OMG!!!  OMG!!! We went on a train ride!!!!!  Here I am am with Tom and Ed who showed us where to park and pick up our tickets they were super nice and handsome!

Here is Dixie and Me and Taj on the train waiting for it to start!!!. OMG!  I am so excited I LOVE trains!  but normally only get to watch them go past at railroad crossings!

This is Carol who stamped our ticket she is holding our yellow ticket and answered questions she was really beautiful and super duper nice!!

The train went along the Pend Oreille River which runs between Washington and Idaho.

Here we are afterwards saying goodbye to the engineer! It was an awesome train ride!

Then on the way home we went to CAT TALES !!!! It is a sanctuary for rescued TIGERS!!!!!!!  They also have other big and small cats and some black bears! This is one of the white TIGERS! He is getting out of his swimming pool!

Look at how handsome he is!! 

Mom let us pick out a picture of one of the TIGERS to bring home the one we picked is named Xena.  Isn’t she beautiful?!

Also I want to report that at work last week there was an Eclipse party!  With donuts!  The eclipse was great here I am wearing my eclipse glasses with Margo and Laurie.

And after work we went to the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall. It was amazing.

At work this week Nancy was visiting!!  She and Andy came to help with some big important network thing with switches and upgrades and IP address changes.  Nancy is so nice and beautiful and Chad who is Mom’s boss is very handsome but not as handsome as me.  Chad is an engineer! But now he runs the IT department. Andy is handsome too but is not in the photo because he had left to get a milkshake YUM!  

Mom says Tigers don’t like milk shakes but we do ! We do!  Here is a picture to prove it.

We had to go to the medical lab and get blood drawn. This is Setareh who took Mom’s blood. Her name means Star!  She was super nice and totally gorgeous!

Then we went for a hike! OMG we saw a moose!!!

Here is the view from the top of Mt. Spokane.  On a clear day you can see Montana and Canada!  Today was hazy and I’m not sure how to tell where Canada is.

When we ate lunch we were mobbed by chipmunks! This one even climbed on my head!  I think people have been feeding them.

We met Rudy and his dog Indiana on the trail.  Indiana was super friendly and Rudy was really nice and handsome but not as handsome as me. Indiana is named after Indiana Jones because they love adventures just like me!  

We went blueberry picking at Piper Farms! They had the best blueberries! The plants were loaded with berries and we had a row all to ourselves to pick.

The is Cindy who owns the farm she is totally gorgeous and also was super nice. We picked five of these baskets. We also bought homemade strawberry jam!  Rowrrrr!

Later while doing errands we stopped to look at a car show and I found a friend!

Today we went for a hike in the Columbia Plateau starting at Amber Lake trailhead. It is a beautiful area. It was cooler today and it even rained in the morning.

We saw deer, and a snake!  and horses, and even some cows they were not wild cows they lived on a ranch we passed. Here are some cool insects we saw!

We went fruit picking again!!!  First we went to Sunset Orchard to pick cherries!  Tigers LOVE cherries we picked Lambert cherries which are delicious!  Here is a picture of me with Bill who owns the farm and was super helpful and also extremely handsome but not quite as handsome as me.  It turns out that his sister is a TIGER Trainer!!!  OMG! Mom says that’s what we need – a Tiger trainer. I don’t know what she means. 

Then we went to Abundance Farm to pick blueberries OMG Tigers love blueberries rorrwrrrr!  Here are some of the awesome blueberry bushes.

This is me with Mark who owns Abundance Farm he was super nice and is also extremely handsome but not as handsome as me. His dog is named Rocket and is amazing!  He greets everyone who comes to pick fruit and loves frisbee and is the ambassador to the farm.  Also Mark was wearing a shirt with a JAGUAR on it!

Later we went to one of my favorite libraries where they usually have fun things for kids to do.  We got to make a dinosaur!!  I colored it with Tiger stripes but it is hard to tell because the paper is green.  

This weekend we went for a walk along part of the Centennial Trail with some friends from work!  This is an action shot while we were walking!  In the center facing the camera is Jose who organized the walk.  The trail goes along the Spokane River!

