Snow, Ice And Doggies!

 What a week!

We had a lot of not too cold weather, and a lot of the old snow melted away, including the huge ice dam mess on the north side of our house...which came down in big chunks, each one sounding like an explosion, so us pups had to go out and bark at the 'intruder', BOL! The peeps say they've tried three times to get the attic insulated, even once when the whole thing was open to the air for a whole new roof...but somehow either the workers can't get at part of the attic, or there just isn't enough of it, so they go out with a roof rake when there is more than say 3 -4 inches of new snow...and to knock down the icicles as they form...ah the joys of an old house...(1907)

Anyways, we did have a nice day on Thursday with lots of sun and blue sky which melted even more snow and ice, the driveway and sidewalk was clear...but wow, was it WINDY! lots of branches down in the yard, a lot of spring cleanup is in our future, BOL!

And then on Friday it was 38F and pouring rain! All day, well into the afternoon. We were glad that wasn't snow...but...um...petcretary left for her work about 130pm, and while she was there it started to become freezing rain...which turned to huge snowflakes...and the temp went down in a hurry to 24F. And of course she left her boots and gloves at home...oops. The forecasted weather did not include snow and ice until into the night, and not the three inches that fell.

Anyways, because it had so much moisture in tit and with the freezing rain, everything outsaide looked like a Christmas card! 

The walnut and maple trees around the grounds where petcretary works looked like ice crusted ghostly apparitions...

Her car looked like an encrusted red sculpture:

That is more ice than snow, it took a lot of elbow grease to clean it up so she could drive home.

Saturday it was partly cloudy, so some snow on all the trees and things fell off, but it stayed cold, just below freezing. Petcretary shoveled the top layer of snow off all the ice, but will have to wait for the thick ice to melt on its own...or with some salt/sand applications.

She captured some flower heads with icy snow caps on them...they look messy in the garden area, filled with all those seed heads, but she leaves them till spring to let hungry birds enjoy them...and likely some other critters, too.

Well, Benji seems to not mind the snowy yard nearly as much as Dalton, maybe because he has more fur and longer legs! But cold is cold and icy paths are not too much fun either...so

Benji:I really want Rose to come out to play fence games, but she's not there...so here I am sitting on the edge of the patio, glad that it's been sort of cleared, but the deep stuff is still covering the grass...sheesh! 

Dalton: I've done my doggy stuff outside and bravely watched petcretary shovel our sidewalk as best she could, so now I'm enjoying a nice nap; pardon all my shed terrier furs! (the white ones are mine...)

We've joined our selfies to The Sunday Selfie Blog Hop, hosted as always by The Cat On My Head

Random Sunday Selfies

 This was quite a snowy week, and very COLD at least on Mon, Tues and Wednesday. It feels almost warm at 32F!! And there was snow almost every day till Friday. Saturday was good too, but when Petcrtetary came home from her work, at 11pm. it was snowing hard, sticking to the road and almost a whiteout, Yikes. Here we go again!

Since Petcretary is working this weekend,  she hunted through our most recent images and found these to show off ourselves.

Benji, getting some love and scritches...

Dalton is telling everyone, *This* is MY bone!! (Sorry not the best picture, rather blurry...)

Dalton: "I think I picked up a Benji hair when I started chewing this bone!" Phlbbbtthh! BOL!!!

We are hopping along with all the other Sunday Selfies, at The Cat On my Head, Our weekly hosts! Thanks so much for being our hosts each and every week!

New Angels Among Us

Yes, we are sad to say we have more new angels among us once again.

Xena and her furmily let us know about Everly...

Everly

And Finnegan, a delightful kitty from  Daily Feline Wisdom  recently also joined the angelic realm.

Finnegan

We've joined the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop...

Time For Sunday Selfies

Well, we had a bit of a thaw, this past week...but now the weather soothsayers tell us we are going into the deep freeze for a while, we might even have lows below 0F! Brrr

At least we are thankful to have a nice cozy house to come back into after we do our outside necessities!

Not too much going on here otherwise. Boring can be good, right??

Last week we showed you a picture of Benji hogging Dalton's bed...Dalton got the best of Benji a little while later...BOL!

He didn't move over so I climbed over top, Ahh, nice and warm, BOL!! Did he move away? not for a good long time...sheesh!

Ahhh, that bed was comfy while it lasted...I guess I need to get on my own bed(Which is the same, but in a different spot)

*She* changed this not too good image of me into a black and white one and it looks so much better I was told!

This is the same image as you saw last week, but now turned into B&W! I think it looks better, how about you?!

I am sending ear signals to whomever can interpret them, BOL!

No flash, but the iPhone camera can really make the picture look good in the shadows, (my bed is under a table), and in lamplight.

