Yep, Christmas has just past, and yesterday was the New Year…but I’m ready for Spring.
Very ready!
Temps were -10* this morning with -18* for tomorrow….this is what I HATE about winter…the bitter cold.
But, my mailbox is filling up
I sit dreaming about warmth, vibrant plants and flowers… Where I’m going to put them and how they are going to look.
Then what I’m going to do with them after they come into their own.
Hooray for SEED Catalogs!
Linda
It’s cold here…12*, but still dogs need to walk, and I need to walk, and the little kids like to get out of the house.
While coming back from the upper end masses of Sand Hill Cranes flew overhead….
My still shot was not very good, but at least you can hear their sound.
Linda
Your magic thoughts worked!
Thank you EVERYONE!
All shelter dogs were adopted BEFORE CHRISTMAS!!!!!
Diamond went to her forever family on Thursday, the week before Christmas day, then Zeus found and home and next Athena. No one is left to worry about living in the shelter. Everyone safe and sound in new forever homes!
Fuzzy and I THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
But now I, Boomer, would ask a very special favor of each one of you, for my bestest friend and forever buddy, Fuzzy.
Fuzzy is hurt.
Well, not hurt, but not sick either.
But he is well, in pain.
Fuzzy has a sebaceous cyst; he has had it for a very long time, long before I came to live with Fuzzy, Mom, Dad, the cats and chickens. But Fuzzy’s sebaceous cyst has started to enlarge and now Fuzzy can’t walk. It hurts him. He hobbles along and then has to sit down.
I’m very worried about him.
Fuzzy is my bestest everything. We do EVERYTHING together, but now, when I ask, Fuzzy says he doesn’t want to right now, maybe later.
He then lies down again.
He is also very restless, up-down-up-down.
Mom took him to the Veterinarian; the sebaceous cyst is causing the problem. Sometime soon-in little over a week on January the 7th, Fuzzy has to go to the hospital and have it removed. The operation is a very simple procedure, but Fuzzy is old.
Please send all your magic thoughts to Fuzzy that he makes it through the operation and comes home to me and we can play and run and chase birds.
That together we can bark the mailman down the road and go for long walks with Hank, Shannon’s dogs and any shelter dogs who need walking.
I will really appreciate it! (And so will Fuzzy)
Boomer
What a wonderful couple of days….full of food, family and gifts. My brother and his wife stopped by on their way to sunny California, their car was full of gifts for us. A complete surprise and much enjoyed.
The snow we had is melting down here, but in the mountains it looks like it is staying. As I write this we are in another winter storm watch…Terry and I agree we will take it if it means snow in the mountains.
Our soon-to-be daughter-in-law arrived last night from Grand Cash, Alberta, Canada for a week of visits. She said we are much warmer here. 🙂
Hope your holidays were wonderful. I’m off to visit your blogs now and then back to packing up all my Christmas decorations.
We are heading toward 2013… Boy, does time fly!
Linda
Today is December 21, 2012, the end of the Mayan Calendar….it is also our Mom and Dad’s 45th Wedding anniversary!
Sunrise 7:27 a.m. and Sunset 4:54 p.m. Day length 9 hours and 27 minutes—same as yesterday.
Anyway…You want to know what is so funny?!
THIS!
Bahahahah, laugh, snort, chortle, giggle, and snigger…roll on the ground funny!
We about broke open our sides we were laughing so hard.
Houston, Rocky and Balou just stared at us…they told us not to knock until we tried it.
BAHAAH, it still was funny!
Then Houston, told us in her warm, sweet voice…that they always get to go to town now, with the hats and coats on they don’t get cold and stay warm. And they get to go walk the shelter dogs in town because they can stay warm.
“So there”, glared Rock and Balou.
That was okay by us…we both rolled in the grass laughing it was just so funny.
Then Shannon showed back up with the shelter dogs and….
AND
!* AND*!
THESE!!!
Mom made us put them on and wear them BACK TO TOWN, where everyone saw us!
I, the Fuzzy Dude, cow dog extraordinaire in THIS!!!! Boy, as soon as we got to the park I rubbed mine off. But Mom put it back on the second we got back into the truck.
Sigh!
“Mine felt really good!” I, the Boom, kept them all on and even kept the coat on after we got back home!!!
Getting back in the house was the best. Those things came off and we could rest.
Fuzzy and Boomer
The dogs and I walked around the place yesterday, just for the fun of it.
Just to get out of the house and ‘do’ something.
Although, we were in a winter storm warning and I could see weather all around us, we were not being effected.
But I could see it coming in.
Then it hit….
Bitter cold wind, gusting to over 30 m.p.h. all most all of the night and still going strong. Not much snow, but the snow we have is flying all over the place.
Terry had been working on the ditch, but this took the farming urge right out of him 🙂
Took the need to get outside and ‘do’ something different right out of the dogs and I!
Of course the cats don’t ever really like to go outside anyway.
I think it will leave here sometime late this evening with temperatures falling way, way below zero.
Baby, it’s cold outside! (By Frank Sinatra and Doris Day, of course, although, I know many others have also sang this song.)
Linda
Yesterday a very brisk, cold wind blew the clouds out of the way, leaving us with a very, VERY crisp day.
This morning we are in another winter weather storm watch.
BUT…look at this!!!
As the wind was blowing one storm away from us I saw an extremely rare site.
(At least for me in this part of the world)
A winter rainbow in the west…
I was extremely trilled!
Linda
I’m getting a tad tired of all the clouds
Although, there is snow on the mountains and around us.
Dreary is well….dreary!
But today…this morning…I CAN SEE SOME SUN…so I’m heading out for a walk.
Happy Monday!!!
Linda
Grandpa came out to meet us on our daily walk
What more can a Grandparent ask for?
Linda
Alas, our above normal December temperatures have fallen to ‘normal’.
This is the high yesterday. Which really was much colder as we had a sharp wind with the cold, so the wind chill needed to be factored in.
Even as cold as this was Fuzzy wanted to stay outside, although Boomer didn’t.
Sam didn’t stay in much either, preferring the outdoors, then sitting by the wood stove when he came in, then back out he would go.
Monkey, made a wild dash out the door, only once,
When I went out to do something.
This is what I saw when I came back.
Although, I know cold is relative, this is cold to us
The temperature when I got up today.
And it will only get worse as the days wind down to the solstice on December 21st.
Will that be the end of the world?!?!?
I have know idea.
I do know that after the solstice, the days will start to grow longer again and the temperatures even colder and colder until we hit March.
Which seems like a very long time from now.
Oh, well. Cold like this is really hard on the bugs, which can be a good thing next summer!
Linda
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