Canadian Thanksgiving

It is Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada. Thanksgiving formally falls on the second Monday in October. Lady and Man will be going to Aunt C's for Thanksgiving lunch today. They will be coming back with Grammie, Big Guy, Tendra and Barley who will be staying with us until Wednesday.

We have so much to be thankful for, I don't even know where to start.

I am thankful for our health. 

I am thankful for our jobs and our incomes which allow to live the life we want.

I am thankful we always have more than enough to eat and plenty of fresh water.

I am thankful to live in a democracy. I am thankful to have the right to vote (which we did in an advance poll yesterday as our federal election in October 19 - Fellow Canadians, get out there and vote!).

I am thankful for my family and friends.

I am thankful for my pups.

I am thankful for technology and the creation of blogs. This has made people who are physically a world away, be present in my living room. 

Happy Thanksgiving

Hailey the Amazing

Wednesday nights are the Man's night out with his friends, leaving me in charge of everything (note: I normally eat toast or something as I don't cook!) Last Wednesday I was working at home all day and I had a Skype consult set for 7 pm, so I made sure to feed the dogs early so I could get them out for a nice play before my meeting (mainly so they would leave me alone while working).

After their dinner and play I start to preparing for my meeting.  Hailey was in my office pacing and stomping. Stomping is a behaviour she usually reserves for when we are eating something she wants. I didn't have anything to eat. I just had water. I start to go over all the reasons why she may be restless and then it hit me and what happened went like this:

Me: Hailey, I forgot to give you your pill. Is that your problem? Let's go get your pill.

Hailey: She ran up the stairs and sat in the kitchen near where her pills are kept.

I believe she was trying to tell me she needed her pill. Let's be honest, it is not the pill she wanted, it is the cookie she gets after. We always save a special kind for pill time. I was just amazed that she was able to let me know I had forgotten.

She is brilliant and beautiful!

See Beautiful

It is one of the most beautiful times of year in our neck of the woods. The leaves are starting to change in our yard. This is from last Sunday.

We will share more of the beautiful colours once they finish changing!

Walk Your Dog Week

We are thrilled to report that Lady got off her duff and made sure we got a walk every day, and not just weekdays, for walk your dog week. Lady says she should get extra gold stars because her knees have been hurting after hauling all that wood, so walking has been unpleasant. But at least the weather has been beautiful!  Lady says we are going to keep right on walking until Monday. We may or may not get a walk on Monday because our house will be crazy as Tendra and Barley are visiting, so we may be getting so much play exercise we can skip our walk!

After all that walking, we are tired!

Thanks to the organizers, we look forward to walking again next year!

Wordless Wednesday - Even for Grammie I don't like the hat

Ummmmm, Don't You Have Something Better To Do?

Lady, can't you find something else to do, rather than take our pictures, you are blocking my sun. 

And you are interfering with my guard duty! 

Mischief Monday - The Wheelbarrow

This week has fortunately not been as eventful as last week (the Man hasn't tried to burn the house down!). However, we had wheelbarrow woes. The tube in the wheelbarrow tire got a hole. Man bought a replacement one, had to go to the neighbours to blow it up because he couldn't find a pump, but it also had a hole. The Man bought a new tube and found a pump and it worked, but then he decided the whole tire should be replaced. 2 stores later, a tire was found. For reasons the Lady doesn't understand, this tire then didn't fit easily on the piece to attach it to the wheelbarrow. Man went to 2 hardware stores to find someone to help him force it on. Finally after several weeks the wheelbarrow was ready to go!

This time of year we get 4 cords to use to help heat the house on evenings and weekends. Lady curses it every year. The neighbours are getting 10 cords this year as they are expecting baby 3 in December and someone will be home all day, so they can use the fire as their primary heating source. Lady can't imagine piling that much wood!

We spent a lot of the weekend hauling wood. Lady and Man think we have one more day left. Hopefully we will get one nice day next weekend (Thanksgiving weekend) to finish it up. 

Here is the pile when about half the wood had been piled.  It starts at the side of the house. The Man loads it into the wheelbarrow.

Here is the mischief wheelbarrow. The Man brings it around the house and dumps it in the second garage where the Lady stacks it.

Here is the pile in progress. This garage is also known as our mouse Air BnB as this is where we have caught the most mice (11 to date). It is right off the living room so getting the wood for the fireplace is easy!

Here is Phod and Precious supervising the peeps. Phod kept bringing Precious to Lady to throw. It made the job more interesting. 

Here is Hailey watching over the work. She loved being in the sun, eating grass and digging!