Mother Nature

I thought I was moody but holy cow, what's up with Mother Nature?!  She just can't make up her mind.  Last week was hot, sunny and 23C.  Now it's 1C or -4C with the windchill.  We had winds upwards of 70 km/hr yesterday along with rain, sleet and snow!  I just hope all the tender plants that have sprouted survive.  My butterfly bush started sprouting leaves which have now turned black.  Then there's my poor Weeping Double Cherry that I planted outside the front door last year.  It was doing so well.  It had tons of beautiful blossoms and was already attracting swarms of butterflies. Now it looks awful!  I just hope it comes back.
So while we wait out Mother Nature's hissy fit, I thought I'd share some of the pictures I took from last week of my Weeping Cherry (it's really weeping now!) and the butterflies.

There were so many of them hanging around our front window enjoying the sun!  It was beautiful!

Well, better go bundle up to take the hounds out 'cause like our thermometer says....it's COLD out!!

"Let me know when it's warmed up." "Until then I'll just lay here and whine!"

Crazy Weather

This winter the weather has been crazy! January was just rainy and muddy.  Then we had temperatures as high as 15C this February and as cold as -19C all within a week.

This was Fred on Monday February 6th basking in the sun.

 It was so warm he didn't even want to terrorize play.

By Friday night we had a snow storm.

Look closely at that tree and you can see the garbage bag. heehee!

Monday February the 13th the hounds were romping in the snow again!!

I wish it would just pick a temperature and stay there. Either stay cold or stay warm, instead of mud, snow, mud, snow!

Crazy I tell ya....just crazy!

Slobber Patrol

Yesterday was a busy day.  Monday is not my typical house cleaning day.  I'm also on "Slobber Patrol".  That's where besides my regular cleaning, dusting and wiping up the obvious drool, I scour things like pictures, walls, table legs, televisions, dressers and any place you might normally miss that drool will adhere to when the hounds shake their heads in the house. You'd be surprised at some of the places I've found drool!

When I start my cleaning, I put the hounds in the kitchen with a bed and pull a gate across to keep them there since Freddie Spaghetti likes to attack everything as I'm trying to clean.  So I just put them in the kitchen.  Gloria doesn't care.  She goes and lays on the mat in front of the sink.  But Freddie.........well you know Mr. Dramatica!

Yep, there he lays.  Whining with part of gate stuck in his eye!  He does this every time!  As you can see the gate is missing some of the bottom pieces.  Fred has chewed them off (surprise).  He has done this eye thing since he was a puppy.  It drives my daughter crazy when she comes over, but I'm used to it now and just ignore it.

"Look Momma!  I'm impaling my eye with your stupid gate!!  You'll be sorry!"
"Ya whatever Fred.  Just don't make a mess on the floor."

Yes, I think Freddie needs some counselling.

Well, Freddie's big sister Brandi did come over and broke him and Gloria out of the kitchen and showered them with hugs and kisses.

Freddie told his story.  "And then Momma took a stick and shoved it in my eye...and I whined...."....blah blah blah!

He finished with his typical "ya, ya.....I know I'm cute take the stupid picture already!" " F#*$'in paparazzi!!"

Note:  Our snow has left us and in it's place it is pouring rain.  Yes, now it's even muckier than ever in our yard.  Crazy, crazy weather!!