Affie bath and out for a walk...

The afghans need to have a bath more or less once a week. Today was afghan-bath-day...

They don't like it, I don't like it either, so I am very happy I am not an affie! After the bath mom said it was time for the daily walk... But... can you believe, Hobby & Paloma didn't have to go as they were still wet. Mom should blow dry and brush them when coming back from the walk she said. I seriously thought about what is worse... having a bath or going for a walk...?

If I'd had a bath, I could have stayed at home in the sofa, but on the other hand, having a bath is absolutley awful! So I really don't know... Fortunately todays walk wasn't too bad. We went the "short round", it is up in the hills just close to our house where Zara can run and play. She love to play with sticks, pieces of wood and things. I think it is because she has been playing a lot with the neigbours dog; Sam, he is a springer spaniel, "working" springer they say and this is probably correct, he is running, carrying things and retrievering stuff all the time. Tomorrow I'll tell more about our doggy friends here. About half this round there is an old house, I think it is a nice house, mom says she likes it too. We have never seen any people there, so I guess nobody lives there.

I like when we stop there to stay in the sun a bit. It is a very beautiful view from the house.

As you can see from the pictures we had a lovely day today. Sun, a blue sky, and great temperature. When we came back home mom could stay outside in the sun brushing the afghans and didn't need the blow dryer.

Gardening...

As you can see from the photo of me (Teefah) here beside I am very good at gardening, my speciality is digging! Our folks have used lots of time to plant trees, palms, flowers and other plants in the garden. We try to help them keeping it pretty...

We have heard that trees shall be trimmed; this mean you cut some branches (I think it is called "pruning") here and there to keep a fine shape of it. How ever, the folks had planted some palm trees, and we thought they were too bushy. So Paloma (Blondie) and Zara decided to do something about it. First it looked like this, see the picture above, VERY VERY bushy, don't you agree?

They really had to put in lots of effort to make it look better. I can tell you it was a hard work for them to gnaw and bite over all the leafs, it took both days and weeks! But little by little the progress become more and more visible and finally we all thought it was ok. You can see the final result on the right. Much prettier and when Sterling and Knodden wants to lift their legs on it they don't have those leafs touching their backs...

Somehow our folks didn't seem to appreciate the job, they don't have any feeling for what is beautiful or not at all! Daddy is absolutley sure the palm tree is totally dead, but mummy says that the little green thing at the top is alive and to prove it she has fenced it in. So now it is absolutley impossible to do more about it. We'll just have to wait and see what's happening. Mummy talks about taking away all plants and replace them with cactuses. I can tell you that all we hounds DON'T agree...

Finally...

Finally som news from us!



Mummy has been away on a trip for several days. Far up north where we used to live before. Her is a picture showing how it look like up there now; snow and cold! Brrr... We are very happy to be here in the sunshine! When she was away we had some lovely lazy days. Daddy and I agreed that those long walks everyday are just silly, so we have been stolling around in the garden, laying in the sunshine and had a really nice time, almost like vacation!


But today she is back, so end of lazy days..., sigh!

But it was fun too because when she came Knodden was with her. Knodden is another member of our "pack", he has been in Norway to run lure cousing and go to some shows, but suddenly he came back! I think it is because it was too cold to be there now! Here he is, standing beside the beautiful red flowers that are still in bloom here. We were all very happy to see him and have been running and playing a lot all afternoon.

More tomorrow... bye bye!

Friday...

Hi again!

Today is Friday. An absolutley ordinary day. We have been doing the things we usually do; morning walk, having breakfast, strolling around in the garden and in the afternoon going for a long walk. Today we should have been going the really long long walk (about 2 hours), but quite sudden some large dark clouds came in and we had to take a short cut back home. It will probably be some rain. I don't like rain, in fact I don't like to go for walks either. I think it is much better laying on the sun terrace if the weather is fine, or if not to have a good sleep in the sofa. Mom can never let me off during our walks, if she does I just walk home! Maybe a short run for a cat or two on the way, but otherwise staight home! Zara likes to run, she runs like crazy, up and down and here and there, to be honest I can not see the point of wasting energy like that! At the picture you can see us all at todays walk, behind us are the dark clouds... Now we will stay inside, sleeping in the sofa until dinner is served...

A little bit about all of us...

The other dogs say that I must write about them too. So here comes some info, first we are 3 salukis; me (Teefah) and my daughter Zara, she is 9 month old, and her father Sterling. Sterling is 6 years old and comes from California in the US, so he likes the sun a lot too. Both Zara and Sterling are smooth salukis, they don't have the long feathering on their ears and tail as I have.

At the picture you can see us doing what we like best, lay flat out in the sun, in front is me, to the right is Zara and behind is Sterling.

Then are the afghans, they are much like us, only much more hair! When we go for walks they get all kind of things in their coats all the time. It dosen't seem very practical, but is probably beautiful as all people we meet stop to have a look and think they are sooo cute! Here is a picture so you can see for yourself:. The dark one to the left is Hobby and the other one is Paloma, but we usually just call her "Blondie", I promise she is VERY blond! They are both 6 years old and half sisters, they have the same father but Hobby comes from kennel Elsto's in Norway and Paloma from kennel Khaos in Sweden. Says it all dosen't it: Blonde Swedish Khaos...?

Sterling is quite freezy because he has so little coat, and like to use the afghans as sleeping pillows:

We are the Caravan Hounds...

Hi there....



As to be on a blogg is something "everybody" think is cool these days we too decided to create our own blogg! "We" are a bunch of hounds, more exacly 2 afghans and 3 salukis, at least right now... It happens one or some of us come or go visiting friends, etc, so sometimes we are several sometimes less... :-)

We had a big argue about what language we should chose, we are a bunch of mixed nationalities; Norwegian, English, American and Spanish, so finally we decided in English as more people from Norway understand English compared to how many English and American people understands Norwegian, and nobody understands Spanish! We also had a huge argue and finally had to vote about who is doing the writing on our behalf, and finally I = Teefah won, as I am the oldest and being the boss means nobody dare question my word.

We used to live in Norway where it was cold most of the time of the year. A little less cold and no snow in the time they call "summer" and very cold and lots of snow in the "winter". Then a year ago we moved to heaven! Here is no snow, and the sun shines 325 out of the 365 days of the year! Can you beleive? I lived 8 years up in the cold north, and to make the balance even I have decided to stay in the sun no matter how hot it is until I've been in the sun 8 new years! Sometimes the people here come and drag me into the shade when I am about to pass out in the heat, but as soon as I get a chance I go back! If there is one cloud in sight I hurry inside and curl up in the sofa, no chances taken here!