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Leonardo is alive and well, at age around 5 and a half years. His vocabulary is still growing. He knows 'out', of course, and now 'cookie' even though I swore that I would never call a dog bisquit a cookie, it's a good word for dogs because it's short and begins with a hard consonant. Sometimes he knows "hedgehog" a toy I bought him earlier this ( Read more... )

My pup is learning to be civilized -- dare I say it? He has actually earned his Canine Good Citizen Certificate after all ( Read more... )

Does he just destroy everything that I neglect to protect, or is he telling me, "MaryEllyn, you just have too much STUFF."

I am not truly comfortable with the name LeRoy for the puppy. I think maybe Leonardo is outlandish and pretentious enough for a mostly poodle puppy. Of course I would be thinking
of the teenage mutant turtle.

Here's my Irish for today:
Bhi se ag cur sneachta go deimhin agus bhi se ag cur sneachta agus fearthainne inniu. Yuck!

Snow falling on the ground
Scones cooling on the cutting board
Gingerbread in the oven
Seed Catalogs in the mail.
It's a bright new year
almost

We've got just enough snow to be Michigan -- not enough to impede progress. It'll do for now.
I'm hoping everybody a good deep winter season.

This is the kind of winter day I love. It has been very cold - down to 2 or 3 F overnight - warming to 10 or 11F during the day. I shoveled the little bit of very light snow and then went for a walk: Walking in the brilliant sunlight - blue sky that would make the Mediterranean envious. I have a very warm coat, good Canada boots that aren't so ( Read more... )

At about 10am the snow was very wet and heavy. I have a push shovel about 28 inches wide, plastic with a metal strip along the edge. It was very hard to push the wet stuff, I couldn't do much more than about 4 feet till the shovel was full and I couldn't get it going any more. The wheelie shovel that Elizella has, I think would allow me to push ( Read more... )