Simple Mathematics

March 10, 2013 By Jodi

Here’s a simple equation for a Sunday morning.

Jack ‘N Jill party on Saturday night + move the clocks ahead + sleep-in Sunday for the Mama = ?

If you answered, one bored, destructive lab give yourself a gold star!

I’m not really sure how, but I managed to sleep until just after nine o’clock this morning (hence the late post.) Since I really need a coffee and something to eat before I walk the dogs, I settled down on the couch to write my post and make sure I was awake.

Delilah was bored. (Never a good thing.)

This ball is evil, it must be destroyed.

So is this stuffed Frisbee.

There, the evil toys have been destroyed, you are safe now Mama. Please take us for our walk now.

Yes my sweet, I need to eat something first, walking through all that snow is exhausting.

How does your dog let you know what (s)he needs?

I Hear You Knocking

March 9, 2013 By Jodi

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 mom, it looks pretty deep.

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.

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

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

Just to give you an idea of the snow accumulation.

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

Longer Days

March 6, 2013 By Jodi

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.

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