Another RAK and more

How ingenious! A round card! Love the flowers, too. Maybe spring is on its way. Thank you so much, Deanna.

As for my Wild Animal Kingdom post, here it goes. A week ago we were having dinner at my parents' house. I had gone into the kitchen to get water for the dogs and when I looked out the kitchen window, I saw a long, dark tail moving over the top of the snow, down at the edge of the backyard. I called to everyone to come look at the otter out back because that's what the tail looked like, that of an otter. Well, it turned out to be no otter but was instead a fisher cat! Most of the web citations about fishers list the males to be about 20 pounds in weight but ours was a HUGE fisher. I would estimate that it was a little more than 4 feel long including the tail. It went to the compost pile and you could hear it cracking the chicken bones that my dad had recently put there. Fascinating but scary because they can be so fierce. My mom snapped some great pictures of it including this one.

All the pups go with us when we go to dinner at my parents' house and last week was no exception. Jack was just coming off a two day stay with Oona and Oompa (as we call Grandma and Grandpa) and was excited to see the rest of his pack. He loves my mom's living room because it's carpeted and he gets such good traction when he runs around. Here he is being extra tough with one of his toys.