Yesterday was just not a good day. Our dog, James, got loose again and was missing for almost 5 hours. Then while I was out looking for the dog, my cat, Sadie, managed to open the storm door and got loose. She took off like the devil was after her when she saw me. She still hasn’t reappeared. Anyway….while I was out looking for the wayward dog I came across this fella. It is a daddy longlegs spider, who was gracious enough to pose for me.
I was contacted yesterday by The Animal Rescue Alliance, (T.A.R.A), in reference to them desperately needing someone to foster an elderly dog. We have fostered for them a couple of times in the past, and let’s just say, after reading this dogs story I immediately stepped up. This old boy was found tied to a fence by Boulevard Brewery in Kansas City. After trying to get animal control to pick up the dog…which obviously didn’t happen, a T.A.R.A volunteer took him in.
This dog just breaks my heart! He is only about 40 pounds and has a severe ear and eye infection. Thankfully he is heartworm negative! I will probably be picking him up this evening. He doesn’t have a name yet, so stay tuned for updates.
Lily has been having some issues of late, and is now on some medication to help with her anxiety. She has since decided the dog’s bed is hers.
Last night was a total lunar eclipse, aka: the super blood moon. Naturally I had to work late, so my super wonderful husband took pictures for me.
On our trip to Canada, we stayed in the town of Canmore. They have preserved the Northwest Mounted Police Barracks and turned it into a museum. Here are a few pictures I took with my cell phone, because I forgot to take the camera with me.
On our last full day in Canada, Glen and I scheduled a hike on the Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park.
When we got there it was blowing snow and visibility was pretty poor.
However, by the time everyone in our group geared up the snow had stopped and the sun had come out. We had to hike up to the glacier, which was the hardest part because it was so rocky.
This is the view once we got onto the glacier.
Our guide dug down and handed all of us some of the glacial ice. This ice is 200 plus years old. Pretty amazing to think about.
Our guide graciously took our picture 🙂
Here you can see more snow moving in. It was pretty much at this time the guide thought it would be a good idea to start heading back down.
We hiked most of the way back down the glacier next to a shallow crevasse. You can also see it had started to snow.
We got to look down into a glacial hole, one at a time, while holding our guides hand to make sure we didn’t fall in.
At this point it was snowing pretty hard and the wind was blowing gale force. We had to shield our faces because the snow was hitting us and stinging our skin.
The snow sure made the view pretty on the drive back to Canmore.
Last Thursday Glen and I had a glacier walk scheduled on Mount Athabasca. The Icefield Parkway, also known as Highway 93, was a gorgeous drive and we finally saw wildlife other than squirrels.
It was a long drive from Canmore to the Icefield Center in Jasper National Park. However, the views were like this for the whole drive.
The wildlife we saw were mountain goats. They had traffic at a complete standstill as they made their way down and across the highway.
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