The New Rug - by Phod

 Dear pals,

Lady upset my life by moving things around last week. You see, she used her Christmas money from Grammie and the Big Guy to buy a Ruggable rug for the front door aka my guard station. I over heard her say she was very excited to have a washable rug for this space, because my being on it so much, makes it stinky. I can't imagine I would be making a rug or mat stinky.

It took me a couple days, but I did decide it was an acceptable place to sit and monitor the street. I do not take change well in my old age.

Lady and Man picked one of the rugs from their Star Wars Collection.

See if you look close, you can see the X-wing fighter. If you aren't a huge fan, you may just see a cool pattern and that is ok too! 

I hope you enjoyed the rug, I must get back to my observation post.

Guard Phod who would never make a mat stink

Mischief Monday - I Just Wanted To Sleep - by Lee

Dear pals,

Last week we had a lot of extreme cold (like -26C/-15F, and they are calling for as cold as -38C/-36F tomorrow). This meant besides lounging by the fire, there was a lot of snuggling to do.

Imagine how I felt one day when Lady woke me up, from a perfectly good nap, to take some us-ies. She said I was being too cute.

I can't wait for it to be too hot to cuddle again!

Hailey, the patient

Nature Friday - A Special Walk - by Phod

 Dear pals,

On the last day of 2021 (which if you ask me was a great year because my peeps were home almost all the time), at lunch Man took Lee for a walk, and I got to go on a special walk with my Lady.

Come with me and I will show you some sights!

The walk was on Calli's bush behind our house. As you can see there are nice snow machine tracks to walk on. 

Hailey usually decides what way to go but I got to. The only rule was Lady wanted to stick on a path. 

Lady called this spot the snowy arches. 

There was a lot of tracks to sniff - deer, likely fox (or could be coyote, we heard something yipping back there earlier in the week) and squirrel. I did a lot of sniffing.

I even sniffed up this bone, which the Lady made me drop and then after taking a picture, threw deep into the woods. 

We had a lovely time and I hope we go back soon! (Lady says we will when we can walk in the daylight, she is not going back there in the dark!)

Thanks to Rosy for hosting this hop! 

Thankful Thursday - Helping More - by Lee

 Besides helping Grammie and Big Guy, I was a big help with the Man and his back stretches.  I provided kisses and may have tried to hump him. He was very thankful for my love and support. 

Wordless Wednesday - Touching

 

Helping Out - by Lee

Dear pals,

Last week we had a grand adventure. We got up, went for a walk and got into the car and drove to Grammy and the Big Guy's!  (The only problem with this adventure is because Phod gets so car sick, there was no breakfast!)

Taking up more than my share of back seat

Grammie and the Big Guy were feeling better from their vaccines and Lady had said if the weather was nice (it is an 84 km/52 mi drive) she would come and help them with some things around the house. 

The Man spent the day helping the Big Guy install smart switches. These are light switches that are Alexa enabled and you can tell them to turn on and off. I was a great supervisor. 

While the Men were doing that, Lady and Grammie took on the basement. It was the last frontier since they moved. There were boxes that hadn't even been opened yet. While they didn't go through every box, they got them organized, they got ride of 4 bags of garbage, and they found some things Grammie had been looking for. 

Phod found all of this a little scary. The power being off, the Lady moving things, the people not being on the same floor. 

Me, I took it all in stride and was a great supervisor! 

Mischief Monday - Back At The Beginning

Happy New Year! 

Wake me when it is over!

It is a new year, but we feel like we are back where we started in 2021. We are locked down again.  Covid cases surge to the highest numbers yet.  It is really a mess. You would think after 658 days we would be better at this! 

In the province we live in, Quebec, lockdown means: Curfew from 10-5 (work and emergency only reasons to be off your property), closing of all non-essential businesses, no theatres,  no eat in restaurants, no indoor sports etc. Schools are closed until at least January 17.  No inside visits to friends/family. 

Now it is confusing for our peeps because Lady works in Ontario. So far their new measures, delaying school until Wednesday the 5th at the time of this writing (it may have changed or change yet), means the centre she works at is closed 2 extra days. She will be working at home online. 

For Man, who is working at home forever most likely, this has a minimal impact on this life. 

Lady finds herself laughing that in November she was thinking about the endemic (a word she only just learned about then) and now here she is thinking about lockdown and wondering if the entire 20s will  be dreadful. 

We are trying to be optimistic about this year, but it is hard. We do have some things to look forward to this month. 

Hailey will turn 12 on January 13. 

Celebrating me will be the highlight of the month for sure!

Lady and Man will get dose 3 -which Lady read is still one dose less than the new recommendations (so perhaps dose 4 is something to look forward to!)

We do hope you all had a wonderful, relaxing, holiday and you are healthy. We promise not to be too depressing with the state of our world!