Jakesprinter SUNDAY POST: Pet

Jakesprinters Sunday Post this week is pets.  I thought I would highlight just one of my 4-legged kids.  Mac is the most demonstrative of everyone.  She definitely knows what she wants and usually gets it.  Mac or MacKenzie has trained both Chris and I well on how to treat her.  She loves adventure especially when it comes along with a car ride.

We adopted Miss MacKenzie from a local Pug Rescue organization about 5 years ago.  She was found in Bend, Oregon and obviously just had a litter of puppies.  Although there were no puppies when they found her in the streets.  She was about 10 months old and weighed barely 10 pounds.  Pugs normally weight between 15 and 20 pounds.   She was potty trained when we got her and also knew sit and down.  Pugs are notorious for knowing the word “come” but they choose to ignore it.

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy my little show of the Many Faces of our little Miss MacKenzie.  Just click on any photo to get a full sized slide show.  ENJOY!!!

Hugs and blessings Cee

Share Your World – Week 24

Since I’m really tired this weekend, I’ve hopefully come up with some questions you can answer with few words but you may have to think a little bit.  ENJOY!!

Here are the four Share Your World questions for this week.    I hope you have some fun playing along.  It sure is fun learning about all of us.

1. Are you left or right handed?
   
2. What is one thing you love about being an adult?
3. What do I need to unlearn?
4. What is success for me?

See my answers below.

NOTE:  Click link to easily find Other Share Your World Week blog entries.

I will be putting out four different questions each week for you to answer.  There are two ways which you can participate.

1. Create a  Share Your World  post.  Then post the link to your blog in my comment box or leave your answers in the comments box of my blog.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Share Your World” tag.
3. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly reminders.

I will state the questions first and then post my answers in the bottom part of my blog.  I’ve also created a banner if you would like one for your blog.

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Here are my answers:

Miss MacKenzie and Mt Hood

Photo from Amazon.com

Today was the first day in ages where the sun came out and no rain in the forecast.  In fact, we should not have rain for the next couple of days.  So Chris and I took a drive around Canby just to see the sun and do a little more exploring on the back roads.  We did find an old homestead cemetery from Aurora Colony.   Both of us decided to do a photo shoot when we didn’t have the pugs and Chris had her camera.  Plus we want late evening with long shadows or a drizzly day for this photo opp.

We also tried out our new pet hammock in the back seat of our car.  We brought both our pugs with us.  Miss MacKenzie loves car rides.  She usually goes everywhere with us.  She also has us well trained to hold her on our laps so she can look out the windshield.  But with this new hammock I won’t be so full of pug fur.  Now, the trick is to train MacKenzie who is a jumper to stay in back.

I was able to take this photo of her trying to look out the windshield….Isn’t she just so totally pathetic?

Mac handing on the car hammock.

I did happen to get a cool photo of Mt Hood too.

Mt Hood Oregon looking from Aurora.

 

Hugs and blessings

Cee

 

A Pug’s Day to Relax

This will be real quick.  Shadow was just to adorable with her little rawhide chewie in her mouth.  Ovbiously, there is not much going on this rainy Sunday April 1.  Chris took the photo with my camera.

Shadow with chewy in her mouth while attempting to take a little nap falling asleep.

 

Hugs and blessings

Cee (and Chris and Shadow)

Wednesday Song Title Interpretation: Just The Two Of Us

Rois has an interesting challenge every week, where she picks a song and we find photos to make the topic of the song.  So here is my interpretation of the week’s Wednesday Song Title Interpretation: Just The Two Of Us.  It’s kind of a continuation of my Theme Tuesday which was all about things that make me smile which I posted this week.  Hope you all ENJOY!

