On the topic of holidays, if you live outside Quebec, you may have heard or read about Halloween being postponed in many municipalities until November 1 due to the bad rain/wind storm that was going to hit most of Quebec on the 31st. I am happy to report that the city we live in, Beaconsfield, did not postpone Halloween and we had a good amount of kids trick or treating. The rain was not as bad as anticipated, no different than any other rainy Halloween we've had in the past. Russell was at the door, greeting the kids and I was behind the gate with Cooper & Spicy enjoying it. I used the opportunity to do a bit of training..."no bark" command came in handy. Both our dogs are used to Halloween and they do not mind it. If they did, we wouldn't subject them to the event.
On the topic of wind storm, we did have quite the wind storm on Friday, November 1..... Halloween #2 for some. One of our larch trees in the backyard broke and, lucky for our back door neighbours, it fell on the Bell lines and stayed there until a tree company came later in the afternoon to take it down. It turned out to be quite an expensive proposition but we were glad to have it done before we went to bed that night. Eventually the tree would have broken the Bell lines and would have fallen on our neighbour's shed. All ended well for all parties involved.
Last Tuesday, we had the pleasure of having Cindy and Mikey over. I met Cindy a while ago, through Facebook and a friend. It was nice to finally meet her face to face as well as her lovely Havanese Mikey. The weather that day was so nice and warm that we sat on the deck. It was a fun get together for all. Those deck days are now done for the year. Yesterday, we put away our chairs. We just need to cover the table and we're done. Where did the year go, I often ask myself!
Our trees are now bare following the wind storm. I was able to take a few pics of our maple trees just before the storm. Yesterday, we raked the last of the leaves. The rakes have been put away and the shovels are close by....at this point in the season, we wouldn't mind a nice layer of snow. It would keep our pooches cleaner.
That's my blog for this week. Dinner is soon for the pooches. They don't seem to mind the time change. We woke up at the normal time, it just seems like a long day somehow. I leave you with various photos of the doggies and the maple trees. I wish you all a wonderful week!
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| The brilliant scarlet Japanese maple in the backyard. |
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| The Japanese cut leaf maple in full ruby red in the front yard. |
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| A wonderful morning sky the day after the wind storm. |
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| Cooper and Spicy doing some trick or treat training! |
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| Russell on a treat and training break between trick or treaters. |
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| Cooper doing a "through the arms" hoop jump with Russell. |
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| Cooper doing a totally relaxed 3 minute down stay in his hoop, during class, with me outside the room |
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| Spicy in fine form on her Caring Paws visit to the Wellesley residence. |
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