Today Tabitha went to see the v-e-t. Here is a picture of me and Tabitha. She is a tabby cat and we also call her TibTab and The Tab.  You have heard of The Edge who plays guitar in the band U2. Well we have The Tab.

After Tab had her checkup Dr. Ivy gave me an examination!  I felt so special!  Dr. Ivy is really nice and beautiful and very funny and totally awesome!  She is a professional …do not try this at home with a tiger.

OMG what are you doing Dr. Ivy???  Help HELP  HELP!   I do not need my temperature taken STOP!

We have been back in Six Sigma class again this week. Hey Mom some of this I am not understanding!

Some of these numbers are really big. Or really small. I only have 4 paws to count with.

Today we got to do an experiment making paper helicopters!

Making paper helicopters may sound like fun and games but it is totally serious! We had to set up a production assembly line, design a test experiment that covered two work shifts, build the helicopters to different specifications like different blade sizes, do a quality check, run the test, analyze the results and then confirm the results by making more helicopters. Whew!

Then when we got home there was a giant moving van in  our street! I forgot that Owen and Jill and their awesome kids are moving away! Oh no I will miss them they are the best neighbors. The company Owen works for wants him in Eastern Washington. Mom says other nice people will move in that I may like just as much. But there is no way. Jill makes the BEST cookies.

I decided it would be a good time to put the special rocks we got at the beach someplace special. That way when you see them you can remember what a fun time you had and it makes you feel happy.

Me and Mom went on a road trip! Here we are crossing the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

Then later we went over another bridge! This is the Hood Canal Floating Bridge.

We went for a hike on the beach at Port Townsend.  Mom says it was time to test out how her foot is doing.

Here is a sea urchin shell washed up on the beach.

There were so many things to do at the beach! I like the way the kelp flows over the rocks. It looks like the rocks are packages wrapped up like gifts. I wanted to bring some of the rocks home with us. Mom said I could pick only ONE. And not a big heavy one.  It was hard to decide. We picked a second one out for Dixie. Dixie did not come with us because we were not sure if dogs are allowed on the trails we were planning on going on. Which is not where we ended up hiking because mom parked too soon.  But it was great! I loved the beach!  I could have stayed all day but then mom mentioned Lunch which is one of my favorite things.

We ordered soup and half a sandwich at a yummy restaurant.  I LOVE restaurants!  It was carrot ginger soup – fantastic!

There was a fiddle festival going on at Port Townsend this weekend!  We watched for a while.

There was also a street fair going on. This is what is so great about a road trip. You never know what will happen!

We walked by a house where there were deer just walking around in the yard!  I was VERY good and just looked.

Then we went to a really beautiful plant nursery named Far Reaches that mom wanted to see.

This is why red is my favorite color – don’t I look great?

On the way home we had to pay a toll. It was fun! Mom gave the toll lady some chocolates.  I did not know you could pay in chocolate.  Mom explained that she did pay with money but gave the chocolates as a gift. Also so she could say she did not eat the whole bag herself.

We went to the FIREWORKS store Mom is letting me get FIREWORKS!!

Here are the beautiful and super-nice ladies who run the store. I bet they can explode as many fireworks as they want!  I wish Mom worked there instead of in an office.

Mom is not crazy about fireworks.  When she was a little kid she stepped barefoot on a hot sparkler and is apparently now scarred emotionally for life. But guess what she bought me? Sparklers!  Ha ha!  She says at least she knows how they work and they do not go BOOM!   OMG I can hardly wait to light them!  Mom says we have to wait until it is dark.

Yippee!!!   Oh boy oh boy this is so great!  It was not quite dark yet but me and Dixie wanted to try the fireworks. Also we wanted to make sure we were in the pictures. That is very important.

Here are some of the best photos.

Also we went to see a big fireworks display; it was GREAT!  We watched from a hill near where we live. You can hardly see me in the picture! Mom said it is hard to take pictures in the dark.  I bet even Dixie could have taken better pictures than this.

Check it out!  Mom’s friend Gregg brought his Elvis gnome to work!  So mom brought me to work too so we could meet!

We rode the bike to work today. Usually when Mom takes the bike she leaves me at home.  She says she does not have room for me in her pannier because it is full of important work stuff. Like lunch and snacks. Here is a picture of us riding home after work.

Here I am in mom’s office waiting for something exciting to happen.