Friday, March 16, 2007

Hidden treasures of the melting snow

Tawny loves playing fetch. Not too surprising, since she is a Labrador Retriever after all. The problem with a lot of throw toys is that they are relatively heavy, so will sink down through the snow. One of the best toys to in the winter, is the Kong throw toy that is made out of tennis ball material with a decent length of rope (not too long, not too short). The tennis ball material is light enough that it won't sink too deep into the snow.

However, even though it might not sink too far into the snow, we do lose a few over the winter. The amazing thing about the melting snow is that the lost toys become found. On Wednesday, Tawny found two of these Kongs that she lost or dropped somewhere when a scent distracted her, so Freda came home with three of these!
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Cleaning up the neighbourhood


When I was walking Tawny on Wednesday morning, she picked up a beer can that someone had discarded in the snow, and carried it all the way back to the house. I was surprised as she normally won't carry something that long without getting bored with it.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

TARION - 1 year

It's time to fill out our 1 year occupancy form for Tarion - this is completed and submitted in the 12th month of occupancy. I find it extremely ironic that we only got our final occupancy permit on January 3rd. I'm up to 20 pages of deficiencies so far, and finding new ones every day... :)))

BTW, I have been having problems posting photos with Picasa - it fails for unknown reason. Blogger problem, sorry.

Lonely horses


March 4th, 2007

Thursday, February 22, 2007

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Meet Molly


This is Molly. Freda is saying hello to her and Molly is enjoying the apple that Freda brought along for her. Freda had just given Molly a piece of an apple, and Molly was trying to nibble on Freda's coat. This was Saturday.

On Sunday, I walked Tawny so Freda could sleep in a bit, and when we got near to Molly's paddock, she came running over to see us. Unfortunately I didn't have any carrots or apples with me.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Pano - Feb 8, 2007


Pano - Feb 8th, 2007.

In this photo, you can see two skating areas that our neighbours have created by clearing some of the snow on the lake and flooding it. . The first is just to the left of center, and the other one is about 1/3 of the way in from the right side of the photo.