Review and good resolutions

Siiiiiiiigh* Oh weellllll *sigh*..............
Hey Flanna what's up, never seen you so sorrowful before !
Umm well Rike, none of our Christmas wishes was fulfilled, not one *sigh* none, not a drag. Not even the snow came!

You're right Flanna, although the year has started so great. Here, have a look!!
Oh yeeees snow, we had him in January and end of February we took him with us all the way from Bavaria*grin*
Huh, took him with us ?????????
Yes, when we visited Adele, then Adele and I just tied a cloud at the back of our car when we went back home. Hihihi and our 2leggies were wondering the whole journey why it was snowing all the time*laughing*

You're right, here I got a picture of us three. Even I've never seen so much snow before as at Adele's home in Bavaria.
That was really great, but the best was in the evening when your muscles were so sore that you were walking as if you had wetted your furpants. *laughing loud*
That's nooooooot truuueee *puffed up*

But you still remember this Rike ???
That was in April, the Newfs-Express  *clapping her paws* that was great, we went on a trip with our steam-train next door.
Yes, that was really great, and the best is: On may 17th 2014 it will ride again, our dogtrain!
Huh, dog exercise?? The express got a locomotive, so we don't have to train!!! *looking dumbfounded*
No training Flanna, you deadhead. Train, railway etc. got it now?

By the way, remember where this was???
Yeeeees, *jump* that's at our friends in the Netherlands, that's Lakaya, Boenjo and you ....................... huuuh, where am I then *peering*
Hihihi, even when you try to look from the top on the picture you wouldn't see more.
But I know where you've been, you stuck with your head in the sand, had nothing else then digging in your mind *shaking her head*

Eww, but there we were allowed to dig, Yes! *beaming* Yes, you're right, but only in that huge sandbox ................ aaaaand not digging out the tree at the entrance so that it was close to fall down you deadhead, gosh that was so embarrassing again with you *chunter*
Yes, I know *meekly* I will do better in the future, really ........... I promise !!!'
You and promising *laughing loud* I wanna see that !!!
Ha you'll see ! *looking defiant*

 

In September Adele was visiting us, that was absolutely brilliant !
Yes, and then we had all that gatherings with our other doggiefriends and their 2leggies.
Summer-party, dogs-blessing also, quite a busy year.
You're right Rike, and then you've been ill, wasn't able to pee. Thank god they were able to help you at the animal hospital, and that immediately, because you started right on the table to p.........umpf ......

SHUT UP, if you don't want me to box your ears Flaaannnaaa!

Ummuuumm........hey take your ar.. from my snout I don't say anymore  *giggle* but that was funny, and such happens to you.
Flannaaaa, you promised to improve !!!!!!!!!!! Y'know, the new year and the resolutions!!!!
Yes, I for one resolved not to steal anymore on two legs. *big grin* and maybe to drag a tiny bit less on the leash. But only out of love to mum, because she's always whining that her arms get longer every time and that would look awful by and by!!!!

And Rike, how about your resolutions ?????
Of course I got one. I resolved to stay as I am, because I'm anyway the best *big grin*
Whaaat are you .......................

 Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

We wish you all a Happy New Year!!

Flanna Neufundi  and Rike Neuberner

©Bea Grein
translation: Detlef Grein

I wanna go there again!!!!!!!!!

Good morning *yaaaawwwwn* my dear friends of the shortbarks!
You have to excuse me, but I’m still a little bit tired this morning.
Our 2leggies are looking for a new hut, relocating they call it!
But Rike gonna tell you more about it next time, because I don’t get it, we got our home here!



Well, there is one good thing about this excursions, you get around and met new friends.
Another nice side effect, at last we’ve been able to go for a swim!!
But first things first.
Last Saturday we’ve been again on a trip to look for a hut, but there was nothing there. Rike and I allready thought, ok let’s go back home then we can go into the garden to stretch our paws.
But after a short ride we stopped again. Oh no, please not another hut now!!!
But this time we were allowed to leave the car as well and our rucksack with all the swimmingstuff was taken out!
We just had to wait for a few minutes and then arrived another dogbuddy with his mum.
Just a quick hello because I wanted to go asap to the water which was already tickling in my nose.

