Author Archives: Kara

Going Wild!

Posted in Awesome, Friends, Photos, Weekend Update by

On the weekend, Callie and I decided to relive our childhood and go to the BC Wildlife Park. It’s a pretty awesome park with local and non-local wildlife and it was just fun to check out the animals as adults!

We got to see an ENORMOUS golden eagle just chilling out NOT IN A CAGE as soon as we got there. The Birds of Prey show had just finished so the eagle was sitting on a perch for people to take SUPER close up photos of it. I’m pretty sure it was bigger than me!

We also saw cougars, black and grizzly bears, moose, coyotes, wolves, mountain goats, big horn sheep, bison, owls, and more! We rode a mini-train around the park for $1, which was a lot shorter than we remembered from when we were little, ha!

Anyway, here’s some photos from the day!

What’s you’re favourite wildlife from your neck of the woods?

In My Belly

Posted in Food, Photos by

The in-laws went down to Keremeos a few days ago and brought Kyle and I back some delicious hand-picked produce. Oh-em-gee, SO GOOD! Check out our bounty:

A couple of store-bought apples and a pluot snuck into the mix, but we got a nectarine, cherries, apples, apricots, peaches and two HUGE tomatoes! Look at those bad boys! Amazing! Needless to say, Kyle and I had tomato sandwiches for lunch yesterday. Delicious.

Now I shall lead you into the weekend with a pretty shot of a sunflower I took over the weekend. And thanks for all the love you guys have shown me for the past couple posts of mine that weren’t exactly easy for me to write. It means a lot. :)

Happy Friday everyone! Any fun weekend plans? I’m going to the local wildlife park!

The C Word

Posted in Hard times, Life, Pets by

No one likes it. No one should like it. It sucks. And recently, I found out that my favourite lab in the world has it. Cancer. In his bones. I’m so heart broken.

That’s Tanner. He’s really my favourite. Sometimes I love this old man more than Daphne.

My mom called me last night and gave me the news. Apparently he was limping really bad for no apparent reason (he has had joint issues but they only get bad when he goes on walks) so they took him to the vet. After some poking and prodding the vet did some x-rays and they revealed a lack of bone density and some black areas. The vet is 80% sure it’s cancer. I hope Tanner falls into the 20%.

For now he has medication for the inflammation and pain and has to go back to the vet in a couple weeks. My mom says he’s still the “same ol’ Tanner”: Rolling around in the grass, stealing socks, and just plain happy. They’re taking him camping next week as planned and just hoping for the best.

I know I shouldn’t be surprised that his health is declining – He’s 11 years old. He has lumps all over his body (the x-rays revealed that not a single one of them in cancerous), but he’s still my puppy.

Sometimes I think that I shouldn’t have pets because I just can’t deal with the thought of them dying. It’s not fair.

So – if you can just keep Tanner in your thoughts for me, that would be great. I’m cheering for that 20%.