It has been a quiet week with few adventures. It snowed almost every day so our routine is to get up early, shovel snow, go to work, shovel snow. Repeat the next day. There are lots of animal tracks in the snow!  These look like TIGER tracks to me!

At work we play ping pong most days on our lunch break even though sometimes it is freezing out. Here it is David and Jaime on one team it was too dark to get a picture of Mack and Thuan on the other team. Almost everyone who plays is an Engineer (except mom) so they have devised things like a ball return for when the ball ends up under the table it will roll out. Also they spend lots of time figuring out how to make the ball spin in funny ways and if you ask how they say things like ” when the ratio of the ball acceleration and direction is slowed by the friction hitting the table and the hypotenuse of the  inverse something-or-other….” that is when I usually zone out.

OMG ! One day Jaime brought his dog Sweet Pea to work!  Sweet Pea had to go to the vet later so she was here just for a little while. She is a great dog and can do tricks like roll over and play dead and she loves oranges! In this photo Jaime is showing how she can balance an orange on her nose. Jaime is super nice and handsome and charming.

Our car is all fixed!  Yay! While it was in the shop we got to rent this great Toyota RAV4!  It was nice and new and had lots of power and lots of room inside and is taller than our car so you can see more. I told mom we should totally buy one but she said NO.           

This is me with Jocelyn who works at the Enterprise car rental store and gave us a ride to pick up our car she was super nice and really beautiful I would like to work at the car rental store and drive cars all over the place. mom said good luck with that.

We had two big snowstorms dump lots and lots of snow! We have been shoveling a lot!

Here I am with our awesome neighbor Jen! She is really nice and really gorgeous and an athlete. She is always out running or biking or skiing or on some other adventure.

OMG we had lots more snow one day! Luckily it was a holiday so we could spend a lot of time shoveling the driveway and sidewalks. It was a magical winter wonderland!

He is a picture from our deck with Lars, Dixie, me, and Taj!

We went on a hike called Stevens Creek!  it had warmed up that day and the snow was slushy and slippery but I am a TIGER I have four paw drive.

On the hike we ran into our friends Sean and Emory! Sean and mom used to work together and Emory is his beautiful wife. Sean is very handsome but not quite as handsome as me. They had their dogs with them but mom FORGOT to get their names.

Well!  It has been quite a week. One day it hailed like crazy!

Then it snowed and a large animal has left tracks in our yard!

I think it was the moose that likes to visit in the winter and eat our shrubs and trees. Here is where she must have laid down to rest and all the snow melted from under her!

There are all kinds of animal tracks! Today we saw two Peregrine Falcons in our tree maybe some of these bird tracks are from them!  I bet a wild TIGER was here too!

Also last week we met Sue and Rich at the collision center where they are going to fix the front end of the car from when mom ran into the stop sign. They were both super nice and helpful and Sue is gorgeous and Rich is very handsome.

It was Christmas last week too and Auntie Darcy sent us a big box fill of awesome goodies including macadamia nut cookies from Hawaii and Nicolyn sent a chocolate bar from the famous Harrod’s store in Europe which she visited recently. Plus lots of other good stuff like a cat bag clip that meows. Thanks you guys! Merry Christmas!

Last week it snowed a lot one day! We had to get up early and shovel snow !

Then on the way to work the roads were a big mess and a few blocks from work the brakes locked up and the car slid in the snow and OMG this is so FUNNY mom ran the car into a stop sign HA HA HA HA HA! Mom says it is not funny it is embarrassing the stop sign fell down and we had to call the Roads Department and confess that we knocked down the sign. Now mom has to deal with the insurance company and get the car fixed and she was all stressed out the day it happened and did not get any pictures of the knocked down sign which would have been awesome. I was in the car when it happened and it was hilarious but I’m glad no one got hurt and the sign is okay. The wonderful Roads Department got it put back up the same day. Only the car got hurt.

SNOW !!!  It snowed one day last week A LOT we spent quite a bit of time shoveling snow before work and mom FORGOT to get any pictures until we were on our way to work with all the cars lined up to get on the highway it was slippery.

At work there was a holiday party it was great!  There was yummy food and BEER!

Elvis was at the party!!!  OMG !!!! Our friend Doug at work also has a business as an Elvis impersonator!  He  has a great voice and costumes and it was awesome!

