It has been very busy for Donna, the visiting lab.

She has seen goats and cats at my place, and Wednesday I took her to the horse stable.

Today was her 4th day here and the walks are getting longer for her. Here you can see the tour (map) with photos.

When I moved here last year, Otto the neighbor dog, (RIP) was quite fat but during his last year he was getting fit & lost lot of weight and wasn’t fat at all.

Donna isn’t overweight at all, but she is getting fitter here

My boys are very fit. I have tried to make them tired by taking them for a long bicycle ride (15 km) but after it they were not tired at all. You cannot say the same about me…. I need to get more fit. I used to be very fit but I’ve been a bit lazy lately. At least I’m back in the track again.

We have a brand new whistle.

The pink whistle supports the cause of breast cancer.

A good whistle, just like my “orginal” one with the same tone too. I already tested it on Tuesday when we went for a walk with the dogs.

Here’s more photos of the “Jäkälä” , Lichen, that Michelle was asking about

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Alfie & Eddie have a visitor: a chocolate labrador called Donna.

Donna came here on Sunday evening and she will stay here until next Monday when her owners are on holiday. She has also two “sisters” but they are staying at their “grandparents”.

The whole gang has been surprisingly calm. At first there was the normal hassle but after a while they all settled down nicely.

Donna is not used to cats so she is very very interested in them. Also goats are new to her but she does not show as much interest to them anymore as she does for cats.

We had a nice morning walk today and here is the tour with photos.

Just over a week ago Eddie & Alfie got addition to their family: three goats.

The “whole gang” went for a walk this Saturday.

Neighbor Jonna was walking the goat Lumikki (Snow White) and the young goats (Wilho & Wilma) were following.

I took care of the boys so that they did not get too overwhelmed about the goats during the first walk together.

The walk

In the forest

The summer is progressing far too quickly.  The hay fields are ready to be cut.  We did our walk this morning at 6:30am beside the river & the golf club.  The golf club has stated to do special offers for those who use it prior to 7:30am and after 4:30pm so we were not alone. J

Finley has been running away recently while we have been walking.  He is going through his teenage months & is wilful.  This morning I received a

round of applause from a group of golfers when I managed to call him back before he jumped all over them (he was wet & filthy).  I was so pleased he came back I was cheering as though we had won the world cup.   

The photos are of Baxter & Finley playing in the hay fields & swimming, more swimming & more swimming after that. 

The warm weather has hit us & the bad boys are exhausted with the heat.  Today we went walking on the heath at 6:30am.  We are still practising the Sit/Stay.  At the end of the walk it was 14 degrees and getting warmer. 

The boys are looking fairly exhausted but sitting like professionals in the shade. 

At the end of the walk the boys found some scientists who had spent all night on the heath.  They were fairly surprised by the two boys, with renewed energy, saying hello.