Summer might arrive late here up north, but somewhere around the end of May, nature seems to feel like she has to catch up- all at once. That means we get a sudden explosion of greens, flowers, mosquitoes (and other bugs), and those damn ticks...
Look at those happy faces! Only a few weeks ago, in early May, the world around us was still blah. Everything was still dead. Brown. Beige. Cold. But as always, when you start to get restless about the never-ending cold, everything suddenly explodes into bright greens. Since...
Most of my sketchbook pages appear on www.Fenne.be, my art/illustration website, but as dogs were sneaking more and more into my work, I decided to start an extra notebook for dog sketches and doodles. See it as drawing out loud. Random thoughts quickly scribbled down. Some play....
It was a random day in the middle of the week, only a few weeks ago, when I checked the Geocaching website and discovered that there were a lot more caches than I initially thought- since we're living outside of a very quiet village. It...
There is a good probability that according to my dogs, I'm seriously complicating life by dragging along poo bags, leashes, or fresh water. "We're tough dogs!" -they think of themselves. They happily drink from dirty puddles, roll in the dirt, chew on old sticks, and...
The joy of a Border Collie and her toy. (A stuffed Dala-horse btw, a traditional icon of the area where we live)...
Exciting things are happening in March (it feels like we're waking up after a long winter), and as a fun surprise, adventurers Mogwai, Oona, and Lizzie have a Hurtta discount code for you! A superb way to kick off this new month, right? Withing EU (Hurtta.com...
It's no secret that we love adventure stories with exciting treasure hunts, scruffy smugglers, hidden caves, and shipwrecks. Those ingredients aren't part of our daily life, but we found a few modern (and risk-free) alternatives to go hunting for treasures- together with the dogs. Because, what...
It wasn't that long ago that I wasn't a fan of harnesses. At the time, the city was our daily environment and we were constantly searching for space to let the dogs run free, play, and run. Harnesses, I thought, only make dogs pull more,...