Today we went hiking at Mt. Rainier! Here we are entering the park, I am posing with the handsome park ranger at the entrance.

Here we are on the trail with Aunt Darcy riding in a new super duper satchel that Auntie Darcy brought for us. It was a gift to her from a scientist from Papua New Guinea it is really special and is perfect for us because both me and Dixie fit in it! Plus there is room for an extra shirt. And a snack.

There was still a little snow so me and Dixie had a snowball fight!

We saw lots of beautiful wildflowers and birds and chipmunks but no bears. Or wild tigers.

No Pets allowed on the trails!  good thing we left Tabitha at home.

OMG look at the new friend I made out on the trail!!! This is so incredible!!  This handsome backpacker was carrying his giraffe on his shoulder!

It was a beautiful sunny day look at the mountain behind me! Aunt Darcy says this rock I am standing near is stratified glacier something-or-other (geologist talk). We had a super duper great day. I love Aunt Darcy even though she talks geologist sometimes.

We had an animal visit in the back yard sometime while we were all sleeping. It must have been a tiger!  Mom says it was probably a raccoon; it took some of our dahlia flowers to eat and left them in the bird bath.  Dixie says it was probably a wild golden retriever.

Then we went to the Bellevue Arts Fair. I was very good and did not break anything.

Here I am with Mom’s friend Yvette who is a famous artist and even has her own gallery! Yvette is gorgeous and super nice and has the most beautifuuulll accent.

Then on the way home we sat in traffic. People must have been driving slow so they could appreciate the pretty day.

After dinner at home we got in the car again. I did not know where we were going….we ended up in the cell phone waiting lot at the airport!  It is so cool.  You wait in the parking lot and can do stuff like climb the hill to look at the planes, and then someone calls you on your cell phone when they are ready to be picked up.

OMG it is Aunt DARCY!!!!!  She is here to visit us again YAYYYYY!!!  Here she is getting in the car!!!

We had so much fun when we got home!  Auntie Darcy met Dixie and we wore our bandanas all different ways!

Aunt Darcy brought us a present!!!  It is a special chocolate bar with yummy huckleberries in in.  Tigers love huckleberries!

Time for the Final Exam for the Six Sigma Black Belt.  Good luck everyone!

This is a lot of stuff.  It was sure lucky that Mom brought me with her so I could help.

We passed the test YAY!  Mom says she is still not an official black belt. She has to finish a black belt project that has to do with hexavalent chromium. That does not sound very interesting.  She should do a project about tigers instead. I am feeling fierce!

We got to visit Uncle Pete’s house and spend time with his cats. Here I am trying to get Joey to play with me.  I think Joey is kind of a couch potato.

Julie is a super playful kitty; we had a good time with the ring toy. I think she won. Sometimes it is a little hard to tell. Then we trimmed all the cat nails. But not mine…don’t even think about it.

Look at all the hiking and backpacking gear Uncle Pete has! He has plenty of room for me. Since mom still cannot hike very far. I would love to go camping!!! Hint hint.

After that we went out to lunch. I sure love restaurants. Mom should take me out to eat more often.

Then we went home and did nail trims for some of our cats. Here we are hanging out with Callie.

Jimi the foster cat is still with us.

We had a cat toy recovery project this weekend!  We found about a dozen toys under the couch. Mom was wondering where they all went.  In the photo below Jimi is biting my whiskers ha ha that tickles!

Mom had to study this weekend.  I guess me and Dixie were making too much noise mom said come here and I will read you a story.  I love storytime!!!   Mom said this is a story about a company using electrical current to heat a filament to a specified temperature at different processing units and the filament has varying degrees of resistance; let’s calculate the standard deviation and the root mean square error and see if there is a correlation between the X and Y variables…..next thing I knew I woke up from a nice nap and it was dinnertime.

Hello.  First I would like to say that Mom figured out how both me and Dixie can ride in the satchel together. It is good that we are such good friends. Otherwise I might not want Dixie’s paw stuck in my ear!

This afternoon we went to look at the construction site. We have not been there in a while because they keep tearing up the road.

After that we walked to the playground! We played on the swings for a while. Mom says it is hard to take a picture while we are all on the swing together.

Then we went on the slides. This playground has lots of different slides.

We talked Mom into going on the slides with us! Ha ha ha! It was so fun!

Here we are nearing the bottom of a spiral slide! Wheee! This is great!     Mom has the ugliest shoes. We have already told her but she says they are comfortable.

Look what someone left at the playground!

Dixie did not know how to use it she is just a puppy. So I showed her how to hold the bat.

Now we just need a ball!  Oh wow next time we should bring my favorite red ball!  Oh I hope the bat is still here tomorrow!!!

Today me and Mom went to see the orthopedic doctor to checkup on mom’s foot. The poor foot is about the same; no better. The doctor gave us some funny looking things to put in mom’s shoes to try to make the metatarsal bones re-position. In this photo the handsome doctor is examining my paw which is in much better shape than mom’s foot. He said he had never had a tiger for a patient before!!

Earlier this week we went to the dentist. Wow it has been a busy week for appointments. Dr. Rohdy is the best dentist on the planet. And is also very handsome. But not quite as handsome as me. Almost. He is showing me good teeth brushing technique. Tooth brushing. Tooths. Good brushing habits.

Today we went on a hike!  At first I thought we were going to hike at Cedar BUTT haha!  It is called Cedar Butte not Cedar Butt. Here we are with a bunch of Mom’s friends. Laurell in the pink shirt was leading the hike. She is very beautiful and in tip-top shape. Even I could not keep up with her.

There was a pretty lake near the summit.

Here is Mom’s friend Maritha; she is so beautiful!  She did not have any breakfast…I don’t know how you can hike without any breakfast, that’s crazy!   I like having a snack every mile at least.

At the summit. We made it!

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Here we are in the van driving back. We carpooled which is good for the environment and also so you don’t use up all the parking spaces.

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.