OMFG Brrrr!
Avoiding going outside as much as possible. It is down to 5 degrees. It has been a while since we’ve been down to single digits and it can stop any time now.
The dogs don’t want to go out until they absolutely MUST go. Funny to see them dash out, pee, and pee, and pee, and pee, then dash back in. Next stop for Patty is rolled up into her super soft snuggly blankie. Gavin is starting to snuggle up next to her. They never did this before the super soft snuggly blankie.
Time for me to put on the Jammies and curl up with a good book.
Last night
Yep, it’s a blizzard…January 3, 2014
Too much snow coming down outside. The dogs are NOT happy with it at all. Neither am I.
I have shoveled the back steps and sidewalk three times already and it looks as though I never touched them. My back is not thrilled with me at the moment.
If you are in the snow as we are, snuggle in and stay warm! You all have a good one!
Miss you Mom.
Some days the feeling of loss is overwhelming. Yesterday, the first, the anniversary of my Mother’s death in 2007, was one of those days. Mom, Grama, Dad, Kay, Betty and Mary are all gone. Aunts Janet and Eleanor gone too. Thank goodness for loving cousins, aunts, and an uncle.
I’m looking forward to a better day today.
You all have a good one.
Too many books?
It has always been my belief that no one can ever have too many books. However, my Kindle, at times, begs to differ.
Once I hit 500 books, my Kindle started to behave a bit off kilter at times. Therefore, I think my Kindle may think I have too many books.
I plan to get another, newer, better, back-lit Kindle. I’ll keep my cook books and research books on this one and use my new one for my ‘reading’ books.
Works for me.
You all have a good one!
How to murder a murder of crows.
For some odd reason this didn’t publish last night.
Any ideas would be welcome. We have a murder of crows, they live in the cemetery and they hang in our yard. They are going to be the death of our dogs.
They’ve been leaving ‘gifts’ in the yard. The damned garbage pickers keep dropping bones of every sort into the yard. Gavin is quick to grab them and has never in his life dropped anything out of his mouth when we’ve told him to drop it.
So far he’s 2 to our 5 but each one he succeeds in getting could mean a zipper surgery for him. It seems that no matter how careful we are on checking the yard he manages to find them.
How does one murder a murder of crows?
Many crows in a dark tree at New Orleans Square in Disneyland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Whoohoo dogmania!
Patty played fuzzy grey burrito yesterday, until Gavin decided he wanted to play and jumped on her.
Then it became wrestle mania.
You all have a good one!
Aren’t all houses money pits?
The Curmudgeon woke at six in the morning yesterday to the strong odor of oil burner exhaust. I didn’t smell it because, due to his MS, I sleep in another room and I always sleep with a window open.
He hit the emergency switch, shutting the furnace down, and called the furnace repair shop. They sent someone over directly. A few hours later he handed The Curmudgeon a bill for $714.00. There went a quarter of our savings.
The front porch is in dire need of repair, the windows on the back porch need replacement, both the back and front doors need replacement, The yard needs repair, the pond filled in and the area leveled, and at some point, I need to get painting…
You all have a good one.
English: This is an oil furnace used for home heating in the US, this model was made in the 1970’s and is still in use today (2006). Română: Centrală termică de pardoseală folosită pentru încălzirea unei locuinţe din SUA; a fost fabricată în anii 1970 şi este încă în uz (2006). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Is it March yet?
I’m sure I am not the only one who faces the holidays with a heavy heart. There are many of us.
I would rather skip right from my favorite Halloween to St. Patrick’s day. Just hop over the four months and land the day before my birthday. January and February can go away since they are winter months.
March, I love March because it holds the promise of Spring and my birthday. Not that we actually celebrate my birthday or anything, which we don’t, I just like it.
April I hate, because we lost my dearest sister then. However, now that I’ve started a yearly ritual on that day to celebrate her love and life, it doesn’t stab the heart as hard.
You all have a good one. I still have some lost ones to mourn over the next week or two.
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