Three Dog Night...and Day

Last weekend, Elvis and I spent most of dog sitting at my family's place on the lake. As you can see, they spent most of it either in piles of dogs or piled up on me. I didn't mind. It was very cold last weekend--Sunday morning, I think it was 8 below. So other than attending to the necessaries, we all stayed inside. In the photo above, you know the beagle, Elvis. The labs are (from left to right) Homer and Goose. When not snoozing or relaxing, Elvis and Goose play. Hard. I think it's a good break for Homer, who prefers not to play much these days. I think for that reason, he loves it when Elvis comes to distract his son (Homer and Goose are father and son in real life).  

Other that fixing food for me (and putting it in dishes for the dogs), I spent most of the time watching out the window...many people were out ice fishing on the other side of the lake. I felt cold for them, as it was far too cold to be out there (in my opinion, which makes me NOT an ice fisherwoman).

It is a week later, and I'm guessing they're not out there today. The high today, I think, was close to 60 degrees. Well, I'm in Michigan. Our motto is, "If you don't like the weather, wait awhile and it'll change. I'm not complaining, as I said in the previous post. I'm sitting here watching a pretty sunset, and almost all of the snow is gone from last week. It's still February, so I'm sure we'll have more snow, but we have had far less this year than in past years. All of our snow, I think, went to the East Coast, where many people don't know how to handle snow. What's that I read? "To you it may be a snowstorm. To us Michiganders, it's Tuesday."

I purchased season tickets to the local theater on campus for various events. Not sure I can afford it next year, so I'm trying to enjoy them as much as I can. In the past few months, I've seen Kristin Chenoweth (met her, too!), Paula Poundstone (met her), Bobby McFerrin, and Savion Glover. A few more to go, and I'll talk about them later.

That's about all for now...I'll leave you one more photo of the pile o' dogs.