Xmas puppies

Our little Nora likes to sleep on the small sofa in Will's Office. Like all Dachshunds she will wrap herself up into a blanket and snooze away. When bedtime comes she always looks at us with imploring eyes, please can I sleep here tonight. But she knows, clever girl, that a cookie waits for her if she goes to her kennel for the night. Our Nicky is more practical, come 10 pm he knows according to his clock that it is time for bed and will insist on a cookie as is due before bedding down in his kennel. But he is not patient, you better be quick about it, giving you a fierce look.

Nora sleeping on the sofa.

 She always has one eye open to watch us, in case a big Boar would come into the room. Hunting dogs cannot sleep with both eyes closed, she seems to tell us.

Here is our little Nicky, a funny little dog, he is scared of most things, he is a sensitive soul.

Nora and Nicky

On Via Dei Villini 26, our balcony with the little tree and poinsettia in 2010. If you click on the image you will see one has a pink and white flower, I had never seen that before.

our Christmas tree in Rome in years past.