Ready for Mr. Winter

Happy Sunday everyone! It's a sunny and coolish day for us. Our yard work for the season is now complete. Yesterday, we covered the VegTrug, disconnected the hose, raked and bagged the last of the leaves, covered our cut leaf Japanese maple and put the snow shovels near the garage door. We also put up baby gates in one very mucky area of our backyard. We will leave those up until the ground freezes. On Wednesday, Russell took our Palisade in for an oil change and snow tires . We're ready for Mr. Winter to make an appearance one of these days.....no rush, we can wait 😏

This past week was good. For the second year in a row, Cooper & Spicy signed up for the Fitness Advent Calendar with Fun Fit Canin, starting December 1. We look forward to new exercise modules that will keep us occupied until Christmas. On Thursday, Coop and I had our last Fun Obedience class for the year. We will resume in January. Our instructor, Wanda, is getting a new knee this week. We wish her the very best and a speedy recovery. 

As we are slowly starting to think about Christmas, we can't help but think about all the people in British Columbia who are going through such a difficult time following the mudslides and flooding. Our hearts go out to everyone. 

Our pooches are doing well. They are napping with their daddy now...at around 2:45, Coop will get up, then Spicy will follow. They will join me in the living room and give me the stare down: time for our 3 pm treat mommy! Who needs a clock when you have doggies in the house 💖

I'm making a Dublin Coddle for dinner tonight. I just put it in the oven, it takes about 4 hours to cook, low and slow. I used to make this meal only on St-Patrick's Day but I now make it a few times a year. It's delicious and we get lots of leftovers for freezing. I also made for the first time an Irish soda bread to soak up the delicious broth. Can't wait to see how it turns out. 

My brother came over for lunch today. It was nice to see him again and catch up on things. 

This coming Wednesday, the electrician will finally come and connect our generator. He's been waiting on a part that took forever to get to Canada. It will be a 5-6 hours job and we will be without power for part of that time. He will arrive at 7 am. Better get that coffee ready before his arrival!

That's my blog for today. I wish you all a great week!

Ready for the 2021 Fitness Advent Calendar

Spicy and Cooper love to 'help' change the bed
sheets...excellent little helpers.

Spicy doing her best play bow during
a vigorous game of retrieve.

Cooper ready for action...what am I 
retrieving today?

Front door guardians while we do
the final pre-Winter clean up.