The Last Snow Pictures!

I forgot I had these pictures from last week.

It was 70F today!  So no more snow - yay!

Look at Dhali's rabbit run LOL!!

I gave Dhali a bath tonight and now he is in his crate telling the world how unfair life is.  And I say.....someone needs to remember how to be quiet in his crate!

Tibby didn't get a bath, because she doesn't roll in the grass, dig holes, explore underneath the deck and crawl into every nook and dusty cranny! 

Tibby is laying in my lap, dead asleep and making my legs fall asleep.  She likes to have special snuggle time while Dhali is drying off.  

Here is some soap I made this week:

Just wanted to show it off!  I made it for my Dad.  It's the only soap he has ever requested me to make.  It has 20% pine tar in it.  It's supposed to be good for dry skin/psoriasis.  He tried a bar that his brother sent him and he thought it helped his psoriasis, so he asked me to make some for him.  I hope he likes it! 

Taller Every Day!

These are pictures from last week - now we have grass!  Yay!

Dhali is now over 18 inches tall at the withers.  Eh oh!  Hope he is ok jumping 22"....

Also, check out the muscles on that boy!  He is one giant muscle!  He is a strong little bouncing spring!

More Snow?!?

This is getting ridiculous!  It's almost May! 

Really getting tired of snow around here.... 

Snowy, Again!

It snowed!  The dogs had a lot of fun playing and running around.  They are tired now!

Dhali had more fun than Tibby - he was running around by himself, being crazy and she watched him from inside.  Then when he came inside he had to hang out in his crate for a while, because he was TOO snowy.  Drip, drip, drip every where!  So maybe she had more fun than he did :)

On The Beach

The frozen beach!  I thought he looked really handsome with the white and blue background.

One of my favorite pictures. 

Yay!

Worst Of Winter

We are working our way through the worst of winter.  -25F and windy.  Too cold for me outside, but the pups seem to still like sitting out on the deck.  Even at night, when it is REALLY cold.  Dhali doesn't have a very thick coat, but he will go outside at 5am and lay in the dog bed on the deck.  The frozen dog bed.

Last Sat., before the temp. dropped to depressing levels, we went with my Mom to a race.  She got first place in her age group!  Again ;)  While they were running the race Dhali and I hung out on the beach and walked on the lake.  It was still pretty chilly, so we also waited in the car to warm up.

Dhali was very suspicious of the small boy wearing a spiky hat with a tail, goggles and carrying a round sled. Also, yelling, "Puppy!  Puppy!"

We walked the other direction on the lake away from that kid!

This is a castle that they build out of ice chunks from the lake.  It has a big sledding hill built into it.  Down the hill and out on to the ice.  It looked like fun!

Another suspicious child with strange ears......

Snowgility!

This is really hard!  It's slippery and all the added clothing makes it so hard to give directions.  I was really afraid that I might slip and poke my eye out on a jump pole.  That would hurt!  It was fun though and a really great work out.

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Snowshoeing With Dhali

Dhali went on his first snowshoe hike.  When I first put the snowshoes on he looked at me like, "What do you have on?!?  Well, just make sure people know you dressed yourself!"

I was a little rusty and I fell down once.  You can't walk backwards, oh yeah, now I remember!  It has been a long time since I snowshoe-ed (showshoed? snowshoeed? spellcheck doesn't like any of them).  We didn't have any snow last year, so the last time I went snowshoeing was the winter of 2010/2011 and Tibby was the same age as Dhali is now.  And she wore the same coat!  Here she is Winter Water.  You will notice that she has about 200% more (fur) coat than Dhali does.  She had/has the thickest coat ever.  Dhali is sparse by comparison. 

It was about 7 F degrees (according to my car), not too bad.  The breeze off of the lake was cool, but when we got away from there it was a lot warmer.

    

We went about 2 miles farther than I wanted to.  The map made it look like the trail was a 2.5 mile loop.  Oh, yeah it's a loop.  You walk out to the end of the trail and then turn around and walk back.  It was a very nice trail though.  No one yelled at us and it was nice to be on a trail where we were allowed. 

 Back story:  One time we were snowshoeing and some skiers yelled/swore at us, because we were on the wrong trail.  It scared me for life.  Now I hate skiers!   

We met some skiers today on OUR clearly marked snowshoe trail and I was very polite.  They were complaining that there weren't any groomed tracks for their skis.  Yes, that's because the 8 MILES of skiing trails are over there.  But I didn't say that!  I just said "Hello."

I have a bunch of cute pictures from today's hike.  Dhali is so cute!  He's a good hiker too.  He stays on the trail and pulls me along!  He sniffed off the trail about 10% of the time.  That means I have to either stop and wait for him or try to get him back on to the trail.  So when he was going full steam straight ahead it was nice!  Tibby is about 90% of the time off the trail.  I like Dhali's percentages better - easier on my shoulders.  

We met 2 other people snowshoeing and Dhali was a good boy.  He passed them very politely.  

He started chewing out ice balls out of his feet about 20 mins. from the car.  We were hiking for 1 1/2 hours, so that's not too bad.  At that point I was wishing someone would come and pick us up!  I think he could use some shoes on his front feet.  The back ones didn't seem to get any snow at all stuck in them.  Although it was pretty cold, so the snow wasn't sticking to anything.

I'm A Unicorn!

Dhali rockin' a manly blue pony tail.  

Head tilt!  Can ya' say, "Awwww"?

Itty bitty tongue.