Look at the little tongue action!
What do you mean I’m NOT supposed to be on the chair? Daddy lets me.
Barclay in the office
Look at the little tongue action!What do you mean I’m NOT supposed to be on the chair? Daddy lets me.Category: dave
Look at the little tongue action!What do you mean I’m NOT supposed to be on the chair? Daddy lets me.Alki gets attention too
Just so you don’t think that Barclay is the only one getting attention around here. Alki gets some lap time too! She loves getting her tummy rubbed 🙂
Dave and Barclay
Guess who lost his first baby tooth today – hint: it wasn’t Dave 🙂
Nothing better
Nothing better than having TWO eskies begging for popcorn!
Introduction to the sheep and goats
Not sure who is more curious about who. Barclay meets the sheep and goats through the fence.
More Barclay (big surprise, huh)
Alki is still not too happy about Barclay, but sometimes they can tolerate being in the same space. Here they are begging for popcorn in the kitchen. Actually Alki is begging for popcorn. Barclay doesn’t know what they’re doing there!
Mighty watches Barclay playing, with a surprisingly relaxed pose. I don’t know why the cats are even on the floor around him, but they seem to be warming up to him. I think they will be buddies someday.
After a hard day of playing, Barclay collapses wherever he happens to be. I can even pick him up and move him around and he doesn’t wake up!
Dave is holding Barclay in a submissive position, which we practice with him everyday, at our vets advice. It’s supposed to be a gentle way to remind him what his place is! Sometimes he just lays there, and sometimes he pitches a fit before he gives up and relaxes.
Snowday!
What do a couple nerdy geeks do when it snows? Build a Darth Vader snowman, of course! Come’on dogs, let’s go!
N 45° 57.483 W 122° 26.698
We went for a little hike today. This is a location we found while Geocaching a few years ago and it was so impressive, we thought about going back. Finally got around to it.
It was a sort of overcast day, which was nice because it wasn’t too hot. The hike was steady uphill to the top, though not really steep. We followed a logging road into DNR land north of Amboy, WA, up to the top of a ridge.
There were some pretty steep drop-offs! I wouldn’t want to be wandering around here at night!
Found some nice little purple wildflowers along the roadside.
This is our old Old OLD AND USELESS GPS unit. Although it eventually found enough satellites to triangulate and help us find the correct road to park the car on, it refused to be any help after that. Time for a new GPS unit. This one hasn’t been good for Geocaching for years anyway, since it’s precision is fairly low. It’ll get you within 10 yards or so of the cache, but after that you’re on your own! That was fine for the old ammobox caches, but not nearly precise enough for the micros people hide nowdays.
When we got to a clearing at the top we found ourselves looking over the edge of the ridge, and down onto Lake Merwin. Spectacular!
A huge vulture drifted by at eye level while we sat on the edge and ate our lunch.
Dave, playing around for the camera 🙂
Lake Merwin is HUGE! I always hear folks saying how it’s so crowded up there, but here we are on a Sunday afternoon and only a couple boats in sight. Looks like there’s room enough for everybody in the county on that lake. Then there’s Swift Reservoir right up the road.
Seems like ridge after ridge just went off into the distance forever.
Mt St Helens had a cloud cap on, preventing us from getting a good look at her. That will just give us a good reason to hike back up here.
3 acres requires a lot of mowing
Dave gives the pasture a ‘spring mow’ to knock the weeds down before the llamas come back for the summer.
Steff Does Stuff! 