Flowers Flowers Everywhere...

Wow I cannot believe its April 25 and my last post was the 10th, please someone slap me back into reality hehee!

I have been consumed with pet sitting, and dog boarding, my poor house finally got a tidying up today, but it was pretty nice out so I did not want to spend much time inside. We are camping next week, so I will be gone from monday-wednesday, but hopefully I can get some shots of us camping with our fur family...yep we are bringing them all ahhhhhh.

Send the good animal vibes my way please....and the sunshine, rain is in the forecast for the days we are gone...but lets be honest this is Vancouver and the weather is never right and I personally think its the most bogus job out here since its completely underpredictable in this city ha!

Well enough blabbing lets get to the pictures already right?

Some pretty flowers from around the city...I have no idea what half of them are, feel free to let me know :D
Wasp Hideout

Sakura - Cherry Blossoms, one day I will see the "real deal" in Japan, James used to live on Sakura Dori (Cherry Blossom Street) and he said it was amazing (right now he says CRAZY) how they lined the streets and created a tunnel you drove/walked through!
Daffodil

Mount Doug

These pictures are from 2 weekends ago when we went to Victoria, I know tsk tsk, suppose to be from today, but seriously my life is pretty boring, and also busy. We dog and house sat last weekend, I think I got some great shots, but can't find my darn camera cord, it may be in Victoria (AAAHHHH) we are pug sitting Cotton again, and then dog and house sitting again next week, and we might even be crazy enough to attempt to go to Whistlers Dog Fest with FOUR DOGS, count that...1, 2, 3, 4 yes 4 is the number of insanity!

We have been apartment hunting all month as well, and having no luck, I am beginning to really HATE HATE HATE this city, and I am normally a pretty happy person hehee. The renters market is so tight in Vancouver right now, I am guessing its due to the soon to be here Olympics, all the students that normally move out and go home for the summer, are not moving but subletting for 4 months fully furnished, and what the heck good is that to me, so that is seriously all thats on the market, or perfect places with a very strict NO PETS POLICY, and as you all know we have 3 furbabies. I do love our apartment now and the area, but its a bit small and we really need to be closer to work, mostly for James. But it would be nice for me as well since most of my day is spent driving from clients homes and around the city, at the end of the day hopping into my car and dealing with traffic for 20 minutes is tiring...and yes I realize thats nothing compared to the 90 minute commuters, but its my blog and I am allowed to whine!



Last night was James' birthday, we really did not do much and I have no pictures :( but we will be celebrating with my girlfriend from Squamish and her boyfriend when he flies into Van next week Yayyy.



Anyhoo I will zip the lip and show you some fun pictures from our climb up Mount Doug, its hardly a mountain, it took maybe 20-30 minutes, we were on some very "off-beaten" trail and had to do a bit of rock climbing hahaa that was interesting, especially for Emi, she LOVED the hike... probably because little treats in the form of rabbit poo were everywhere for her to munch on YUCK...no puppy kisses from her for awhile...okay seriously zipping them now.

Emi - Little Mountain Dog I love her stance!

I like the stormy sky in this shot!
Got to love the timers, especially watching Jim jump off a rock and race over to us, without falling down the hill hahaa
Rock Face!
Another portrait of Emi, can you tell I am in love with her :D, she's 5 months old and I think hit a growing stump lol
Arbutus Tree...at least I think
Downtown Storm heading our way
These are from Queen Elizabeth park near our place, we were walking Emi and came around a "bushle" of trees to find the entire area swarmed with ducks and geese, I am pretty afraid of birds, especially bigger ones like swans, geese, and turkeys (attacked as a child!) Emi was there to protect, on a very tight leash, she loves to chase birds, and could probably catch one and would fight it till death I'm sure!
I had to take this picture, it was as close as I would get to try and justify how many freaking birds their were! My hands were shaking ha...I'm such a dork!

Animals!

Okay so this week the theme was Animals, and helloooooo those are my favorite subjects hehee.

I took so many great pictures (I think) this weekend while dog sitting, but cannot find my darn camera cord to put them on my laptop grrrrr. Choosing a favorite anything is really difficult for me, I am the most indecisive person in the world...just ask my husband! So trying to find my "best" animal shot out the bagillion I have was impossible, I went with a "favorite" though its not the best picture out there, and I am sure I have better ones on my computer but its 10:30 PM I am beyond tired and stressing about apartment hunting, so you get a Cotton the pug picture, maybe its in honor of him, since he just arrived as I am boarding/pug sitting for a week or two, So watch out for more cotton sightings!

More adventures in Victoria...

I can't take credit for this shot I tried and tried and it would not work, I blame James for not throwing her toy in the right direction as he kept throwing it at me, haha and of course when he tried he got the shot on his first try. Our little shiba reindeer.
Goofy Hubs, Crazy Cat and Silly Cal
My inlaws backyard, the house is built on a ravine. I am standing on the patio which is really the backyard since as you can see the lawn is a 20 foot drop at least and more hill and forest.
Findings in the living room.
We celebrated James' birthday a little early, since we weren't sure if when our next visit to Victoria will be. Tom had to relight the tiniest candle on earth since Megan (Jim's sister) accidentally blew it out.
Make a wishOkay so I was starting to get a little bored haha

Victoria Adventures

I took tons of pictures this past weekend while in Victoria visiting my inlaws, so since I am super busy this week I figured I would just do a few postings of Victoria. My inlaws live in Cordova Bay, so its pretty much a ritual to walk along the beach, it was pretty ugly out, so we drove down (usually we walk haha) but the rain did not stop us from the walk. Emi LOVES sand and actually did not seem to mind the water, there was a spot with a bit of a sandbar, so James trucked through the ankle deep water (in his rainboots) carrying her to see if she would swim back across or cry (I know animal torture muahahaa). As soon as he put her down on the sand she booted across the water to the "beach side"

This picture reminds me of I know what you did last summer, or some other silly horror movie

Vegetable of the sea
Get me out of here!
Hmmm okay maybe water is not so bad
We were treating Emi for going in the water, and I think Murphy (inlaws dog) did this to get a treat, I was taking a picture of the water and standing right wher she was she came up to me and then stood just barely in the water looking at me with these "please" eyes, and was shaking cause she was so cold, I gave her a treat and walked away and kept calling her but apparently she wanted more, or could not move from being frozen

The only time Murphy will ever look big, she is about 4 lbs, we kept saying she has shrunk but I think its just that we think of Emi as being small, and are waiting and waiting for her to finish growing haha.

More sea plants :)

Making a Statement

Metal Metal Everywhere,

Here are a few more metal pictures for this weeks contest.

Hidden Treasure (submitted)
I do not even know what this is but it was buried beneath the sand, on our rainy walk at Cordova Bay while visiting the inlaws in Victoria

City Scam
Territory Marker

Adult Proof

Forgotten Tracks

Tree Armor