Cold. Cold snow. Cold snow wind. Cold snow wind drifts.

Right now it is 16 with 20 mph wind. But mainly cold. And awfully hard on the critters!
Rocky & Mini head out the doggy door and on to the deck then into the backyard! Their little paw prints making tracks around the corner.


Meanwhile, Bubba stares at the same deck in horror!


He decides to get back under his warm papers and dream of his ancestral home in the Amazon basin!

Mini got her teeth brushed

And parts of her eyes are wearing toothpaste. And I am wearing a fair amount of doggie toothpaste. She likes the toothpaste. After all, it is poultry flavor! But she keeps trying to lick the toothpaste off of the toothbrush while I am trying to brush her teeth. Both of us are a little confused at one point or another in the process! You can imagine.

Cool!

The picture from my webcam - the quiet life in my back yard - seemed to have a spot. I kept trying to rub it off of my computer screen and then realized that the cam was blocking the sun. I thought it was kind of a cool picture of a cold Indiana day so I took a screenshot off of my computer.

For the Beady-Eyed Bunch!!!

Have you got your Christmas beading done?

I am amazed at how hard it is to take a good picture in the cold winter afternoon sun! The light is just plain weird.

I believe I'm done for the year - this was the last little bit.....

Too early in the year for this!!!

I woke up yesterday morning, started outside to get the morning paper and what did I see? OMG!


No - really now....really? Thinking that this just couldn't be true I looked the other direction

Same thing....

I snatched up the paper from the driveway and headed back to the house. Rocky & Mini were staring out the door. Apparently, they were as horrified as I was. Especially Mini!


I headed to the backyard to see if maybe it was warmer back there. But on the way I passed a window and saw a bad omen. I could see over the snowcovered top of my neighbors house....a murder of crows had settled in.


I decided to contine. On the deck, however, I saw another bad omen


I pressed on. As I had feared - it was just as bad in the back as in the front!


Later in the morning Rocky and I check again and found that we had even more snow! Rocky, ever on guard and ready to do battle to intruders saw something, though...
And off he went!


He chased off whatever imaginary intruder was there and we headed back inside to make some tea and find some carbohydrates to combat the winter blues.


Brrrr........

The cardinal shows up...

Another one from G. Good work!
I have heard that the picture I posted yesterday was too big for the blogger format. I re-sized that one and hope I've gotten this one right.

Need a caption for this one!

What a shot this is! A friend got this picture and was kind enough to let me post it. I just love it and keep thinking of different captions for it. I had to share!
Thank you G.!

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