Traveling The World with my humans

All these pictures I add to my blog or post on my Facebook page are taken by my mistress. But she only shares the “not so good ones” with me, most of the time. I love her pictures!   Last year she made that short video of the Husky farm we stayed at. Now she finally found the time to finish it to the full length of the song. All the pictures and videos in this video are made by my mistress and she did everything else too (except the music). It gives me the chills when I watch this. Unfortunately I could never see the dogsled because I had to wait at home but I know all the dogs personally, played with some of them and I am part of this video. Some of the dogs in the video crossed the rainbow bridge.   Maybe you want to watch it too and let me or my mistress know what you think.   My mistress loves taking pictures of wildlife and details. She could sit for hours and wait for something to show up that’s worth taking a picture of. Unfortunately there weren’t many occasions to do that but

 Today my mistress took Mogli and me for a walk up the hill. It was a beautiful day; the sun was shining, and it was still a little chilly. Perfect day for a senior dog to walk uphill.   It’s a nice walk up there, a small path through the trees. This used to be vineyards. Viniculture at the Lahn has a more than 800 years history and tradition. The Romans brought the wine to Mosel, Rhine and Donau. They found proof for this close to where we are. There is written evidence that there were vitaceous along in Nassau/Lahn in 1159. Nassau is just around the corner. They started growing grapes here in Fachbach around 1385. Wine was more than a beverage, in the medieval times it was a staff of life, a payment and exchange object and was used in worship. Vineyards belonged to churches, monasteries, noble lords of the manor, rich burgess and farmers. The late 16 th century and early 17 th century was the prime age of the wine culture at the Lahn. During the 30 Year’s War wine lost it

 You might remember, we are living close to the river Lahn. The snow is melting, and it rained for a couple of days. Now the water level rises, and the shores are flooded.   My humans can’t walk us there as they closed the shores this afternoon. We were able to walk there in the morning though and see for ourselves.   I miss walking on the shore, there is so much to see, and the newspaper is very interesting. For those of you who haven’t read my older blogs – sniffing around is like reading the newspaper, you get all the information you need: who was here, was it male or female, small or big, old or young….   The swan does not care about the flooding all he wants is to tell us – STAY AWAY or I’ll bite you. Honestly, do you think that would make you less interesting? Au contraire – Come on let us play!

 It has been snowing the last couple of days and now there is snow on the mountain. My humans took Mogli and me out there to run in the snow and enjoy. It was so much fun rolling in the snow and just running. Mogli has a different running technique than I have, well what can I say, he’s a Husky.   Speaking of Husky, I am not sure if you’re aware what it means to have a Husky in the house. Boy, I thought I am stubborn, but Mogli is the most stubborn dog I’ve ever met. My mistress tells him to do something and he’s like “mmmh, let me think ….no …. maybe I will do that next Wednesday but now I am doing something that’s more fun”.  Huskies love to destroy things. Almost all the water containers on the Husky farm were destroyed by the dogs, they chewed on their houses, and one even chewed the power cord of the central light. Luckily nothing happened. Mogli is not that bad, he tried to chew on some things in the beginning, like the bedding or pillows. When we moved to Germany, he stopped t

 Did I ever tell you I love Christmas time? There is only one reason for that – speculaas or Spekulatius as we call them.   It’s a typical type of spiced shortcrust biscuit in some European countries. They are thin, very crunchy, caramelized, slightly browned cookies. Typically they have some image stamped on before baking. The spices in speculaas are cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, cardamom and white pepper.     Nowadays the supermarkets start selling them on September 1 st . That gives me four months of speculaas every year. I missed them a lot when we were in the USA and Canada. My mistress got them in a Canadian supermarket once and was very happy. She bought five packages at once. Good thing she did, next time she went there they were all gone.   When we are in Germany we typically go to the Christmas Market in Frankfurt. This year the Christmas market was canceled because of that virus everybody is talking about. But this little town of Fachbach organized a drive-thru C

 It’s almost 4 months now that we arrived in Fachbach. My humans like it here and it seems like we are staying for a while longer. Me personally, I think it’s a good place but a miss a big, fenced area where I can run without being called back.   There is just one problem to feel really welcomed here – the major. If I would be major of a town, I would make new people in town feel welcome. I wouldn’t give them a hard time because they have dogs, and I wouldn’t make them to rush the decision of moving to receive taxes and fees. As some of my foreign followers might not know I will explain to you how moving works here in Germany. Believe me, of what I have heard humans talking there is way too much bureaucracy here.   When you live in a town or city you must go to city hall, and they must write in their books that you are a citizen of that town, and your ID card must be changed to your new address. Nowadays you even must bring the acknowledgement of your landlord when you get regi

My mistress is busy painting walls, doors, ceilings and furniture. Because my humans do “Living for work” they help around the house wherever help is needed. So, my mistress goes painting a few hours every day whereas my master does other things. I can’t smell much chemics when my mistress comes back after doing paint jobs. She uses chalk colors. In the pictures you can see some things she did.   After my humans finish their work around here, they work on their software or walk us dogs. Sometimes we walk up the hill to the big cross or to the little cratory. Other times we drive to the woods or to the field on top of one of the hills. Mogli and I can run free there. We both love running free but I get tired easily. I have to admit I am getting older and calmer, whereas that young fellow Mogli never gets tired. He is having so much fun when he is running. Too much fun, sometimes he runs me over or jumps over me because he can’t stop on time.   Last week my mistress took Mogli

My humans owned their last car back in 2019 while we lived in Las Vegas. They sold it because we left the country. Since then, we either traveled using public transportation or rental car. Here in Fachbach there aren’t any stores. You can walk to Bad Ems, which is not far away, or you can ride a bike but doing groceries is not easy that way. Of course, our hosts took one of my humans with them when they went doing groceries, but they don’t we to be a burden to anyone.   Now a big surprise happened – my humans got a present, a car. Katja, an old friend of my mistress told us that her dad got a car as a present from a friend and now he has a spare car which he wants to give to my humans. It’s old but still runs. And it’s not a car, it’s a van, a Citroen C8, a huge car with enough space for Mogli and me. The air condition is broken but it’s getting colder anyways, so we should be good. Isn’t that a very generous gift? Thank you so much!

We have been in Fachbach for almost a month now. I am comfortable wherever we are as long as my humans are with me, I have a place to sleep and get my food. Mogli on the other hand is not used to all that. Remember, he lived half wild in a kennel with other dogs until a couple of months ago.   My humans take us for walks on the shore of the river Lahn. There are plenty of ducks, geese, swans and other birds. Let’s say it that way, there is a lot of air traffic in that area. While we read our newspaper and do our business Mogli just stops and looks in the sky. He watches all these birds flying over him and making a lot of noises. You know how it sounds if ducks fly over you and make quack, quack, don’t you? The most interesting thing to see is a swan taking off. All you can hear is the noise when the wings touch the water and after some meters, a lot of meters, it finally takes off. You can see that here a lot, same thing with geese and ducks taking off. Sometimes you can see du