On our way I urgently needed a light refreshment so this little puddle was just right.
I just couldn’t understand why my mum wasn’t thrilled at all.
No Flanna please not in the mud-hole, pleeeaasee!!!
This request was denied, because mud makes you beautiful, so told me Rike!
Or was she kidding again???? *pore*

 As we finally arrived at the Rhine all 3 of us plunged into the flood. And now I had enough time to say Hi to my buddy Bero.
He was a little taller then me, a top swimmer and...........*sigh*.........I think I’ve fallen a little in love.

I called out all my charm, but he took no note-by me, he was, like Rike, only fixed on his swimmingtoy!

He that will not hear must feel, I thought and took, in a moment where he was not looking, his swimmingtoy!

 

This has worked and I finally got the attention that is due to me!







Btw, here you’ll find more pictures: Fun at the Rhine

All in all it was a great afternoon and actually we don’t wanted to leave.
But Rike and I was pretty tired from all that swimming an d playing so we slept most of the way back home.

But one thing was clear and there Rike and I are for once in complege agreement:
We wanna go back there, now!!!!!!!
And Bero also..........*sigh*

Flanna?? Flaaaaannnnaaaa!!!!! Hm,she is absent. Flaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaa!!!

Yes???
Oh, have to say good bye.
Allright, have a nice week and bye bye till the next time

Yours Flanna Neufundi

© Bea Grein
translated by Detlef Grein 

Megalomania and a lawnmonster

Hello my dear friends, greet you all!
I've heard that some of us dislike the variety of 2leggies who call themselves postman!
So as far as I’m concerned this is definitely not the case!!!
He was here again this week and has delivered a huge parcel that was obviously for us!

I immediately smelled that there is something eatable in it.


Mum and the postman then lifted the package from his van in the garden.

Must have been probably quite heavy. So clearly a looooooooot of tasty grub food in it!! Come on mum, stop chatting now. He has more to do, and you better open the box NOW, otherwise I'll do it yourself!

That humans always have to talk so much. Well, the postman is excused. He got a dogbuddy himself, that makes him more likeable!
Mum then finally opened the box. Unfortunately, there were, to my disappointment, only 2 large bags inside.
Mum just said: "That’s Your "Guteli" (Food)!"
For goodness sake, we can smell that. Just open the bag!!!!

But mum was then unmerciful and carried the bags with groaning into the house and dragged the box over to the green buddy!
Next to it stands his big brother and he is blue!
No no no, your not gonna feed the Big Blue with that box!
He's much too valuable and I've already got an idea what you can do with it.
So I curtly caught it and carried it off!
This box was so huge that I could place myself into it.


Mum looked rather surprised when she returned to the garden and the box has disappeared.
I then indicated to her that she could turn this into a goodies-game-box!
For your explanation: This is a box stuffed with a lot goodies and paper, then taped up and a few holes are cut in! We can then shred it to reach all that goodies. That’s a hell of fun!
Such a thing I wanted to get made out of MY box!
What comes from my mum?
"Flanna, you’re suffering from megalomania!" said so and the box still returned into the big Blue!
Butt hat wasn’t even the only scandal of the day! sigh
Soon my master returned home he took a rather greedy monster out of the shed.
I think it has to be fed once a week with grass, I just wonder why?
It’s in the shed the whole time and is doing nothing!

This thing gobble up all the grass, but if I just take a mouthful of it, it instantly sounds "Flanna Taboo!!!"
That’s mean, yup it is!
So I dragged at the leash which was fitted at it and the monster stopped guzzling.
But master just  fixed it and the monster continued with the nosh-up.
Seems that it only eats at the leash.
Believe me, I gave everything! I’ve hunted it, I barked and growled, nothing helped!!

Finally, as a last resort, I’ve done something I normally would never ever do!
Well, at home in the garden I mean.
I just wanted to rescue at leas the last bit of the lawn from that monster, so I just made a hump and placed a stinky sausage!
Huh, it works, master stopped to walk behind the monster. Victory!!!
Um master, what are your doing now???
Master just took a black cracklething and picked up my sausage!


