The winter and the cold weather!

Hello everybody!

It's winter in Brazil! The weather in Rio Grande do Sul (RS) is more cold than in the other states of Brazil and guess what? I live in RS! But that's not too bad... it can be good sometimes! For example last night was very cold and I was freezing (as last week), so my dear and lovely mom covered me with my blankets. Okay, normal. But I was still cold! So she covered me with her blankets and hugged me! Then she went sleep in her bed and took me with her, and I slept covered by my blankets and mom's blankets and hugged by mom! Isn't it perfect? I love my mother!

Another good thing in the winter is the fruit tangerine, that here in Brazil is called "tangerina" and here in RS we call "bergamota". But peak tangerine season is short: the winter! So only in the winter we can eat this adorable, round and orange fruit that I particularly just love, maybe because it reminds me a ball and I love balls!

Here in Rio Grande do Sul the humans also have "Estação Gramado", in Gramado city (serra). This is a place where the people can have some fun with winter things like false snow, ice skating, fondue (that here in my house we eat in all seasons), etc. They can also watch some music concerts, to track, visit "Lago Negro" (a famous lake in Gramado city) and do lots of other things. That's really nice! But mom isn't going to "Estação Gramado" this year so I'm not going to either. It was good, I mean, travel to Gramado and Canela cities was good when mom's grandparents were alive. They lived there so when she had winter vacation she went to their house.

I was almost forgetting! The Winter Vacations! I love them too! It's so good to stay at home with mom in the cold weather! Sometimes we go to a park near our hose for a walk and to drink some mate, called "chimarrão" here in RS, a typical drink of our state. Another times it's so cold that we prefer to stay home and watch a good movie drinking hot chocolate (mom loves it!) or hot tea, under the blankets! Mom generally has only a week of winter vacation but this year she will have three and a half because of the swine flu, now called flu A(H1N1). The peak of the pandemic is here now and that's not good.

Well, I think I've barked a lot today, haven't I? You're probably crazy trying to read this writing once my English isn't so good, so now I'm going to eat a tangerine and later I'll watch some TV with mom, under our blankets! LOL!

Bark to you soon friends! Thanks for the attention!

Au au!! Hugs!! High Five!!

- Spon Dog

P.S.: the first picture is a pic of "Estação Gramado", the "Lago Negro" (in English the "Black Lake"). The second pic is a picture of the most cute dog around all world: me! :)

Hello Everyone!

Nice to meet you! My name is Spon, I'm a 9 years old dog who was adopted by a little girl some years ago. First of everything I'll tell you my story!

Mom "adopted" me 8 years ago from some shelter that I don't know the name. I know that she was asking for a dog for a long time (she was a kid) and someday grandma said "Okay, let's adopt a dog!", then they read the newspaper searching for some dog for adoption and they found an advertisement of a black and white puppy for adoption. They went to the shelter where the dog was and when they arrived the woman who took care of the shelter appeared with the black and white dog and me! Yeah, a brown and white puppy! She said to grandma "Choose one of them". You're probably thinking that grandma chose me, but you're wrong! She (and my aunt, mom's sister) got me and the black and white dog. We were Spon (me) & Spay (he). We were very cute puppies! I was quiet but Spay was very playful and destroyer! He ate some mobiles and toys and lots of other things! We were so happy together! We were brothers even we weren't blood brothers! But someday somethings happened and my people had to move. We were living in a house and we were moving to an apartment, so two dogs were too many dogs for a little place and one of us should move to another family. Don't worry! Spay wasn't abandoned on the street, he went live with a grandma's friend in another city very close to our city. There he has a yard to play a lot with other friends, he has a loving family, he has love! And he still has our eternal love! I was the most scared puppy so I stayed with mom, grandma and aunt, where I live til nowadays.

We live in the South of Brazil, in Rio Grande do Sul. Here is the most cold part of the Brazil and we have the most beautiful sunset of all country!

I love sleeping, eating (every food in front of me), playing with my toys and only with them (I don't like to play fetch - the ball is mine so I don't give it to mom) and some other things that I can't remember now!

I'll show you somethings of my cool life and somethings of my country! You'll can know more about Brazil, especially Rio Grande do Sul, and about me! I hope you'll like!

Well, I think that's all for now!

Bark to you soon!

Au au au! Hugs!

- Spon Dog

p.s.: "Au au" is how we write barks here in BR, I mean, in portuguese!