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A New Puppy in the Neighborhood

My friend Mary Ann got a new puppy recently! We traveled down to the Quincy Animal Shelter to find him. He was taken to the shelter as a stray and seems to be in very good health. He looks to be at least half border collie and the other half – well that’s a good guess. Maybe heeler, maybe English setter. Who knows? MA named him Quincy in honor of the place where she got him. He looks to be about four months old and is just as cute as cute can be. Yesterday the girls and I got to puppy sit while MA had other things to do. Frida came along for good measure. Fun was had by all in the soft snow!

Who could resist that face?
Frida keeps an eye on things
He loves the snow
Sky teaches Quincy a thing or two about getting sticks.
He is fearless
They play rough and Quincy goes back for more each time.
Wait up!
I can keep up.
What?
Here I come!
Oops.
Luna, wait for me.
This is a lot of work.
Watching over us.
Challenging Sky
He doesn’t hold still for long
Frida is patient
Finally got all four in one image.

The First Book of Sky

Those who have read this blog for a while know that we got a new puppy back in October and her name is Sky. She is now seven months old and was spayed yesterday. She is a great puppy – the staff at the vet clinic was very impressed with her mellowness. We love her to pieces. She’s very trainable and pays attention as long as there is food or a ball involved. She will be a good hunting dog and she will start agility training this spring. She was ten pounds when we brought her home and now she weighs 52 pounds!

Last month I started a puppy book for her and I called it The First Book of Sky. It is a handmade book. Several years ago I took a bookmaking workshop from Door #3 Print and Book Arts Studio in Twisp but I confess, it’s been nearly three years since I made any books and I am out of practice. So I made a few mistakes with this one but it looks pretty good anyway. It’s an accordion book. All the pictures came from my Instagram stream. Here is the book and images I used in it.

The finished project
Was she ever really this small?
Let me in the garden. Now.
She loves her walks
She takes after her big sister
I could use a boost
Do you see the owl?
Aren’t we just the cutest?
Tired dogs are good dogs
LOL!
Her and her shadow
Look over there!
I got a pine cone
Ready to drive. Where are the keys?

November is Over

Snow fell last night and turned to rain and now it’s snowing again. Some of us feel that the snow is a little late this year. The pass out of here to the west closed this afternoon and it might not open again. So that brings us to ‘the end of the road’. Winthrop celebrates this during Thanksgiving weekend with Christmas carols, bonfires, Santa’s arrival and my favorite – winter fireworks! We watched last nights pyrotechnics from one of Winthrop’s pedestrian bridges and enjoyed their reflections on the Chewuch River. Friday we went to the mountains to get Christmas trees with our friends and we also found snow. There are few birds around these days. The local wintering species are few and far between and the interesting migrants from the north haven’t arrived. Well not at my house, anyway. And the puppy keeps growing.

She might be a good tumbleweed retriever?
Clark’s Nutcracker
Sky puts the sneak on Luna
Playing
Pygmy Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee. Most of our chickadees are Mountain.
Little dog likes big sticks
What was that?
Scott got a lovely tree, not the Charlie Brown kind.
Sky helps. Not.
Ken hauls our tree down the hill. Don and Mary already had theirs.
A successful Christmas tree hunt shared with good friends.

After the dry and sometimes gray November it is time for a change of scenery.

 

 

Frosty Morning Walk

Oh this puppy is growing! She’s now over twenty pounds and was just ten when we started with her almost four weeks ago! And the cuteness is growing just as fast. At some point she will become a teenaged dog and we will yearn for these days.

A sunny morning was welcome after the last couple of gray days. It was a good opportunity to try out a new ‘superzoom’ camera too. It goes out to 600 mm and is small enough to easily carry around.

 

Mountain Chickadee
Frosty bitterbrush
Following her nose
Oh! What’s that?
Mt Robinson, I think
Hey! Whatcha doin?
Goat Peak
Zoomed out to 600, I can see the lookout
Love the sun shining through the trees
Up the driveway
A boy and his dog
And let’s not forget about Luna.