It sounded even meant in my direction: " Flanna could you not do that on the short part???"
Well, and You could imagine what happened then, that monster ate even the last bit!!!
Only Rike was extremely thrilled. allegedly because her ball is now rolling better again! She waffled something about a neat football pitch!!
Well and this she has to explain now to me, that why I say bye-bye now till next time.

Yours Flanna Neufundi

© Bea Grein

translated by Detlef Grein

A Hammer bears get-together

Hello friends and supporter of the shortbarks!
Today I’d like to...............
Pardo,what you mean with dry me off first????????
Ok but hurry up, they’re waiting for the newest shortbarks!!
Ok, today I’d like to.........
What’s the matter???? 

What you mean, don’t come to close because that’ll give wet trousers?? How should dictate then, don’t be so squeamish mistress!!!
Well, this is clarified now, finally we can get back to last sunday!
There we’ve made a trip with our 2leggies.
We went to visit the Hammer dogday!!  Into the car and off we went!
As we arrived I could already hear that there are a lot fellas and I went tingly all over!!
So doors open and: Off You go! First I cruised round the car park and relieved myself then straight on to say Hi do a dogpal who also just left his car!
Flllaaaannnnaaaaa!!!
Niiiiinnnnchen!!!
Ouch, that doesn’t sound good!
I think I better go back, seams like I’ve forgotten somethink.
But what??????????
Ok, after I’ve put my mistress on the leash (that’s what I’ve fogotten) off we went to all the fellas.
My misstress seemed to by a little scared because instead of  following me swiftly she stopped over and over again.
I realy was in a hurry so I desided to drag her along.
Yes I know, I shouldn’t do this but I really had something better to do then to get into it!

First we met 3 mates from the Landseer-relief and a handsome guy joined us with his master to our destination! 
That was the stall of the Newfoundland-relief where we arranged to meet a few other newfies!
By the way the Landseer-relief, as well as the Newfoundland-relief, are 2leggies who help fellow dogs, thus are homeless or somehow else in need, to live in comfort again!
Just great!



As we reached that stall we where extensively greeted and cuddled and soon the next pals arrived.I just gonna introduce them to you picture by picture!

Balu

Elfi and Smilla

Drago

The Beargang

We also got endless goodies but the location was just perfect. Next to us was a lady with her stall who sold a lot of different treats and a few times she came to us to give us samples. Yummie!!
At some point even the best afternoon has an end and I happily admit that I was pretty glad that I could go back to the car for a nap during our way back home.
At home I demanded a propper shower from our 2leggies, a good dinner and soon after I arrived in the land of nod!!( sigh Drago, Balu ...........)
Ah, before I forget it: Her eis the link to even more pictures: Hammer dogday

So now it’s time to say good bye, just because my msitress want to get of her wet trousers. Till next time

Bye bye Yours Flanna Neufundi

© Bea Grein
translated by Detlef Grein

Rike's secret

Mornin’ my dear friends!!
So, are you already awake???
Well, I must confess I’ve some trouble with it this week. As You know my 2leggies had holidays and it was on us to lumber them out of the bed.
For goodness sake, till they got fully under way we nearly became desperate.


All right, dogs like us are adaptable and had us adjusted to stay up a little longer in the evening, using the time to romp around and in return sleeping a little longer in the morning.
And now??!!!!
This week they’ve dragged us out of the bed in the middle of the night.!!!
Could perhaps some decode humans *sigh*

And now for something completely different, today I’ll gonna lift the secret about my beloved Pink Ball!
Yeah, right, I know what most of you’re thinking: Why the hell she’s making such a fuss about a simple ball!!!
I can even understand you, but that ball got it’s very own story.
It didn’t belong to me in the beginning; this ball had another owner before me.
Some might remember her!

This was my dearest friend Enya, the whole 2 years of her much too short live we’ve shared!
This pink ball belonged to her and I had an orange ball.
Ok, sometimes I’ve nicked the ball from Enya but I’ve always returned it to her as well!
Last Sunday it was exactly one year ago that she’s passed away and somehow I still miss her a bit.
She was so calm and I felt soooo comfortable at her side!

