The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
In the last two weeks, I’ve consciously tried to move more, and I’ve been able to hit 10k steps pretty much every day. I went running 3x last week and since we’ve had Not-my-dog at home, Katy and I go out for a walk right after dinner every evening. I want us to carry on with that once NMD goes home.
Yesterday was Swiss national day. The eve of which all shops close early and mess up your berry pavlova making plans. A day where everything should be shut (but nobody told the vendors in the weekly farmer’s market, thereby reviving your berry pavlova plans).
Clan Jones and clan Grogan-Cote met up at clan Lannutti for a great evening of friends, food (!!, including the berry pavlova and the boozy pineapple), wine, laughter and lots of doggy kisses.
Lily was a major center of attention and she loves every minute of it. She loved walking home in the middle of a downpour at 1am a lot less, but she got a good towelling off and she’s going to have a quiet day today, probably like a lot of people.
She wasn’t sure, at first, but I think she liked it:
I call this one “sleeping symmetry”:
Also note the pasty whiteness of the legs that rarely see the light of day.
So a couple of days ago, we had great success in our snowshoeing/sledding outing. This Sunday, Ben wanted to go sledding again, when we didn’t have the not-my-dog. We headed back out to the same spot, but as we were driving along, we noticed a significant decrease in the snow on the ground. We checked the St-George webcam and realized that we were wasting our time driving up there because there was no longer any snow at all!!
It seems that we might have gotten very lucky that first day, according to the 14-day webcam history…
We went to Marchairuz for a walk with the child and the dog. It was lovely. We were (mostly) alone. Dog went completely mental in the snow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her run as much or as fast.
Last-minute overnight visit from Not-my-dog. As you can see, these stays really stress her out and make her anxious… It’s a wonder she can even stand it.
Lily was over for the week while her human was away for a family emergency. Its a hard life…
So we have Lily and Eric for today and part of tomorrow. Don’t know what’s going to break first: coffee cup, TV or my sanity. It’s been a nonstop manic 30 minutes since Lily arrived, but it would seem to… cautiously… be winding down because both contestants are knackered.
Update: 5h later, we’ve finally achieved peace. Both doggos are snoozing, having completely exhausted themselves this morning. I honestly thought we’d need to have Lily go back to her place, but they’ve settled down. Mad props to Katy the dog whisperer.
