Mischief Monday - The Wrong Pattern by Lee

 Dear pals,

Lady inherited a chair from Missy G, that while the frame was beautiful, the seat needed to be replaced. This chair sat in the garage for 4 years, until on her birthday this year, Lady decided to take it in to have the seat replaced.  After looking at a million different fabrics, the owner said she had some leftover material that would make this chair special. Lady loved it and said yes.

6 months later the chair was ready (with a little stool too).

At the store ready to come home.

Besides smelling weird, I wasn't impressed with fabric choice. Birds and not dogs???

Birds were one of Missy G's favourite things and while Lady is sure she would approve, and like the recovering of her favourite little stool, I am not as big a fan. All I can say is that this chair has gone to the birds!

your pal, dogs would have been a better pattern, Hailey Bug

Nature Friday - I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

And it looks like I am going to get it! 

Thanks to Rosy and Sunny for hosting this event. 

Hat Tax - Reindeer Games

 

I am looking at the camera, give me the cookie already! 

Wordless Wednesday - Reluctant Participant

 

Travel Tuesday - The Man's 50th Birthday Trip - Santa Cruz de Tenerife

 Our next port of call, was one of my favourites (and one I was most excited about), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the Canary Islands.  

After a short walk from the ship to the port, we joined another couple from Austria, for a trip around the island, with the highlight of Teide National Park.

A statue in town

Looking at the city from the port

We had the most wonderful guide on this tour. He took a total of 1 personal photo and made sure to take pictures of us. 

Teide is a UNESCO World Heritage site. It is home to Teide-Pico Viejo stratovolcano that is the highest peak on Spanish soil.  It is the most visited national park in Spain an the 8th most visited in the world. It did not disappoint and I would love to go back some day. Here are some pictures from the park.

It was windy and the clouds moved quickly! 

It was so windy, Chris had to hold onto his hat!

Man wasn't dressed right because it was 4C/39F 

This is where some people believe the moon landing was filmed. 

After the park we went to visit a few small towns. We were supposed to wander in one of them for an hour but at this point it was raining soooooooo hard, our group decided to drive around a bit and then go back to the ship a little early. 

There was a beautiful garden in one town

The tour was the perfect introduction to a place I really hope to go back to again.

Next week we will have our first visit to Portugal. 

Mischief Monday - Tis the Season - The Hat Tax Returns - by Lee

 Dear pals,

I kind of hoped that now that I am so old that Lady would skip the tax this year. She said because she cleans up poop every day, she is collecting now more than ever.

Stay tuned for embarrassing pictures of us!

Your pal, the resigned to this Hailey Bug

Nature Friday - The Girls

 Thanks to Rosy and Sunny for hosting this event.

While many of these pictures were taken before the snow hit, the girls as Lady calls them have been around a lot.

We have a unique member, we have dubbed Snow White. She is not the right colour, and is not an albino, but as people who know way more about birds than I do, say she is leucistic one. She has some pigment. (This is the power of the internet, you can share and learn!)

The girls int he driveway

Hailey checking out where they have been on the old deck that we are still working on burning

Turkey marks

Roosting Snow White

If they stay around (and they might, they like our feeders, expect more of them!)