Winter Nature Study - Galls

Galls and fungus and wood pecker holes.. oh my!!! This was a fun one and really took some sharp eyes to find. Galls are those pod like things we see all over that house tiny larvae for the next season. They can be found in various plants and trees!

Carols favourite part, LARVAE!!

Winter Nature Study - Twigs

This week was devoted to TWIGS! It was a really nice day and we collected twigs from a number of different trees found in the area.

Gotta love when learning something new requires an outdoor excursion, and a little tobogganing with friends doesn't hurt either :)

Veterinarian Week!

Little Miss and I continued on with Community Helpers just after the New Year celebrations. She decided she wanted to learn more about Veterinarians :)

We went to the new vet clinic down the street from us: http://www.allandalevet.com/ Its sparkly and new and had all the latest technology you could ever dream of there. The link provided shows a tour through the establishment. The Vet was really great with Little Miss, he took her to all the boarding, treatment, surgery and xray rooms. He showed her an xray of a little dog which was pretty neat! Gave her a ride up and down on the exam table and used the instruments to check my eyes LOL Absolutely wonderful spot!

We then, later in the week, set up our own clinic! We have a few, ahem, animals here all of which where checked out by Little Miss and given a clean bill of health!

Dog #1

Dog #2

Guinea Pig #1

Guinea Pig #2

Rabbit that looks like the cat

Just funny LOL

Cat that looks like rabbit

Bribing the crotchety thing with food to sit still LOL

Clearing out the cobwebs!!

It's been some time since I blogged last! Busy, busy!!

We've been up to some fun things over the past few weeks so the next billions posts will be related to all of that :)

My poor camera had an untimely end so all photos are compliments of Carol :)

Winogradsky - Jan 2012

I'm behind on this with all the festivities of the holiday season :)

Here is our January picture and will continue with the monthly photos.

Sledding!

There is a huge hill in our area that the kiddos love to sled at. We went there the other day and they had a blast :) Yes I make them wear helmets, the hill is that crazy!

Big Air on this one, hence the helmet LOL

Happy New Year!

This past year has been pretty outstanding! We were all healthy and happy for the majority of our time on the planet :)

We celebrated the New Year with skating with good friends down at City Hall, complete with fireworks. Afterwards we went to another good friends for the remainder of the New Years celebrations. We played a really interesting group game called Werewolf for most of the night, it was fun!

I'm not one for resolutions but will continue to do my best to be in the moment and mindful in all that I do. Wishing you all a wonderful New Year!



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