Mischief Monday - A Close Call

Last Monday, we were out for our morning walk. It was early, so we were walking together. The dogs were very sniffy, which happens a lot. They were sniffing in the ditch when I heard a rustling and looked and saw this: (note: this is a dramatic reenactment and my first attempt at photo editing!):

That is right, about 2 feet in front of us was a skunk. I was able to quickly pull the dogs across the road, and no one was sprayed! It was a very close encounter! It would have been a horrible way to start the week!

Selfie Sunday

Hey,  we are mixing it up today and joining our first selfie Sunday. We tried to convince the Man we needed a cat for this but he said no.

Here is Hailey and the Lady:

Here is Phod and the Lady:

We think we would have done better if the Lady had stayed out of our pictures!

Happy Gotcha Day Hailey Bug!

Tomorrow is 6 years since Hailey bounced her way into our lives and hearts and September 8th will mark 6 years of blogging.

The past 6 years have been filled with ups and downs, joys and heartbreaks, learning and love. Today we celebrate our girl, the good, the bad and the ugly, but the never boring.

Happy 6th Gotcha Day Lee!

First day home 2010

2011

2012

2013 - This toy is still around! 

2014

2015

Flower Friday - Yellow

These flowers are growing next to the horse pasture across the road from us.

Happy Birthday to Hailey's beloved boyfriend Easy.

Hailey and Flat Easy plan on celebrating this weekend and we will share their adventures next week!

Another Special For Phod

Last week, instead of a special evening walk (we call them specials if only one dog is going) I took my boy to the lake. He loves, loves, loves to swim. Because I just had him, I could make a little video of him enjoying his special.

Wordless Wednesday - Sitting

Big Sky Ranch Animal Sanctuary

I don't talk about my job much here, but today I am going to say a little because it led me to one of my new favourite places. I work with individuals with autism. My job is to supervise programs based on the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA). I am currently working with a young man who we are transitioning from the school system to the adult world. While this young man may never have paid employment, I do believe he can contribute to society.  One of his support workers, came up with this awesome place for him to volunteer.  The place the she found was Big Sky Ranch Animal Sanctuary.

This sanctuary takes in a host of unwanted animals and when possible finds them loving homes, and when not, provides them loving homes. 

I had the pleasure of accompanying my team there to see how it worked etc. etc. (If anyone I work with is reading this, it was a really tough shift, it was hard!). Our jobs for the day were to help water the pigs and then to sweep out stalls. (Yes, I helped do this, this princess can do hard work). The people working/volunteering there were wonderful with my client and as wonderful with all the animals. It is a place that you feel the love and respect. After our work was done, we had some time to go around and feed the animals. I took some pictures (I only had my phone as I was actually working), so they aren't the best quality, but they give you an idea.

There are llamas,

chickens, roosters, ducks, geese, 

a buffalo named Dakota,

sheep,

more llamas,

I love the colour of this one

dogs, this one Sasha is Phod's twin,

pigs, 

biggest pig I ever saw

cats, 

 ponies,

This one kept chasing the others off for the carrots

goats,

a deer,

emu, 

and not pictured, cows and rabbits and I am sure I am missing something. I fell in love and I am excited that I will get to go probably once a month at least through to Christmas (and maybe past) as my client will be volunteering there 2 mornings a week. I think it is an amazing way, for a young man who loves, loves, loves animals, to contribute to society.