May 19- The Garden

It's a fantastic time of year- everything is beautifully green. The frogs are calling, the hoopoes, cuckoos and nightingales are back and in full song.

The River Garden is a year on now and really establishing well- feels like we've got a 'real garden' again and we just love it.

Pascoa '19- Easter and Myrtle Madness!

We had a wonderful Easter with family visiting- plus a crazy little boxer pup on the scene!

 

She is fitting in brilliantly. The first few days were challenging- she seems to have no fear- and I needed to be watching her like like a hawk.
The Weasel wasn't too sure to start- and neither was Flea, but slowly they are getting used to having her around. Weasel seems to be happy to have a bit of backup again!

Myrtle

It's been a year now since we had to say goodbye to Twiggy. We've been missing her so much, but we didn't want to rush into any hasty or bad decisions. After a lot of thought- weighing up the pros and cons, we threw our caution to the wind and decided to go for a new boxer pup.
Our reason for not getting a rescue this time is for several reasons- the first and most important is The Weasel- she is 11 now, and we felt that bring in an unknown would be very unfair on her. We don't have fences or gates here- so we needed to start with a puppy which we could train, and one we know the habits/character of.
Paul and I have had boxers for almost 20 years and there was a huge boxer shaped hole in our lives. Plus we've had a hard 18 months and we all needed a little sunshine back at Velagota again....


So here she is........ Sweet Myrtle de Lareanus

Spring 2019- javali!

We had a visitor to the girls in the Spring- a huge male Javali- wild boar.
He jumped into the pig field, had a sniff about and jumped out again. The girl weren't fussed at all- all very calm and curious! He visited a few mornings in a row- which was quite inconvenient as he was super aggressive towards humans!!