Goodbye October

Hello everyone and happy Sunday! Another beautiful Fall day, we've had so many of those lately. Last week was stunning, with two days in the mid-twenties. This week promises to be nice, with temps hovering around 15 celsius. Not bad for the beginning of November.

All is good with us. We're slowly getting ready for the next season. We decided to replace our sump pump last week. It was time. With a battery back-up and a generator, we have all our bases covered on that front. We also blocked off part of our backyard which always gets mucky at this time of year. Those baby gates have once again come in handy. I don't know how many times I've said to Russell....let's sell those. Each time, he said...we might need them one day 😏Yesterday, we blew and bagged the leaves on our front lawn. We have 22 bags for tomorrow's yard waste pick up. Our Fall clean-up is almost complete. We also got our driveway snow markers installed and tomorrow, Russell will get the snow tires put on.

Miss Spicy celebrated her 12th birthday on Thursday. It was a fun day...but then again every day is always fun as far as our pooches are concerned. It was special nonetheless 💝

Tomorrow is Halloween. Given the good weather forecast, we expect quite a few kids. We are ready with a little decoration outside and bags of treats. All those mini chocolate bars have been in our house for over two weeks and I may have had only one or two. That's it. Quite the self control 😂

I end this week's blog with a special thought to our friend Linda who lost her husband Bob to cancer last Friday. We met Bob and Linda when we moved to Quebec. Lovely people and we share the love of Havanese. The only photo that I have of Bob is one taken at Talemaker Camp (courtesy of Darlah) years ago when Cooper was visiting. Bob happened to also visit and he gave the Coop a nice back rub. We will always have fond memories of this kind man.  With much love to Linda, her Havanese Raven and her family 😘

Have a great week everyone!

A golden carpet of fallen maple leaves ready
to be bagged and our scary Halloween decoration

Spicy had an awesome 12th birthday and her
 pup-cakes tasted delicious.

Always generous, Spicy shared her birthday treats
with her best pal Cooper.

Spicy, like the unicorn, is rare and precious
and she is a cherished member of our family.

Cooper has the squirrel in his sites...

I caught this black cap chickadee as it left the 
feeder - busy little bundles of energy.

We lost a kind and generous man last Friday,
Cooper lost a favourite back scratcher.
Rest in Peace Bob.