land

Being it 34,5 degrees celsium when we were there, we decided to go up to the vineyards, where icecream and light breeze is the most common thing hihi. We are working on the last corner of the upper project, as the video shows, after that it will be complete and ready for beautifications. The garden is exploding with colors and growth, weeds and grass are higher by the minute, all grass apart from which we sown haha typical. But the most amazing part of it all are the roses which are completely diffirent color then they were supposed to be, but hold so much beauty we don't really care. The first sunflower of those which we planted has started blooming today. Although not many understand why we want the area to be a park like flat land with lots of running area, we all seem to enjoy it very much. An area is supposed to have a purpose and our projects is to be beautiful and calming. And it is becoming so. Oh and stick throwing playground, thats it's purpose also hihi.

Mags cut the grass right before he left but it has grown so badly already, it's scary how fast things grow, how fast the fruits gain on color. Vegetables are bigger everytime we go up. It's truly magical. A few pictures for a better explanation hihi.

Our only flat peach hihi

Watermelon is growing

Mags' paprika exploding in growth

Mags' tomatos starting to gain on weight

Our Tayberry, this is the first year we will taste the fruit

Our first blueberry, which started this project for real

Edge of upper project after some fresh soil has been added

Beautiful, simply a beautiful rose

Huge tea rose shining by the cherry tree

We will try and update as much as possible with pictures, but in this heat, we usually hide in the shade untill the sun is gone making it bad quality hehe. But the corner is almost done and soon we will start on building a shady area to hide under hihi. It is 2 am, the temperatures are 22 degrees, without any draft, the concrete is still heating up the street we live it, but we need to get some rest, hopefully we will be able. They say it's gonna rain next week, man oh man do I hope so haha.
But atleast when we walk home in the dark, the fireflies illuminate our path, making it so beautiful to stay awake a little longer and enjoy the summer's harmony. June is a lovely month to be a dog in nature.

Almost a week...

...since Mags left for Norway, in a few hours it will be just about when we woke up and started moving towards Zagreb's airport. When we got to the border, the border police was smiling looking at my passport picture and off we went to let him travel. Once he left I started to cry while looking at him waving, but before he left the car, he told me "I will be back soon, not today, not tomorrow, but soon, you wait with Maja" and I understood him. Once Maja and I got home, I was tired and sad so we went to bed. We slept so long, we overslept alarms, phone calls, everything, but we did get rested and Mags was safe in Norway, getting spoiled by his family. When he left like this before and it wasn't explained to me, I would always run around the house and search for him, just to be dissapoited he wasn't there, this time, I knew he wasn't home and I relaxed. I am sad he is not here to cuddle with me, but it was explained to me that when he does come back, there will be many new toys hehe.

We have been up at our garden quite a lot lately, even when the weather was bad, we went so I could run around and destress. We often take our little mushroom checking walks to the neighbours forest and when we were all the way behind the hill something was yelling, insanely much, as if something was being attacked or wounded. In a few minutes we realised it was a baby owl being thought how to fly properly. It's mom came 3 meters away from us, sat on a branch and flapped her wings, looked at us with those beautiful big eyes and then she flew away. She was a huge wood owl, which looked somewhat like this:

Beautiful creature

Yesterday we went to the vets office to check my ears, they are getting better, but slowely. We are now back on Sporanox, the medication which I reacted too, but continuing with the steroids, which should prevent the reaction this time. It was so adorable at the vets, we got 100% discount on the examination since they were celebrating their 5th anniversary! So nice of them! So we got a lot of cookies, new food for cats and me and drove to the vineyards, since Mags and Maja thought it would be good for me to see my girls after being scared at the vets. We went down quite fast and I slept like a bug after haha.

Oh forgot to mention we are babysitting a cat this week, Mao, he was a bit afraid at the start but he is now all happy running around the house and being a cat. I respect his distance and he respects mine. Afterall he was the cat that thought me not to run after cats, since their nails hurt haha.

Today was a magical, Maja and her mom went down all the way to the other vineyard to sort the apple trees which have too many fruits on. I was playing with all the apples they threw down on the ground, it was like a million toys being thrown away hihi. As we walked up, about 10 meters away something starts slowely walking down, a creature I have heard, smelled but never seen before, since I was usually too busy finding sticks. A deer! So pretty, just walking and looking at us, it's the same deer that provokes Emma and Tara on daily basis haha. I didn't know what to do, I looked at my owner but she was just looking at the pretty creature. Then she just walked away from us and I was still confussed hehe. Not even Emma bothered runing after her since it was so hot outside. If we are really quiet down there, there is so many animals around, such a happy place for me.

Afternoon was heavy work, we finally got all the ugly old roots out from the upper part of the project and then rested under the silly blue umbrella we have hehe. It's a shame that it's too small for three dogs and all the humans who are down there haha, but we the dogs find pretty shade anyways.

Tara resting at the berry corner

Me hiding behind the blueberries

Emma guarding our silly umbrella station

Resting all went under the umbrella hihi

And for the last two pictures, the comparison between last june and this years, now when most of the this have been planted for the summer.

June 2012

June 2013

More stories and updates soon:)

The day before...

...Magsy leaves for Norway. We went to the vet yesterday and since I had a bad reaction to Sporanox, I was given Dexamethasone steorids instead. Owners are mocking me I am like Armstrong, dopping with steroids haha, but no reaction to those so far and I feel great. As bad as sporanox was, it did manage to kill most of my ear bacteria, so I am getting better, which is great news.

We are packed and prepared for tomorrows travel, but before we went home, we went to the vineyards to say good bye. Tara and Emma will be devostated with Magsy away and me...well I cannot even put into words how horrible missing him will be. But he did want to do a little cute work at our little zen park, which is becoming so lively and colorful. Maja sister gave her these two really cute candle holders for the garden, which absolutely match her dahlias, so we put those in and then I posed while Magsy was getting two tiny buckets of soil for the petunias Maja was planting hihi. Ofcourse the rain started so we had to speed it up, but not before Mags saw his pretty vegetables and how beautiful the area which he works so hard on has become. Pictures will show how pretty my pink tongue matches the flowers hihi.