This weekend we did a whole bunch of errands, like going back to Clara’s art studio.

We went on lots of walks!!  Here we saw a tree that some animal gnawed at.  Maybe it was a Tiger!

We walked to a different part of the neighborhood where there was this awesome tree house!  OMG it is perfect for a small tiger!  We should get one like this in our yard !!

Also just because it is Spring now does not mean the snow has stopped.

This weekend we got lots of chores and errands done. As a reward we got lunch at our favorite Thai restaurant!     Sometimes the chefs make flames when they are cooking but it is hard to get a picture of that.  At least that’s what Mom says. She also missed most of  my face in this photo.

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Later we went for a walk in the woods near our house.  Here we are in a field of purple wildflowers.  I have my Gonzaga bandana and Turnbull pin and Mom is wearing the Western Bluebird pin we also got at Turnbull last week.  

Then we went hiking on Sunday!    We saw a coyote!!  and a moose!!

We had lunch by this lake.  A toasted peanut butter sandwich.

Over the weekend we went back to Turnbull both days for more hiking!

The gift shop was open!  We got a couple of pins to put on our bandanas!  This is me with Marianne who is super beautiful and was super nice she chatted with us even though she was trying to put away all the merchandise for the gift shop.

Mom made us all Gonzaga bandanas!!!! Here I am the next day on another hike with my new bandana and my Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge pin !!!

We saw moose both days !!!!  OMG!!!!  There is a moose a little above my right ear and to the right the moose is standing to the right of a tree! We added an arrow to help.

Also this weekend we met Clara who is an art restorer!  She is going to repair some paintings that got damaged in the move.  Clara is gorgeous and charming and has the coolest studio ever!  It would be fun to spend the day there and make paw paintings.

This weekend we went back to the Turnbull Wildlife Refuge to do another hike! We brought Dixie too!  Yayyy!  It is warmer now so she can come on long hikes.

The snow is almost all melted so now there is a lot of water in lots of places. The big pond behind us is where the trail is. We had to forge through or go around a lot of water!  Mom has waterproof boots and I am a Tiger I do not mind getting my paws wet.

Dixie likes to look for flowers.  It is spring but there are not a lot of flowers yet. What we did see is a lot of animal scat!  We came home and looked online to see what kind of animals are in the area. Based on our research: deer or elk or moose, coyotes, and raccoons! Also we saw a chipmunk!  And ducks!  And a bluebird!

Last week at work there was lunch from a restaurant but mom FORGOT to get me and all that was left when she came back to the office were some cookies.

OMG the best thing happened at work Marc was there for a few days! I have not seen Marc in a year or two. He is super smart and funny and also super handsome. Mom found out that his name is actually Marcel ! She probably knew that but FORGOT because she seems to FORGET things a lot these days.

We  had a locksmith come to our house to re-key our locks!  His name was Steve he was really nice and super handsome but not quite as handsome as me. 

This weekend we did some errands and then we had lunch at a restaurant I LOVE restaurants!  Mom said it was the best Thai food she has had so far in Spokane.

When we got home we went for a walk in the woods. The snow is all gone!  Everything looks so different now.  It will be harder to see animal tracks but I will keep looking.

Here is the first flower of Spring!

We went back to 49 Degrees North today!  Yayyy!  On one run mom took a wrong turn and ended up in the terrain park!  She went over a bunch of jumps but when she got to the really big one she went around it and ended up careening through really deep powder and did a face plant. Ha ha ha ha!  That was hilarious.  She did not let me take a picture of that.

Behind me is Chair 6 which we found out later is one of the fastest chairs on the mountain it really whips around to load and unload and basically tossed mom off at the top of Angel Peak.  Now we call it Evil Chair 6.

It really started raining in the afternoon you can see here how the camera is making foggy spots. Mom says we have enough photos like this anyway.

At the end of the day after we were were thoroughly soggy we went into the lodge for hot chocolate yayyyyy! The satchel is not waterproof and the phone\camera was getting wet.  I am a Tiger I do not mind getting wet. The hot chocolate did not have marshmallows or whipped cream but it was still delicious. When we asked if there was whipped cream the lady in the cafe said that the yurt at the summit had whipped cream for the hot chocolate so I thought we could go back up there but mom said No.                     

Today we did errands and went to an art show. We met Leslie who is totally gorgeous and makes hats from reclaimed materials. They were awesome hats!

Then we went to a train show yayyy!  They had model trains you could watch!  It was great!  I got in free but mom had to pay six dollars. It was totally worth it.

Mostly they were selling all kinds of model train stuff. We looked and looked but did not see anything with tigers. What is up with that?

Also there was an organization there telling about about how to be safe around trains and they let me have this cool coloring book!  It is fun and also educational.

OMG we had the BEST day EVER snowboarding today!  We went to 49 Degrees North and it was a super beautiful day with great views of the mountains.

Conditions were really good and they had lots of fun chutes with lots of trees and we even saw a squirrel carrying a pine cone!  

Here I am riding in the satchel!  It was an awesome day !!

At the end of the day we went into the Alpine Shop and found a pin for me !!!!

Yesterday when we were leaving for work we discovered that the car had a flat tire!  It was not a little bit flat it was completely flat!  Here is the flat tire in the back of the car. Just next to my right ear is the screw that punctured the tire.

Mom got out the spare tire that she says is called a donut and got the flat tire off and the donut put on the car. She FORGOT to take pictures while we changed the tire!  I suggested that we take the flat tire out of the car, jack up the car, take the donut off, put the flat tire back on the car, remove the jack, put the tools back in the car and start all over and take pictures.  Mom said No.

Then we drove real slowly to the Subaru store so they could fix the tire. They had all kinds of refreshments while you wait like POPCORN from a cool popping machine.

We had to wait a long time because of the way the tire was damaged it could not be repaired so we needed to get all new tires. So we got to watch television while we waited! Yayyy!  It was a weird show. It was a lady celebrity who I don’t know who she was and she had guests on her show I don’t know who they were and they kept talking about each other and how good looking they are and a party they went to and I kept waiting for them to do something interesting like bring out a tiger or a moose and they never did. I don’t understand what the show was about. mom say that is why we don’t have television at home. But if we had television at home and we watched all the time we would probably know who all those celebrity people were. Here is a photo of everyone in the waiting area. The chairs were nice and comfy!

All kinds of things have been happening in the neighborhood. Roger from next door injured both his shoulders and cannot do any more snow shoveling this season. So mom has been busy because it has been snowing all weekend. We shoveled Roger’s driveway, Randy’s driveway, and Maggie’s driveway. Maggie’s husband Phil is in the hospital! He has to have surgery on his heart tomorrow!

And today there were moose in the neighborhood!  One moose calf actually came down off the hill and trotted down the street!!!  This photo is looking out our window!

The mother moose is called a cow. She has an injured front leg!  She was holding it up and dragging it in the snow!  Oh no!  Mom and Joni talked on the phone and mom sent an email to our regional office of the state department of wildlife to let them know about it.  Then someone was walking their dog without a leash and the dog was bothering the cow moose and she had to try to run on three legs.  Mom yelled at the lady (the lady and her dog were far away that’s why she had to yell) to secure her dog and she did.  But I was sad after that. Worrying about the moose.  Mom says she is moving around pretty good and is eating so it may turn out ok.

Later we went for a walk in the woods. 

Here is the problem they are knocking down part of the forest to build more houses! And the wild animals like the moose don’t have as much wilderness anymore.