poppyonparade (2024)

26/06/2024

Poppy x Poppies 2024

I was trying to do something artsy but Poppy was not in the mood for looking at the camera so this is the best we’re gonna get 😅

21/06/2024

The last light of the longest day ☀️

16/05/2024

Gotta love patio season ☀️

It’s Poppy’s SEVENTH gotcha day today! Unfortunately the weather today isn’t as nice as it was on the day I took this photo, but she’ll be getting a nice chew to celebrate!

I can’t believe it’s been 7 years already. She’s brought so much joy and fun into our lives that the time just few by!

08/03/2023

It snowed a couple weeks ago and I’m only just now getting around to posting the photos. I like the pics we got though so who cares?

Poppy’s out here looking like she just stepped into Narnia. Pretty safe to say she wouldn’t sell us out for Turkish Delight. A piece of steak on the other hand…

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Image description: a gold and white village dog in a blue coat stands on a snowy trail in the forest.
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23/02/2023

We had the day off on Monday so we went on a little hike! It’s been a while since we’ve been out in the woods and I missed it. Poppy was great off-leash as well! It brings me a ton of joy to see all of the training we’ve done pay off and I’m really proud of the dog she is today 🥰
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Image description: a gold and white village dog in a purple and gray jacket and teal harness stands on a wet rocky trail. There is lush green plant life flanking her on both sides.

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10/01/2023

Poppy had a surgery to remove a lump on her leg last week, and got four stitches. It turned out to be a benign follicular cyst, (yay!) but she hasn’t been allowed to have beach time while the she heals.

So here she is at the beach the day before her surgery. I can’t wait to bring her back after her stitches are out!
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Image description: a gold and white village dog in a teal harness stands on the sand looking up at the camera.

10/01/2023

Do you ever wonder why Garfield hates Mondays so much? He’s a cat. He doesn’t have a job. My theory is it’s because he misses Jon when he goes to work 🥺

Anyway here’s Poppy embodying that Monday mood. I wish I were snuggling in bed with you too, kid.
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Image description: a gold and white dog sitting on a light blue couch, wrapped in a pink blanket with orange dogs on it. She looks at the camera with a slightly grumpy expression.
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07/01/2023

Little dog, big world 🌲

I need to pull a zillion photos off my camera and edit them, so for now, here’s a photo from our trip to Vancouver Island over the summer. There’s nothing like an afternoon spent under the trees.🌲
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02/01/2023

I can’t believe 2022 is over! It feels like a lot of the fun things we did this year happened SO long ago. I think this year one of my New Year’s resolution is definitely to take some more time to enjoy the amazing place we live!

What are your New Year’s resolutions for 2023?

31/12/2022

A few days before Christmas it snowed a TON. It was mostly gone by Christmas Day, but I’m glad we got out to play in it a little bit before then.

Poppy isn’t a huge fan of the cold. But she does think snow is fun (especially in her warmest jacket, thanks !) She was quite amused when she discovered there was sand under the snow on the beach here (the zoomies abounded) 😂⁣

26/12/2022

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄

We haven’t been around much on Instagram lately but I couldn’t let the holidays pass without popping in to wish you all a wonderful end to the year.

What did your pups get for Christmas? Don’t tell Poppy, but she got a bully stick, and an old ball that has been in a drawer for the last 6 months 😅 What did your dogs get?

17/11/2022

I don’t know how this can possibly be comfortable but she seems pretty happy with this arrangement ☺️
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14/11/2022

Another cold, windy, rainy walk from last weekend. I swear, Poppy is the best sport for being up to going out when the weather is less than ideal. Of course the sun came out 10 minutes after we decided to be done, but we had a nice rainbow to look at on the drive home. (Although now that I think about it, I’m not very sure how well dogs can even perceive rainbows 🤔)

We saw some cool birds when we were out, some hawks and (I think) a golden eagle! You’ll just have to take my word for it though because as good as my phone camera is, I couldn’t get great video of the birds.

Thanks for the fun trail!
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13/11/2022

Work’s been a bit busy so I haven’t had the same amount of downtime to draft Instagram posts 😅 We’re still out here going on hikes rain or shine! (Mostly rain. It is Vancouver after all)

Here’s a few pics from one of our hikes! It was a ton of fun even though it was super wet out. The hike was gorgeous and peaceful. Poppy didn’t love how wet it was, but I think we all still had a good time despite that.
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Image 1 description: A wet gold and white dog with pointy ears in a blue and white raincoat stands on a log in a forest

Image 2 description: a woman in a yellow raincoat and a gold and white dog standing in front of her on a log pose on a beach in front of a view of a small island.

