Mummy & I have been in the car for almost 7 hours from Stockholm, heading to the summer house for a whole month. My brother Lucky is already there waiting for me!
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| Yipeee!!!!!! Finally here........ |
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| Good to be with my bro again! |
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| Early evening walk and we are preparing ourselves for the barking that will start beyond the trees where 7 greyhounds live in a big house. No matter how quietly we try to pass by they always hear us and the barking starts....... |
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| Trying to get a "birds view" of the fields........there are so many bunnies in there!!!!! |
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| Scorching hot day and I've just checked out my first field!!!!! |
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| Our favourite evening walk to the medieval castle Glimmingehus........ |
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| And here it is, the castle........ |
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| Mummy trying to get Lucky to pose for the camera. He's not used to it but got better and better as the weeks passed by :) |
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| Here I am.....an experienced "poser"!!! |
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Mummy desperately tried to get me to put my ears down. She so wanted just one picture of us brothers with "normal" whippet ears.
I really tried to keep them down when Mummy stroked them downwards......but they instantly flopped up again :( |
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| Two Princes.....outside their castle! |
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| Resting in the wee cottage where Mummy & I sleep.........I love this cosy room. |
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| So tired.......tucked into bed after a very hot and busy day........ |
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| Morning walk....and busy again exploring the fields....... |
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| There is so much activity in the undergrowth but I just can't seem to get to it! |
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| Ssssshhhh........be very quiet, I'm on to something!!!! |
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| Coming up for air Mummy.......going down again in search of bunnies!!!! |
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| So close.....yet not close enough.......... |
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| Bunny escaped yet again.........but tomorrow is another day! |
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| An outing to the sea on this very hot day. |
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| Mummy's beautiful boy! |
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| A bit hesitant to walk all the way out on the jetty....... |
House & Garden
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| Mummy's and my summer paradise. A simple, unspectacular cottage but we love it....... |
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| Blue & white......a tiny bit of "Greece" :) |
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The garden.
Mummy has no experience whatsoever but has found a new passion since Grandma passed away. She spent the first week digging, weeding, cutting hedges and planting new flowers and found it immensely satisfying. I think this also made her feel close to Grandma....... |
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| Magnificent roses! |
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| Nice view of the wee cottage. |
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| New lavender planted.......hoping it will grow nicely and become thick and bushy eventually. |
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| Nighttime falls........the house cosy and lit up. |
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| On vacation everyday routines are still kept up which includes brushing my teeth! |
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| It's night and I hear a noise outside........I'm barking because I have to protect Mummy. This is a very important job! |
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Wakey, wakey darling Milou!
Rise & shine.......another beautiful day awaits us! |
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As much as Mummy LOVES me.......she also needs "alone time".
This is when she heads out on long bikerides and relishes the amazing countryside, speeding along on superb roads with no traffic. This is when she empties her head of thoughts and simply feels the closeness to nature and the flow and energy of moving forward. This is her meditation......... |
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| Ahhhhh........so nice with a pit stop some 50 km's into the ride! |
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| This became a daily routine stopping at this lovely café, enjoying a short break, having a nice talk with the owners and then heading off recharged on the final 10 km's! |
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| BARK, BARK, BARK!!!!!! at the kitchen bench where our boxes of treats are!!!!! |
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| Mummy is naughty....putting the boxes too high up for us to reach........ |
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| ........we are super angry with Mummy!!!!!! |
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| Grrrr.........at last I can rip into my box!!!!!!! |
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| A visitor outside the fence......... |
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| ........and we had a birds nest in one of the hedges. Mummy was cutting the hedge when she saw the tiny nest so had to leave a big part of the hedge uncut, so not to disturb this sweet little family. A week later the nest was empty....... |
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| Mummy really had a good laugh at me here because I was so tricked!!!! From a distance I saw this stone and rushed forward and jumped up onto it, to what I thought was a cat - but it was just a pottery pig :) :) |
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| The farmers have been working round the clock harvesting........you hear their farm vehicles when you go to bed and again first thing in the morning. |
Sunsets
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| Mummy has running and cycling as a passion but I think we can add sunsets to her list of passions. Almost every evening she would stop and go all mellow inside and I think sometimes also a bit tearful. Because the intense beauty of the sunsets made her think of her Mummy.......my Grandma that crossed the rainbow bridge 3 1/2 months ago. |
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| There are two things in this picture that Mummy loves: my silly ears and sunsets!!!! |
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Almost every evening, Lucky & I would glance at each other and do a "quiet"
sigh......saying: here we go again, another amazing sunset that Mummy simply must capture on camera!!!!!
Note: for those now bored with sunsets.......scroll down quickly!!!!! |
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| Mummy felt that this spectacular sunset, our last evening of our vacation, was like a precious gift. She was totally enchanted and we stood and watched until it disappeared......... |
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| My last night at the summer house.........tomorrow a long day in the car back home to the city :( |
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| Lucky has already seen the car being packed.......he knows we are leaving and he's feeling low. I try and comfort him saying we'll see each other soon again back home.......... |
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| Sweet, dearest Lucky........sitting inside the gate, sadness in his face, watching us leave. |
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This was a wonderful summer vacation with fabulous warm sunny weather at our dear house but it was also one "tarnished" with moments of deep sadness as this was the first summer without Grandma. Mummy misses her Mummy so very much but being here also made her feel close to her. Her soul, her spirit is all around and Mummy could sense her presence in a positive way.
Now we bid farewell to Österlen for this time and long for our return next spring......... |
