Backyard Blooms

Brothers

Bubba now shares his bed with Toonces. Winston, Toonces, Corny, and Monty sleep together on the bed every night. Here they took a nap together on the couch.

Monty and Friend

The White Powder

The white powder came down and filled up the yard.

Sours

This is a picture of the quarter inch thick glaze of ice on top of the snow from last week. I think the tropical Sours are my favorite flavor at the moment. The raspberry selection was very good. The fruity ones are my third choice.

U2 3D

I went to see U2's 3D concert movie Sunday night. It was fabulous and felt like you were right on stage with the band. Art Modell's sons produced the movie. The movie has a blog and a Wikipedia entry.

Snow and Ice Again

The snow has started falling again and will eventually turn to some sort of freezing precipitation tonight.

Fresh Powder

We got about 3 inches of powder today. It was the light and fluffy kind. The boys went to the park and quickly came back. Toonces found out Bubba's bed is very warm. Poor Bubba!

Seventeen

Toonces turned 17 this month. He is whiny, crabby, and sometimes can't jump well. He's also very fat. May he live a long life. We got a half an inch of snow in about 15 minutes yesterday. It was like instant whiteness.

Super Fat Tuesday

My husband made a king cake today. It turned out great! We had barbecue chicken in a crock pot for dinner.

Sweet Mugs

Balmy 30's

The sun's out and the temperature is above freezing. It feels like spring today. I made spaghetti last night. The dogs haven't been walked in 3 days but they seem to be coping well. It's been too cold. One week to the Super Bowl.

Territory

Bubba has a warm spot to sleep in the winter. It's in the bathroom, the warmest room in the house right by a vent. Winston found out it's a pretty warm place to lay down. Thank goodness Bubba never saw him. Bubba will bite the dogs on their ear just to intimidate. Toonces just bops them on the head with his paw for intimidation. Deion Sanders has a new reality show. The show, with the working title Deion and Pilar Sanders: Prime Time Love will air on Oxygen beginning February 2008 featuring Deion, Pilar, and their five children. Set in Prosper, Texas, one of the show's main hooks will be Pilar's discontent in the tiny town and the friction between her own ambitions and her husband's content. Superbowl Sunday is coming and Eli is unstoppable....

Alert and Fluffy

The dogs are so alert when food is involved. This week's dessert was Italian cream cake.

The Columbus Zoo paid $35,000 to keep Fluffy the reticulated python on permanent display. While on loan last year, the python helped draw 1.53 million visitors, just under the zoo's attendance record of 1.56 million set in 2006. If you like snakes, you must visit this zoo.

Sweet Sleep

Tigers, Steelers, and Pugs

Congratulations to the LSU Tigers! The Steelers season ended Saturday night in a very tense game. I am relieved their season is over in many ways. May someone please beat the Patriots. If you enjoy the dog licking that has gone around in many emails, here's an exclusive pug one. It takes awhile to load. Since the temperature was 64 yesterday. Here's a look back at some snow that fell 1/2/08.