Nature Friday - A Deer Friend

Thanks to Rosy and the Boyz for hosting Nature Friday. One of our deer friend's visited our feeder recently. She is young, likely a yearling. She was a very healthy looking girl. She ran away after the picture (as I had my ringer on and she heard the click). 

Before I scared her away, she spent some time trying to figure out how she may get the food from the feeder.

I hope she comes back soon! 

Thankful Thursday - Thanksgiving Edition

Happy Thanksgiving to our American Friends!

Lady thought because we missed Canadian Thanksgiving because she was away (don't worry, she found turkey that day for lunch), we would join our American pals and share our thanks today. Hailey is American by birth anyway.

Here are a list of things we are thankful for this year.

Hailey:
-I am thankful storm season has passed and I don't need meds and I can be wild.
-I am thankful that Phod lets me hump him.
-I am thankful for the blanket monster game.
-I am thankful Lady walks me every day even if we have to walk in the dark.
-I am thankful for belly rubs.
-I am thankful begging works and I get lots of treats.









Phod:

-I am thankful for Precious.
-I am thankful that Lady and Man have been home a lot recently after being away for 87 million years.
-I am thankful that Lee will play with me now.
-I am thankful to have a loving and safe home and lots to eat (even if I think they are trying to poison me all the time).
-Did I say I was thankful for Precious and other Precious and the other one, and all the Precious'?










Lady:
-I am thankful to live in a safe place, in a relatively safe country.
-I am thankful I have more than I need to eat.

-I am thankful for my health and access to health care.
-I am thankful for all the opportunities my privilege allows me.
-I am thankful for all the opportunities to travel, especially to meet blog pals!
-I am thankful for all my friends (especially my blog ones) and family.
-I am thankful for having the opportunity to love Lee and Phod.

If you celebrate or not, we wish you all a very wonderful day with much to be thankful for.

Wordless Wednesday - Surveying My Kingdom

Tasty Tuesday

If the TV is still in our room because Lady can't carry it down without help, and Lady is going to watch her favourite show in bed while eating popcorn, we will be really cute so she will share some.

A Day In The Life

Lady has felt like a very bad blog friend recently. She is only able to visit a couple days a week, if she is lucky. We thought we would share a day in the life so you can see why she can't visit as much as she would like.

Our week days start sound 4:45. Sometimes we are up earlier cause the Lady's light alarm makes us all think it is time to get up. Phod gets up with her right away as she goes to the bathroom and throws on her walking clothes. She usually has to call Lee to join her. We leave for our walking with Lady looking really stylish in her safety vest and headlamp as it is very dark here at that time now. We walk for 30-40 minutes. It has been slightly less the past few weeks. Not because of the cold and snow, but because Lady has a stress fracture in her foot.

An old picture of a walk in the light

When we return, we usually go back to bed with the Man while Lady does her getting ready to leave the house. She leaves the house around 6 am. About this time the Man is getting up. He feeds us breakfast, takes us out again and gives us a greenie before he leaves.

We then guard the house until about 5 when Man comes home. He takes us out, plays with us. We have to wait until about 6:30 for our dinner.

This is about the time our Lady may be home. She often works late so she can get home between 6:30-8:30.  We are always thrilled to see her and jump on her and make her play. She eats dinner, packs her lunch for the next day, and does stuff around the house. If she has a chance she may be on the internet or watch a show. She tries to be in bed by 9 at the latest. She prefers 8:30 as she really needs to be asleep by 9.

Now we live with these abandoned days because on almost every Wednesday and most Tuesdays, Lady is home all day. We still get up around the same time. Lady works out those mornings so Phod often watches her. We spend time supervising her work and demanding to go out. We admit, some times we are happy to see her leave the house for work, because supervising her all day can be tiring. Even though she is home, she often has evening work calls or extra stuff to get done around the house.

Supervisor Phod

It can be a tough life for Lady, but she says this is what she has picked for now. Having really long days, allows her to work at home more. She really does love most of her job. She says she is really going to enjoy retirement in 10 years.

Weekends can be either busy or quiet, you never know. Right now they are busy with non-work things.

Anyway, we just wanted to let you all know, we think a lot about you all and are doing our best to visit when we can.

Making the most of some time together

Nature Friday - Winter is Here

There is no denying it, winter is here to stay. On Monday November 11th,  we had a record snowfall. In the city it was close to 10 cm/4 inches. If that was not bad enough, the temperatures fell to -25C/-13F Wednesday morning. 

Lady is trying to embrace this, although would have preferred it arriving a few weeks later. But one memory of the pack is loving it! 

He loves to play with Precious in the snow. He loves when it sinks in and he has to dig it out. Precious will be allowed outside until the next big snowfall. At this point it has to hibernate for the winter because if it gets lost in the very deep snow, a certain boy gets very stressed and won't come out of the cold. Disc will replace Precious for the snowy months. An indoor Precious, which is has all year, will be his friend inside.

Thanks to Rosy and the Boyz for hosting this blog hop! 

No Photo Lady - a recent throw back

I came across these pictures over the weekend, sitting in my to post pile. They made me smile. 

Can't a boy just enjoy a good roll in the grass with his Precious without worrying about the puparazzi? 

That is it, I am going to stop being cute.