Image 3 description: a green “finisher badge” for the Belcarra leg of the dogs and trails challenge.
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04/11/2022

I’m a bit behind on posting about our trail challenge, but we’re still working our way through those hikes! A couple of weekends ago we decided to do the Spanish Banks trail! When we visit we almost always do the adjacent beach instead of the trails through Pacific Spirit Park mostly because Poppy *loves* the beach so much. It was a fun change of pace to go through the forest this time! We got to hike with Poppy off leash and she was a model citizen. Super fun trail, we’ll for sure be coming back soon! 🌲
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13/10/2022

A smattering of photos from our last adventure at Crescent Beach in Surrey!

The beach is Poppy’s happy place so she was thrilled she got a little time to play and swim at the dog beach before our walk on the trail. We also stopped at this lovely community garden that had some gorgeous blooms!
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05/10/2022

I don’t know if anybody appreciates a hotel bed as much as Poppy does. 🏨

From our trip to Victoria back in July!
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Image description: a woman laying under the fluffy hotel covers pats the belly of a gold and white village dog who is laying belly up in front of her.

27/09/2022

I have a bunch of photos of Poppy from behind that I’ve never posted, mostly because pictures of dog butts don’t usually do very well on this app for some reason…🤔😂

I figure, since my photo posts right now aren’t doing very well anyway, I might as well take the opportunity to post some of them 😝

This one is from a little over year ago when we were living in California. It was always a blast seeing her investigate the world on her own terms. I still miss this place so much, Poppy grew a lot behavior-wise at this beach and I hope we can take her back again one day.
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Image description: a gold and yellow dog, seen from behind, walking purposefully towards a shrubbery with small yellow flowers on an overcast day. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

23/09/2022

A bit late with this post, but week two of the Dogs and Trails 10 Trail Challenge brought us to Burnaby Lake Park! It was a great day for the 10 km walk around the lake!

Can’t wait to see where week 3 takes us!
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14/09/2022

The 10 Trail Challenge started this week and the first trail was the Iona Jetty! It was very smoky when we went, so we didn’t have a great view over the water, but we could see a bunch of cool shorebirds, and Poppy had a good time on the off-leash section of the trail! I’ve been on a clearest day and it’s a great spot for birding and the other trail at the park is fun to explore as well!

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Image description: a gold and white dog with pointy ears faces the camera. She is panting while taking a step forward on a gravel path.

Image 2: the completion badge for the Iona beach trail of chill and thrill 10 trail challenge. The image is pink and features a coffee cup with trees and mountains coming out of the top and the silhouette of a dog running on the side of the cup.
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08/09/2022

Where’s that squirrel? 🐿

Even though Poppy has literally never caught a squirrel (as far as I know), she always tries her hardest anyway. I kinda admire that about her.

We’ve got some fun things coming up! We’re doing the Vancouver hiking challenge, and I enrolled us in wilderness tracking classes! Tracking is something we were doing pre-California like 4 years ago. Hopefully Poppy’s still got it!

Is there anything you’re excited about on the horizon?
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Image description: a gold and white village dog in a teal harness, facing away from the camera, stands looking alertly to the right, with her paws up on the base of a moss-covered tree.
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03/09/2022

When we first got Poppy when she was 8-9 months old she’d sometimes just randomly start playing tug with her leash. I know it’s one of those behaviors people think is “bad”/undesirable but it was one of those cute puppyish traits that I thought I’d miss if I trained it out of her.

Fast forward 6 years, and she still does it. Not as often as she did when she was a puppy, but I still think it’s endearing and I’m glad I let her keep doing it 😅

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Image Description: a woman in a yellow goretex jacket and dark red yoga pants uses a leash to play tug with a gold and white village dog in lush green grass.
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23/08/2022

On our last day in Victoria last month, we changed our ferry sailing just so we’d have time to do this hike. Learned about it from the book by and it was absolutely worth it for these views alone. 🥾
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Image Description: a gold and white village dog stands with her front paws up on a rock in front of a view of Finlayson Arm; a Fjord with tree covered peaks on either side.
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09/08/2022

Finally started going through the photos from our trip to Vancouver Island a couple of weeks ago! We had a great time going on hikes and visiting some of the coolest beaches we’ve ever been to. Poppy was also a gem the whole time and I love the fact that we can take her on trips like this.

