Thanksgiving Weekend

 October has been a hectic month... 

A lovely month, but a hectic one! I've been mostly busy with studying for my med school midterms, which are finally over!!! YAHOOOO! Time to pawty. 

A few weeks ago, I managed to make it back home for Thanksgiving with my family. I usually spend this weekend sleeping and eating, hiding in a cocoon of rest and relaxation lazy. But not this time! My first day back, Mama Bear and I hit the highway northbound to Lake Superior Provincial Park. She wanted to go for a hike, and show me her newly discovered "secret spot". Now I can't tell you where my mama's secret spot is (she'd killlll me), but I can show you a few photos from our day ;)

I think I may have missed the peak of the autumn leaves by about a week, but the colours were still so pretty. 

Of course Bailey came with us! Such a good girl. The way she sits with her legs spread open kills me. 

This is my favourite shot of the day. Bailey is so fuzzy yet so serious! (She's normally so silly!)

I normally don't get to spend a lot of one-on-one time with my mama, so this day together was special. I think it's something we'll both always remember. 

Thanksgiving Sunday, my BFF Christine and I headed out to Mocking Bird Hill Farm, a.k.a. Farmer Bob's. Where I come from, Farmer Bob is a local celeb. The guy's a bawse. Every resident of my hometown has at one point been out to his farm for a school field trip/sleigh ride/pick your own Christmas tree. For the fall he puts on a corn maze, so Christine and I decided to get our country on and go check it out. 

After 2 hours in this mother, we ended up hitting 5/6 check points! Proud of us. 

We finally escaped the maze and wandered around the farm. Is it just me, or are pumpkins super photogenic?? I couldn't get enough of them!! I think it's the pop of orange against the natural farm background that I'm obsessed with. So seasonal! Luvs it. 

There's also a small petting farm on site. If only these photos could convey the smell of this place! But it was adorable, so it was worth it. 

This baby goat stole my heart. Look at him trying to steal some snacks from the vending machine! Such a sneaky lil fella. 

Definitely a Thanksgiving weekend for the books! Saw everyone I wanted to catch up with, ate........ everything. Now time to get back to the real world. 

Mr. Birdie

Our family poodle, Bailey (a.k.a. Lil Bails, that's her rapper name) tends to go missing. Sometimes for hours. She'll find a squirrel, and chase it endlessly around the neighbourhood, until someone finally finds her and brings her home. 

This time, Allison found her at the neighbour's house, fixated and drooling on this poor lil guy: 

He wasn't hurt thankfully! Just a little scared. Poor thing fell out of his mommy's nest. So Allison scooped him up, and brought him home. 

We looked him up online, and found out that he's a Cedar Waxwing baby (or so we think). We wanted to bring him back to his momma, but decided to feed him a bit first just in case. 

*Not sure if "he's" actually a boy, Allison was just going off her motherly instincts...lolz*

We crushed up some cherries and mixed it with dog food for protein. He luved it! Gobbled it all up. Nom nom nom. 

Bailey was hungry too, but not for her dog food. Bad girl. 

Finally it was time to say goodbye, so Allison put him back outside in a tree close to where she found him. 

She checked on him a couple hours later, and he was gone :( 
Hopefully his momma found him. 
Aurevoir little dude!