Here you could see us together. Theo ne with the clever face is me by the way!!!
My mistress have made a video to preserve the best pictures of her. Because it is sooo lovely I want to share it with you even when the lyrics in the song are in German:
A live in pictures

So that Sunday was a commemoration day and today we’ve got a…… yeah, what we’ve got today???
Because exactly today a year ago this nuisance moved in!!

Flanna!!!
All right I wasn’t realy that thrilled at the beginning. Because she was so tiny and I couldn’t play that well with her!
Well, this has changed in that year. Flanna has grown up considerably and now we also become friends. And now I gonna tell you a secret, but please do not tell it anybody: "Ahem, I love this little pinhead Flanna"
Btw. the story about her entry you could read here:
That little thing called Flanna

Of course, today we are inseparable, and we have a lot of fun together!!
But she will never ever get my pink ball and now you know why!
It is a remembrance of Enya and that is sacred to me!
Anyway Flanna isn’t that kind of a „balldog“, she prefers to lug branches from the forest back home and then she tries to crush them. *head shaking*
Well now and then I help her and shred the branches into tiny pieces..
I just wonder why she’s then standing next to me and, the smaller the pieces get, she’s looking more and more desperate.
This is the whole point of the matter, isn’t it??

Ok, that it from me for this week. I’ll have a little nap now. Enjoy the week.

Yours

Rike Neuberner 

 © Bea Grein 

 translated by Detlef Grein

On the road again

Yaaaaaaaawwwwwwnnn........ Oh, good morning to all of You!!! I know, You’re likely to dribble eagerly from one paw to the other and waiting fort he new “Shortbarks”! My 2legged friends (or 2leggies as we call them) are still on holiday so they stay a little longer in bed, especially my mistress. I exploit it, first waiting till my master left the bedroom, then snea into the room, carefully climbing up onto the bed and then lovingly waking up mommy with a lot of newfs slobberkisses.

I don’t know why she’s shouting Yyyyuuuuuk, but I suppose this is her expression of joy,  because after that I get a lot of hugs and then we snuggle for a while!
Ok, but now to the point I wanted to tell You, our fantastic excursion last saturday.
It was allread noon as we once again were allowed to get into the car and this time we travelled a little bit longer.
I used the time for a little nap and to flirt with with the passengers in the cars behind us.
As we arrived Rike was allready totaly excited because again she knew where we are!
We’ve been the first to arrive and so we had to wait for 5 minutes at the gate.
But then another car arrived and two 2leggies got out of the car which my staff seams to know.
They where so happy, if they would have had tails like we, they would have fallen of from wegging!*giggle*
This gate was the entrance to a huge fenced areal and I really wanted to get in there!!!

As I stormed in, I have someone completely overlooked.
A handsome guy on 4 paws has left the car aswell.Chewbacca he’s called!
Here you could see him, together with my new friend Ronja which arrived a little later!
I really liked Chewy right away and we instantly became friends but there was one thing I really couldn’t understand: Why the hell he was allways only interessted in my backside???*brood*



During cavorting I suddenly recognised a small, black, fuzzy something whitch also was strolling around the areal!
This is not really....... YES, it was him!

 My still small but lovely half-brother Paaaaadddyyyy!!!
Isn’t he cute ???
He was it who brought Ronja with him. She’s living together with him an their 2leggies.

We, the tall ones were then able to get a round romp and ......Oh you know what, I just show You a few pictures. Just in case before my typist goes on strike because she wrote her fingers raw!

Catch me if You can

Dog-muddle

Rike our decency dog

My favorite picture Paddy and me

If you now in the mood for more pictures, here is the link to our album: Meeting friends.

Unfortunately, the time passed much too quickly, and once again it was time to say goodbye.
But I eavesdropped the 2-leggies and heard that they want to meet again soon in any case.
This is a good thing, I don’t want Paddy to be grown up when I see him again. In the moment I’m still the taller one but I’m afraid if he continues to grow like now it wouldn’t take long and he grow me over the head *sigh *. 


It would give as much to tell, but my stomach is growling, It is not yet even be about time for.........lunch???  I'm off then.......scrape-squuueeeaak-rattle ........what You mean with „return and finish the writing“??????
Scooottt-sliiiidddee-braakeee........ Ok, it’s me again !!!
I'm supposed to say goodbye properly my mistress told me, otherwise I would get anything for lunch!

