Suzi took a quick trip to Palm Springs to see family this past weekend.
She used her cell phone to take this great shot of Mt Rainier from the plane on the way down.

These humming birds are sure enjoying the oasis of Palm Springs, CA!

Suzi's parents took her for a hike thru Indian Canyons. The following shots were taken by a combination of Suzi's cell phone, and Mikes.







She was glad she went, but is glad to be home now...

I went out to mow, and found the deer in the field I WAS going to mow.



Even though I kept passing by in the field across the driveway, the 2 yearlings settled in. So I gave up on the idea of mowing where they were... maybe another day.

Another great sunrise:



Photo taken 10/26/11

Our little tenacious Ginger dog still rules the roost:

We did get some news that she probably has cancer. We could have shelled out over $300 for confromatino, but we are just going to do symptomatic comfort care. She is on thyroid meds, steroids to help the iflamation, and antibiotics. What hit me was when the vet and his assistant we go to kept going on and on about how frail she looks. She is still keeping us in order though she has deligated some functions to the puppies.

We were watching a football game this past Sunday, and all of a sudden a bird hit the window. I went out to check it out and 1. See if the bird was still alive, and 2. If it was keep the cats away from it. Well, I could not find the bird.
Upon coming back into the house I noticed Bailey dog sniffing something under the window. It was a Flicker Woodpecker. A young one. It was still breathing, so I tried to pick it up to put it in a bucket and the poor thing went crazy! All I could think about was the holes those woodpeckers drill in the trees eek! It climbed under the couch cover and I put the bucket over it trapping it against the front of the couch. Whew, once we got the lid on the bucket Suzi carried it outside for the big release. Below is the video of the successful release.

There must be something living down in the stump. The cats spend hours at a time just staring.



Below is a video of Louis taking a dirt bath.

Gator was having fun running up the hills of beauty bark staged at the Marymoor dog park.
Seems like I see at least one great blue heron each time I go to Marymoor.

Tripod, our 3 footed deer was head butting his twin brother.



Tripod's horns are just little bumps,



but his brother's horns look like wicked spikes.



below is a video of them playing.


Meanwhile, their mom found that the center roof (1 out of 3) was off the garden. She got into the garden and went under the chickenwire roof.



at least she is on the side of the garden with all the weeds. The other side is strawberry plants...

below is a video:

Sunrise taken from the end of our driveway.

Natasha was beeing cute posing on the truck hood.


Last month we got a call telling us our fence had some rotting. I went to check it out. that top board was a 2x4.


I only needed to replace 2x4's (top and bottom) on the deck. All done.

It is the season for tree removal. We had several issues. One was some trees along the power line, we had some birch trees that were blackened from brushing the power lines, so the power company came out and removed them.
Looks like the bucket arm is a bit close to the power line to me… (the top wire is live)



They sure did a good job of clearing my view of the neighbors house.
While the guys were here, they mentioned we should consider cutting down our 75’ hemlock tree. (they would not do it since it would not land on the power line, just my house.)




We have heard this before from a couple of different sources, so… we hired Rudy from Top Notch tree service to cut it down.



They limbed it as far as possible with the bucket,




then decided to limb it the rest of the way climbing the tree.




Below is a video of the tree having it‘s limbs cut off:


I missed the cutting of the top 1/3rd (batteries died in camera)



Then he cut the middle section.
Below is a video:


Followed by the bottom of the tree.
Below is a video:


Now we have lots of firewood for warmth this winter. :)

We saw this osprey on a telephone pole in Monroe the other day. It was so bright out we knew he had something, but did not realize it was a fish until I came home and took the time to look at my pics.


Sushi anyone???


Had I taken the time to look at what he had while there, I probably would have taken some video, and thought more about my focus settings... oh well someting to keep in mind, and look forward to since I know he lives on the cell phone tower in town.

Local bunny with a cute white mark on his forehead.

Dragonfly.

For some reason there were a ton of these dragonflies, but just on one day last week. At first I thought it was 2, but then I realized they were just bi-planes.

Tripod: This young buck was last years baby, he is missing a foot.
He seems to get around ok, when he moves slowly he actually steps on his stump.
see video below:


I did get a chance to see him run, and he does just fine on 3 legs.