Thinking About Winston Today

With the icicles dripping with water, the snow is finally melting slowly. It has a long way to go because when I walked out into my side yard yesterday to clear a small pop up spout ground level for my sump pump ... I walked in snow that came up to my knee. I started thinking about Winston this morning and decided to put this together. The photos are not in any kind of order.

A Little More Snow

 

Henry definitely could be in that cartoon.

First Stage Of Storm Arrives

Saturday morning started off clear with a forecast of snow starting around 10am. Things had changed since Friday though, and it looked like it wasn't going to be as brutal as the Thursday forecast. Not much was planned as I had gone out Friday and bought an extra 44# of dog food, some dry food for me in case we lost power like last year. Not having ice was going to be nice. I can handle a lot of snow as long as it's not wet or icy.

Last January Was Different

First of all, none of these photos are in the order I posted. All of them happen in the first two weeks of January last year. Can you believe I shoveled my driveway and patio of thick ice and snow five months before I found out I was in a situation of "heart failure"? I also cut up all the fallen tree limbs and carried them to the back berm during that time. We had an ice storm with no electrical power four days and nights. Walter loved the snow as did Ava. I will let the photos tell the story ... January 2025.

Update With Old Hound Photos

First of all, like most holiday seasons, the days of the week have gone out the window. My brain seems to be a day or two ahead of the actual day. A lot of football games on tv will do that to a person. So Friday night Walter and I tuned into the pre-game shows to pass the time until Indiana's kickoff at 6:30 CT. 

It was interesting to see all those ESPN "experts" backtracking with their love fest of Indiana Football after bad mouthing them for two straight years. Only Pat McAfee, the old Indianapolis Colts punter has gone in the opposite direction of ESPN and backed them over the same time period.  

You can see Walter was game ready 4:30 CT.

That Warm Weather Turned Cold Fast

With all of the warm weather near Christmas we had heavy fog almost every night, early mornings. The patio deck and the windows looked like it has rained all night when I would let the hounds and dogs out first thing in the morning. The sun would eventually burn off the fog by noon. It was better than ice and snow so I wasn't complaining. 

A Warm Christmas

It was ten years ago when we had a Christmas like this weather. Winston had become paralyzed about a week before this photo on Christmas Day. He couldn't figure out the warm weather either but found it much easier to drag his rear legs as he continued to 'walk' in the back yard and into the field. I just saw this morning where I live now, tied their highest temperature of 68° on Christmas Day. It was a record all the way back to 1938 when global warning was all over the news.