By the time this post goes live, I will be away on my annual winter holiday and missing apres hike snuggles with my buddy. So here is a couple of shots my daughter took when we were chatting on my couch after one such hike, with Bowser snoozing between us.
Bowser is such a snuggle bug!You can see from my face that his cuteness is just about killing me 🤣.
That’s it for this week! I am planning to have a few more posts lined up (with older photos), to maintain consistency while I am away. But I am not bringing my laptop on this trip so wish me luck with the Jetpack phone app if things happen to go awry! Looking at you, WordPress 🤨.
I have a bin of clean socks in my closet, that is Bowser-accessible. When he wanders out of sight, I can usually find him in my bedroom, having helped himself to a pair of them.
At least he is leaving my slippers alone. Aha! Caught in the act.I come out of the shower to this scene.I’m going to borrow a phrase from a dog parent friend of mine: It’s a good thing you’re cute!
We hope you are staying out of trouble this weekend!
After a good long ramble in the woods, comes a good long nap.
Let’s do this, Oma!Permission to come aboard the Good Ship Nap Time?You ready too, Oma?Ahhhhh…the life!Is there anything more peaceful than a little dog snuggled next to you and snoring gently away?
Wishing everyone a calm and peaceful midwinter’s nap along with many happy moments with family and friends!
Everyone likes to look their best for the season, and Bowser is no exception.
Back from the groomer’s dog spa, and feelin’ fresh!Who IS that handsome fellow I spy just outside the patio door?Whaddaya mean, it’s ME, Oma?I can’t blame the camera for choosing to focus on that face!
Are you getting a holiday glow up? We know it’s a busy time of year but there should always be time for some pampering too! (Bowser wants me to add that his idea of pampering is NOT going to the groomers; it’s being petted until he falls asleep.)
Bowser and I continue to visit the trail near our home(s) almost daily. There is always something new to see every day so it never gets boring. One thing stays the same however.
This particular view 🤣.
I watch Bowser carefully as he is my early warning system (usually) of others in the woods. At one point during one of our walks, he stopped and stared intently across the water (of one of the side streams that feed the main creek) at the opposite bank.
I took this picture because he looked so cute and alert, not knowing what was to come.
While Bowser was looking, I heard some major rustling from over there and thought “Oh, it must be a very large dog that he sensed.” Well friends, it wasn’t a dog. It was the most magnificent buck deer I have ever encountered. He was huge with a very impressive set of antlers too. Think: Bambi’s dad; The Great Prince of the Forest-impressive. And, even though I had my phone in my hand with the camera app open, I was too gobsmacked to take a photo. Here is a re-enactment:
What are you looking at, Bowz?OMG. He’s so beautiful!!! Oh no, now he’s leaving….And I forgot to take a photo!!!Try to picture Bambi’s dad’s head and shoulders peeking out from behind these ferns.Bambi’s dad. If I was at all skilled at Photoshop if I even owned the program, I would have pasted him in my photo somehow.
The next day, we disturbed a great big bald eagle at the shore of the creek. Again, no picture!!!! But this is what he was picking at.
What’s left of a very large salmon. I think it must have come from the creek? Although I’ve never seen any fish this big in it. But I had met a couple of people on the trail recently who told me that salmon do run it, usually in October 🤷♀️. I do see eagles flying along the creek (at certain times of the year only), so it makes sense.
I realize there are not nearly enough Bowser shots in this post, so here are a couple more.
He loves to run and leap over fallen branches.Don’t be sad you didn’t get any photos, Oma. Be glad you saw these things in the first place. Wise words indeed, Bowser! Thanks 💕
The other day I was looking after Bowser and doing something (can’t remember what) in another room. Bowser was in the living room and being a bit too quiet for my liking.
I got to him just in time.
He’d already made a mess of the ball of yarn, and know he was reaching for my knitting work in progress!!!Bowser: This is the best game ever! So easy to get Oma’s attention now!!!Me: THIS. IS. NOT. A. GAME. BOWSER!!!!!
I should have remembered that Bowser has already demonstrated an affinity for yarn, as he did here (at his Mommy’s house).
I try to take Bowser out in any weather. But that doesn’t mean I want a soggy dog on my furniture when we come back inside. To protect my Bowser’s couch, I put a quilt down for him to lie upon. It covers most of the couch, leaving an unprotected space for me to sit upon. Easy to whisk off, shake off, and launder when needed.
But if I don’t get to my seat quickly enough, this happens:
Hey!You know that’s MY seat, right?!Oh….alright! I can’t resist that face.Going, going…Gone. Again.
Some days it’s not fit for woman nor beast to be outside (for too long). For those days, I have a stash of toys to keep a certain someone outta my hair interested and amused. However I need to replenish the stash from time to time as that same certain someone is very hard on toys.
Unfortunately while I was unpacking the latest haul of toys, I accidentally made one of them squeak.
Bowser: I’d recognize that sound anywhere! Gimmee gimmee!!!Yes. I caved and gave him one. Sigh!
And this short video gives you an indication of why the toys never last too long.
Bowser demonstrates with his favourite toy. The toy: an inside-out deflated soccer ball, that first appeared in this post. In Bowser’s defense (and heaven knows he needs one), he did not deflate the ball. That happened when a truck delivering materials for my garden backed over it.Bowser guarding another ball so I can’t steal it from him.After toy time, comes Rest with Oma time. 😁
We hope you have plenty of play and rest time heading your way!
Believe it or not, the rain turned to snow I featured in the last post did not include a frost. That (our first frost of the season) happened the day after the snow fall (October 26). Only on Vancouver Island, you say? 😉 Yes! At least in my little corner of the world.
Frosty oregon grape leavesThe heavy rain followed by wet snow followed by frost meant that a lot of trees and tree branches now littered where we used to walk so freely.Yesterday’s puddles now covered in a thin layer of ice.All of that rain and snow means the creek is now almost back to the size and ferocity it was in the spring.And our formerly dry summer crossings now involve wet feet, again. But we don’t care. (These puddles are no longer icy because the sun was shining on them.)So long as we are outside, together!
