Two Polish Lowland Sheepdog brothers in Italy - now about to head to France
Wednesday, 3 June 2009
Polish Lowland Sheepdogs at sunset.
It's been a long day from five in the morning until ten at night and the two troubadors are ready for bed. So far today the boyz have played ball with the cleaning lady, a courier, the gardeners, and the post lady. They have barked at a large tabby cat that got too close to the gate and growled at the shepherds dogs that wandered up the hill across 'their' fields . They have also spent four hours out in the olive groves chasing lizards and snoozing while we applied fertilizer to the newly planted trees. All in all a pretty good way to spend a day.
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.
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