Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Dogged but slow...





..that's me, unlike the dog who is nippy and quick to learn. We can now clip claws, with Miss T's help, I can't do the left side because I can't work out how to hold her paws left handed, but I can do the right side (?). This is mostly due to a very kind and patient nurse at the animal hospital who took her time to win the dog's confidence and to show me how to do it.
The weather is weird... it poured with rain all Sunday night here, so walking to school on Monday morning was almost impossible. Every other step and Strawbs or I would slide down the very slippery slope, fortunately Miss T (or her boots) was made of sterner stuff and she just pulled us back up. Now the temperature is back down to minus 16 C and the ice isn't quite so lethal.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Last Day of Christmas!

Thanks to good old King Canute we still have 20 days of Christmas here, so I'm not too late in wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year :)
We spent the holidays quietly, but happily with a beautifully decorated tree ...

and wooden angels watching over us...

eating oranges...

watching an eerie 80% eclipse of the sun...

Cross-country skiing with the dog, she was never still long enough to get her in a shot...

Playing in the snow in spite of the extreme cold, at one stage it dropped to minus 36C (-32.8F)...

and sometimes managing to land face first :(

playing board games...
downhill skiing in town :)...

and avoiding Rudolph and friends on the roads.
I'll try and stay up to date from now on, after my long rest.