Last year, Ben came here with his scout troup to do some volunteering. This weekend, he strongarmed me to take him. We saw wolves and lynxes, boars and deer, owls and birds of prey. Ben saw his spirit goose.
Zoo de la Garenne
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Hope it’s not a sign of things to come
January felt like 2021 condensed into a whole month.
So much for asking 2022 to be kind to us.
So far, it’s been a month-long kick in the… teeth.
NMD has gone home
It seems like a long time that we didn’t have either NMD or Juno with us, but we’re dog-free for the next little while. On some level, it’s less work but on another level, it’s less unconditional love and crazy nuttiness.
My leg has gone numb
She snores.
She farts.
She’s a heavy lump on my leg.
My leg’s gone completely numb.
But there’s no way in hell I’m going to move her.
I love this dog.
Nature walk with NMD
We took the car to drive up to the arboretum in Aubonne. It was a nice, if chilly, walk.
QaparHa’qu!!!
Deep dog thoughts
What would we hoard if we were dragons
Richard
Ben
Katy
Though in all honesty, mine and Katy’s hoards would be interchangeable.
Saying goodbye to Kippy the Kia, hello to Margo
Been a sad/stressful month as we had to say goodbye to our little Kia, who served us well since we moved to Switzerland. We knew it was going to need to happen this year, as we were facing some hefty bills for new brakes and an expertise service. That would have been throwing money down a hole, as it wouldn’t really have done anything to the trade-in value (especially with the visible bodywork needed).
When the brakes started squealing much sooner than anticipated coming back from a sledding outing in Marchairuz, we bit the bullet, shuffled some money around and took out a leasing on a much newer, bit bigger, Kia Niro hybrid SUV. The paperwork and process were a bit stressful, especially because the dealership’s whole European operations got caught in a ransomware attack and, for reasons unknown, the insurance transfer got me really anxious. Everything seems to be falling into place now.
Katy was a bit concerned about the fact that it would be an automatic, but she’s getting used to it now and says hill starts are much easier.
Seeing in the new year with a big black dog
Generally, big black dog refers to depression, but this time it factually refers to a big black dog, who was super well-behaved while we saw the new year in with Colin, Karen and the kids. We had raclette, nitraty-pig (hmmmm nitrates) and played cat bingo, exploding kittens, ticket to ride and a really abbreviated round of cranium. Fun night. We needed something like that, even if the price is a slight hangover this morning.