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[scottishlass]

Yesterday there was a glimpse of high summer at last. No rain during the day and afternoon (the torrents came late when we were back home) and a hot sun shining from a pristine blue sky.
His Hubbiness™ and I decided to take the dogs down to the Rhine again for perhaps the last warm summer day. After preparing a small bento for each of us, we started out.

After all that rain, the river Rhine is fat, and dark and seems to carve a new bed for himself but everything is still within limits. Good thing is we have a lot of meadows right on the river's edge which are used as flooding areas before the dykes. Most Rhine cities and towns have dried these marches and meadows and used it as building land but not here in my hometown. So when floods are impending, even heavy flooding, we are relatively safe and only the occasional cellar fills up due to the high groundwater.

Anyway, for the first time Cenour Kimura retrieved one of his wooden sticks completely without any coaxing. I guess he now has the hang of it with all that retrieval business. After all, he had been a hunting dog which only had to show where the prey was but he never had to retrieve any of it. Now he loves to run after a stick, catch it and bring it back to me by throwing it at my feet. And if I fling it into the water, then it makes him doubly happy.

Comments

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Mr. Cenour Kimura looks very happy with his present life and proud of himself. =)

Last days of high summer... Oh, I really hope that for us here, in Moscow today will also be the _last_ day of high summer - finally! Synoptics promise cooler weather from tomorrow, but today we have the next temperature record of +34C... After already 2 weeks of non-stop heat [exhausted].

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

For the past two days we had also heat in the high 30's. my bloodpressure went haywire - I can't stand this one day cold the next super hot. :(

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Oh, my dear [hugs], I can understand you very well - have same problems. =(

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

I had to go downtown tonight and it was awful, it was so hot I thought I was going to dissolve into a puddle :(

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Here it was the same "oven" today. =/

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

If our summers are like that now, may be before the next one I will think about purchasing air conditioner into my apartment. My flat is at the sunny southern side of the building and when it is +30C for so long time, it becomes a bit difficult to endure this heat in the flat, feel myself pretty bad and my cats, too.

[(Anonymous)]

We have the same problem ... from midday to evening the sun is shining straight onto our flat and as all our windows face that direction, we can only pull the curtains shut. We have a huge electric fan though which brings a bit of relief. ACs are not very much known here (and use up too much electricity anyway), we rather use fans :)

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

That was me of course ... somehow LJ kicked me out and I didn't notice :)

[rika-66.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see...
AC is an expensive thing in my country, too, but... I have a big electric fan, but it doesn't really save a situation. Even with it working almost non-stop I have now about +31c-32C inside the flat, and this is a bit difficult I must admit. I'm a Northern dweller, I'm not used to such temperatures.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

So you can't create a draft neither :( We have to open our front door to create a draft in order to get rid of the heat :(

[kathputli-girl.livejournal.com]

Those cute dogs look SO happy! 8)

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Yup :) And I'm really glad they look so happy considering that they both spent their first years in misery.

[back2real.livejournal.com]

OMG, your dog pictures are BRILLIANT as ever! Looks like you all had a wonderful day! I love your beautiful description of the Rhine (Rein? why does that look wrong? All those years studying German have obviously done me nothing!)

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

It's Rhein :)
Thank you for the compliment :) We had a wonderful day even though I wish I could have joined Cenour in the river but the water was too cold while the sun was really hot :s

[xenokattz.livejournal.com]

The pups look VERY pleased with themselves as well they should be. *nodnods*

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Yup :) Especially Cenour seems to appreciate his life in the here and now. He is so eager to please and to enjoy every day to the fullest. Chica is much more laid back in that area :)

[spacellama.livejournal.com]

Once again, the camera loves Cenour. Those pics look like doogfood ads! lol And chica... so sweet!

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

LOL :) If he weren't deaf I could probably teach him a few tricks for camera work ;-) But naw, he is supposed to enjoy his life now. I'm just glad we could get him out of this hell he was in a year ago.

[elfnut.livejournal.com]

I will download the pics to show them to the girls (until we get net conection at home again). They look great!!!

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Give your Elflings a cuddle from me :)