Stay safe out there, everyone! Have you ever experienced heavy wildfire smoke in your area? Let me know down in the comments below!
Oh my goodness, you guys, Mother Nature had other plans for us today! I had this really great plan to set up the swimming pool and film a super fun pool video with the dogs, but we stepped outside and it is absolutely crazy out here. For those of you who might not know, we live in Northern Michigan, and right now we are getting hit with massive wildfire smoke coming down from Canada and northern Minnesota. It literally feels and smells like we are sitting right next to a campfire, except we aren't even camping! The air quality is in the dangerous zone today, so we can't stay outside for very long at all. After already dealing with two days of extreme heat where the dogs couldn't do much, this smoke means the pool video is officially on hold.
Since we are stuck pacing ourselves indoors, I wanted to film a quick little update to show you the smoke and answer some of the questions you’ve been leaving recently. We did a live stream last week and so many of you have been reaching out to ask how we are doing, how the dogs are holding up, and checking in on us since Memphis passed away about a month and a half ago. We are doing okay, I promise. Kira is starting to get a little bit of her spark back, she’s happy to see people when they come over and wants to play a bit more, which is so nice to see. Eleanor seems kind of oblivious to the whole thing, but she is doing really well too.
A lot of you also asked if Memphis is home yet. Yes, she is. We had her cremated, and her beautiful green urn is officially home inside with us. The next step is getting it put up on her shelf. I also want to let you know that I still have the footage from Memphis's very last camping trip, as well as a fun day trip I took with Eleanor. I am working on editing those, and they will be going up on the channel soon, it has just been a little bit difficult to sit down and edit them, as I'm sure you can all understand. Thank you all so much for checking in on our safety and for all of your incredible love and support!
💨Wildfire Smoke Air Quality Safety Tips for Dogs: - Keep outdoor time strictly limited to short bathroom breaks when AQI is high - Avoid strenuous exercise or play outdoors during heavy smoke conditions - Keep all house windows and doors closed to maintain indoor air quality - Watch for signs of respiratory distress like coughing, wheezing, or excessive panting
HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR DAY 💨 Stepping outside into a blanket of thick Canadian wildfire smoke 🏠 Checking in with an update on how Kira and Eleanor are adjusting 💚 Sharing a bittersweet update about bringing Memphis's green urn home 👁️ Revealing my epic fail at trying to clean up Kira's eye staining
Oh my goodness! You sure you want to go out here? Okay, here we go! This is crazy! Well friends,
guess what we're doing today? Guess what we're doing today? Can you guys see what we can see?
So to preface this, I had this really great plan to make a really fun swimming pool video
with the dogs today and Mother Nature has other plans. Can you guys see? So the day I'm filming
this is Wednesday. You guys will see this on Saturday. Hopefully by then, most of this will
have passed and gone over us. For those of you that may not know, we do live in Northern Michigan
and right now, Northern Michigan is getting massive wildfire smoke that is coming out of
Canada and Northern Minnesota and it hit us today and we are now in the dangerous air zone.
You're not supposed to stay outside for very long times, things like that. I mean honestly,
it kind of feels like we're camping right now because this feels like a campfire.
It's actually what it feels like. It feels like and smells like campfire which is kind of crazy.
What do you girls think? So we had two days of extreme heat and the dogs weren't able to come
outside and do a whole lot. So today I was going to film this super fun pool video and now we can't
stay outside for very long at all because we have crazy smoke. What do you think of this? I know
it's craziness, isn't it? So I thought instead I would kind of make a quick little video showing
you guys the wildfire smoke and answering a few questions that you guys have been leaving recently.
We did a live stream last week and a lot of you guys were asking you know about Memphis and how
we're doing and how the dogs are doing and everything because you know it's been what a
month and a half now and we're okay. The dogs are doing okay. I can tell that Kira's got a little
bit of her spark and her more she's happy to see people when they come over. She wants to play a
little bit more. She definitely seems to be a little bit more happy than she has been which
is nice. Eleanor, she seems kind of oblivious to the whole thing but she does seem to be doing
better as well which is also nice. Some of you have asked if Memphis is home yet. Yes,
if you guys do not know this we did have Memphis cremated and she is home. I have her urn inside
actually. I can insert a little clip of it right here. It's a beautiful green urn. I have not put
it up on the shelf yet. That is the next step in the things I need to do. Look at how crazy the
smoke is. My gosh and yes I do still have Memphis's last camping trip that I need to edit
and upload for you guys. It's just been a little bit difficult to do as I'm sure you can understand.
I also have a fun day trip I did with Eleanor to share with you guys as well so those will all be
going up soon but with the crazy weather we're having right now, the crazy day we're having
today with all the smoke and everything that's going on. I thought I had to at least update you
guys. This is just... and of course as always if you want to see more of our day-to-day lives and
things like this you can find us over at youtube.com slash snow dogs vlogs where we'll probably have
some vlogs of this. Right now it says this is going to last for two days. I mean the pool is
open. We could get in there. It would make a very interesting video but because we can't spend a
whole lot of time outside I don't think we're getting in the pool. I don't think that's what's
happening. What do you think? Yeah so like I said we really just wanted to do a quick little update
for you guys. Let you know we are doing okay. I know some of you have already reached out as of
this morning asking how we're doing with the wildfire smoke because as soon as things hit
the news you guys always tend to know. Those of you that know where we live you know up here in
northern Michigan you always tend to hit me with oh are you guys safe from this? Are you safe from
that? Are you safe from the cyclo-splo-lo-lo-lo thing that's going around? Yeah we're good. We're
good I promise. I promise we're good. That right there you can clearly see how thick the smoke is
in the air. Yeah so I don't want to keep these girls out here for too long because it's uh
it's a little smoky out here. We all smell like campfire which is weird and we're not even camping
so it's been very interesting. We're gonna keep this short because I don't want to spend a whole
bunch of time outside. If you guys have questions leave them down in the comments below. I'll do my
best to answer them as I can. We just wanted to check in and let everybody know we're okay.
Everything's okay. We're okay. Even though we are currently... we don't have a wildfire happening
but the wildfires that are happening are definitely impacting our house. So we thought we'd just do a
quick little update video for you guys. Oh and of course to tell you guys thank you so much for
everything. Oh and don't mind Kira's eye staining. Let me show let me show let me show them. I know
you're embarrassed. Let me show them. Let me show them. See she got a little eye staining happening
there and then I tried to clean it up and I just made it stain her fur worse. So we're gonna leave
that alone for now. So if you see her her little eye looks a little more yellow on one side. Yeah
it's totally my fault. Right? Totally my fault. Oh so yeah we're good. We're okay. Thank you guys
for understanding and sometimes the videos are just gonna be a little update video like this
because we are still dealing with everything that's been going on and then of course everything
else that's been going on. It's just one thing after another, huh Kira? She's like yeah a little crazy
out here. All right you guys we hope you enjoyed today's video. As always thanks so much for
watching. Thanks for subscribing. Stay positive. Dream big and we will see you again soon. I'm gonna
get these dogs inside and out of this smoky weather because this is a little bit crazy.
Goodbye Pawdience.