He I am with Elvis (Doug)! he gave away a few special Elvis scarves and mom got one! I was hoping to get to wear it but it is too big for me so mom is going to use it.

On the weekend we went to the mall and I said we should pick someone to help from the Holiday Giving Tree. We picked someone who wanted a girls watch. There were a few like that so we bought several girls watches! We had fun picking out the best watches to get one has a CAT on it we could not find any with TIGERS.

Then today it snowed some more!  Yayy!! Here is the front yard.

We went hiking at Turnbull !! It has been very rainy and gloomy for days and finally today it stopped raining!  For lunch mom brought a peanut butter sandwich as usual. I am a TIGER I am a carnivore! Mom said fine why don’t you go hunting you might be able to catch a field mouse. That is NOT at ALL what I meant. What I MEANT was it would be nice if when we go hiking mom would pack me a roast beef sandwich.

At work we had a holiday potluck for everyone on the third floor! It was awesome and people brought things Tigers love like Little Smokies in BBQ sauce and pecan pie.

When we were doing errands this weekend we ran into our friend Laurie and her sister Joyce at the library!  They are both gorgeous and super nice.

OMG!!  We have a new foster cat !!  Her name is Alfredo. We did not name her. She is a senior kitty who needed a retirement home and she is super sweet!  I’m sorry to have to report that Leo our longtime senior hospice kitty is gone; he crossed the rainbow bridge to Kitty Heaven a few weeks ago and we are sad and miss him a lot.

We’ve had the best long weekend! It started on Wednesday when we went to the dentist so mom could have her teeth cleaned. Here I am with Maryna and Victoria who are both so beautiful va va voom! and also super nice and helpful.

Then on Thanksgiving morning bright and early we did the Manito Park Turkey Trot! Here I am with a few thousand of my friends. and aqwaitan  akwaintences.

Then that afternoon we went to a party at Gary and Joni’s house! Here I am with Joni who is soooo beautifullll and super nice and so much fun and a good cook too!

Here we are having dinner, it is Gary, ME, Tyler,Linda and Joni.

Then the next day we went hiking someplace new Kamiak Butte Park.It is named in honor of Chief Kamiak on the Yakima Indian Tribe. It is a beautiful park with lots of forest, good trails, and wonderful  views of the Palouse. We had a great time!

On Saturday we went back to Joni and Gary’s house for another party!!! There was a lot of yummy snacks and a football game for those who wanted to watch, and if you didn’t you could paint with Joni!  That’s what we did! This is me with Patsy, Betsy, and Kitty making paintings. Mom made a painting of Kosha flying through the starry night sky wearing a red cape like SuperCat, It was all super duper fun!

It has been very cold and very foggy in the mornings. There is so much fog that the moisture freezes on all the plants and makes interesting designs like this shrub.

We went to an Arts Festival and went SHOPPING!  Mom does not normally like to shop I do not know why. We even went to Fred Meyer and stocked up on things like cereal and kitty litter and mom says this way we won’t have to go there again until January. Anyway at the arts festival we bought a cool hat from Leslie who makes hats from reclaimed fabric we have other hats that she has made they are great! Sweater Heads is the name of her business. Leslie is really nice and super beautiful and fun.

Here I am with Chrissy and John who sell wonderful catnip pillows in fun fabric that our cats go bonkers for. They are really nice and love Tigers and Chrissy is gorgeous and John is very handsome but not quite as handsome as me.

Mom also bought a fun hat from Juaquetta who spins her own yard, dyes it herself and then knits amazing hats and scarves and sweaters. She was really nice and beautiful and told us that she made the hat while in Glacier Park on a rainy day. 

Also I want to give a shout out to Bill from Falco who came and did some maintenance on our furnace and our fireplace which are working great now. He was really knowledgeable and very handsome and answered all mom’s silly questions.

We went for a hike somewhere new! We drove over the state line to Post Falls in Idaho (Famous Potatoes) and went to Q’emiln Park. Q’emiln is a native word that means throat of the river and is pronounced Ka-Mee-Lin. It was beautiful there!

There were cliffs for rock climbing and a big park to run around in and a boat ramp to the Spokane River and dog walkers and lots and lots of trails for us to explore.

There is a dam there used for hydroelectic power! The water level is so low right now that all the water is on the other side of the dam and none is on this side! No power being generated until spring probably. It was a great day!