Spring, She Is A Comin’…..

Yes folks, spring, she is a comin’ to Norway! Hurray for that! There is a constant trickling sound of water dripping as the remaining snow melts around the property and it’s a great sound!

Started my day today with two long walks with five leonbergers…Sarah and I took them in two groups, Nanna and Redman first then Bently and Isabella and Birdy last. Jenny got to play in the yard and do some tricks today. Came home and had my breakfast of choice these days…I’ve gotten hooked on this rug bread. (which is a rye bread from Denmark) The smell is horrid but when you get past that the taste grows on you and you’re not hungry for a long while after this breakfast so I’ve been hooked on these little smelly breads lately. What do I have on it you ask? That is creamy cheeses with shrimp flavour…and cucumber..not your typical American breakfast but it’s good and healthy :-)

Ran Thomas to Stavsjø to get his hair cut, our hairstylist had moved locations and built up a new salon and people have been saying the prices had gone up some, but we paid 100 Norwegian Kroner for Thomas’s hair cut and I was pleased. I told her I’d be back in May to get my hair coloured but had too many dog expenses this month. She was so nice and told me I could get my hair done now and pay later if I wanted….gotta love living in the country!! :-)) I thanked her for the offer but told her I’d be back in the beginning of May and pay for my hair to get done!

Came home and took a look around the property…

With the snow melting the gardens are coming forth and oi oi oi all the work there is to do there! Not sure where to begin? Feel like just ripping everything out of there and letting whatever remains grow up again but think I might lose quite a lot of nice plants if I did that, so I’ll have my work cut out for me there. The yard is burned by the snow and ice and so I’ll ask at my local farm shop what I can do about that. I was noticing the front door is all scraped up from Heidi and all the times she jumped on the door to come in…now that she is gone I guess we can safely paint it without fear of it getting all scraped up again…

I’ve also been noticing all the dog poop coming forth now that the snow has melted…ugh, gross…going to probably have several wheel barrel loads of that crap (no pun intended) to carry away…ugh…

I’d like to ask the farmer (or rather have Stig ask the farmer…hehehe) if we can buy this property behind our dog pens and then fence it all in for the dogs. It’s a nice little woody area where they can run around and have shade from the heat of summer. Then our yard can be spared the poop and pee these six leave behind…nice thought huh? I’ll keep you posted what the farmer says…probably wants a million kroner for this….

Isn’t it glorious when the snow is melting? I was thinking how amazingly fast the snow is leaving…seems not too long ago we were wading out in knee deep snow in this field to play with the dogs and now…almost nothing!

And look what I found in the woods behind the dog pens…blåveis!! Not sure what the translation would be in English- maybe someone reading knows what it would be…please let us know if you would….but they are sweet and they are colourful and that is wonderful after the long dark winter with all the darkness and white everywhere…the colour is GREAT!

We are able to dry clothing outside again and there is nothing like clean towels dried outside….they smell so good- same thing with our sheets from our beds!

I guess it’s safe to put these away now….and bring out…

…my bike….now that I have those fancy bike shorts with the diaper thing in the crotch so I won’t lose feeling in my….well, you know….I have no excuses anymore not to bike…they say once you’ve learned to ride a bike you never forget. Hope that is true!

Some people have flowers outside their homes….we have dog leashes and dog collars and dog harnesses- you name it, we have it for the dogs…but I imagine there will be flowers coming outside also eventually.

Tonight it’s just Thomas and Julia and I home so I’ll make some homemade mini pizzas and we’ll take it easy. Tomorrow we plan to work out in the yard- well, not Julia. Her back is still really bad and she is walking all hunched over. She had crashed the atv a couple months ago and it rolled off the side of the road- she managed to get it back up on the road but in the process did something to her back. Monday we’re going to the chiropractor. She’s been to the regular doctor who gave me some long name for what it was but I don’t remember. I just got that we were to take Julia to the chiropractor and she’d be called in for an MR x-ray instead of a regular x-ray when they have time for her. (You know how that socialized medicine system works)

Have an enjoyable Saturday and thanks for stopping by!

Until next time my friends…