To be honest, I’m getting tired of winter. Of course, a long, cold winter is something that I expected moving to Sweden. It has been a bit more difficult to find the motivation to get outside the past two weeks. It isn’t totally hopeless. The days are getting longer, and I get some motivation to walk with Hoagie. However, I found a bit of a cheat with him; I take him to the woods behind the apartment, and if no one is around I let him explore a few minutes off leash. It saves the walk tot he dog park. I keep telling myself that I’ll get back to he longer evening walks when it warms up. So, please hold me to that promise.
Anyway, despite my complaining, I did get some time to enjoy the weather this weekend.
Yesterday Susanna and Izzy met Hoagie and I in Rottne and we stopped by the Stockekvarn swimming place (on the eastern shore of Helgasjön) on the way back home to do some ice skating. I built a skating aid for them to practice with and they got to enjoy a not-crowded day skating on the lake. Hoagie even got some off leash time when the other skaters left, but was cold and ready to go home by the time we left.
This morning Izzy had a friend over and we all went to the mall for a few hours. This afternoon I dragged Izzy with me to the Helgö Naturreservat which is also on Helgasjön. We walked for an hour or so exploring the area. Hoagie had some time to run off the leash, but eventually I decided there were too many other hikers around and leashed him for the second half of the walk.
