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1.15.12 13:05: Don’t make me go out there!!

15 Jan

Colin Ross Jack: Dogwalk Snow Scene

I really do not want to get dressed and walk.  Sofie does not mind since she likes to just be out in the yard and run around and bark and do her business but Lulu does not like that idea, she demands her walk.  Getting dressed to go outside on a freezing day like today is really not fun.  Winter has been very nice in the Mid-Atlantic and I have gotten spoiled not to have to wear my face mask and 27 layers of clothes.  I bought Lulu a new sweater last night because I worry about her skinny little body with the single layer of hound hair (of course when I got it home I noticed it was ripped and it was the last one in her size – doesn’t it always happen that way).  I am always searching for that perfect dog walking gear for me in freezing weather that won’t cost a million dollars.  I have yet to find it.  My gloves are never good enough.  I have tried mittens but they don’t seem to do it either. I tried the ones that let your fingers come through and then have a little pocket that you can move back and forth (what a bother!).  I tried liners in my gloves.  I must have 20 different types of gloves in my box but none of them make me happy.

I wear this face mask thing called a Balaclava. It keeps me covered except for my eyes.  When it is ridiculously cold at night, I even take off my glasses (because they feel like hot steel going into my skin).  Those are the times I really have to trust the dogs to lead me.  It used to be funny because I would walk blind Sqaush E Bear without my glasses in the dark and he would be my leader:  Is that the blind leading the blind?  LOL

And, when it is really really really bad, now don’t laugh, I wear my terrycloth bathroom, which is down to the floor, under my coat.  That seems to be the only thing that really cuts the sting.

Snowball Smile

Now I love a nice snowy walk so don’t get me wrong and there is nothing like playing in the snow with a pack of dogs, but I don’t have any snow today, just wind and ice.  Well, here I go….  It’s just another freezing cold windy DogDaz afternoon at my house. ❤

For my football friends: Go RAVENS!

 
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Posted by on January 15, 2012 in Dogs

 

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1.11.12 16:26: “To Sit With A Dog… Is Peace”

11 Jan

To sit with a dog

To sit with a dog on a hillside

on a glorious afternoon

is to be back in Eden,

where doing nothing is not boring –

it is peace.

– Milan Kundera (Czeck novelist & poet, c.1929)

My daughter made this piece for me. It is Louise, Squash, and me down by the river.  Squash had his summer shaved coat.  He had been blind for a long time by then (due to being an insulin dependent diabetic), but as long as he had me, he was comfortable going anywhere.  Lulu had been with us about 2 months by then.  The picture of Madison taking care of Lily the blind dog (that I posted this morning) made me think about Squash.  When we got Lulu she was very attached to him.  I think he liked her too, as much as an old dog likes a puppy. She would try to cuddle with him (like I watch Sofie try to do to her). But mostly, he would go to his usual spot (taking up the whole foyer by the front door) and Lulu would be with me in the office.  He loved to be outside in the nice weather and sometimes sleep for hours under ‘his’ tree.  I would send Louise out in the yard to find him and lead him back in and she would. She actually takes other dogs leashes and will bring them back to their owners if asked.  I always joked that Lulu was Squash’s seeing-eye dog, well, now I know that could be so.

Squash & Lulu in the Snow

Louise watching over Squash

Sniffing together

Besties

I must be honest, not a day goes by that I do not think about big old Squashy.  I actually have a large picture of him (with a tuft of his hair tucked in the frame) next to my bed.  I have been blessed by many wonderful souls that have passed through my life. (Probably feeling nostalgic since tomorrow is the 11th anniversary of my Mom’s passing.)  I am glad Louise was here to play with and help him for a little while (Squash E Bear went to the Big Meadow in the Sky last February).  Just another DogDaz afternoon at our zoo. ❤

 
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Posted by on January 11, 2012 in Dogs

 

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