Archive for July, 2009
Posted in July 31st, 2009
Sheba’s Seven, of course! They’ve been growing so well this past week and are finally starting to look more like miniature canines than those other creatures they’ve resembled these past few weeks… Sheba is a great mother, but seven little ones is a handful! Especially now that they’ve starting to walk rather than crawl and [...]
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Posted in July 30th, 2009
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Posted in July 29th, 2009
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Posted in July 28th, 2009
Posted in July 27th, 2009
I keep thinking of the image we see of Africa. Of the poverty, the misery and the constant hand that reaches for the charitable gift it is about to receive. And I wonder why there is no balance. For the Africa I see here in the West, is not the Africa I know. For more [...]
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Posted in July 26th, 2009
When the Nigerien barb is proud, it lifts its tail high. Some horses lift it horizontally, some a little higher, but Arwen is the only Nigerien barb that I have seen who will lift her tail vertically like an Arab. Here is her daughter Isolde, showing off her moves. The higher the tail, the prouder [...]
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Posted in July 25th, 2009
On my second day off this week, Hanna and I visited the parents’ of a fellow friend of ours: Björn – who stayed with us in Niger in 1998 and later married Hanna’s cousin Jennifer. His parents Claudia and Anders left the city a few years ago and bought a farm, where they now raise [...]
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Posted in July 24th, 2009
The puppies have been growing, which is hardly a surprise, seeing they are two weeks old today! Sheba has been a good mother, but seven little ones eager to nurse is a tiresome full-time job which now requires a good dose of resting too! Ever since their birth, I have been pampered with lots and [...]
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Posted in July 23rd, 2009
My grandparents live in Norway, but have a summer house in a little community some 20km from Falkenberg. A little while ago, when we were celebrating my grandmother’s birthday, the sky offered a spectacular display! It started with a beautifully painted blue & white cloudy sky, …which turned intensely golden as the sun prepared to [...]
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Posted in July 22nd, 2009
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Posted in July 21st, 2009
It rains in Niger, and the puppies are wet. Sheba settles down and starts nudging her puppies to find their way to warmth, Mr Shida gets a forced shower before he is allowed to rush over to the feeding station (which serves warm milk!) together with the rest of his siblings. But thankfully for him, [...]
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Posted in July 20th, 2009
One of the things I love about the Zinder bush is that even though I ride between five to ten times a week during my spare time in Niger, I still find new places within reach! When my father started riding with me, he immediately noted that the horses (purebred barbs) were gaited horses. Sahara [...]
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Posted in July 19th, 2009
On the night to yesterday, Sheba celebrated her first birthday. It’s hard to believe it wasn’t long since she herself was just a puppy! She was the cutest puppy! Those eyes got me from the first day and there was an unspoken communication between the two of us. Her world was amazingly simple. Everything was [...]
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Posted in July 18th, 2009
Tonight, Anette is coming down from Varberg so that we can have a skype conference and attend the Garvi Family Formula 1 Grand Prix in Africa – which is so cool, since some of us are more than 8000 km away! Last time we had a girls’ night was a couple of weeks ago, when [...]
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Posted in July 17th, 2009
On the day that Sheba turns one (we will celebrate with ox bones and brand new squeaky toys when I come back!!), the puppies are one week old and all of them in good health. Everything has gone very well and Sheba is an exemplary mother. For the first few days, she wouldn’t leave their [...]
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