Mom ordered a special portrait of our cat Kosha. You send in a photo and pick out the design you want and Crown & Paw sends back an awesome portrait that looks like a painting! Here is a picture of Kosha with his portrait!  I told mom we should get one for all the cats and she said that would cost a lot and I said well what about just for me?

Mom said Hmmm. She said let’s look and see if there are any designs you like. OMG they are all so cool!  I could not decide! and then mom said it takes weeks and weeks to get the portrait back!!  Then mom said as an IT professional she could make me a portrait the same day but the quality might not be so good and I said YES!

Here it is OMG it is so awesome!!!  Ha ha ha! I love it! Mom is the BEST.

Holiday weekends are the best! We went on a long bike ride past neighborhood farms then onto the Cheney-Spokane road. We passed Bradleys Metal Works which looks like a really fun place! There have cool sculptures in the yard!

Then we hooked up with the Fish Lake Trail (that’s a pun!) and then the Columbia Plateau Trail and found there is a wetlands park there!

And finally we made our way into the town of Cheney where Eastern Washington University is. We rode around and looked at the beautiful campus.

On the way home we took Anderson Road which we knew was partly gravel but OMG it was miles of twisty road with lots of up and down and luckily there was hardly any cars because mom was all over the road!  Ha ha ha! Everyone was friendly and waved at us they must not see many bicycles. Mom did good and did not crash the bike.

Then the next day we went back to the Wetlands Park in Cheney and hiked. There were miles of trails and hardly anyone there! There were all kinds of waterfowl and other birds like woodpeckers. I think we saw a Cinnamon Teal, a Hooded Merganser, and a Yellow Headed Blackbird. Here are some photos of the trail and wildflowers.

Also we saw some SNAKES!!  including this gigantic one!!  I am a Tiger I was not scared but mom kept her distance. We think it was a Gopher Snake.

On our weekly bike ride we went somewhere new and we passed Grimmett’s Short Haul railroad OMG we did not even know this existed!  The tracks go around their house and yard. Oh I hope that they let Tigers ride the train when it runs!

Later we passed some property where this sign was on the fence. Most people have Welcome signs but pirates must live here! Maybe they have a pirate ship to play on.

On our way home we stopped for a break at a plant nursery and they had a really cool chicken. We went back today and bought it!!!!  It is bigger than me!

When we went for a long bike ride this weekend we passed a lot of cows. Some of the cows were sticking their heads through the fence to eat the grass on the other side!! Ha ha that was funny!! but when we got out the camera they stopped doing that.

Also we passed this really cool fence!

Here is a picture of two kinds of soap mom made recently. Mom read a book about color techniques and on the left are some nice color swirls. Then she tried something more ambitious that turned out pretty ugly on the right. When we saw it mom said that we have not sent soap to Auntie Darcy lately. ha ha!

We went for another bike ride Yayyy!  There are a whole bunch of small farms and ranches near where we live and beautiful country to ride through.

We saw lots of HORSES!  OMG they are so pretty!  I was good and did not scare them I would never do that horses are too majestic. There are two horses in this picture the white one was feeling shy and is behind some trees near my right ear.

In our neighborhood someone has been painting rocks and leaving them along pathways. Other people move them around so if you see one and want a picture you have to take it then because next day the rock may be somewhere else.

We discovered a Little Free Library that we can walk to! We donated a book and took one that looked good. Mom ran out of library books weeks ago so we are very happy to have found this wonderfully cool local free library with a good selection of books.