Andy checked it out first. Yep! Snow! Dougy, my snow bunny, had to give up a prowl on the dining room table to check it out. (Poor naughty boy!)
“Yep! Snow!” Dougy verified the forecast was accurate: 100% chance of precipitation. Looks like 100% to me, too.
Fortunately, Andy had alternative plans for the day. Knowing Dougy, he’s probably back on the table.
I totally agree with Andy. Sleeping is about the only thing to do this time of year. And hope the sun is back when I wake up
No snow yet here, Doug! Today is heading into the 60s. There is snow in the higher elevations, but green where I am.
Any rain? We have had a couple snows this year that stuck and stayed around more than a day. The one mentioned in that post is still hanging on, though it has mostly melted.
Lots of rain here. This is our normal rainy season.
Yeah for real snow. Another snow day was promised to us by the weatherman but guess what, no snow. I’m sure the doggies here can do without but it sure looks pretty.
It is pretty if you don;t have to go out in it! LOL!
Us Florida cars don’t know from snow and don’t want to know!
My sister lives in Seattle, another place where people have difficulty with slippery streets from a rare snow. She was raised in Nebraska, so is good on slick streets, but she told me about the time she came over a hill to see a pileup of cars at the bottom, cars driven by people not raised in Nebraska! She skillfully came to a stop before hitting the cars, but had to stay where she stopped because the road was blocked with the pile up. Then, a car came over the hill. The woman driving the car realized she had no control of her car, opened the door, and hopped out, and let her car careen out of control into my sister’s car, which then crashed into the pile up! So much for the advantage of learning to drive in Nebraska!
In Philadelphia, we used to say that all inept drivers get into pile ups on the first day of snow. Then the roads are cleared up, and you can drive without the danger of someone torpedoing you out of the blue.
Snow is the reason I left Philly one freezing December morning and started driving south, until I came to the very tip of the US – South Beach (not counting the Keys, of course, but then I am not Hemingway!).
LOL! No six-toed cats for you, eh?! Anyway, here, it was good fun reading the :Alliance In Brief” column in the local paper the day and next day after a snowfall because you got to see whom among one’s neighbors didn’t know how to drive in snow. That’s where you read about all the police calls for the previous day.
LOL We’ve sailed to the Keys quite a few times, so I’ve met lots of Hemingway’s cats – very friendly guys and totally sober, contrary to their late patron.
I’m envious~! The closest to the Keys and Key West I’ve been is one of my fellow motion picture photographers when I was in the US Army was from Key West.
Oh, I am sorry! We love the Keys, and Key West, inasmuch as it has become quite commercialized (like everything else!), is still a funky and special place like no other place in the world.
I am sure, though, that you have been to many other places that I should be envious about!
Each place d=becomes something else once we’ve seen it. I enjoyed being in Europe between 1970-1972, yet friends who’ve revisited places we shared came back disappointed or surprised how much things were different now.
You are so right, Doug! I haven’t been back to Europe in almost 20 years, and I am sure even my very favorite Florence is not the same, other than the immortal Renaissance art and architecture.
Exactly!
I thought of your boys when I saw this
https://www.facebook.com/1611422985801782/videos/2005505423060201/
Ha! Ha! Love it!
We stay away from the snow as much as possible. 🙂
Good plan!
There is a Doug in that household without floofy paws and those toes lookd pretty pink in the open doorway. I hope you didn’t stand there very long.
Just long enough to get a couple photos…!
Oh pals I’m so sorry. Snow is cold, wet and miserable. I refused to go outside during this time. Who wants snow on their pot-belly? Thankfully ours is gone now. Shaking my head. Be strong my friends. Be strong. XOXO – Bacon
And Persian kitties have long hair that drags in the snow!
Shakes piggy head. Yep no. That’s a solid no to outside snow for all of us. XOXO – Bacon
Why get your tootsies frozen, I say!
Just as well they spend so much time inside and there are plenty of indoor activities on hand. Snow on the whiskers was not a great sensation last time.
Their floofy hair holds the snow away from their bodies and it doesn’t melt till they are inside. Dougy has explored a little (with heavy supervision) just outside the door after snows, and I think he would enjoy playing in it if I let him., Mostly he sniffs everything and has a great time doing it! Andy prefers not to take a chance outside.
Ahh ! An adventurous spirit who does not let snow on is whiskers hold him back. At least you do not have to worry about Andy going adventuring.
That’s a fact! It’s bad enough keeping an eye out for one slippery critter!
oooh snow much fun! or not? I never saw real snow, but I hope Mr. Winter has some for me in its pocket ;o) btw: that’s very brave of your human to great that white cold stuff with nekked paws ;O))))
greet not great… but the windoofus autocorrect was right, that was great to say hell-o to the snow that way ;O)))
Yeah, that auto-correct can be a pain, eh? Even handsome dogs get their message messed up with auto-correct!
Oh, yes, since you aren’t used to snow, you’d soon learn on your walks that it is coooooold on the tootsies! You’d be begging Dad to carry you back to the car.
Andy and Dougy have floofy paws, so they’d probably get little ice balls attached to the floof if I let them go outside. You might get them, too, between your toes. Snow is a pain, no matter how pretty it is!
Oh, yeah! You probably would enjoy eating it, though.
Sometimes auto-correct is, well, intuitively right!
Careful what you wish for, Phenny! It is fun, but, as Andy discerned right away, snow is just a disguise water uses in winter! “Ick!” to quote Andy.
Yeah, standing next to the door in a t-shirt and shorts, barefooted, I am pretty brave! Of course, I don’t step outside into the snow that way, either!