Traveling The World with my humans

  I already told you that I love food, not just dog food but human food as well. My humans fed me a lot of different dog foods, some of them I liked, others I did not. They feed me dry food, my digestion is not too keen on wet food. In the USA I had food with peanut butter flavour, or cheeseburger flavour, in Canada it was mainly hamburger flavour. Here in Germany it's chicken or beef flavour, sometimes duck. None of them were outstanding. While we were in Burg, Dithmarschen a year ago, my humans found a shop that sells dog food mainly made out of fish. My humans bought a sack of food there and I loved it right away. Mogli? Don't ask him, he will anything, he doesn't care.  Mogli: "That's not true, I love a good taste. I only eat paper because I can chew on it and will not tear anything else apart. Remember, I'm a Husky and I love fish, that's in my blood. I was born in Swedish Lapland." Be quiet, you don't care how the food tastes, as long as it i

 Funny dolls in the garden, Chloe and Cindy and my mistress broke her arm - April 23, 2021 On Easter Sunday my humans, Mogli and I went for a walk in the woods. All of a sudden while talking to my master, my mistress slipped and fell. She fell on her left side, very hard, and I could hear a crack. She was in a lot of pain when she got up again. My master took her to the Bundeswehr Krankenhaus (a hospital) in Koblenz. My master, Mogli and I had to wait quite a while until she finally came back to the car. She had a cast on her left arm, the arm was broken and needed to be in the cast for about 6 weeks. Now she can't take a shower and needs help doing somethings. Luckily my master is here and can help her. Sometimes when our humans take Mogli and me for a walk at the Lahn we meet two boxer dog girls named Cindy and Chloe. It's fun playing with them and if no other dogs are around we can run free. Cindy is older than I am and she doesn't like it when I say hallo doggy style, y

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