My Girl Bean

Two weeks ago we brought Miss Bean to the traveling vet here. We were concerned about her breathing. He examined her and said with confidence that she was in tip top shape for a dog her age.

She had a very bad day Wednesday, she was in considerable pain. After a few calls to our vet in the city, we brought her there early early Thursday morning.

The vet discovered a growth on her thyroid and after further testing it was determined that she has thyroid cancer and it has spread to her lungs. She is home with us, for her last weeks or months. It is such heartbreaking news.

She's the last of our Inuit team.

She's such a good old girl.

wiky, miss bean, kinoje

11 years ago

July has been foggy and cool

fog on the Aguasabon River

swimming in the Aguasabon on one of our hot days

Miss Bean wading to cool herself down

she didn't enjoy the heat at all.

Spring Compilation

Kinoje at the river

fireman putting out fire construction started out back

cali

pussy willows

trailing arbutus

Mark getting firewood up crossman road

love trailing arbutus

Easter Sunday

We had a very quiet day today, peaceful!

We took the dogs out this aft, in the rain. The forest was gorgeous, all the colours are heightened when things are wet. It was a beautiful walk.

I am having our big dinner tomorrow, we have invited some friends to join us.

It'll be nice!

jack pine

old mans beard

bean and noje hunting for mice

the forest floor

black spruce woods

Noje and Bean

miss bean

mr. noje

Blue Sky Sunny

A few days ago I went for a walk with Mark and the dogs. Cali, Miss Bean was frantic to eat grass so we went with her in search of just the right variety. Our dogs are like dairy cows when it comes to grass... it does seem to do the trick for them.

Today we are back in winter mode, a winter wonderful of snow! I will take some photos tomorrow if it hasn't all melted.

power line, north of town

lichen crusted rock

dog walk down a road new to me

we sat while Miss Bean searched

happy boy, Kinoje

March 11th, the Birthday of Thomas!

These are images from the day Thomas turned 20, today he turned 28!

Happy Birthday Thomas!

hooking up the dogs for a snowy birthday ride

Thomas and Megan heading back!

the birthday boy!

Knock, Knock, Who's There?

I was in the porch the other morning photographing jewelry when the dogs came to peek in the window to see what I was doing. They were very excited to find me there! Aren't they cute!

kinoje & cali

peeking

Ice Fishing on Toss A Coin Lake

On Sunday we drove north of Terrace Bay up the mill road to go ice fishing. I was surprised at how much more snow there is up there and how much colder it was than on the Lake shore. We went to a lake right beside the road as I cannot walk far. It was far enough! The dogs love ice fishing and get right int it, they get so excited if they hear one of the bells ringing, they usually get to the hold first. Kinoje would love to eat all the bait and would have loved to eat the pike that Thomas caught.

It was really nice to see Kinoje back to his old silly form, he is feeling so much better, thank goodness. Cali on the other hand was a bit more reserved around the holes, she was a good fisher girl, but couldn't resist rolling in the pike poo... her favourite thing to do.

the dogs were quite excited to see Mark and Thomas pulling the little sleds in

cold clear day on Toss A Coin

setting up the lines

Kinoje being a good helper boy, trying to eat the bait

Mark and the dogs drilling a hole

smoke gets in your eyes

Mark and the dogs, watching and waiting

Kinoje looking for a snack, a little obsessively

Kinoje and Miss Bean

Our two Canadian Inuit dogs.

Kinoje

Miss Bean giving Mark a kiss!