The concept of “catch”…

My friend Christian was “house- and dogsitting” for the last day, two weeks ago. I went for a visit. While Christian was vacuuming and making the house “spic and span” – I went out in the garden to hang out with ‘Jack the wonder-dog’.

Now Jack is a wonderful and charming individual. He’s full of energy, loves to play and has a serious ball addiction. One of his favorite games is “catch”, but he has a variation that is in my opinion, at least partly against the main principals of the game “catch”.

When you throw he fetches with all he’s got. You really see the wolf in Jack – the ball has no chance to escape Jacks jaws. Here comes the conflict. He doesn’t return the ball! You can try to persuade, manipulate or trick him. But it won’t do… If he has his favorite ball – he won’t let go. Of course i had to learn this the hard way. Trying the above, without results – i tried to wrestle the ball out of Jack mighty jaws. After one failed attempt, he was clearly insulted and decided to trot out of range of Poul Kjartan’s thieving hand. My theory is, that he had had enough and did this to spite me. Eventually Christian came out to hang out.

But believe it or not, Christian, the Larsen family and now moi – have a secret method, that is so cunning that i do not dare teach the www.

I really don’t know how to end this, so I take a short bow…

Can’t sleep…

Sometimes i just can’t sleep, i’m wide awake – not feeling tired and am full of energy. So why not put a couple of pictures in my blog. By the way, these pictures were taken with my dear departed camera, that is no more.

Enjoy….

This is a rather cute picture. It’s Mulan (cute cat) and Baldur (lovable bulldog). You can clearly see, that they were best friends. Baldur is no longer with us. He had arthritis and was in a lot of pain – so he had to be put down. I didn’t like him at first. He snored, had flatulence, threw up all over the place and always begged for scraps. But he had so much charm that you realy couldn’t ignore his “Baldur Charm” – it just grows on you. I do miss him a lot and so does Mulan….

Picture taken in Thorshavn (Faroe Isl.). Ólavsøku is a lot of things – well officially it’s a national holiday where we commemorate Olav II (later canonizes as “Saint Olav the Stout”) and the Faroese Parliament (Løgtingið) opens.

But for me, the true meaning of olavsøku, is meting old friend and family you havn’t seen for a long time and having fun. It’s “sinfull”, peaceful and lively at the same time….

It gives life a capitol “L”.