My new house kennel!

Hello everyone!

Sorry it's been such a long time since I've blogged, my human has been fussing over all kinds of kennel-moving activities, and kept on saying she didn't have time to let me use the computer. Pathetic!

Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, we went and had a holiday for a whole week with my cousins Bertie and Oliver. Well, *I* did, my human was there every night but kept on deserting me during the day with some stupid excuses about moving house kennels and packing, and doing lots of complaining about it. Whatever.

Then on the Friday night she came home and did a lot of complaining about being exhausted and not everything being unpacked, and on Saturday we left Bertie and Oliver's house, and went to my new house kennel!

It's right by the beach - and not just any beach, but a proper doggy beach! (even though they do let humans on it, which doesn't seem fair - dogs're not allowed on human beaches...)

See, they are actually encouraging people to bring their dogs to the beach!

We get to see the dawn on our morning walks...

And there's lots to explore...

This morning we walked part of the way around Cherry Lake.

Then we came back home, and I spent some time in my garden...

... relaxing...

... inspecting the flowers...

... leading my human up the garden path...

My human's still getting used to the new ways to go to work - even though we're further away than we were before, catching the train takes the same amount of time as catching the tram used to, because it doesn't stop as much. My human's going to try riding her bike to work next week. She thinks she'll have to leave really early, because it's a 20km ride instead of a 5km ride. She's hoping she'll get all fit and healthy if she rides to work every day, but me - I just think there'll be a lot of complaining!

In the meantime, I shall sit at the bottom of the garden like a hairy little Schnauzer fairy!

Frosty Friday

Well, ok it was actually Saturday. But it's the first time this year we've had frost that lasted after the sun came out. It was under 3 degrees celsius (or, um, I think that's about 37 degrees fahrenheit. Celsius sounds a lot colder than fahrenheit).

I'd also like to mention that I only get to walk in the daylight on weekends. During the week it's still dark when we get back from our morning walk, and it's dark before my human gets home in the evenings.

But on weekends we get to sleep in a bit, and we get daylight for our morning walk and then we go out again at lunchtime.

The days are slowly getting longer again, soon it will be spring!

Movin' on up, movin' on out!

Hello everyone!

I've been trying to whip my human into shape, and I've managed to get some time on the computer.

We're going to have a few changes around here soon, and I don't just mean me changing from gorgeous...

... to utterly gorgeous...

My human keeps making lists and checking them twice. And she's been opening cupboards and putting lots of stuff into giant rubbish bags.

And she keeps saying mysterious things like "when we move to the new house kennel, you'll have your own back yard that you can go into whenever you want" and "we can walk on the beach all the time".

I'm not too sure how I will like living in a new kennel, because apart from the kennel I was born in (my breeder had a whole bedroom put aside for puppies, and a puppy run in the yard and everything), I've never lived anywhere but my apartment kennel with my human. I did like staying in my Grand(hu)ma's giant house kennel when we did our road trip to Queensland last year, and I like visiting my doggy friends who live in house kennels.

Obviously I'd like a larger kennel - my human wouldn't get under my paws all the time. And a kennel with a yard would be good too, I could spend my days schnoozling in the sun and digging things up.

My human says we will be moving in a couple of months, and in the meantime she is going to go through the cupboards and throw a lot of stuff out. I don't understand why she didn't throw all that stuff out instead of putting it in the cupboard in the first place...

Humans are weird.

The good news is that we had the Winter Solstice the other day, so now our days are getting longer again - since then, each day has been a few seconds longer than the day before. My human hopes this means that soon we will be able to have at least one walk a day that's not in the pitch black! (She has to bring a torch on our walks - in the mornings so the cyclists in the park can see us and not run us over, and in the evenings so she can see what I'm doing!)

Hopefully I will be able to get more time on the computer, now that my human is busy throwing things out. And now the days are getting longer, my human might be able to take more pictures of me!