Christmas pictures

It has been a while since the last news here. December has been a busy month and very cold too - we had about -12...-20C for 10 days, brrrr.
But to catch up with latest news, here's the slide show of Rocco's and Lucky's Christmas:

We got surprisingly many pictures I would like to show you, so the list would have been too long if I had put them all here.
On the pictures you can see snow lion we built with Kelli. Rocco and Lucky with their gifts from Santa. Lucky enjoying the snow. Today we took hay and carrots to Bambies and bunnys. And on the evening today there was so beautiful light outside, we took camera and went for a walk and captured very beautiful colours on the pictures. And last the picture of our dear old country home and sauna.
If you would like to see the pictures one by one they are here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Rocco.sheltie/Christmas2009#

Merry Christmas!

Here are Christmas cards from our friends:

Waiting for Christmas

Elna and Isac sent us wonderful pictures of Isac and his first snow last Wednesday. We too took camera with us when we went for a walk yesterday. And today. I got a small automatic camera as birthday present, and I'm not very familiar with it yet. But one thing I learned this weekend. It has many different modes of takeing pictures, one of them beeing underwater mode. I always wondered what it's for, but now I know - it's for taking pictures in our climate :o). It's hard to believe Christmas is coming soon, it's warm and wet outside and at our country home, an anemone will soon start to bloom in flowerbed.

Here is our underwater-mode picture :o)

And 2 made with auto-mode today. Underwater has much better colours, don't you agree :o)?

But hopefully winter gets here too soon and we all have beautiful white Christmas. In the mean time, lets train new tricks with dogs, because, I'm sure, there's gifts for all good dogs in Santas bag. And wouldn't it be embarrassing for a decent Sheltie if he/she wouldn't have fancy trick to show.

I have so very much work to do, that I leave Kelli and dogs with my parents for next week and work very long days. But after that the year end should be much easier for me and I promise I'll write ansvers to your e-mails.