Brain surgery gone wrong

Right, well, eeeeerm .........

So after some reconstructive surgery (by me), we've got ...

one happy monkey ...

and an even happier Skye.

The big move!

Skye has emigrated! A few weeks ago we moved back to the Netherlands, because the project that Joost had been working on for his employer came to an end. We had a great time in the UK. So many good things happened there in the last two years.

It still feels a bit strange being back home. But it's also very nice being close to my family and friends again. And I've found a great agility club for Skye, so we're finally getting started with training. Which is such a good thing as Skye is soooo ready for a new challenge. I'll tell you all about it soon!

Skye, learning about all things Dutch ;)

Introducing Hidde!

It's been a while and lots of things have happened. Most important of all, our little boy Hidde was born in October last year. So Skye has a new little friend! It's been quite a roller-coaster ride so far. Gosh, does a baby change your life! Fortunately Skye seems to be taking it all in her stride. Although she seems a bit more clingy since Hidde's arrival. Like she wants to make sure we don't forget about her. She's very sweet with Hidde though.

Who's that little fella?

He smells a bit funny ;-)

Staying close to me and Hidde.

By now Hidde is almost four months old and doing very well. He's such a sweet little boy! And growing so fast! Isn't he cute?

Let it rain!! Or maybe not ;-)

Skye's birthday present finally arrived today!! I'd ordered a nice Hurtta raincoat for her (which turned out to be out of stock, so took a while to get here.) I really like Hurtta dog gear, Skye has a harness by them as well and it fits her so well.

I am not really into dressing up dogs, but I think a raincoat is really practical, especially with heavy coated dogs. When Skye was a little puppy, she had one as well and it always kept her coat nicely clean and dry in really bad weather.

Her new rain coat came just in time. About an hour after the mail man handed it over to me the sun disappeared and the sky turned grey. The weather is rather horrible here at the moment. Rain has been pouring down for hours now.

I must admit Skye isn't too keen about wearing a coat. When I put it on, she just stands still and won't move a paw, looking very sorry for herself. On the photo above she looks quite happy though, but that's because I have a nice dog treat in my hand. ;-D

Fortunately, as soon as she's outside she forgets about the coat and behaves just as she always does. And when we come home after a walk she's happier too, because drying her hair with a towel takes no time at all.

Reunion

Last Thursday Skye met up with her mum, dad, sisters and Lian's other dogs at the Dogs in Need Agility Show. Skye was over the moon, getting to play with all these shelties. She turnes into a complete loonie as soon as she sees Lian and her boys and girls again.

Skye loved playing with Sipzie.

Sipzie having Skye for lunch. ;-)

Soon Saturn and Samber joined in as well.

Skye and Samber flattening Sipzie. Oops. 

But don't mother and daughter look alike!!

In the mean time Seagull looked after little Sunny. Sweeties!

It was really nice finally catching up with Skye's sisters in real life. I had seen them when they were just six weeks old and after that only on pictures. But you can definitely see they're sisters, all having such sweet little faces.

Of course we took a group photo. From left to right: Sunny, Seagull, Sizzle, Saturn, Sipzie, Sing, Samber, Tiggi, Skye, Sadie and Tiggi's mum Sally. (Click on the picture to make it a bit bigger.)

After the shelties had their picture taken by Chris the photographer as well, we had a great bbq lunch with lots and lots and lots of sausages, hamburgers, steaks and lamb chops (those last ones just for the dogs ;-D), prepared by Colin and Lian.

I looooove bbqs, can I join you?

And after that some delicious birthday cake. Phew, we definitely weren't hungry at the end of the day!

Skye and Sadie with the birthday cake.

And of course we watched some agility as well. Skye seemed to like it a lot, she really followed the dogs running the course.

Thank you so much this lovely day, Lian and Colin. We had a great time!

Lian with Skye the parrot.

Camping

Yes, we've been away again! This time we've been camping in North Norfolk for a few days. And as always, Skye came with us. The camp-site was near the beach, so you can easily guess where we went every day. Skye really enjoyed herself, running like crazy on the sand. We still weren't able to convince her to get into the water though. Well, only a bit, just to collect her biscuit, but then she'd run back out right away. She had a really good time though. I think she enjoyed sleeping in the tent as well, being so close to us. And the fact that in the tent our food was always pretty low to the ground was pretty interesting too.

On the beach:

'Come', the water is lovely.

Eeewww, that's quite deep enough for me!

Doggy long legs

Wet and windy!

Although Skye looks very much like her mum Samber, 

she's also starting to take after her daddy Sing: 

she loves chasing tennis balls!

Ready, steady ...

At the camp-site:

Relaxing at the camp-site.

That smells good, I'll have some of that!

Skye would sleep right next to me in her crate.

Pretty girl!

The weather was not great all the time, 

we had a few pretty bad showers too. 

Skye was looking very sorry for herself after getting soaked. ;-)

Celebration time!

Our little sheltie girlie is 1 year old today!

Happy Birthday Skye!!