I was meant to go to the groomer last week but she had to close because the schools were all closed because of the snow and cold so she had to stay home with her kid.
Anyway I’m not sorry because I need my fur in this weather.
We’re rescheduled for 2/23 so I’ve got a few weeks to go still.
I feel like a teddy bear which got me thinking about hibernation.
My feeling is that cold definitely induces desires to vegetate.
Apart from missing regular trots I’m as happy as a clam if a somewhat scruffy one.
Happy GROUNDHOG Day y’all. Let’s celebrate and hope today is like yesterday!!
Around four pm last afternoon Ma looked out and the sun was splitting the skies. She checked the temperature and it was only minus 5C or a balmy 23F higher than it has been in a very long time.
So she said the immortal words “let’s have a trot”. The niece nearly took her out before we got started in her haste to get out the door.
We tested the road and while still a little slippery Ma declared it manageable provided we didn’t pull.
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We all took smaller steps than normal and proceeded for a good long circuit. We probably did close to two miles.
At times we had to take to the road as some sidewalks still had no path cleared but all in all it was brilliant.
We peed on every post just to be sure the local canines knew we hadn’t left the neighborhood.
It wasn’t even that cold for Ma as she put on so many layers she was like a big Spanish onion.
I am so hopeful we’re done with winter well at least this Siberian set up! Snow can still stick at just under freezing we don’t need industrial scale congélation!
Ma and me were just reflecting on friendship. We are agreed that we are “Besties”
Ma has had the same “Bestie 1” since she was born that’s my auntie Carol who is a great gardener and loves roses.
She is like a sister but not biological just like I’m like a son.
It’s funny with friends that you may not see them for ages and yet you dream of them. They must always stay connected in some special slumber section of your brain.
Last year Ma lost an old Bestie of forty years my Auntie Phyllis went to heaven but almost every day something triggers a memory of her.
Yesterday it was a funny thing. My Auntie Denise a new Bestie of just five years had bought Ma this huge bouquet when she came visiting two weeks ago. It’s still mostly going strong except for the roses.
When they drooped their heads Ma decided she would keep the stalks and try to make rose bush babies with them. They are in a little vase by our kitchen sink.
As she was changing the water in them yesterday it reminded her of Phyllis who always turned roses upside down when they got droopy and dried them and kept them.
She knew right there and then that Phyllis and Carol and Denise were connected by roses and other beautiful things!
We’re awake earlier than our new norm because Ma and Auntie Paula have their first GALENTINES fashion show and luncheon today.
It worked out well because the Bro is on the earlies so he had to leave at 6:20 and that was our alarm. See our front door still has the Christmas wreath on and it has Jingle Bells on it so it makes a sweet little noise.
Why may you ask is he leaving by the front door. We’ll see it’s the only door that we’ve found a key that fits!!! There’s a lot of things we’re going to do when it warms up.
For the moment though it seems we won’t get above freezing in the span of the long term 10 Day forecast so we’re happy to have a good excuse for doing next to nothing!
I’m just hoping we can trot again soon or I’ll be as fat as fiddle.
Precious PREPS it’s the PERFECT one here to heave you happily over the humpty.
As you know it is perilously cold here so trotting has been put on hold. I’m grateful for that because unlike the stinking Gizz I’ve no real coat to speak of.
I’m so enjoying in home activities like cooking in the kitchen with Granny, snuggling up to Grandpa on the sofa and getting under Dad’s blankets for a good deep deep sleep.
I know hoomans have to go out and work and shop and such which may explain why they’re moaning about this cold snap but if y’all have power you should be happy as me.
Just think of all the fun things you can do indoors. Have a bubble bath, make cookies, eat cookies, sleep, make soup, eat soup, sleep some more, have another bubble bath, put on your fleece PJs and binge watch something oldy worldy like Miss Marple then go to bed and snuggle a puppy.
There. That’s y’all sorted for today. Follow these rules and you’ll be as happy as a clam by tomorrow and ready to repeat.
You too can smile like a Pitty although it will take time to reach PERFECTION! Unless like me you were born that way.
There is one serious disadvantage of having a fenced yard!
You don’t get to go for a trot if it’s minus 20C or below!
Ancient parents use the frigid temperature as an excuse to stay indoors and siblings sort of turf you out for a quick piece of business only every six hours.
Since this Arctic atmospheric is set to persist into next week I have decided that my best means to avoid becoming fat and stiff is to chase the niece at great speed during these short sorties.
That’s fun. I have yet to catch her as she is swift but will keep training.
Apart from this confinement issue I am in an excessively good mood and snuggling still but perhaps it’s time to get going and chomp down on some toast with the marmalade that Ma made yesterday!
You know sometimes the weather forecasters say there is going to be snowmaggedon and then you get an inch or two. Well this time they’ve didn’t exaggerate.
We got well over a foot and the best of all is it’s going to stick around for weeks. No warm air in sight.
It’s like living in JINGLE BELLS.
The niece and me are dashing through the snow, ore our field we go and we are even laughing all the way.
White stuff sure puts you in a good mood.
All we are missing is the “one horse open sleigh” but I’m not fussing too much about that as horses are expensive to run and might eat into my treat fund.
We’ll stick to dashing on our own four paws and singing!!!
We are grounded. Governor DeWine has declared a “State of Emergency”
It has already snowed five inches in our town and is set to snow all day.
I’m so happy!
I love BIG snow and so does Ma. We are currently lying in bed snuggled up and looking at it fall out our bedroom window.
Soon we will get going and Ma has promised to play with me and the niece. Fetch is hard when the snow is deep bit we have a pool ball that’s light so it won’t get lost.
For any who must travel do so safely and for those who don’t have to enjoy the fun!!!
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