Rain, Rain and More Rain!

It rained here most of the day yesterday.  I'm trying not to "muddy" (hee,hee) my thinking on rain and focus on the positive things it brings.  It cleans up the streets, makes flowers and mud grass grow and it brings nesting birds.  I got a few close ups of the cardinal that keeps coming and sitting in our dogwood.  I think he's keeping a look out for the female.

Our trees haven't started to bud or get beautiful flowers yet like our buddy Hawk's. His "Spring Sprung" a couple of weeks ago!

But this guy hanging around all the time now tells me he's starting to check out the area for the little woman's nest.

He kind of looks like he's staring me down here.

The hounds pretty much slept all day.  I think they were wore out from all the company we had over the weekend.  So after spending the morning catching up on everybody's blogs, (I still can't believe I didn't even know our buddy Remington was sick!) I decided to make soup.  It just seemed fitting for a rainy cool day (didn't get anywhere near as warm as the weather lady said it would! Duh!)

This lasagna soup turned out great!  With some nice warm crusty bread and butter, yes butter, it hit the spot. You can get the recipe here.

As you can see Fred was once again not impressed that the blog post wasn't all about him!

                                                                         "Pffft!"


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Where Does the Time Go?

So much to write about and so little time.

There's lots to write about including spring being here and the never ending cold wet weather. Our huge maple tree that we had taken down from our backyard recently (bittersweet experience). The new lawn we're getting laid. The family being sick. The NFL draft. (Detroit is gonna be a contender for sure!) Sorry Seattle but you needed a quarterback. (Ya coulda been a contender!) And of course as always the hounds, 'cause they're a part of all of it!

I'm going to start with..........what else! The Hounds!

I try to take my camera with me when they are having their playtime outside. (which has been far and few between because of all the rain) When they are out they have a blast and I have accumulated a few pictures so I'm just going to post them.

I like to call this series of pics, "The Basset Ballet"

Hounds in motion.




Freddies wrinkles in motion.



I think this picture speaks for itself!




Dueling bassets



Where is he? Where is he?



Oh, Izza comin' Gloria. Don't you worry your droopy little self now!


And the graceful finale!!



Okay, maybe not so graceful, but never the less a finale!


That's All Folks!!


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