I have had trouble lately knowing what to say on this blog! Unfair since I devour others' blogs regularly and always enjoy hearing even banal day to day doings. Heh, I typo'd banal and left off the "b". I went ahead and fixed that to avoid unnecessary googling.
Did I tell you bunch that I'm volunteering at the Humane Society? It's just up the road from work, a benefit to being located at the north end of town. My work buddy and I head out every day at noon and get a couple mutts to walk around with for about half an hour, then we head back out to the office. This has multiple benefits:
1. I'm finally actually volunteering! It has been a while since I could say that.
2. I get out every day in the most daylit part of the day, good for vitamin D and mental health as we continue to lose light every day.
3. It gives me a dose of dogs hen I can't have one myself at home. Soooooo nice.
4. The dogs love it, they get out, they get personal attention, they get socialized which helps them get adopted, and if they were abuse or abandoned, they get one more good human experience to counteract their previous experiences.
5. My buddy is going to adopt one (then maybe another) of some of our faves! Vicarious success!
6. I get exercise myself, AND out of the office. Every day. So good.
The Humane Society up here as established from an estate donation, and it's the only no-kill shelter north of 60. I found out that one of my favourite dogs to walk is not up for adoption because he's only on loan, sort or. It turns out the humane soc. has a deal with one of the emergency women's shelters, so they'll take in the pets of women who have had to flee home on very short notice. The pets are cared for then returned when the women are able to care for them again. I can only imagine how important it would be to have the unconditional love of your own pet. So they do good work.
The humane society will be my charity donation this year. Go humane society!
Sooooo, what else? Today is the annual Spruce Bog craft fair for locally made goods and I'm heading out with Christmas on the mind. I have no idea how expensive it might be, of what will be there, or what...hopefully it's cool and affordable!
Tomorrow I head out to volunteer on a dog mushing race, which include kid races, a 'pet dog race" (i.e. dog with NO mushing experience or breeding, and ski-jouring, where someone gets kitted up for cross country skiing then straps a dog on and flies down the trail. Should be interesting..plus it's sponsored by the local brewing company as well as the local Arctic Char fish hatchery so we'll see what happens!
Back soon..with pictures! It's been -20 and it looks like we live in a snow globe at the moment. Beautiful.
1 comment:
I'm so happy about your dog walking. It sounds like something that makes you happy and gets you out of the office during the day. Seeing daylight during the winter is hard enough here, I can only imagine what it's like up there. Good for you!
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