Visit to Boise!!!!!!

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OMG!!! We went to Boise to visit Mom’s friend Paula! They had lost touch for a long time and had not seen each other in over 40 years! It was an amazing trip and we got to fly in the plane that belongs to Paula and her husband Kevin OMG!!!! They are both super nice and Paula is gorgeous and Kevin is very handsome but not quite as handsome as me.
Here I am in the co-pilot seat before we took off! Mom got to sit here and I sat in her lap. We got a special safety briefing so we would know what to do in an emergency and which buttons to push to do things like put the plane in auto-pilot and how to deploy the emergency parachute.
This is me and Kevin doing the preflight checklist. Kevin was a fighter jet pilot in the Air Force WOW that is an important job! Now he flies for business and for fun so this plane is not a fighter jet.
Here we are in the air and flying over mountains!!!! It was spectacular! Mom was excited and nervous but I was brave I am a Tiger. Then Kevin let mom fly the plane for a couple of minutes and make some turns!!!! OMG that was scary and I was happy when Kevin took back the controls.
It was a super awesome BEST DAY EVER thank you Paula and Kevin! Mom we should totally get a plane.

Mt. Spokane Hike!!!

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We had a great day hiking in the snow at Mt. Spokane!
The snow was melted off the trees but there is still lots of snow on the ground! Behind me is Mt. Spokane and we are on the trail to Mt. Kit Carson.
At Saddle Road junction we met Kiraen (I hope I am spelling that right) and her her awesome dog Shasta! Shasta is the best dog ever and is a perfect outdoor adventure buddy! Kiraen was gorgeous and super nice and let us pet Shasta who was sooooo soft! Mom we should totally get a dog.

A Turnbull Hike!

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We have not hiked at the Turnbull Wildlife Refuge in ages! Here I am at a pond where it is iced over. The snow is all melted! We are having weird warm weather!
It looks and almost feels like summer because it gets to about 60 degrees during the day that is why the snow is all gone. We saw more people on the trails than we have ever seen here – about 8 people! Everyone was happy to be outside in the sunshine!
Look at this super dino truck we saw for sale at the local grocery store!! It is perfect for our yard dinosaurs! We are going to have a lot of fun with this.

New Gutters!

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We had VERY COLD weather!!! Here you can see it is minus 2 degrees and this is in the valley near where we live. It is colder up on the ridge where our house is. One of our neighbors has an outdoor thermometer and he told us it was minus 15 one day!
At work some snow melted off the roof and landed on tree branches where it froze. This is mom’s artsy photo of the frozen water. No one has sat at the picnic table lately ha ha!
Here I am with JP and Nick who came out on one of the VERY COLD days to replace our gutters. They said they work outside year round and did not even want to come inside to get warm. They are both super handsome and nice and did a great job we highly recommend them.
It has warmed up thank goodness I am a Tiger with a fur coat but even I have been staying indoors a lot. Now we are getting lots of snow – yippee! It is a Winter Wonderland!

We’ve got SNOW!

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It snowed quite a bit last week so we had to get up early some days to snovel snow before work. This weekend it was time to shovel the deck. The snow is light and fluffy! There was some melting so it is icy underneath in spots.
Here is one of the piles in the front yard. I am the Tiger King of the snow pile!
It has also been pretty cold so it is a good time to do indoor things like a jigsaw puzzle. We are also watching some episodes of Game of Thrones! We have our favorite characters. Me and mom both like The Hound; he’s an independent thinker and down to earth and tells it like it is. I really like the dragons! It would be cool if there were Tigers on the show too. Fire breathing Tigers!

New Car!

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We bought a new car! It is a Subaru same as our previous car which mom still misses a lot. The old one had a manual transmission and was great for driving up and down hills in the snow. The new car has paddle shifters so it can mimic a gearshift and slow the car down on a hill but it’s not the same as real gears with torque or whatever.
The new car has a moonroof that at first mom did not want (just another thing to break) but now we love it! This car has all kinds of safety features such as imminent collision braking and blind spot detection; it has dozens of computers and a bunch of cameras. We are still getting used to it! Here are things we have learned, in some cases the hard way. When you go to the car wash you should put the car in neutral; if you can’t lock the car when you leave it is because the engine is still running; and you don’t need to get the key fob out to lock the car you can just touch the little indicator on the door handle.

Happy Joyous Holidays from the Snowy Moose Mountain!

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We’ve been hiking and showshoeing at Mount Spokane this week!
The higher you climb the deeper the snow gets.
It’s so beautiful in the forest a winter wonderland!
OMG we saw a moose! She was coming right down the trail towards us and mom quickly moved us off the trail into the snow which was very deep then the moose also got off the trail so we got back on the trail and said nice moose thanks for sharing the trail.
We see moose in our neighborhood and our yard sometimes but it’s different seeing them out in the woods! Especially when they are so close they are very big animals. It was very exciting and a wonderful Christmas present! Happy Holidays everyone!

Snow of course

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We had snow a couple of times! It makes it so pretty outside and is fun for a Tiger to play in!
I like when it snows but mom is not as excited about it anymore. The weather has warmed up and it rains instead and mom says that is fine with her.
I talked mom into opening one of the Christmas presents from Auntie Darcy and it is an awesome paper garland from Dia De Los Muertos! I love it! Auntie Darcy was in Mexico City during the Day of the Dead celebration and had a great time.

Moose!

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There were some moose at the bottom of our hill near the pond!!! Including a BULL moose we have never seen one with antlers in our neighboorhood before! We did not stop to get a picture because there were cars lining the road and a cop car had arrived and we figured the cops would tell everyone to move along but they were driving really slow so they probably just wanted to see the mooses too. Here I am photoshopped into a picture of a bull moose.
We got some holiday presents from cousin Nicolyn and Auntie Darcy! Some are wrapped in cartoons oh boy that is awesome! I told mom we should open them all now so I can read the cartoons but she said No.
Here are my last photos from our San Franciso trip. We went to see the famous seal lions along the waterfront where there are special docks for the sea lions to sun themselves but also stay off the docks where boats want to park. There were not any sea lions that day!
But there were people sunning themselves on the special benches for people to stay off the docks where the boats want to park while they wait for the sea lions to show up.

Golden Gate Park!

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While in San Francisco we spent a day at Golden Gate Park! Here I am with some giant lily pads in a water garden inside the Conservatory which was totally amazing! I highly recommend it!
This is a pond in the San Franciso Botanical Garden – also highly recommended. There was so much to see and for a Tiger it was good to have room to run around.
And this is at the Japanese Tea Garden where it was all so lovely and peaceful. All the gardens were different and unique and so interesting! Mom got in free to them all because she is a veteran – what a great thing that San Francisco cares about veterans!
Then we went to the California Academy of Sciences where there were PENGUINS omg I love PENGUINS!!!! We watched and watched them and came back at feeding time OMG and there was a biologist who gave a talk and answered questions it was the highlight of my day!
There was a ton of other things to see at the Academy of Sciences like a big aquarium and a rainforest that you could walk through all the levels and lots of other cool and interesting exhibits it was awesome! And I found some friends in the gift shop!