Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Trail Blazers

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Last Saturday afternoon it started snowing and it snowed all afternoon and well into the night.

You may remember poor little Beauregard did NOT want to go out in the snow without his jacket. 🙁

I don't care what you offer me, I ain't goin.

I don’t care what you offer me, I ain’t goin.

 

Sunday morning when we got up we realized we’d had between 8 to 10 inches.  The dogs didn’t care, they still wanted their walk so I threw on my snow pants and headed out.

Hubby was already outside blowing snow.

Good thing, because the car got stuck in all that deep, wet, snow that the plow deposits at the end of the driveway.

Yeah, that's the snow blower from the driver's window.

Yeah, that’s the snow blower from the driver’s window.

 

The dogs couldn’t wait to race through the snow, but I was slightly intimidated by the sight that met my eyes.

That's a lot of snow to plod through.

That’s a lot of snow to plod through.

 

While we weren’t the first ones to explore the fresh snow, the going was still tough.  I’d forgotten how hard it is walking through deep snow.

It took me twice as long to do one loop as it usually takes me to do two.  I was sweating pretty good when I was done, but the dogs were loving it.

Oh I love the snow!!

Oh I love the snow!!

Sampson

Come on in mom, the water’s snow is fine.

Up to our necks

This is fun, can we do this again?

Thankfully many feet have been walking the trails this past week and the going is much easier.

Heart Like a Dog Lesson: Take time to do something fun, like play in the snow.

Are you a trailblazer? Or are you like me and prefer to have someone else do the work? 😉

Dogs in Blankets

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Before I gave up pork, I used to love those little wienies wrapped in dough.  We call them pigs in a blanket.  One would assume that pigs in a blanket are implying the hotdogs are made of pork.  That might be true but that’s not why I don’t eat hotdogs.  It all has to do with my son-in-law and how he refers to them, but that’s an entirely different post.

Since I don’t get my pigs in a blanket anymore, it seems I need to get my blanket fix in other ways.

Am I the only one who loves to cuddle up with their dogs under a blanket?

My problem is my dogs rarely (if ever) cuddle up under the blankets with me, which is why when opportunity knocks…

They laid down on the floor, so I laid down with them.

 

Hubby came in and snapped the photo.

It was just as well, since they wouldn’t snuggle anyway.

I satisfy myself by covering them up every opportunity I get.

When I catch Delilah all snug on my pillow, and I’m ready for bed, I’ll look at her and say, “Who’s in my spot?  Are you in my spot?”

She dips her head down and wag her tails and then I lift the covers, shift her a bit and slip in beside her.  I rest her head on my lap and I stroke her head and her silky ears. Sometimes we can stay that way for twenty minutes or so.

On the flip side, Sampson usually lies at the bottom of the bed when we’re not all in it together. Yes, he’s the one that will lay at the bottom of the bed and allow me to cover him up.

He tends to like to cuddle in the middle of the night.  Like when I’m sleeping.

At bedtime we shift him up from his position near the bottom of the bed to the top so he can lie between us.

On a cool night he will stay there, cuddled up against one of us, always willing to accept our strokes of love, if we can’t sleep or if we wake up during the night.

Many’s the night I’ve awoken to find his head on my stomach or shoulder.  Those are the nights I go back to sleep the quickest. 🙂

Do you have cuddlers or are you like me, having to sneak it whenever you can?

Thank You

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Exactly two years ago today, I sat down and started this blog.

The premise was derived from the movie, Julie and Julia, (without the cooking.)  Don’t get me wrong, I love cooking but for me the idea was more about writing.

My goal was to write a blog post every single day for one year to improve my writing and eventually achieve the status of published author.

It’s still my goal today. (Well not so much the writing every day part.)

My first post, was really pretty lame. At the time I started it, I had no idea what I would write on a daily basis, quite truthfully I really wasn’t even sure what a blog was.

In fact, I didn’t have a tag line for at least a couple of months, my header simply said Jodi Stone.  It wasn’t until one of my two readers suggested a tag line that I added, “Life with Sampson and Delilah.”

My first two days didn’t have titles, I just called them day one and day two.

I didn’t know what tags were (maybe I still don’t) in fact I didn’t tag anything until more than two months into my challenge.

I didn’t know how to get readers, what a blog hop was, how a blog hop worked, what the code was or how to get it to work on my blog.

Well I think you’re getting the idea, I basically knew nothing at all about blogging.

Well, as you can tell, I’ve learned a few things. The biggest thing I’ve learned is it’s not just about writing, it’s about the interaction with my readers and the friendships and relationships I’ve made.

I completed my goal that first year, (except for one day when my granddaughter was born and that’s because I just forgot) and then I found myself committing to another full year of blogging.

Well today dear friends and family, today I completed THAT goal.  Two full years of blogging every day.

And I couldn’t have done it without every single one of you. Your friendship and support mean so very much to me, and I just want to say thank you.

Thank you for reading, thank you for commenting and thank you for all the other ways you show me how much you care.

A few of my favorite pictures. 🙂

Have a great weekend!

 

 

 

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