Views from my Yard

Over a foot of new snow today. It sure does look pretty against the clear blue sky. Another few hours of shoveling and packing dog paths around the yard with my snowshoes. They really have come in handy this year! Notice the pictures of my 5 foot dog fence. I'm getting worried that soon they will just be able to hop over to the other side. I don't know where we will put any more. Well... off to play outside :)

Here We Go AGAIN!!

 

Ughhhh!! ENOUGH already!!

Tuesday....

From Collages

This morning we woke up to a couple more inches of snow...as the saying goes "just a dusting". I received an email from my neighbor Shawn detailing the antics of her youngest Golden, Dante, during our last few bone chilling days...as follows:

I’m convinced that Dante is actually a goat…..in the last few days he’s eaten the following:



Rudy’s muzzle (nylon no bite muzzle) – he ate all of it except the plastic buckles. Gone.

3 rotten bananas that I was going to make banana bread with (yes they were on the counter) – peel and all. Gone

My sponge in the kitchen sink (yup – it was on the sink)

5 candy canes of which he let Rudy have a few bites

1 ink pen (yes the ink evidence is on his right front leg) – busted.

2 pencils

After I stopped laughing, I invited him to join our snowshoeing adventure today and he happily accepted. With warmer temps today, I hoped to drain energy out of a few other dogs also. Well... my dogs are quietly lying around my desk as I type this blog... I hope Dante is doing the same at his house :)

OUCH!!

 

 

Second snowstorm this week... at least this one is light and fluffy. We're supposed to leave for Maine later on, but first we need to plow more snow. Oh well... a few more calories burned. The bad thing is that it's really hard for the dogs to walk... especially with the layer of ice on top of the deep snow that we already have which is not really thick enough to hold their weight. The snowshoeing has been difficult because I've been breaking thru ice. Maybe this snow will pack on top of everything and be a better surface. If this keeps up we'll be digging tunnels :)

Ice, Ice...Baby

Yesterday... 7 inches of snow... then it started to rain and drizzle. Lee's in Germany and plowing and shoveling started around noon and I finally came in at 2:30 because I was soaked and freezing. I felt like an icicle. Helped Shawn do part of her driveway as her snow blower is in the shop and she was shoveling. Went back out around 4 to shovel around the dog door and a path to the woods for the dogs. They can't even walk in the stuff because there is a crust of ice that they break thru. Luckily the drizzle stopped in time so that the ice on all the trees didn't do any damage and we didn't lose power.
Going out this morning to pack some paths for the dogs with my snowshoes. Hopefully the sun will melt it all in the next couple of days. More snow on the way for Friday... Yikes!!!

Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland

 

What a beautiful morning... sun shining, sky bright blue. Dogs were whining to go out and play, so off we went down the trail with them bounding ahead. Soon, though, I was in the lead... too much work for them to cut the trail in the deep snow. So there we were me, followed by a pack of 4 dogs all in a line trailing behind. After about two miles... downhill on the way out, but uphill on the way back... my legs had had enough for today. We'll pack more trail tomorrow. What a workout!!!

Winter Wonderland

We had a "real" snow day yesterday. Bose was closed, my agility class was cancelled and we just stayed home and watched the snow fly. That is... until we had to go move about 18-20 inches of the stuff. Boy... my aching back. It sure does look pretty, crisp and white. I'll don my snowshoes today and venture out with the dogs to pack a path in the woods. Yesterday they had to leap like rabbits to get anywhere. Stay tuned....

Holidays 2010

We had a great holiday week in Maine again this year. We are so grateful that we got to spend time with family and friends.... eat good food, play games, hear some great music and sit by a roaring fire and watch the snow fall. We took some long walks with the dogs and even got to do some trail walking on our snowshoes after the storm. It was truly a relaxing vacation!!