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Image description: Poppy, a gold and white village dog stands next to a tree with her front paws up on a mound of roots. She is looking to the left with a bright and inquisitive expression.
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02/08/2022

Have you ever watched a cartoon and wondered ”how did get to where it is today?” If so, this post is for you! This week as part of I’m going to talk about ✨the wonderful world of animation! ✨

Animation as we know it today got its start in the 1830s with the invention of devices like William George Horner’s Zoetrope; a spinning drum with a series of images that appear to move when you look at it through the slits on the side.

It wasn’t until 1906 however that hand-drawn animation as a film medium became a thing. A filmmaker named J Stuart Blackton created a series of short animated films called “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” and the medium of animation was born!

So how does our friend Mickey Mouse fit into all this?

Well, we wouldn’t have the Mouse if it weren’t for a little black cat named Felix. An animator named Otto Messmer invented Felix the Cat who’s expressive face and rubber ball body with limbs was not only easy to draw, but he was also incredibly popular. Walt Disney, who, at the time was working at his Laugh-O-Gram studio in Kansas noticed this and created his own character, Julius the Cat, which was essentially a copy of Felix. Disney eventually abandoned Julius for a more original character called. “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.” Eventually Walt Disney ended up losing the rights to Oswald, so Walt ended up just changing the ears and Mickey Mouse was born!

So how do you make an animation?

Originally, animation was done by showing a series of drawing and playing them at a speed that would register the drawings as movement. If you’ve ever made a flipbook, its the same principle. Nowadays animation has spread into more styles like CG animation. Artists will model a character in 3D on the computer, give it a “skeleton,” and an animator will move that skeleton around to make that character move!

Animation is such a cool topic that I had a hard time covering in one instagram post, but if you have any questions feel free to ask! I’ve worked in animation for while now and its a very cool job!

19/07/2022

Tried the Chief for the first time a couple weeks ago! Poppy always finds stairs pretty exciting and fun, so naturally it was right up her alley. It was eerie and beautiful in that PNW way and we had a great time.

It was very foggy when we went so we missed out on the views, and we didn’t make it *quite* to the top because we weren’t sure about the ladder near the summit + dog combo, but I can’t wait to try it again on a clearer day when we have a better way of getting Poppy up.

I kind of love going out when the weather kind of sucks though. It’s quieter out, and I can take my time looking at the way rain drips down the moss on a boulder, and trying to identify birds, and Poppy can do all the sniffing she likes.
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22/06/2022

Hi everyone! It been a while since I’ve posted here, so here’s an old photo from when we visited a sniffspot a couple months ago.

Life got a little overwhelming for a little bit. I started a new job that is in office 3/5 days of the work week. I really miss working from home every day with Poppy hanging out on the couch behind me, booping me every time I hang up on zoom calls, but the new job is exciting and I’m hoping it’ll be a good career move. 🤞🏽

Other than that, we’ve been going to the beach a lot, Poppy’s been trying to make new human friends, and we’re starting to explore new places.

Anyway what have you all been up to? Tell me what’s going on with you!

25/05/2022

Poppy x Poppies 2022 🌼

I started taking a photo of Poppy with her namesake flower every spring once we moved to California because I really loved that almost neon shade orange the California Poppies are. They sprouted in some of the most unexpected places, and I always loved stumbling upon them when I took Poppy on our daily ambles along the Bay Trail.

Vancouver doesn’t really have wild poppies, at least not where we usually walk, but there are a few little gardens where someone planted some poppies and I couldn’t resist adding to the collection. I don’t love the yellow quite as much as the vibrant orange, but it’ll do in a pinch. Maybe I’ll plant some for next year!

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Image description: a gold and white village dog sits next to some yellow poppies.
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18/05/2022

Always looking at everything except the camera 📸

17/05/2022

Yesterday was Poppy’s 5th adoptiversary! Happy gotcha day bitty baby! 🎈

Every year I think I can’t possibly love this dog more but every year I prove myself wrong. She’s the best dog I know and I’m so happy we somehow ended up together. 🥰

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