Gosh she is just too cute! She still has a puppy face. Just a few more days until she turns 1! I never noticed the silver band around her neck until now.

Love the last pic in the hiking post. The lake behind her, the view in general is breath taking. My stick pic, too funny......

Thank you Casey and Renee she is my lil forever puppy, haha. She's such a sweetheart

Happy Birthday, Mishka!

Birthday? Birthday! Happy birthday, Mishka! Party on!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISHKA!!!

Happy Birthday Mishka!! Have a great day!!

Awww, thank you SO much Casey, Jenn, "J", and Renee I really appreciate this. So, today is Mishka's very first birthday!!! Here are a couple pics, first one is from the breeder (sorry about the quality, I took a pic from the computer screen, haha, otherwise i'd have to spend time looking for the original, second pic is Mishka now...she actually HAS grown a little!!!, haha...Im posting a few pics Ive never posted before of her on our longggggggggggg drive home from the breeder.

again, thank you all so much





Mishka laying on my lap on the car ride home from the breeder...she looks content because she had already peed on me



Mishka chillin in the shade on one of our pit stops (so she wouldnt pee on me again, haha) on the way home



And Mishka finally home, laying in the driveway...she was sooooo tiny

AWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! SHE WAS SO CUTE(still is!)

LOL, thanks J

K, this is gonna make me sound awful but I'm gonna tell the story anyways. When I went to the breeder to pick her up, she was busy with another client so she asked her daughter ( like...maybe 8 yrs old) to show me where Mishka was...she brings me over to where the puppies are and points and said mine is in there. I go in and sit down with the little girl puppy and my friend who was with me said "what's wrong Jimmy?" And I said. "This one isn't mine, mine was cuter" my friend just looked at me like i was crazy and said " dude, she's beautiful" and I said " yeah, but the one I chose was more beautiful " I looked around and then I saw Mishka and said "THAT is my puppy" and it was!!! I knew my Mishka

Jimmy, she was an adorable baby! She still is a fluff ball to! Gosh, her delicate features just scream girl to me!

Thank you Casey! Mishka's personality is all girl too. I see a lot of Anuschka in the way she does things. There really is a distinct difference between the girl and the boy Huskies.

Happy Birthday, Mishka! You were the cutest puppy and are now a most beautiful young lady!

Thank you so much Amy! I bought her for her birthday, 5 new pieces of sod to cover the hole she and Kohdi dug in the lawn...hope she likes it!! hahaha

Here are a few pics I took this morning (Iphone, sorry...I hate how dark the iphone make their coats) anyways, she looks so pretty, shes sitting up in a planter thats about 3 or so ft off the ground, haha...lil princess likes to be high up to observe the peasants i guess, lol





and a random pic this morning of Kohdi and Mishka trying to steal my shoe...with my foot still in it  

Jimmy - you just about made me spit out my coffee I laughed so hard with the birthday sod I'm about to find out how much grass I have to replace this spring...the snow is melting rapidly. I sincerely hope it is not as bad as I fear

She's a lovely princess - and picks a spot befitting her status. My prince on the other hand likes to sit perched on the full compost bay...

LOL love the shoe stealers, great pictures

amymeme wrote:

Jimmy - you just about made me spit out my coffee I laughed so hard with the birthday sod   I'm about to find out how much grass I have to replace this spring...the snow is melting rapidly.  I sincerely hope it is not as bad as I fear

She's a lovely princess - and picks a spot befitting her status.  My prince on the other hand likes to sit perched on the full compost bay...

LOL Amy I admit, I'm an awful person, hahaha. But I do love these two

And I feel your pain, this sod isn't cheap! I have a question for you though...before the snow and ice starts, do you do anything as far as preparing your gardens for the winter? The reason I ask is because there is a house here in the neighborhood where, at Christmas, in preparation for their children and grandchildren, have snow brought in so they will experience a White Christmas. Before the snow arrives though, they cover the yard in straw, to protect the lawn and plants. It seems to work. Just wondered if it would work in a region where it's not just a couple days of snow sitting on the yard and gets snow repeatedly for a few months.

I'm sure your prince looks stunning on his perch

GravityM wrote:

LOL  love the shoe stealers, great pictures

Hahaha, thanks J! Kohdi has done this since he was a puppy, I think it's even in his first few pics in his scrapbook, haha, but this morning was the first time Mishka got in on it. It's normal on a weekend morning for me to go outside with them while they play, run around etc. but they love when I'm home, so I guess they wanted to include me in their playtime today, haha

We don't have to do anything to protect the lawn from winter - northern grasses are adapted to the cold. Also, the cold comes on gradually, not abruptly (well, sort of ).

As for plants - depending on the hardiness of the plant, some plants can benefit with an application of mulch. We have a really wet soil here so I don't tend to do much in winter - too much mulch would lead to crown rot. The thing that kills my plants, besides crown rot, is when we have a warm up in January for a few days into the 50's followed by an overnight low plummeting into the single digits or below - especially if it's a woody plant with full southern exposure and is not covered by snow. The sun and warm temperatures fool the plant (usually roses and fruit trees into thinking its spring so the break dormancy. Then the deep cold causes the sap to freeze and explodes the bark. Otherwise, deep snow cover acts as its own mulch and protects plants from rapid temperature fluctuations.

Most of my plant losses in winter have been to deer and rabbits. And I now have a solution to that! It just comes with the occasional crater in the lawn...

Ami looks like a sphinx sitting on top of the compost. Until he gets up and has used coffee grounds and onion skins hanging from his belly Once warm weather is here and the compost is thawed, I will straighten the sides and add a cover. There's some stuff in there they should not be eating. For now, I've been throwing it out with the trash.

Ahhhh, ok Amy, I thought your lawn damage was due to the snow cover...not the "cost" to keep the bunnies and deer out, LOL. Too cute

I get crown rot sometimes too, only mine comes from mulching to help conserve water...sometimes the mulch does too good a job of keeping the moisture in, haha...I just have to remember to keep the mulch a few inches away from the stem/trunk of whatever plant.


This was Mishka's perch this morning on our hike...I love the way she formed her body to the rock form, haha. Several hikers took their own pics of her there, lol...they said it was too cute.

Lol, the lil princess on her perch. Love it...Fantastic pics Jimmy!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Renee!!! Mishka LOVES her perches.

I know, I know, I know...I post wayyyyyy too much...but...these two amuse me so much 'k, this afternoon, after resting from their hikes, Kohdi and Mishka went outside to chill...Kohdi has a ball, its actually Mishka's ball and she's trying to be all slick and get it back from him.

Mishka: "Kohdi doesn't see me...Im a plant "


"'k, now's my chance...he doesnt suspect a thing "


"I'll just cover his eyes so he thinks he's sleeping and.....voila!! the ball shall be mine.

Some more Mishka mountain pics I took this morning...she looks so pretty

Ahh, forgot to put this in...Mishka LOVES to climb the big boulders and find a comfortable place to rest and  kinda just look around at all thats going on around her...she found a cool boulder to lay down on and I was at the foot of it kinda looking around. I see just a few feet from me what *looked* like a skin that a snake had shed, it *seemed* kinda clear but had that shimmer to it and it looked like it was all intact so I bent down to get a closer look and...a snake was still in that skin!!! a rattler too!!! didnt look happy either!! so I took a pic, LOLOL, and then very carefully got Mishka and myself the hell outta there. Heres the pic...notice the pissy face, LOL

 
and one more pic of Mishka on one of her boulders

Nice diamond back, luckily you noticed it was alive ahh! Lol Mishka is so cute sitting on her boulders