I had to make a garage visit earlier than expected, the A3 was booked on Monday for the seasonal tire swap and a quick brake inspection but it became really scary on Friday afternoon. The brake pads on the right side are to be replaced and they are trying to find out what was making the moving part sound in the rear wheel.
So we took a replacement car for the weekend. We started with a 2007 Audi A3 2.0 with manual gearbox, but after a year of automatic transmission it felt wrong. Don't get me wrong, that car was fantastic... smooth handling, very good performance, stunning braking... but it felt like going back a century or two. Unfortunately, the only automatic transmission would only be available from this morning. So we swapped today... for a 2007 A6 Avant V6 3.0 Quattro Tiptronic.
That car is amazing, almost beyond words... it handles like a car half its size, you simply cannot hear its engine (I've yet to push it above 130 Km/h) and the equipment is quite complete and intuitive. If I had 50K to spend on monday, I'd order that exact model.
Saturday, 17 November 2007
Sunday, 4 November 2007
A fun day
Today, we were invited for lunch by very good friends. They had also invited another friend and her son, who we hadn't seen for 2 years now. It was a fun lunch, followed by a mini pug meeting :)
On this picture, you can see 3 generations of a pug family. In the front, fast asleep, you can see Momo. In the back, with a red harness, you can see her daughter Hanabi (our female pug). The biggest puppy, close to Momo, is Isami (one of our puppies, son of Hanabi and Hanzô) and the small one is one of Momo puppies (also with Hanzo).
Momo was originally bought off a pet shop as an impulse rescue, she was already 6 months old and the owner of the shop would probably have killed her in the following days if she hadn't been sold. She showed sign of bad treatment for months but is a very happy girl now, thanks to our friends. To this day, she gets sick almost every time she is in a moving vehicle and takes a lot of time to trust men.
This picture shows our 3 grown-up pugs: Hanabi, Mame and Hanzô. Hanzô is the first pug we got after getting married, he has the sweetest character you could dream of and we are now trying to find the breeder he came from to see his parents (we already found out he's coming from central Bohemia in Czech Republic). Mame was the weakest puppy of Momo's previous litter. He was tiny, skinny and had to stay at the vet for some time as a baby after respiratory problems. He's now the living proof of that Vet talent, as he is the strongest and liveliest pug ever seen by anyone we know. A normal pug should sleep around 16 hours a day, Mame wants to play 16 hours a day. Mame is also a sort of local star, he got featured in the cultural section of the regional newspaper after playing a role in an opera in 2006.
Here comes the result of Hanzô's first litters, 6 puppies alive out of 9 born from 2 females. 2 of our puppies got a nasty bacterial infection and couldn't be saved, one puppy from the other litter died for unknown reasons. The 4 top puppies are with Momo and the bottom 2 are with Hanabi.
Of those 6 puppies, 4 have already been bought before even being really advertised. We haven't decided yet what to do with our remaining two, as they both have a certain potential. We have already received a lot of interest in the recent visits to the vet, so finding them a good family living close to us shouldn't be too hard. His puppies have so much success that Hanzô has been booked again for next year :)
On this picture, you can see 3 generations of a pug family. In the front, fast asleep, you can see Momo. In the back, with a red harness, you can see her daughter Hanabi (our female pug). The biggest puppy, close to Momo, is Isami (one of our puppies, son of Hanabi and Hanzô) and the small one is one of Momo puppies (also with Hanzo).Momo was originally bought off a pet shop as an impulse rescue, she was already 6 months old and the owner of the shop would probably have killed her in the following days if she hadn't been sold. She showed sign of bad treatment for months but is a very happy girl now, thanks to our friends. To this day, she gets sick almost every time she is in a moving vehicle and takes a lot of time to trust men.
This picture shows our 3 grown-up pugs: Hanabi, Mame and Hanzô. Hanzô is the first pug we got after getting married, he has the sweetest character you could dream of and we are now trying to find the breeder he came from to see his parents (we already found out he's coming from central Bohemia in Czech Republic). Mame was the weakest puppy of Momo's previous litter. He was tiny, skinny and had to stay at the vet for some time as a baby after respiratory problems. He's now the living proof of that Vet talent, as he is the strongest and liveliest pug ever seen by anyone we know. A normal pug should sleep around 16 hours a day, Mame wants to play 16 hours a day. Mame is also a sort of local star, he got featured in the cultural section of the regional newspaper after playing a role in an opera in 2006.
Here comes the result of Hanzô's first litters, 6 puppies alive out of 9 born from 2 females. 2 of our puppies got a nasty bacterial infection and couldn't be saved, one puppy from the other litter died for unknown reasons. The 4 top puppies are with Momo and the bottom 2 are with Hanabi.Of those 6 puppies, 4 have already been bought before even being really advertised. We haven't decided yet what to do with our remaining two, as they both have a certain potential. We have already received a lot of interest in the recent visits to the vet, so finding them a good family living close to us shouldn't be too hard. His puppies have so much success that Hanzô has been booked again for next year :)
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