Jan. 31st - Looking out the Window

Rufus loves to look out the window to see what's going on.

Jan. 28th -Scrapbooking

Went scrapbooking today and got 22 pages done. My goal is to get 240 pages done this year, which averages out to 20 pages a month. I thought this is doable as long as I do it.

Jan. 22nd- Playing in the Snow

Here's Landon and Rufus playing in the snow. They made a fort, tried it out, then Landon jumped in it to destroy it.

Jan 21st - Lots of Snow

This morning I woke up to more snow, in total we got 7" of the fluffy stuff. It's a heavy snow. I went out to clean off the driveway this morning and make a compfy clean area for our dogs to potty on. They don't like trying to get through the snow since they're smaller dogs.

I don't like shoveling but it is pretty when you just take the view in. Here's a couple of photos of my yard with the blue spruce tree and some birch trees.

If you'd like to see the photos larger, just click on the photo and it will bring it up.

Jan. 20th - Snow

It snowed yesterday, Thurs. Jan. 19th. Before I went to bed we had about 1-1/2" of snow. We probably got another half inch by morning. So about 2" of snow total. But, on Saturday we're suppose to get another 4 to 6 inches of snow and sleet on top of that.

I used to love playing in the snow when I was a kid but now I would just like to be somewhere where it's warm all year round. It wouldn't bother me to never have snow again and having to deal with shoveling off the driveway. Most times my husband does it but there are times that I must get out there and do the back breaking deed of shoveling.

Where are you summer?

Jan. 19th- Tucker

If I were Tucker, my 9 year old dog, whom by the way just celebrated his birthday the other day, I would say about this photo..."Boy, I like these photos from above looking down on me, makes me look thinnner." LOL. Anyway, Happy Birthday to my 9 yr old boy and I love you with all your graying hair and your set in your way's attitude. Hope you have many more birthdays.

I call him my "faithful steed" among other nicknames he has. Okay I know a steed is a horse but I'm thinking of Donkey here on the movie Shrek. Anyway, Tucker follows me around the house wherever I go and would protect me no matter what. Well, maybe...he does seem to run away in the face of danger. But, to his credit he does bark and growl when he thinks I might be in harms way.

What are some of the other nicknames he has you ask? My husband calls him McFly from the movie "Back to the Future". Plus his eyes are bigger than most. When my husband tells him to go to "mom" (which is me by the way, lol) he knows what he is talking about. He knows all the nicknames, plus he knows alot of single words that we've taught him through the years. I don't know exactly how many words he knows but I know he knows what a good many are, maybe I'd say at least 20 to 30 words, maybe more but I never sat down to write them out to see how many. Maybe I will do this someday when I'm sitting in the boring doctors office for hours.

So, do you have nicknames for your animals? How many words do they know?

Jan. 18th- Picture Frames with Lids

Since jelly jars (With Smuckers it has to be good, lol.) are already decorative I made these magnet picture frames for the fridge. I just cut around the photo with the lid, put hot glue on the back of photo, put inside lid, then put a magnet strip on the back of the lid. Hang on fridge. Easy. Would make great gifts for kids to give at Christmas time. You can use any size jar lid.

The jars I used are already decorative, but you can use any type of a jar lid in different sizes.