Flyin' out to Seattle!

Mom is leavin' us in the care of Grandma an' Grandad for two weeks while she visits with our Auntie Toni, Uncle Jer, an' the rest of the extended fambly up in the Pacific NorthWET. She leaves tomorrow afternoon. Sigh.

The first time she flew up there, the plane she rode in was THIS ONE in the picture: Alaska Airlines' "Spirit of Disney" custom plane.

One day, Mom hopes to ride in the "Salmon Thirty Salmon" that is painted with a GINORMOUS salmon on each side. Pretty nifty: A flying fish!

Photos courtesy of Alaska Airlines.

Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt #108: FLAG

Today's Photo Hunter's theme is FLAG!

Mom's gonna be visitin' with our Oregon cousins for the Fourth of July this year. Sigh. Not that we don't

love hearin' 'bout Zoey an' the Furballs (with Cha-Ching) an' the rest of our Pacific Northwestern cousins, but we prefer havin' her around when the "Boom," "Zing," and "Pow" are goin' off all around us.

So, gettin' to the point of "Flag," we're not gonna have any patriotic stuff up for the big holiday unless Grandma an' Grandpa decide to decorate an' put out our Holiday Gizzy that Millie's momma made for us a couple of years ago.

The flag that we're using for this post is one that Mom saw last June when she was up in Vancouver, B.C. She was visitin' a place called Whiterock which is a beach an' tourist place AND the setting for a television show called "Psych" that is on the USA Network an' returns for a new season on August 7 (no, Mom's not a shill for the USA Network).

This last picture is the flag at the Vancouver to Washington border crossing where Mom sat for three hours (!) waiting to cross back into the U.S.A. Interestingly, it took less than ten minutes to cross from Washington into Canada ...

Pumpkin Thursday

PUMPKIN UPDATE:

For those who are wonderin', Pumpkin is slowly feelin' better. Mom has been feedin' him extra (high calorie) treats like Temptations AND givin' him breakfast an' lunch to augment what he has for dinner. He's got a voracious appetite an' has gained an ounce or two in body weight. He has a hard time moving on the laminate floor an' stayin' balanced. It's almost as if his back legs are actin' like flippers.

What does that mean for the rest of us? Do WE get breakfast an' lunch, too? Nope. Only Pumpkin gets extra bowls of stinky goodness.

But the good part (besides Pumpkin feelin' better) is that WE get extra Temptations 'cuz we can hear the canister bein' opened an' we make our presence known when those snacks come out. It's pretty hard to deny us some treats when we're right underfoot an' LOUD!