Flowers and Feline Adventures

Written by Shell...

So, eager to get back with the flowers and keen to avoid becoming a Jackson lady who lunches, I spent a few days this week in a local florist shop to start learning how things are done over here. The shop is very cute and sells a range of gifts as well as cut flowers. Instead of having a flower stand, the flower buckets are dispersed stylishly in amongst the gifts, making the shop feel quite rustic and whimsical (although challenging for stock management!). And of course, no shop in Jackson would be complete without a trusty shop dog, in our case Jack greets every customer with a wagging tail and regularly pops into the gallery next door for some doggy treats! I seemed to have made a good impression as I’ve been asked back to work next week, and with Thanksgiving and the local Christmas light switch on in the town, I think we’re in for a busy week- I'll keep you all posted.

View from Snow King- half way up

Keen to keep up with the fitness buzz in the town, a friend and I took up the challenge of hiking our local mountain this week. Snow King, as it is known, looms over the south of the town. It’s a popular hiking route and is our closest ski/snowboard spot, with 2 chair lifts and several pretty steep runs. It was a hard hike (I blame the altitude!) and we only made it half way up but the view over the town was great. It’s a view that I’m sure we’re going to become very familiar with once the ski runs opens next week!

We also had our first run in with the local sheriff this week, but don’t panic, it was all the felines fault! We went round a friend’s house for dinner  and as we were waiting outside a lovely ginger cat, purring very loudly came up to us and started brushing at our legs, obviously very cold as it was about -15c. The cat was so loud and obviously upset, that we continued to hear her inside the house.

A warm night for the pussy cat

Thinking that she was probably an escaped pet, we called the out of hours number for the Animal Centre, and after a lot of baiting we managed to get the cat into a cage and agreed to meet someone at the Animal Centre with her. So there we were, in the dead of night at the Animal Centre with the cat riding shot gun in the Tundra and up pulls the local sheriff to save the day! After safely depositing the cat into his temporary, warm home, we couldn’t resist getting a photo with our hero, and trust me he wasn’t shy, even adding in the handcuffs for effect!! We hope the tabby cat gets returned to his owner soon!

 So there we go, just a standard Saturday night in Jackson Hole!