I was right with my guess at Teddy's Tuesday Teaser, but not first...however there is still always a badge for that, LOL!

We have joined up at The Cat On My Head to be in the Sunday Selfies Blog-hop! Why not come and join up, too, it's a lot of fun! Everyone is welcome!

Snowtime! Camera Playtime...or what happens on cold snowy evenings!

We've had a fair bit of snow over the past week, though a lot less than the folks in some of the southern states. We pups and our peeps are not complaining, BOL!

Petcretary, I'm glad you are home, I was hoping you could clean away all this snow.

It may be snowy, but we are still enjoying our through the fence games with Rose.

Later that evening Benji took over my usual nesting spot, and barely left  any room for me...sheesh!

Then pectretary started to play with some of the settings on he iPhone camera...this is a portrait mode and she played with the light and the depth of field...but I just wasn't very amused, BOL!!

This is another portrait mode, with different settings than used for Dalton.Ho hum I was bored...BOL!

Both taken in the natural lamp light without use of flash! Benji was focused on his right eye, Dalton was focused between his eyes. I was amazed how the camera 'enhanced' Benji's white /grey furs on his schnooter!

I, Petcretary was a first commenter at Teddy's Teaser Tuesday 'geography class', and also a right guesser, though not first!I got these to badges for my efforts:

We are joining up with the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for the Sunday Selfies blog hop!

Newest Angels

 Not too many words, other than to say these are two new angels, only sadness, not words. What a way to start of 2025...Huge hugs to their families.

Zsofia from White Dog Diary Online

Amber, from Daily Feline Wisdom

If any of you have email addy's for these new angels would yu please inform them that these mementos are here and they should feel free to snag them and use in any way they wish. Please visit their blogs too, if you haven't already done so, I know it will be appreciated.

Wordless Wednesday is HERE

The First Sunday Selfie Post Of 2025!

 Well, we are now 5 days old, in this new year, 2025. So far its been a roller coaster.

There was a terrible accident on New Year's Eve on the highway we use to go to church...and yesterday at work, I found out that the only occupant in that single car accident was killed...dead at the scene. She was thrown out of the vehicle after it hit the median, and then crossed the traffic lanes and into a ditch where she rolled...it was a lady who was a Physician's Assistant, (PA), who was a frequent 'visitor' to help manage the care of all of our residents. She was well liked, pleasant, and always eager to help with the medical issues as they popped up. At only 37 years, she leaves behind her husband, and three young children, 4, 7 and 11. I have meet the older two girls as she would sometimes bring them with her if she needed to be there on a weekend. I didn't ever meet the little boy. Such a waste and so very sad.

The we found out that Marg E from Marg's Animals also recently passed away. You can read about it here,  and HERE. A huge loss for Blogville.

Not a very happy start for Happy New Year...

And our weather is in crazy mode. We have had ice and snow and very cold conditions, but we are thankful we are not in the path of the storm known as Blair, though we might see the results of the edges of that system. We pray all our friends will be safe if they are in the path of that storm, it sounds like a whopper. It's 14F here, right now, and windy..with some lake effect snow. We know its winter, but...Brrrr!

Petcretary did some fooling around with an AI image generator, and put in our breeds for Christmas, and for New Year's...and she got these...not too terrible but still...not us either, BOL!!!

OK, here are OUR selfies for the new year...lets hope and pawray that the remaining days will be nicer in so many ways.  Tell your family members that you love them...you just never know...

We've joined the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop, hosted by the wonderful Cat On My Head!! Thanks, Kitties Blue!

 

Happy New Year To All!!

It might be Wordless Wednesday, but we have a lot to say...

Happy New Year to all our blogging buddies, be they canine, feline or human!! We sure hope, along with pertcretary, that 2025 will be a great year for all of us.

Petcretary thanks all who sent us cards, by the snail mail method or the email way. We loved them all.

We apologise for not sending out individual responses, this year *she* has been way too busy with all kinds of stuff...and we also apologise for not visiting a lot of our friends; the one with the thumbs and typing skills says she was working, attending meetings or other stuff,such as shoveling snow...and the memento cards she made seemed to come im waves lately. she spent hours making them, so that means us pups and our visiting times get put on the back burner. 

Maybe there won't be as many of those kind of things needed in 2025...we sure hope that maybe there will be so few that her skills will dwindle, as if...

Our unfurbros are here to help,and we saw the 'bubbly' come out just in time for the countdown! All we got was a teeny bit of cheese, BOL!

Now all the calendars here need to be changed into new ones...and all the appointments, etc, need to be penciled in. Hope the ones that say vet are far in the future, BOL!

Anyways here are the greetings she made for us in a hurry tonight as she awaited the turnover from 2024 to 2025!

Wordless we are not, but still we are joining this WW blog hop! Woof!!