It's the first Friday in February and also the first time since before Christmas that the temperature gets above freezing! Heck, it's suppose to get near the 50's tomorrow. If so, then all this snow/ice/slush/dirty-muck might finally start to melt away and clear.
But I wanted to make an account of this past Winter '08-'09 with these pictures remembering what it has been like to have a brand new puppy in the house and have to take him out at 6am every morning thru to 11pm at night while we've been under this constantly-near Zero degree cold. So much cold that the ice, snow, ice and then snow again from December is still around.
Crazy!
We haven't been able towalk through our gangway
to get to the front of the
house since early Decemeber.
The pipes freeze and drip
down long ice-sickles that
form a solid sheet about
3-4 inches thick.
Even Otto doesn't want to
try slipping through this.
But on the good side, Otto and his girlfriend Lola (our neighbors dog) have an awesome time chasing each other around in this back drive-way. And its still so icy that we don't have to worry about drivers speeding down it. Not yet, at least.
Just one last picture of all the piles of snow still mounded up in the yards. Those who never bothered to salt their sidewalks are now leaving all of us to have to slip-slide down the street.
Then again, if it hits the warm temps that it's suppose to in the next 48 hours, things will finally start to clear.
Christmas morning '08 with Otto helping tear up the wrapping paper.
You have to admit, it's really adorable. Here is Otto tearing at the Big-Kahuna gift that I got for Ray --- his beer making kit!
And Ray surprised me tremendously by giving me everything that I had on my list... from V.S. pajamas to a luxury robe and a sports-line heart monitor watch for exercise.
I think in this picture I'm opening up a very bright travel light for attaching to Otto's leash for those very dark early morning constitutionals. Hilarious gift there Ray.
Here are my boys now crashed on the couch after an exciting morning of gifts, morning breakfast and an afternoon of Its A Wonderful Life!
We spent New Years Eve at the home of Jim & Roseanne, (Ray's friends from elementary school) and their two children. One adopted (William in pic) and the other one is Benjamin, who loved having Otto around in their house that he followed the dog everywhere he went.
New Years Eve antics. This is Jim. Jim and Ray have known each other since 2nd grade and only recently got back in contact with eachother in the past year. Typical of best friends, though it had been perhaps 6 years or more, they picked up exactly where they left off. Jim & Roseanne are super special friends for us.
Kids & Dogs!
Ray's first evening cooking up his beer brew. He's got a system down now of having working on two-or-so brews at the same time, each at a different part of the 10-14 day process.
And here's where Otto hangs out when we're working in the kitchen. And sometimes, when he's being too spastic we leash him to this spot for him to calm down. I think he actually likes the down -time sometimes.
After the new year, the fate of Otto's family jewels were in jeopardy. The first day, it really sucked for him. But after that, I think he forgot he had anything in the first place.
Ray is wearing this T-shirt on purpose. It was inauguration day for Obama and here he is enjoying his home-made beer brew and watching t.v. with our cone head dog.
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