Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Time to open the pool
The boyz came face to face with the swimming pool this morning. We close it at the end of September when the heat starts to go and usually open it up again at the beginning of May. This year we are well and truly behind schedule but at seven this morning,after what seems like dozens of phone calls,the pool maintenance team finally arrived to get it ready. In this part of the world, with the temperatures hovering around 40, a pool is an absolute must.
The boyz treat the pool with great respect. Wilf has twice in his life managed to fall headlong into the pool when he wasn't concentrating. On both occassions he had all the bouyancy of a stone and had to be fished out. Digby has fallen in once and now gives it a wide berth.
2004 - We sell the farm in Scotland and move to the warmth of southern Europe. 2 lively Polish Lowland Sheepdogs - Wilf and Digby - our patient and comical companions. After a year in Provence we head to Italy to restore a hilltop Roman watchtower . Following an unpleasant 'housejacking' in late 2009 we set off for new adventures in South West Franceto get to grips with a large and exceedingly rickety old farmhouse. Empty nesters life after the violence of Italy has a gentler tempo. Digby passed on from piroplasmosis in May 2010. HIs brother, despite being diagnosed with cancer and having become blind ,soldiered on for another two years. Bob and Sophie joined us in 2013. Bob passed on in 2019. Sophie enjoyed the fresh air in Scotland after we returned in late 2022 but ran ahead in the summer of 23. This blog records all those little things about living with dogs that are too unimportant to make it into a diary but which make life, life.
1 comment:
Sounds like you swim like a Scottie - or a cinderblock!! Be careful.
XOXO
Lilly, Piper, Carrleigh and Java
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