The Loom is Here!

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Our Ashford Loom arrived! It is so cute and beautiful! We had to assemble it. Mom would not let me use the hammer. I do not know why she keeps some tools away from me.
When we bought the yarn from Paradise Fibers Ellie mentioned rolling it into a ball. Apparently the beautiful twist is done for shipping and storage but is not good for when you want to use it. One of the cats was very interested in the yarn while mom rolled it into a ball!
Here we are weaving our first scarf!!!!! The video says we can make a scarf in about 2 hours. HA HA HA HA HA! No way! It took more than that for mom to set up the warp and weave the first couple of inches! Then she figured out the scarf had to move forward more onto the front roller. Now it is going much better! Also, we picked two kinds of beautiful blue yarn but they are close in color so there is not much of a contrast. We are learning a lot with this first project.
Here is one of our foster cats. Her name is Panther. She was very unsociable at first and really hated mom. But mom kept wrapping her in a towel and cuddling her and telling her “We are going to be friends whether you like it or not” and now Panther is friendly and loves lap time. Now instead of being a barn cat she can be a pampered house cat!

Snow and Ice!

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Wow there was a lot of snow last week and most of it came down in less than 24 hours!
Here is what one of our trees looked like! A Winter Wonderland!
We had to shovel so much snow! The piles of snow got really big! Our wonderful neighbor Gary brought his snow blower named “Big Boy” to clear out the enormous berm made by the city snow plows.
We went to a Paradise Fibers where they sell all kinds of supplies for fiber arts like knitting, Because mom bought a loom for weaving! The loom has not been delivered yet but we wanted to get some yarn so we’ll be ready. The is me with Ellie who was super helpful and super beautiful! She gave mom so much advice, suggestions and help that we left with information overload! you can tell that Ellie loves Tigers!

Happy New Year 2022!

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The day before Christmas we had some moose come and visit us! Here is a picture of Momma Moose.
And here is her baby who is looking enormous!
For Christmas we went spent the afternoon with our wonderful neighbors Gary and Joni ! The roads were icy so some other friends did not join us. More food for me!! Gary is very handsome and Joni is super beautiful and they are both the nicest people ever.
It has been very cold for over a week, the temperature did not get above 20 degrees. One night it got close to zero!! Here you can see one morning it was 13 degrees while we were in the car. Brrrrrr!
We spent New Years Eve shoveling snow. Yippee! Happy New Year everyone!

Snowstorm!!!

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Wow it really snowed a lot a few days ago!! Yippeeee!!! We have been shoveling a LOT of snow!
We were happy when the plows came through to clear the streets. After that we went out in the car and did errands! We LOVE the plows!
Someone left candy canes on our doorstep. It says it is from the Ridge Runner Elves! The Ridge Runners are the neighborhood running group. It is feeling a lot like Christmas!

New Flooring !!

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This is me with Frank who installed new flooring for us !! You can see a little bit of the new flooring in the picture. Frank did an amazing job!! Plus he was super nice and handsome and told funny stories. We LOVE the new floors!
We had moose in our backyard! This is the Mom moose and one of her offspring. It is so exciting when they come to visit us and it is great to see them looking so healthy!
We went for a walk on a trail we discovered by accident. We had no idea this trail even existed in the middle of the city! It connects two parks together.
OMG Auntie Darcy and Nicolyn sent us a whole bunch of holiday presents !!! I love getting presents! Notice the beautiful floor too we are going to take as many photos as possible with the new floor.

It SNOWED!!! a little

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It snowed !!!! Yayyyy! But then it turned to rain mixed with snow and then it all melted. Here is a little snow on top of a spaghetti squash that we are using to decorate out front. At work our friend Kristi brought in home grown squashes and we brought this one home to cook but then we got busy and mom FORGOT about it. So then I suggested we draw a dinosaur on it.
Here I am with John who came to do a checkup on our furnace and fireplace. He was super nice and handsome! He is measuring me with his multimeter ha ha ha!
This is me with Lea one of the awesome nurses at the doctors office. She is so beauuuutiful !!! mom had to get a flu shot so her arm was a little sore the next day.
Our favorite library is closed for renovation so we went to a different library that was recently remodeled. It is very bland and cold looking, except for a play area in the kids section. I guess it is supposed to be modern looking. it is okay; we are always thrilled to have public libraries where we can borrow books for free!

It’s Halloween!

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These neighbors had some great pumpkins!

This is our neighbor Mike. He is looking particularly handsome tonight.

Here are some of the decorations in front of Mike and Katie’s house! I am a Tiger I was not scared. But I was glad to see them during the day.
Then we went to a party and Jenn and Ryan’s house!!! They had 3 kinds of homemade chili!!! And all kinds of Yummy stuff to put on top like corn chips!! It was awesome.

Soap Shop Party!!

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We got invited to a party at Sandy’s shop where we buy soap supplies!! Tigers LOVE parties!
Last week Mom had to go to the dentist. I LOVE going to the dentist because while mom gets her teeth cleaned I get to hang out with these beautiful ladies!
It was mom’s birthday recently and when we got to work David had made this awesome sign for her office!! David put MY PICTURE on the sign!!! How great is that!!! David is THE BEST!

Khan is Found !!!!

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Khan and his people live a mile or two away from us and he snuck out of the house and got lost !! He was sighted several times in our neighborhood so me and mom spent a lot of time walking and hiking through the woods in the area looking for him. Khan was finally found about 5 miles away after 25 days!!!! The whole community rejoiced ! And he is in amazingly good shape. The vet gave him some fluids and shaved the vegetation out of his beautiful coat. We are so happy for him and his family!!

At work there was a party for Warren who is leaving and we will miss him. Rowan made all kinds of delicious snacks and packaged them so beautifully! Mom FORGOT me at home! But I was able to photoshop myself into the picture.

OMG we have the most adorable foster kittens now! Domino and Rubik went to the adoption floor at the shelter and got adopted right away. We brought home these two cuties.

Wild Animals!

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Look what was in our backyard last week !!!! A Wild Animal !!!!
We posted a couple of the photos on Nextdoor.com and a lot of people looked at it and left comments.
One of our neighbors (their kids) were doing a fundraiser for the World Wildlife Fund and selling cookies and muffins!! Yum !!! But mom is not eating that kind of food anymore (drat!). They were also selling super awesome clay animals and we bought the TIGER! They talked us into getting the elephant too they told us they were a pair and they live together in Sumatra! I knew that.
We went for a walk in the woods near our house. Not the most exciting hike we’ve ever done but it was good to get outside and stretch our legs and paws!