tuesday.

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I miss my redhead.

unfortunately, tashies arthritis got  worse and worse, to the point that her medication wasn’t providing her with much relief, and she was having difficulty doing even simple things like getting up off the floor or walking up and down stairs.  when it got to the point that she was falling down the back stairs in order to try to get outside, I finally made the decision that I needed to end her suffering.

my poor doggie.

so before we go any further, I wanted to post some photos in her honor, some new, some you’ve seen before but that make me smile so I’m going to repost them again.

they are more or less in chronological order, starting with the very first photo taken in pascale’s apartment the day I brought tashie home…

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monday.

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what is one of tashie’s very favourite treats?

you would never guess…

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sunday.

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squeaking in just under the wire.

so yes, “february fun” is rather an oxymoron, I do realize that. february is by far my least favourite month of the year. it’s dreary and full of slush, and by now, I’m sick of winter and just don’t want to have to deal with it anymore. but does february care? nope. it just keeps on sucking.

in vancouver, spring was in the air in february, and it was awesome. by the end of the month the gardens would already be blooming. I used to grab my camera and take lots of photos of all the flowers, and would marvel every spring at just how early it would arrive. so being back in the slush and dreary makes me grumbly.

so I thought I’d try to redeem this month of yuckyness with some photos of us having fun.

this month saw the superbowl, valentines day, dinners out with the ladies, trips out east, the diamond bowling classic (photos courtesy of josh because I forgot my camera – duh), more snow (how is that fun exactly? oh never mind) and the olympics… which I cannot rebroadcast without the express written consent of the olympics broadcast consortium, under penalty of death, so you won’t be seeing any of that. however, I did manage to get my hands on (in) some red mitten action, so that may show up somewhere.

and so, here are our attempts at having fun in february…

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sunday.

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quick, before winter is so entrenched in your brain that you can’t remember what it was like before all the snow!

here we go for a walk around EC Brown, one of the conservation areas close to my house.

tasha and I went for a stroll a couple of days in a row back when the sun was shining and it was about 15 degrees, and as you walked around happy that you didn’t even need a jacket, you could just feel that it would be the last warm weekend of the fall…

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saturday.

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well, when I returned home on monday evening, I first had to make an immediate detour to deanna’s house in order to make it there by my instructed time – 8pm. that being the time that the premiere of the bachelor starts. save me. so when I actually arrived at my house at 10:30, I had to dig my way into the driveway and up the stairs to the house. and unfortunately this thing we call winter just keeps dumping snow on me. don’t get me wrong, I love playing in it, I just hate the shoveling part – or rather, my poor back does. ouch!

so here are some wintery (and not so wintery) photos for you to enjoy.

here is the backyard, as it looked about 10 minutes ago…

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