A Dog's Life

Sitting pretty - waiting patiently for us to get our boots on and go outside.


Looking at something in the distance - perhaps a deer?


What happens after the walk, and most of the day...

Snow, snow, and more snow, and still more snow!

March 6, 2008 - the massive piles of snow in the parking lot at work

March 6, 2008 - this is the small pile of snow...

March 5, 2008 - 22cm of snow had fallen overnight, and I got stuck leaving the garage...

March 1, 2008 - Wild Turkeys near Elgin, Ontario. We must have seen over 100 turkeys in a couple of flocks (if you can call them that).

Still more snow.... (over 300 cm now)

Here in Ontario, it's more snowy than out west but not as cold. With that intro, I hope you enjoy this winter poem.

SASKATCHEWAN POEM
It's winter in Saskatchewan
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At twenty-five below.

Oh, how I love Saskatchewan
When the snow's up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut.

Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around
could never leave Saskatchewan
'Cause I'm frozen to the ground!

Pretty frost on the trees that makes it look like a huge stalk of white broccoli - Feb 23, 2008


Cooper enjoying a carrot from Freda - Feb 25, 2008


Tawny playing in the snowfall - Feb 26, 2008

A beautiful frost

Saturday, Feb 23, 2008 - a beautiful thick hoar frost covered everything

The sun was strong enough that the frost was falling off the tree already at 8am... (note the white specks in the sky - you may have to look at the bigger photo to see it).

Very pretty

Feb 16th, 2008 pano

Feb 16, 2008 pano
The sunset was so beautiful, that Tawny even wanted to stop and look at it.

Snow, snow and more snow

Feb 13, 2008 - After 10 cm of snow the previous night, we have now received 290 cm of the white stuff this winter.


What do you call a dog with no legs? It doesn't matter, it won't come anyway.
lol (Feb 16, 2008)

Hunting for the kong

Sunday February 10, 2008

Tawny loves playing fetch with the Kong, even in the deep snow. This means that she has to bound through the deep snow and that is really comical to see -- it looks like the head of an undulating snow serpeant. Once she gets to the kong, sometimes she can't find it right away and all you can see is her head buried in the snow and her tail waving vigourously!

My new "tattoo"

Or... the aftermath of what happens when you walk into a door...

Dog sandwich

So here I was, trying to use Tawny as a pillow, and she decided to use me as a pillow instead. Very funny!

In other news, the manufacturer of our floors has decided to replace our floors free of charge, as a good will gesture, because their authorized dealer did an extremely lousy job of installing the floors. There may be some costs involved that we will have to be responsible for, will have to see.

January 20, 2008

Pano from mini-island. See if you can find Freda in this picture.

The products of combustion from propane are water vapour and carbon dioxide. Here you can see the warm moist exhaust from the furnace is rising and condensing on the soffits where it makes a nice frosty decoration.

On Sunday we walked around the lake throwing the kong for Tawny. She loves that but when she gets tired out, she just sits down and waits for us to throw the kong to her, and then she catches it and brings it back to us.

Here is Tawny in one of her rare moments of introspection, pondering the snow on her nose and how it got there.