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She's such a cute stinker 🤎

I had no idea how much quieter the house would be with new windows. This past summer we had historic levels of rain and our front window began leaking if we had rain from the north. I always thought the scene was silly until it happened to me.

I got pulled over after a long day at work on the way to take my dogs swimming in the North Saskatchewan River. The lights flashed and when I pulled over I got scared because both officers exited the vehicle and the one came to my window the other looked in my backseat at my dogs and then they went back to their car with my id and insurance.

My friend googled the expired registration ticket price and my heart sank. They both came back to the car and he said I was getting a warning violation and sent home to get it taken care of ASAP. As soon as the younger officer handed me the violation warning his older partner came over and asked me all about my dogs. He had a black lab at home that looked like my bigger dog. Thank goodness my dogs are so stinking cute!

I got home switched to my partners SUV and took the dogs for a long long swim in the river and they got lots of the roasted chicken I made for dinner lol. Have your dogs ever gotten you out of a ticket?

On April 24 my friend messaged me that they had surgery tomorrow and I called them and they told me how nervous they were and I said I would be there in the morning when they got out. That was the last time we had a talk together. In the morning I had to go put my cat down then went to the hospital to wait. The surgery did not go well and as soon as they started she had a bleed right at the start as well as the aneurysm they had originally planned to operate on ruptured as well. Two massive bleeds and a month in a coma in 4A4 where she developed a lung infection and we almost lost her. That month as she fought for her life and survived. We had scary meetings with her surgeon about whether to remove life support or not and decided we couldn't make that choice so we waited to see what would happen.

They removed the sedations and drugs and slowly brought her out of the coma to see if her brain could take the swelling and basal spasms and she slowly woke up and returned to us. She lost major control of her right side as well as her language expression. My friend spent another two months in unit 4A2 across the hall recovering as much control and strength as she could. This was the goodbye the unit gave her as she headed to the brain injury centre the social worker got her into for the next stage of her recovery. As she waited for the ambulance to take her so many staff came up to say their goodbyes and well wishes in her recovery and they gave her the most beautiful send off wishing her well. I had to go back to the same unit to go visit my cousin a week later so I Facetimed my friend as I walked into the ward. I can not explain how happy my heart was feeling when I saw how excited the staff on unit 4A2 were to see my friend in her next stage of recovery they all came running over to say hello. The team made her part of their family and have only their patients best interest at heart but so rarely get to see patients after they leave. I will forever be grateful for everything they did for her and continue to do for others each and everyday. They treated her with dignity and respect at at time when she was scared and unsure of what was happening and they made her feel loved and supported. A huge shout out to the medical staff that work to hard to keep patients alive and in positive spirits as they start their recovery stage.

I could hear the rubles of thunder well before the clouds arrived.

A huge shout out to all the staff that were called in at 10 PM on Saturday and worked until 4 AM making sure the main roads were cleared of trees before closing the park for the night. Then the day staff were crazy busy near Astotin Lake beach area all morning and afternoon clearing the main trails and pathways. Trees were down everywhere and will take a few weeks to clear the hiking trails around the park on both sides. Keep up the good work guys I really appreciated all the hard work they do to keep the park operations during these crazy storms.

I went for a hike and found so many of them in bloom right now and a bonus Mountain Bluet

I have started carving so getting to work with caribou and elk is a pleasure. The antlers will be game pieces, earrings and snow goggles. The caribou jaw will be made into a tiny Inuit qamutiik sled and the teeth will become earrings. Im going to see what some of the clients I work would like to do with the skull in our next art session.

Crazy how much the city core has changed. Not even a whisper of the convention centre and of course the old CN Rail buildings where Rogers and the old rail line running down Fort Road.

I’m not holding treats I just did the hand gesture to get her to look up.