I saw this nice looking buck wander thru the yard today.

Great sunrise today!

Not much else happening here.

We realized we had a sleep theme in our recent photo’s:
The deer were relaxing in the yard before the recent storm.


I had never seen a deer lay down on it’s side like this before. Normally when I see them, they are curled up.


Bailey loves her cow.


Gator loves her Bailey:


Ginger and Bailey were keeping each other warm in the camper that frosty night. (That is Suzi’s legs under the blanket that they are laying on.)


But at home Ginger was sharing her doggie bed with Gator.


Sam and Bailey nap together:


Kim even got into the act with Gator:


Louis and Gator were on the couch together:



But best of all… Bailey got to actually use Louis as a pillow:

I have been asked lately how large are the puppies getting. Well, these shots were taken last month when the puppies were ~6 mos old. (they turned 7 mos this week)

Above: Ginger, Bailey, Gator.
Below: Bailey, Samantha, Gator, Ginger.

We had a wind event a couple of days ago. Not much damage, just small branches, and the neighbor had a few small trees get topped off into our yard and a lot of pine needles and leaves to clean up.
Power was only out for about an hour.
It was kind of fun watching the Cottonwood tree at the end of the driveway wave in the wind.

The last thing we did on vacation was we went and had sushi with Joe and Carisha, then we spent one last night in the mountains up on Snoqualmie Pass.

We had gotten so used to warm camping we did not bother with the heater when we went to bed. I woke up in the middle of the night and it was 48F inside the camper. Poor little Gator was all curled up by herself looking quite frigid. Normally I get tail wags when ever I move, but not this time. I turned on the furnace, and little Gator was flopping her tail in no time at all.
The frost was beautiful in the morning!

It is amazing how much the water level has gone down on the lake since last spring.

Of course we had to do a little fetch before heading home...

Cape Disappointment
After checking in on the kitties we headed for the ocean. We met Ken and Becky at Cape Disappointment in SW Washington.
The dogs were really excited to be at the beach!



Ginger enjoyed climbing on the rocks.



I was mentioning to Suzi on the way to the beach that it would be nice to find something Gator likes to do, since Bailey loves to fetch, but not Gator, she gets bored and eats rocks eek…well, Gator found 2 dead seal pups buried in the beach sand. Folks on the beach thought we should train Gator to be a cadaver finder… hmm sounds depressing, I think I’ll keep looking for her bliss… On a side note, she does like to fetch apples that have fallen from the apple tree…

It was fun watching a guy with a wake board and a giant kite. He would surf in the waves from up by the cliff towards the Columbia River, then he would get out of the water and haul it all back up the beach. Looked like great exercise. We were surprised at how long he spent going back and forth.


There also was a guy fishing. He would reel it in while the wake boarder went by.

It was a nice sunset.


This was our campsite

Mt Baker/ Baker Lake WA


We started vacation by heading up to Mt Baker. We decided to check out the area around Baker Lake. We only saw 1 campground open, near the Damn for Baker Lake. Of course we headed up the hills and looked for a site. We thought we might get a good view if we were across Baker Lake from the Mountain.
We were pleasantly surpised by a great site with a view of both Mt Baker and Baker Lake.


There is a smaller damn Near the main Baker Lake damn, we had a view of the smaller damn.


We drove across the Baker Lake Damn which was a single lane. The road turned into a single lane gravel road with turn outs climbing up the mountains.


It was fun watching the sunset over the mountain.


A bunch of these little birds came by looking for a snack. We disappointed them…


We drove further up the road from our campsite.


There was a better view of Mt Baker and Baker lake. We enjoyed the almost unnatural vibrant teal color of the lake.


Great view of Mt Shuksan up the road.


Saw this hawk close to the shore of Baker Lake.


We found a creek at the headwaters of Baker Lake. The puppies had a blast fetching across the water. It was a warm sunny day!


We camped our last night on the south east side of the mountain.

Thought this was an appropriate photo since Halloween is coming up soon. It was over by the garden along the driveway.
Been awhile since I blogged… Suzi had a couple of weeks off for vacation time so we stayed in Washington and took several trips occasionally stopping by home to check on the kitties. Then on Suzi’s first day back to work she came down with stomach flu and missed most of the week. We are finally getting back in our routine.