Heart Like a Dog

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

Tracking Spring

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Isn’t it strange how we never really notice the leaves on the trees? I asked Hubby the other day.  I mean, you see the little buds one day and the next thing you know, Shazam, there are leaves on the trees.

Sure enough a couple of days later I’m driving down my street and I notice some trees have their leaves!

When the hell did that happen? I thought.

I better start paying attention I told myself, otherwise I’m going to miss this amazing transformation entirely.

I made sure to be observant as I walked the dogs on Sunday.

Yellow Flowers

The first thing I noticed was the little yellow flowers. I don’t know what they are called, I’m pretty sure they’re not Forsythia.

Trees

I also noticed a few trees on the edge of the field were beginning to sprout, but I avoided the area because last week when we walked over there, the bumble bees were out in force.  While I’ve been told they don’t sting as aggressively or hurt as much as yellow jackets, I prefer not to find that out for myself.

Sunday Sunday

I scoured the woods on our walk searching for a tree with buds and finally right near the top of the trail I spied it!

Monday Monday

I decided I’m tracking spring this year.  I took a picture of the bud on Sunday and then another one yesterday.  This year I’m not going to miss this beautiful transformation.

Delilah here:  This shit’s lame, I can’t believe she’s resorted to writing this dribble.  I mean really, dogs pay attention to these things without having to be told.  Do you not understand the beauty of this world we live in, are your lives so busy that you really need to be reminded to enjoy the beauty around you?

This is spring people, spring!  The time when the world wakes up from its winter nap, when everything is fresh and new, go out and use your nose!  Smell the air, smell the flowers, take some time to enjoy the rebirth of the land.

Now please excuse me, I have some Pee-Mail that requires my attention.

Peace out.

I Hear You Knocking

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One of my all time favorite author’s is Laura Ingalls Wilder.  I would read her books over and over again.  So you can imagine with this latest round of snow, I’m beginning to feel like I’m stuck in the middle of the Long Winter.  Except we’re not stranded on the prairie, relying on trains to bring us food, we’re not burning twisted straw to heat the house and we’re not eating just bread.

Okay, maybe the Long Winter is a bad analogy.

I just want to go on record as saying, I’m done with winter and I’m ready for spring.  Thursday afternoon it started snowing and it snowed until yesterday around 2 pm.  Twenty-four hours of snow.

Again.

This latest winter storm was named David.  Which coincidentally is the name of my favorite ex-husband. (Technically he’s my ex-work-husband but even still, I like him better than my real ex-husband.)

Sorry, I digress.

If I had to guess, I’d say we got at least another foot of snow.

Hubby cleared the driveway before leaving for work yesterday morning, but by the time I came home at night we had at least 8 inches of snow on it.

I gunned the car and stuck the landing but knew I’d never be able to get out or in again.  So Sampson, Delilah and I walked up to the park.

Our Park It wasn’t looking good from this vantage point.

I don't know I don’t know mom, it looks pretty deep.

Nope Nope, not going to happen.

If you like our page on facebook, you may have seen the video I put up of Delilah trying to get into the park.  (If you don’t like us, would you mind helping us out and popping over to click the like button?)

As we walked away I heard the park sing, “I hear you knocking, but you can’t come in.”

We had to be content with a walk about the neighborhood.

Rocks 1 Check out the cool boulders.  These are actually in someone’s front yard.

Sunset One of the benefits of a storm is the beautiful sunsets when it’s finally over.

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Snow Just to give you an idea of the snow accumulation.

We’re digging out again this weekend, what are your plans?

Longer Days

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I am loving the longer days!  If I hurry home from work we can squeeze a wood walk in before dinner.

Which is exactly what we did last night.

We’re not the only ones taking advantage of the longer days.  Last night we ran into a woman and her three dogs.  I’ve met this woman before and I actually wrote about her, but I couldn’t find that particular post.  She’s one of the people who wander the woods with her dogs and lets them wander wherever they want.

Hubby and I heard the woman before we saw her and her dogs.  We turned around to head away from them, but not before her dogs came charging up to Delilah.  Of course I dropped the leash and I was super proud of the way Delilah handled herself.

Despite one of the dogs barking in her face.

Yes, it’s true her hackles were up, but she retained her self-control and returned to me when I called her.

We looped around so we’d end up following the same path they took, except Sampson decided at the last-minute to head another way and guess who came running up to us again?

Her dogs were acting like they hadn’t been out all winter.  One of the dogs, a large white one really wanted to play, he actually jumped on Sampson’s back.  When he tried to play with Delilah she let him know in no uncertain terms that she didn’t want to play.

I was so busy worrying about Delilah and trying to prevent an altercation that I didn’t get any pictures of the other dogs.

But it was another beautiful sunset and I did get some photos of that.

IMG_4243 I tried to capture the orange of the sunset and finally got these by using the flash.

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IMG_4238 This was a zoomed in shot, hence the fuzziness.

  IMG_4234 Delilah moved (jerking my arm)  just as I snapped the photo, I think it looks cool even though it’s a little wonky.

 Are you and your furry friends enjoying the longer days?  Does your exercise routine change with the seasons?

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