Wordless Wednesday
A couple of weeks ago my husband and I and our dog went for a hike in the woods. I found these lovely flowers on a river bank, I think they might be Jewelweed, and as I gazed at the flowers I noticed that the bumble bees were hovering around the flowers.
I caught this one as it was coming in for a landing:
Here’s a shot of the bee in the flower. All you can see is it’s behind!
On Saturday Chris and I had a leisurely day. No plans, just enjoying a nice warm summer day.
Late in the afternoon Chris decided that we should go to a place called “Sunnybrook Farm”. It’s part of a park and there’s a horse stable there and I guess members can ride the horses. We just went there to observe. We wanted to take our puppy to see the horses. We thought she’d enjoy seeing a different kind of animal and I think we were right.
here’s one of the horse that was wandering around in the open coral.
I just love horses and I must admit that I haven’t seen one in person in a very long time. We stood watching the horses for quite a while, then we went for a hike in the adjoining park, through the forest and even into a creek with our dog.
That’s Chris and Midnight stumbling over rocks in the water. At least they got to cool off! It was a very hot day.
Several times a week I try to go around and visit a number of blogs.
I do this either by visiting bloggers sites who have left a comment for me on one of my own sites or I log into Entrecard and visit sites that way.
As I’ve traveled around visiting blogs I’ve noticed that there are a number of sites dedicated to cats or ones that have the occasional picture of a cat on it so I figure there are a lot of cat lovers out there.
I thought of all the people who love cats or who are animal lovers when I found this funny cat blooper video and I thought I’d share it with you.
Cat bloopers
What was your favorite part? I think mine was the cat and the bear!
Wordless Wednesday
The other weekend we took our Lab puppy to the beach for her first swim in Lake Ontario.
While we were there we met a lot of other dog owners and their dogs. We also ran into the couple that we had first met in April when we brought Midnight to Cherry Beach for the first time.
When we first met this couple and their puppy Molly both dogs were a lot smaller – yet close to the same size. As you can see from the photo above they look quite a bit a like (Midnight is on the left in the red harness) and they are almost the same size.
Trouble is … Midnight is almost four months older!
Midnight is slightly taller than Molly and she’s a little wider but otherwise it would be hard to tell the two dogs apart if it weren’t for their different colored collars.
Molly is going to be a lot bigger than Midnight soon!
My dog is fascinated with bugs.
Ever since it warmed up enough for bugs to come out (say late April, early May) my puppy has been a bug watcher and now eater.
It’s only gotten worse as the weather has become warmer as there are more and more bugs around for her to watch and chase!
The other night I was sitting on the couch working on the laptop and the next thing I knew Midnight had jumped up beside me and she was snapping at the standing lamp beside the couch. I guess a moth came in with her and Chris on her last trip outside for a pee and she was determined to catch the moth.
She eventually did get the moth and I was fine with her eating it. Since I was sitting beside the light the moth, attracted to the light, kept buzzing around and occasionally bumped into me which of course I found totally creepy … so yeah, I cheered when she got it.
The next day she caught a moth on our front porch. She’s also gone after ants, house flies and yesterday she chased a bee right out the front door.
She banged into the screen door that my husband had just used and it wasn’t fully closed yet so when she banged into it as she chased the bee or wasp the door opened and for the first time ever she was outside the front of the house without a leash on!
That was scary. I was inside the house and I heard Chris run outside calling her name. When I got to the door she was running on the sidewalk in front of our neighbors house – maybe two or three doors down. She might have been running since Chris was starting to chase her.
We live on a main street with fairly high traffic so it’s not good for her to be loose. Especially since she’s still young and doesn’t always obey our commands.
Luckily I was quick to think of a way to get her to come to me. I called out to her asking if she wanted a cookie and she turned around to come back. As she passed by Chris he swooped down and grabbed her in his arms. We then lead her back into the house holding tightly to her collar.
We did tell her that running out there was bad, but mostly we praised her for being good and for returning to us. She got her cookie too. If i make a promise I keep it … plus I lured her in with the promise of a cookie so I had to fulfill my promise and give her one.
Hopefully this never happens again … but if it does, thankfully she loves food, especially her doggy cookies so I’ll have to remember to bribe her back home with treats.
We’ll also be making sure that she’s go her leash on when she’s in the enclosed front porch – just in case the outside screen door isn’t totally closed!
Darn fascination with bugs could have got her killed or badly injured!