It's been a while...

Sorry (especially to you Margrét, haha)! But I've really been superbusy the last weeks. I thought lambingseason was coming to an end, and that it would be less to do at work - but I was totally wrong! Monday 4th to Wednesday 6th I worked 41 hours, I was so exhausted on Wednesday afternoon that I fell asleep during dinner! After that, it was still busy, but not lifethreatening ;)

Today is a national holiday, don't know what it's called in English - Kristi Himmelfartsdag. I'm on call, as usual, but it's very quiet. 2 phonecalls so far, one visit to a sheep with mastitis. If I weren't on duty yesterday as well, I'd probably make someone call me to check if the dutynumber was coupled to my phone! I went for a walk with the dogs and my colleage Liv - a plan like that would normally make some farmer call immediately, but for a change, I got to walk in peace :)I had a visitor today, the daughter of my colleage Bjørg (I rent my house from her and her husband) - Ingrid. She's 4 years old, and loooves my dogs :) Especially Chivas. Above, you see her with Saoudie. She got a baby brother just a week ago, and I got to say hi to him today. He's such a cute little thing! But I'm not very comfortable around babies, they're kind of scary really... ;P
Tomorrow morning at 08.00, I go off duty - and I have the whole weekend off! Eivind has some friends for a visist, and I've heard rumours about party :) Wonder if I should go to Sogndal tomorrow and do some shopping?!? Last time I was in Oslo, I only had time to brush by a bookstore, before heading to Sweden and another catastrophic LC trial for Chivas... Stupid dog! Anyway, I need some new summeroutfits, and I need it badly. I have a confession to make - I have become addicted - to the Twilight series. When Chanett Orre were here 3 weeks ago, she had the Twilight movie on her computer, and I suddenly realized that I'd actually bought the book a couple of weekends earlier (the weekend of the first catastrophic LC trial for Chivas - stupid, insecure dog), but never got around to start reading it. Thought it sounded potetially good though, and I never miss an opportunity to buy a book (I easily get addicted to books...). I had no idea it was already a movie, I'm a bit slow on these things, since I don't have a TV and no radiosignals either. We watched the movie, and I loved it. I think I read the book twice the next week, before I headed towards Oslo and larger bookstores - I just had to buy the next 3 books in the series as well. I've finished the 2nd and 3rd ages ago, but still saving nr 4 - until this weekend - I needed something to look forward to! And I'm so used to either work weekends or go somewhere, that I'm afraid I'll be bored with 3 full days with NO PLANS!

I got some new dogbooks as well (did I say that I love Amazon.com?):

• The Winning Edge - George Alston (superfamous professional handler from USA)
• New Secrets of Successful Show Dog Handling - Peter Green (superfamous professional handler from USA)
• The book of the Bitch - book on how to best take care of a bitch/puppies etc - don't know how much I'll learn from that, seems pretty basic so far, so it might be something to give away (Margrét?)
• Raising a Champion - not opened yet, no time!

I'll probably end up with a dog book library before I turn 35, haha