Merry Christmas

I hope you had wonderful Christmas. We had. With a Christmas tree that we has grown big and beautiful on our land, Christmas traditions (on the pictures below), cooking and eating. But most important, with real Christmas feeling living in our home - our little daughter. And most wonderful winter outside. There's sooooo much snow and snowing more and more. We are blocked at our country home :o) We definately can't get our car out of here before snow plough comes and opens the road, also trains are very out of chedule and I have to be at work on 8:00 on monday. But I'll worry about it tomorrow and it's still wonderful in this snowstorm. Wonderful, wonderful winter, just like when I was small :o)

Here's some pictures of our Christmas:

Taking hay and carrots and apples for wild animals.

Christmas criminal Pätu sleeping to rest and start again playing with Christmastree decorations :o)

Full moon has made nights so bright

And here are Christmas cards from our friends:

On this card is Lucky's daughter White Coastal Little Blue Avatar "Peppi" who is living in Shet Up kennel in Finland

Winter wonderland

It's amazing how wonderful winter we have. Soooooo much snow outside. Just like last winter, only this year the snow came earlier. And there's a lot of it. And snowing more and more every day. A lot of snow seems to create a lot of problems - to those who have to clean it. We don't, we enjoy it very much. As extra bonus to everything you can do when it's so wonderful snow outside, dogs stay clean and they can't escape, only walk on road with us :o)

It was easy to promise, that I take winter pictures for you, in reality it's not so easy to get good photos when it's snowing. But at least you get the idea what we have here:

Summer summary (better late then never :o) )

Shame on me, it's veeerrrry late to post summer news. But life sometimes has it's own plans for us. For me it was a week in hospital and 2 weeks recovering at home in July :o(. Don't worry, this blog hasn't turned to medical one :o), but there's one thing I would tell you anyway - there isn't any better medication, then 2 wonderful furry friends (and family of course and country home, but it's Sheltie blog here). I felt good again on the minute I was back at home with them.
Now to the summary.

To start from beginning, we were seriously attacked at our country home at spring - by snails :o). There was so many of them, that for help we turned to real professionals:

Well, later it turned out, that professionals are a bit lazy in their job, but it was a lot of fun with them on summer. Rocco changed his "Cats eating" soap opera to reality show performed by ducks:

And Lucky was happy to get 4 new playmates to play "herding dog and duck's" game
with

Don't worry, it was fair play, time to time roles changed and duck's were herding Lucky. And Lucky was sooo happy for the attention he got :o)

And as I was talking about Lucky's friends, here's some more of them
Tiger the cat you know already from last year. Do you believe me if I tell that Lucky is singing lullaby to his friend :o) ?

Tiger too thinks he needs a walk on evenings. At least he joins us every time he sees us going to walk. Walks with us all the way, if we stop he lies down and follows if we continue.

Pätu is Tigers son and almost same age as Lucky. And as crazy as Lucky. The picture below is not posed, just a catched moment. They are involved with science I think, entomology :o)

Jossu you know too. He isn't actually thrilled of babysitting, but Lucky doesn't take no for answer :o)

And here a little 6 months old dachshund Annu is playing fox hunt with Lucky :o)

Luna, Annu and Lucky just happy about running free

But back to the summary.Here are the dogs with rat tulips. Rat tulips is real sign that it's summer soon. We didn't plant them and they are not the flowers that grow in our wild nature. So probably they started to grow from rat's underground kitchen and now there's more and more of them every spring.

Then a picture from a walk we had with Karin and Inna and their dog's on rainy day. All the good pictures made by Karin you have seen already. Here's one of my dear fun flying Lucky

Then I already told you about this, but still once again - my dear good boy Rocco with his winners class win awards

Our Sheltie-photo-day with Karin and her Shelties

Field on cotton-grass in forest, it was first time for me to see it, so we had to go back many times with camera to save what I saw

Living just one week without me was possible to smell from Rocco's coat (swimming every evening without drying later). Here's his payback time :o) - little sheepdog catchers washing him.

Lucky I washed myself, not that he too would have enjoyed swimming too much, but as I had heard that it would speed up change of coat. (Well, Lucky has his own plans. Maybe now he is shedding a little, but not remarkably.) Here are the pictures of my clean and groomed dogs

Then a beautiful evening on a beautiful place on west coast of Estonia

And our this years trip, to South Estonia only. Summer ended so unexpectedly, that we had to use the last chance and it came out a great trip. With our bus again. Must say, that's it bigger then it looks - wonderful travelhome for 3 people and 3 dogs :o). This year we improved our equipment by a gas stove and, as sun was not allowed for me, when Kelli and daddy were playing on the beach and swimming, I was sitting under the trees and cooking pancakes . And mushrooms we found as a supper.


Here on the picture is Kelli with dogs and bear we built, hope you see him :o)

I hope the dogs enjoyed the view too, as it's quite a good training to carry dogs up to observation tower :o)

It was a wonderful summer this year. + 30 C every day in July and half of August. Water was so warm, so we went swimming at every possibility. Lucky is suspicious about swimming but if we all go, he can't trust us having fun without him. He still hopes, that if he jumps, he can walk on the water :o)
And it's almost all. Summer definitely is too short. Just a few more pictures where signs of autumn are already possible to see.

And now it's winter outside. -24 is the coldest night this far and there's sooo much snow. It has been snowing and snowing every day, just wonderful. I have only night time pictures this far, but if the snow stays until weekend, I'll promise I make day time pictures too and post them here for you.