Me and mom took a side trail to see the river it was a beautiful day!  Also we saw two snakes while walking!  They were both bull snakes and one was about three feet long!  I was not scared I am a Tiger. There are also rattlesnakes here so be careful!

When we got home we filled out a form for the world wildlife fund where we got to vote for the animal to be on the front of the next calendar.  We voted for the TIGER of course!  All the pictures were good and the penguins were really cute I like penguins.

Also mom got me a surprise!!!  It is a bow tie !! And it is red my favorite color!

We went hiking someplace new this weekend!  Quartz Mountain is in the Mount Spokane State Park and is across a valley from Mount Spokane. The mountain is named because there is quartz everywhere!  

Here is the view from the top of the mountain!  You can see Lake Coeur d’Alene! 

Also at the top is a fire lookout station. We heard that it is rented out to people to stay and spend the night and someone was staying there so we did not look any closer.

On one of the trails we passed some people riding horses!

There were huckleberries all over the mountain rowrrrrw Tigers love huckleberries!  When we have lunch mom likes to save part of the sandwish for emergencies and I said this is an emergency!  We put some of the huckleberries into what was left of the peanut butter sandwish and it when you bite down and squishes the berries it was awesome delicious!!!

Then after the hike we went to Greenbluff where there are all kinds of farms selling fruit!  We went to some cherry orchards!  Rowrrrr! Tigers love cherries!

Look at the Rainier cherries hanging in huge clusters!  We did not even need a ladder to pick them!  Later we gave some cherries to our neighbors.  It was a super day!!!

It was a super day for a hike! Sunny and not too hot with a nice breeze blowing. We hiked a part of the Columbia Plateau Trail that goes through the Turnbull Wildlife Refuge! I thought we had done all the hikes at Turnbull but this trail goes through a different part of the refuge than where people normally go. It was great!

There were wetlands all around and lots of lakes and ponds. We saw an eagle! And a coyote!  He was trotting through a grassy meadow and then stopped to look around. When he saw us he ran off!  He was not close enough to get a good photo.

Mom let me use the camera!  Here is a picture of a bird that was dive bombing us for about 10 minutes!  She was probably protecting her nest.

Also here is a picture of some barbed wire I found coiled up in the grass near the trail.

Oh I almost forgot!  Last week we took the car to get re-aligned for the second time in two months! Thanks to the famous Spokane potholes. Here I am with Richard who got the car all taken car of. He was super nice and handsome but not as handsome as me.

Today we hiked on a trail in the Columbia Plateau!  It was a super sunny day and most of the time we hiked along a creek with wildflowers.

Here is a picture of me by Fish Lake.

We saw a turtle !!! He is just about in the middle of the photo to the left of my ear. He sitting on a rock and right after we got the picture he jumped in the water and swam away!  We also saw chipmunks, lots of birds, lot of butterflies and moths, and some smallish animal such as a ground squirrel or marmot that ran across the trail.

For the holiday we had dinner with Maggie and Phil our awesome neighbors across the street!  But mom FORGOT to take pictures until after dinner!  Here I am with Maggie who is so beautiful glamorous and also in the picture is their dog Max.

Here is me with Phil and Maggie strategizing during the after dinner Yahtzee game!  Phil and Maggie are super nice and they even let mom win. 

Max gave me kisses did not try to carry me around in his mouth like most dogs do.  Maybe it is because we are almost the same size. It was a great evening!

This weekend we went for a hike at the Turnbull Wildlife Refuge!  We have not been there for weeks and it was awesome.  Look at all the wildflowers that are blooming! The path leads right through them so be careful walking try not to step on them!  For lunch we had fresh ground peanut butter on whole grain bread with sunflower seeds sprinkled onto the peanut butter – YUM!

Here are some closeups of some interesting plants we saw.

Then on the way home we stopped at Northland Rosaruim and it was AMAZING!  It is not just roses and there were spectaciuar display gardens!

This is me with Pat who showed us around and was super nice and helpful and funny and gorgeous! We are in front of some giant campanula.  It was a great day!