What is this warm glowing stuff? It’s the sun!! Spent the day sunbathing in our 50 degree weather….got to get an early start on my pup tan! Happy Spring! 🌝🌷
Tag outdoors
Too hot to Garden!
The weather here in the northeast has been unusually hot and muggy with temperatures reaching 80 by 10AM. Now while Miss Lilly is sort of ok with basking in the heat her sister does not share her enthusiasm. She spends most of the time inside right beside the air conditioner, outside in the shade or in her pool. While lying in the shade she does get a lovely view of some of our flowers around the house which have been blooming like crazy thanks to all the rain and heat.
Since it is too hot to do anything else she had me take some pictures of a couple of her favorites from around the house.
Now it is back to the pool to cool down and of course get a nice refreshing drink!! Stay cool everyone!!
Tongue Out Tuesday
The girls with their BFF Baxter who belongs to one of our neighbors…they had to take a break from playing to cool their tongues down!!
Our Weekend Find
So we had some lovely weather this weekend and the entire family spent a lot of time playing & working outdoors. (this means mom & dad did a lot of work and baby boys and dogs played!) While we were having one of our outdoor adventures Miss Lilly spotted this strange creature over by some of our flower pots.
Our first look at our new friend…
Obviously the rest of the family had to come and take a closer look, this resulted in me telling dad to keep Riley away until we know what it is, both the girls running away everytime it flicked its wings and us trying to get some pictures before it flew away!!
My first close-up…still couldn’t tell if it was a butterfly or a moth..
I was able to get one more good picture in before all of the commotion scared our friend away…
Definitely larger than it appeared at first glance!!
The girls diligently tried to find it again by going around and searching all of the flowers around the house (some of them were due for a good trampling anyway!) but to no avail! Our winged friend was gone and we are left with the mystery of trying to find out whether it was a butterfly or a moth. What do you think it was? Any insights would be appreciated!!
Basset cat Agility for Mom
This Sunday was Mother’s day and of course the girls and my son all chipped in to get me some goodies. One was a new purse that of course had a picture of Snoopy on it and the other was a certificate for an hour massage (which will come in handy after the weekend!!) So for something fun, since it was nice out, I decided to take everyone to the dog park and try Miss Lilly’s catlike skills out on the new agility course they constructed. So we packed everyone up and headed out! Once there we wrangled everyone in to the play yard and got started.
Miss Lilly showing off on her first try!!
I was worried that even though Lilly thinks she is part cat she would be nervous about being so high off of the ground, nope she trotted right up the plank like she had done it all her life!! Once up there she decided it was a nice vantage point to survey the yard and for photo ops!!
Piece of cake mom…
Next I took her over to the stairs which were of course a breeze for her!! She plodded up and down them quite a few times, pausing for some passersby to marvel at her skills!! Next we headed for the tunnels which were not as easy. my husband had to coax her from the other end and I had to half crawl in the first time so she could see it was safe!!! But she soon got the hang of it and went through on her own. However after two trips through she was ready to go back to the others.
I better get some good treats for this…
Miss Molly did not try any of the agility course but did lounge in the shade by the drinking bowl/pool watching her sisfur and giving us the “not a chance” looks. My husband spent most of the time trying to keep our 18 month old son occupied so that I could get Miss Lilly pictures, so I may have to share part of my hour massage present with him. Anyhow after a fun filled afternoon proving that Miss Lilly is indeed part cat we packed up and headed home! Hope you all enjoyed the weather and had a great Mother’s Day too!
Pool Time
We had an extra fun & relaxing weekend. We finally got the girls pool out so they could splash around and play. Of course they also thought it made a really nice big drinking bowl!!
Miss Lilly also got to enjoy some deck time working on her puppy tan. Afterward we all enjoyed some barbecue and then a relaxing stroll around the neighborhood. Hope everyone else got to relax and enjoy the weather too!!
Weekend Help
The weather was gorgeous over the weekend and we decided to take advantage of it by getting a jump on our outdoor spring cleaning. You know fun things like mowing, weed eating, raking ,picking up the hundreds of little sticks that were laying all over and of course getting out the porch furniture. The girls were obviously very helpfully with all of this , especially picking up the sticks and putting them back down and throwing them and stealing them from our pile and of course chewing them.
I’ll take care of this one for you mom….
Just a few more minutes with this one …
Miss Molly was able to find some shade to take a quick breather before helping with the raking, by helping I mean rolling in the fresh cut grass and getting it all through her fur. This of course led to a good brushing after the raking, let’s just say it took awhile to get her grass free!
The girls remained diligent in their efforts even after the brushing and quick lunch break . They were able to do some digging in their favorite spots and romp around for awhile. Miss Lilly even decided to help set up the fire pit area by holding down the wood pile just in case.
I’ll just make sure this stays put…
So after a long couple days of helping around the house the girls were just plain pooped out!
I can’t move …. Me neither
Zzzzzzzzz….
We did have to eventually wake them up to eat dinner but it wasn’t long before they were sawing logs again! Does anybody else else get this kind of free weekend help around their house? We love our helpers and always make sure to keep plenty of fresh water out for them to drink, shady spots for resting and of course some healthy treats for extra motivation !!
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