It has been quiet autumn in our blog. Mostly because we are living our usual everyday life and I don't have big news to tell you. This year it seems that autumn doesn't want to end. The weather has been warm, but it's dark outside and thinking about bears who can go to winter sleep makes me jealous :o). Last year at the same time it was real winter outside, cold and 45 cm of snow. Rocco seems to sense cold winter coming this year too, considering his appetite :o). Me too :os. Together with him we are like vacuum cleaners, checking all the corners of the house for food every evening :o). But Lucky has summer in his heart all year long and that means no weather can't stop him from wanting to go to walk, to play and so on. Well, to make a compromise - we keep preparing with Rocco :o), but we don't go to winter sleep :o).
But we really have had enough of the autumn now and so I make a summary of it here and hope the snow comes very, very soon.
As pictures tell more then words, I'll contribute to photos again
First a picture with Kelli and dogs and carrots that my mum raised this summer. Also the flowers behind are evidence of my mum's "green fingers". Cosmos flowers seemed really grow to cosmos :o)
One news, probably most important for me this year, about Kelli too - Kelli went to school!
I had vacation in beginning of September when we walked Kelli to school in the morning and later came to meet her there to go home together. In the mean time we took a long walk on our beach with dogs. Next photo of Rocco on his birthday. It's funny to think that just a month before this picture was taken, there was as many people on the beach, as sea shells on the photo :o). When we walked there, we meet maybe only couple of people
On the same day - Lucky just being Lucky :o)
Photo made by Karin on our beach on Rocco's birthday walk
And here some pictures taken on our weekend walks at country.
In the end of November it's Kadripäev (St.Catherine's day) in Estonian national calendar. Day before it Kadri beggars go from door to door wishing good luck and asking candies. Obviously there are different traditions on Shetland, so please excuse the dogs for looking vary to our visitors :o).
We got one more very interesting visitor, on weekend, at our country home. An hunting dog came to take a break on hunting :o). He was very kind and if we first put a leash to keep him until we called on the number on his jacket, later he played with Lucky until his owner arrived and didn't want to leave even then :o)
And last one - photo of our walk last weekend.
There's one very special friend on this photo I haven't wrote about much here - Riki. Riki and Jossu are both living with daddy's parents. And both were stray dogs as a puppy. Riki we found more then 10 years ago on our walk. He was settled under a tree and we thought his owner is somewhere near. When we walked same route week later, he was still there. We took him food there several weeks hoping he finds his way back home or his owner finds him. But he was so loyal to the place under the tree, never left from there. As it was about same time of the year as now and same weather, getting colder and colder, daddy's parents agreed to take him. And Riki has been loyal. Their garden isn't fenced, but Riki knows the border and hasn't ever crossed it allone. Riki is first dog Rocco met, when he came to us, as Riki was for sure kind and patient. And now he is kind and patient with Lucky. Riki was so much asking to come with us last weekend, that we just couldn't say no to him. And we took the route we used to walk when he and Jossu were young and Rally with us. And later Rocco, who still thinks Riki and Jossu are sheep and he is their sheepdog :o). 3 old friends were walkig nicely with us and only Lucky flied around like they used to 10 years back. It was sweet to be in same places again, and to think back on "old" times. Wonder, if they remembered their younger years too
skiing trip held near to our country home every year in February. It was second time for us and as the route contains some mountains quite high for beginners, "we participated" means that Kelli was skiing and the rest of the family was her supportive team :o). Lucky and me ran with her and helped her up and down the mountains and daddy with Rocco and Jossu drowe car to finish and then met us halfway :o). Well, next year I have probably trouble to catch Kelli even on skis :o). 
But a week later weather had worked for our benefit. Cold nigts and sunny days made strong surface on snow and it was possible to go anywhere on skis. We repeated our last years wonderful trip on rivers flood plain and next day took a trip on river to the place we have never been before. And probably not many people before us too. We only saw paw prints of wild animals, many beavers homes and amazingly beautiful places on our way. Below you can see Lucky in the action. We have taken quite long routes, but still he has strenght to sheer me, then spurt after daddy, come back sheering me again and so the whole route :o)
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