Nature Friday - Contest Week 2

Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends. 

It is the second check in for my contest. I am so excited to host this, so excited. Let's look at our yard.

The first picture was taken April 7, 2026, at about 5:45 pm. Lady left us for a walk (mean Lady). 

There was still snow in the front. There was still snow in the front the next day. 

There is still a lot of snow in the side yard and back too. Too much snow, too much snow!  I will try and make Lady take pictures of those next week. Sorry Fay, you didn't win this year (and neither did we because we still have so much snow). 

 

Come back next week and maybe we will have more pictures of nature as the deer are around and the birds are back and spring is in the air, if not on the ground.

your pal the great host Styxy! 

Lanie's Log - Exploring the Prison More

 It has been 170 days since my capture. I continue to explore the prison outside my cell. I am exploring upstairs more and this has the Lady Warden, very excited. She clearly needs a life.

Lady Warden likes to take all the pictures of me - sigh. Here are some.

Me upstairs for breakfast. I followed my BFF Styx upstairs. Lady Warden is happy with my relaxed body language. 

Needs a life Lady Warden was very excited that I ate some treats before breakfast one morning. It is the first time I ate treats upstairs. 

Lady Warden was thrilled to capture me sitting in this chair. She often finds me here when she gets up in the morning. 

If this wasn't all annoying enough, Lady Warden is obsessed with my one white toe. She goes on and one about how cute it is. So annoying. 

The Wardens say I continue to do well. I hated the generator, but otherwise am trying to make this house my home. It would be a little easier, if Gris wasn't so mean. Maybe we can become friends yet. 

Lanie, prisoner #3

Wordless Wednesday - Mirror Mirror - Styx

 

Tuesdays with Tigris - Living Life

 Reader,

I am living my life here. I have some good routines. I climb on my people to wake them up. I eat my food. I have a nap on the table. I then move to another of my favourite sleeping places. If given the chance, I smack Lanie. I like to sleep on the foot of the bed at night to keep my people safe.

One of my routine places to sleep, when the people are downstairs watching TV, so I can be as far from Lanie as possible, but still watch the people, is upstairs outside the bedroom. I have accidentally pulled the quilt rack over and it needs to be put together, so currently I just have a quilt, which is fine. I pulled it over, trying to pull the quilt down more.

Upstairs looking down

Sometimes I get lucky, and Lady leaves the warm laundry and I can sit in it. 

I guess I am lucky to have so many places to sit.

Tigris

Mischief Monday - Outtakes and Other Complaints - by Styxy

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

The mischief this week was really people caused. People make a lot of mischief, more than us animals I think. So much more!

The first mischief of the weekend is on Friday the people left us at 9:30 am and only came back at 1 am. We were alone forever and ever and ever and we didn't think they were ever coming back. Bad, bad people. Dinner was very, very late. Bad people.  Out doing things! First apparently they had family Easter lunch, then they went and saw cousin Emma and Uncle Chris, who they had just seen at family Easter, and hung out before going to hear live music. I am not a dog fan, but I am thinking if the people got a dog, they would not do bad things like this. 

Emma getting love from Lady - she is 15 now

Next on Sunday, for no reason, our power was out. The lights disappear. It seems in April we have an outage Lady says. This was a weird one because no extreme weather and only 59 places affected. So weird, so mischiefy. Lanie really didn't like the generator sound and she hid. Gris and I went about our business.  I tried calling to Lanie, but she didn't want to come out. 

The last mischief for today, is the hat tax outtakes. Lady and her love of hat tax is not good, not good, not good. Lady says it brings joy to others. It does not bring joy to us. We hate it! Lanie is the most cooperative, then Gris, she is pretty cooperative, and I Styxy, do my best to resist. Lady says CRA (Canada IRS) will come after me if I don't cooperate. I don't think the treats are enough of a balance.

Lanie

Gris

Me

                    

I hope your week had less mischief.

your friend, the tax evader, Styxy

Hoppy Easter - Hat Tax Edition

 For those who celebrate, Happy Easter. For those who don't. we hope you enjoy the hat tax.

Lanie

Tigris

Styx

Nature Friday - Goodbye Snow, Goodbye, Contest Update

 Hi friends, hi friends, hi friends,

I am so excited. I am the most excited Styx because it is my first contest check in. 

Here is the updated list of the guess. Styxy had made a mistake, (sorry Walter, sorry!) but he fixed it. Our first guess won't be until April 7. Will we still have snow?

Here is the front yard on Monday.

Here is the front yard on Wednesday.

See we still have snow. A lot of snow. We are supposed to get a lot of rain. Lady has booked to the tire changes so she thinks more snow will come soon. 

Come back next week to find out!

Thanks to Rosy and Sunny for hosting this event. 

your pal Styxy who is liking sometimes the window gets open a little