So, until the next time
bye says Yours
Flanna Neufundi

 © Bea Grein 

 translated by Detlef Grein

Our Giantbathtub

Mornin’ my dear friends, I’m a little late today,
but it’s not my fault!!!
One half of my staff is on holiday and so the other half (my typist) also got a problem with getting up in the morning!
Yet I want to introduce our “giantbathtube” to you, it’s that big that a dog even can swim in it.



Two days ago in the afternoon it was time again, our mistress took one of our backpacks and filled it with a bath towel, a 20 meter leash for Flanna (yes only for Flanna *nasty grin*) and my green swimmingbit!
Green swimmingbit = about the same as pink ball, but it is green, swims on the water and has a different shape. But I would never ever go for a swim without it!
There I know: Yippeeee we’re going for a swim!!!
So jumping into the car, a short ride and we’re there!
Ok now the embarrassing part of it. For a normally 10 minutes walk it took us more then 20 minutes.
Thanks to Flanna!!!
This hollow head still hasn’t figured that you’ve to walk handsomely when you’re on a leash. Straight after we’ve left the car she’d to drag in all directions!
Our mistress even landed on her botty (*giggle* a great scene). Well, the result was that she then was even more determined to train Flanna to walk well-mannered at the leash!
Somehow, sometime we arrived where we wanted, at our swimming area.
Ok, the mistress was whining about blisters on her hand and probably a longer left arm!
Then she just should hold Flanna the next time on the right an it evens out again.!!!

So now let’s go!!!!
Unpack the green swimmingbit, hook in Flanna and here we go into the flood!
I tell you, this was soooo delightful, finally back into the water and swimming.
At home we got a watershell and stuff like that and sometimes we’re taking a shower but I’m not into that babystuff anymore, it’s ok for Flanna but not for me. I need something proper like the Möhnesee!!!



Our mistress tried to make a video from our water-joy, simply click here: Möhnesee

Just look at this skinny thing… and something like that drags our mistress over the place.
The way she’s posing here, like she want to become the next “water” top model.
*head shaking* She rather should use her brain for learning!
Although maybe not, because if she misbehaving like that, I shine as a top educated dog!!!
And I even don’t have to strain *lol*!!





Right, now I urgently have to go out into the garden….. No, not what you’re thinking…. I just have to check out my pink ball and care for the workout of my „2leggies“!!

See you next time
Yours Rike Neuberner

© Bea Grein
translated by Detlef Grein

That little thing called Flanna

Oh I was so sad when Enya died last week.
I haven’t enjoyed anything, not even playing with my ball!
I only wanted to be together with my people, even they hardly haven't said a word and just sat there. The only comforting was that I got sooo many pats and cuddles.


The next day we got up very early (Ok, we hardly haven’t slept a lot that night at all) and bags got packed, even my backpack.
Are we going away???
So we went away for a few days. My people still where very sad but at least they’ve started to speak again.
On our way back home we made a stop and they took me for a short walk.
During that walk we arrived at a farm. There where, among others, 2 large dogs which looked like Enya, only in brown. Then there were two others of that kind but very small, I mean really very, very small!!
My mistress then took one of that small bits (have I already mentioned that they’ve been very, very small?) and embraced it. Slowly but surely I got concerns….. they don’t want to take that little thing (btw. have I mentioned that it was really… ok, ok) with them, want they?
What shall I say? It exactly ended up so, they’ve done it!!! They took her with them!
So, now the little (btw have I……) thing is living here with us and her name is Flanna. Flanna is Gaelic and means „the redhead“.
All right, my 2leggies aren’t that sad any longer, only now and then.

The whole time they’re running out with Flanna. Making wee-wee they say.
Hmmm, but why? 
So small and so often going for a wee-wee? And then she’s even piddling in the hallway. I don’t understand that, I really can’t understand that!!
You don’t do that, that’s not proper!!!
But today I’ve tried to play with her. Because, to be honest, she is pretty sweet. But to romp with her she has to grow. I don’t want to hurt her!!
Let’s wait and see what will develop out of this little thing called Flanna. I’ll gonna tell you!!


Kind regards Yours Rike Neuberner

 © Bea Grein 

 translated by Detlef Grein