Nutmeg Goes to the Lake!

 Alex came home this weekend! He has been building a ferry in Nelson, BC and comes home on his DAY off. Yes I said DAY! He only gets 1 and he drives home to see his Nutmeg (and do his laundry and have Mom cooked foods). Because there is a holiday this weekend, Alex got 2 days off! 

Nutmeg is ecstatic! This means she gets to sleep 2 nights with Alex, and she gets to hang out with him for a whole day! He was invited to go boating on Christina Lake and he took Nutmeg with him.

 

Christina Lake is about 20 km (12 miles) east of Grand Forks and just 1 km north of the US border. Mom has Find My on her phone and Nutmeg has an airtag on her collar so Mom got a picture on her phone of where she was!

Here is a shot of her in the boat!

She has her very own life jacket! And she was not the only kid on the boat! Our neighbor, who owns the boat, brought Hadley. Hadley is a little girl too and she is the same age as Nutmeg. They play together all the time and they got some epic plays in the boat together!

Here's a picture of Nutmeg with Alex!

She told me the boat rocking and bumping was a little scary at first and that she thought she might get a little sea sick, but she got over it pretty fast and had a great time!

 They all got out of the boat at the top end of the lake to see the tree and go for a walk. Nutmeg was scared to get out, so she got lifted out and carried to the beach, that's where she saw a really strange tree! She thinks it was yelling at all the dogs to keep them away! She says she got carried back to the boat when they were ready to go back. She she says it was because she did NOT want to get her jacket wet and Hadly was being carried so she should be too!

All in all, she had a terrific time and says that she would love to go again! Alex said that she was a good grrl and kept Hadley from getting bored. Nutmeg says she LOVED all the attention and the wind blowing through her furs and all the wonderful treats that Hadley gave her!

 

 

Mom had a Cats-astrophic Event!

 Yep! Right here!

Way out here in the middle of nowhere!

Yes our Peep is a total geek. Way-back, about 3years ago, before she started doing the badges for the Cats Blogosphere, and AI took over the interwebs, our Peep was experimenting doing Computer Art, using software tools, like Photoshop. 

She got really good at it and was contemplating starting to do pet pawtraits THEN AI APPEARED! AI was doing in 5 minutes what used to take Mom a couple of days to create and anybody could do it! And then Mom got approached to do some grant writing for the local senior centre and she quit doing the art.

Mom got a new Windows 11 computer and installed all her old software on it and the old Windows 10 machine became her back up. Mom's old copy of Photoshop 5.5 did not run as well in Windows 11 and a bunch of functions quit working, but Mom did not need them anymore. Mom started doing the badges and she used Photoshop to make the badges. Fast forward to the beginning of summer...Photoshop died on her regular laptop. 

Mom KNEW she was going to have to change (eventually) and has a new software, but she can do things FAST in Photoshop. Her brain muscle does not even have to think about where the functions are! T=he new software... has things in different places and it takes time to find them! 

That has meant that the old laptop is now out and being used (so that you can get your badges!) 

Mom's old laptop is great! ALL the Photoshop functions are there but the laptop had been upgraded to 11 and it is running way too slow. The Hard Disk is FULL of a zillion images and the bits and pieces that need to be run to create the cool art effects in Photoshop. And they need to get MOVED to make space. 

 Sooo, today, Mom figured she would take the time to move all the art files from the old laptop to her backup hard disk. And we found some gold! 

 Here are some wonderful Computer Art (Mosty using watercolor effects) of our good Buddy Beau!

 We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!