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Hugs and blessings

Cee

Forecast: Snow in Canby, Oregon

Yes, that was the forecast for overnight.  And we did get snow!  We had about 3 inches.  Canby usually gets a trace of snow each year.  Not inches.  Portland which is about 40 miles north of us gets an average of 3″ of snow per year.  It was a glorious scene early this morning and it is melting fast.  Chris and I swim early so I wasn’t able to get out an take photos until just a couple of minutes ago.  Hope you enjoy the view in my backyard this morning.  As always see larger versions below. By the way, the sun just came out so the snow should be gone by noon.

Iris’s popping up out of the snow.

Last but definitely not least, MacKenzie shaking her head at the disbelief.

Planter in my back yard with grass popping up out of the snow.

These huge trees were covered with snow early this morning, but it was melting fast.

Also for today, a friend of mine from Bryon who has a website on Redbubble sent me some fun factoids I’d like to share.  It’s for those of us who love trivia.  ENJOY.

• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. 

And ‘lollipop‘ is the longest word typed with your right hand. 

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
• Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears 
never stop growing.
• 

The sentence: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”
uses every letter of the alphabet.
• The words racecar, kayak and level are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).


• There are only four words in the English language which end in ‘dous’: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• 

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: abstemious and facetious.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. 

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
• A ‘jiffy‘ is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. 

• A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. 

• A snail can sleep for three years. 

• Almonds are a member of the peach family. 

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
• Babies are born without kneecaps. 
They don’t appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
• 

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• 

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
• 
If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
  
• 

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!


• Rubberbands last longer when refrigerated. 

• The average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
  
• 

The cruise liner, QE 2,
moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 


• The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
• The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• 

Winston Churchill 
was born in a ladies’ room during a dance. 
Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 



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Theme Tuesday: Wheels

I asked Chris last night what I should do for my Theme Tuesday.  She thought I should do wheels.  At first I didn’t think I had a lot other than cars, but….. As you can tell, I had one or two up my sleeve.  The wheel with my pug, Shadow, was on a 747 that was on display at Evergreen Aviation Museum.  That 747 is now on top of a building at the Museum and is used as a water slide.  (see Chris’s blog showing the 747)

I’ll be out of the house most of the day, so if I don’t get to your blogs until tomorrow, I apologize.  But I will get to them!!  ENJOY the show!

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Hugs and blessings

Cee

Theme Tuesday – Pairs, Two, Duos (for Valentine’s Day)

It’s Theme Tuesday and Valentine’s Day day today.  So I decided to feature photographs that I have taken that had two of something.  Hope you ENJOY the show!  For those of you who celebrate Valentine’s Day, may it be everything you want.  For those of who don’t, may today be everything you want.  Let’s make today be special!!!

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Here are a couple of links to some Valentine’s Blogs I’ve enjoyed.

• Latebloomerbuds
• Digital Catharsis
• Backpacking with a Book
• Living the Seasons – What is Love?
• Living the Seasons – A Valentine’s Letter to My Husband
• The Sacred Cave
• Jane’s Lens
• Jax Art 4 Animals
• Diabetic Redemption

Hugs and blessings

Cee

Jake’s Theme of the Week: Love

Jake’s Sunday theme this week is Love.  So here is my contribution on the subject.  My first thought on Love was to show some of my 4-legged kids together!  Hope you ENJOY.

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Hugs and blessings

Cee

My Entry for A-Z Archive: D Challenge

For Frizz Text’s A-Z Archive: D Challenge, I decided to enter different types of D.  I know the obvious two for me would be dahlias or dogs, but I decided to try my hand at different types of D’s too.  Hope you enjoy the show.  Please scroll down for enlarged versions.

Dragon head. Photo taken at W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Spokane, Washington, USA.

Reflections of Astoria-Megler Bridge in door at the Maritime Museum.

Dragon fountain found at Hughes Water Gardens in Tualatine, Oregon, USA.

Macro of a daffodil. Photo taken at a local nursery in Woodburn, Oregon.

Desert Storm Dahlia, from Swan Island Dahlias in Canby, Oregon.

Shadow being excited. OK I had to put in one dog (pug).

Rainy Duck found in Canby, Oregon, USA.