A Whole Week Flies By!

Wow!  A whole week has just flown by.  Here's an update!

Two Sundays ago, it was the annual Oak Bay Light Up when they turn on all the Christmas lights on all the stores on the Avenue.  It was pretty.

Then, Phil came home from his tropical vacation in Lethbridge.  Whilst he was enjoying the sun snow and mai tais hot chocolate, we were slaving away doing all manner of household chores.

Yay!  He's home and we are super happy to see him.

Noodles is practicing her doggie statue routine while he makes our food.

Noodles really does enjoy assisting Janet with cooking.

Can you believe it - a doggie towel tussle!  With Noodles!  This is a really big week for Noodles as she turns 13 years old on Saturday.  Janet looked it up and that is the equivalent of 82 human years!

Karen and Janet were recently chatting about how you don't see many German Shepherds any more.  Next day we go to the sidewalk beside the beach and we saw a Bloodhound and a puppy to boot.  Even more rare than German Shepherds.

Janet sent two quilts, two bibs and a tag blanket to Briana so she could take them to her friend she is visiting in Vancouver who has a new baby.

Janet thinks this is one of her favourites.

She sent two as she had forgotten how small this one was.

Then, off we went to post the parcel.

Look, it's doggie in drugstore!

Janet's all time favourite Christmas gig is the Big Truck Parade.  The first year she went, she was pretty much thinking it would be totally lame ass, but loved it.  She missed three parades because she went to Camp U.S.A. to babysit me and then last year, she completely forgot.  We went this year and Janet cried, like she always does at parades.

She said is was really hard to take photos that were in focus.

Phil put up our Christmas tree.  Watch it explode after he cuts off the twine.

As usual, we were left at home so they could go have lunch out.  They went to Pizzeria Prima Strada.  Janet says they have a yummy new menu.

Clearly, it's also difficult to get a photo of polenta is focus as well!  At least the trucks were moving!  Janet loved this and wants to try to make it at home.  Fluffy polenta with melted cheese, eggplant and tomatoes.

Just for fun, Janet tried her hand at free motion quilting.  She is pretty sure there are many more hours of practice before actually doing a real quilt.

Neighbour!