♥ The Last Day of Summer ♥

Today is the officially last day of Summer 2010! Can you believe it how fast time runs? The passed few days it was nasty stormy and rainy outside, but today it is really late summer - beautiful! Sunny, but not too warm! Mum and I we both love that and so we made a long walkie after we have been to the market and I got a pound of tripe. On our ways we see many people in the forests looking for mushrooms. But of course they never take toadstools; see this lovely big one next to me. It is said, where toadstools grow, Boletus are never far.

We don't go out for picking mushrooms as mum don't knows anything about which one is toxic and which one is eatable...

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.♥⊱╮ Around and around .♥⊱╮

This is James! He can purr as a cat and is very friendly. He has hardly a nose and his breathing is difficult, his teeth are crisscross and he is 7 years old! He is very special.... .♥⊱╮

Mum and I have just been around the lake. We were followed by the terrier gang. They belong to the restaurant on one side of the lake, but they also stay at the kiosk on the other side. So they followed us all the way. They are 4, but only 3 came along. One was constantly barking, but they are very nice and funny! I like Terriers, all kinds.... .♥⊱╮

I Love You...

This is me this morning! I met my Susie early today and now I can take a little nap and be a real happy dog - it started to rain anyway...

My Susie!!!

# 110 - already!

Again it has been a bit quiet inhere, but the heat recently made us very lazy! Now it is already my 110. post and I hope you still like to follow! Sunday I visited Dad and I was very happy! He is doing really fine and his fur is back, at least on his head; some are black and some are white - he looks like Leo now, my pepper-and-salt Schnauzer buddy...

Mum was invited to Berlin and I should be in a pet hotel for a few days. I went crazy! I didn't allow anybody to touch me....in the end mum and I drove home again and I was happy. Mum said, next time I will come with her to Berlin again. She knows that I like it there. Sometimes big cities are very intresting with all these tons of new smells....

• Some like it Hot •

This small Lab Pup likes to soak up some warmth...

...but not me! After a good run in doggy park I wanted to stay in this hole. Later I found this huge cave that some other doggy has digged. It is nice and cool inthere. Mum said it is like the homes of the Opal Miners in Australia! I can stand and turn in this cave; some dogs are really masterdiggers...

This tiny Teckel loves it hot - can't believe it - we have again about 100°F today! But isn't she cute?

~ I saved lives ~

This evening mum and I wanted to do a small walkie around the lake before watching the game Denmark vs. Japan! Here you see me waiting on the stairs for mum to get ready. We had a nice walk in bright summer weather and when we came back to the parking lot we heard some desperate peeps. Mum looked around, I looked around and detected some very small baby mallards, only a few days old, in a gully, sort of large sink drain. It was not deep and nice and cozy inthere, like in a nest, but still too deep for the small ones to get out again. One was even fallen out of that and into the drain already. Probably they had also made a walkie with their mum and all chicks fell into the gully, all 5! It was hard to open the gully and mum needed help of some other people, they were finally lucky and had all babies out, at least we hope that those were all. Nearby is the small river and a pond with lots of mallards resting; the babies were carried over to them and they immediately found their mum and rushed with her into the water. Now I hope that the muskrats are not going to catch and eat them after they survived this adventure that ended lucky. I know they are around as I can smell them and mum has seen some, too.

Unfortunately mum had no camera to do a snap of the cuties, photo above though looks exactly like them....hope that they become large, sturdy, beautiful mallards! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

•★•★ Still Alive •★

Oh, I know, there has been a long silence, but we have been so busy and each evening mum just crashed into bed without wanting to blog for me! We had some very nice days in the meantime; mum said all work she had to do and all things she had to arrange went just fine - and she was really happy about that. Inbetween all this work we made long walks and have been to the big dog run again, too. There I made many new friends; Bubi was my favourite. He once was on the dangerous dogs list, but ever since he has a new dad, all is fine again. By the way, his name means: cute little lad!

I also visit dad about 1 or 2 times per week. He is back to work still and tries to ignore his cancer as good as possible. He is very active and feels quite good. Also his fur is growing again. Now we all hope that the next CT will turn out fine, too; that will be on July 5 - wish us luck!

By the way, mum is on Facebook now - she don't understands how it really works yet........urgh! •★