But I'd really rather be digging...UPDATE 5 January 2010:
The snow continues. Syracuse just made the Today show’s first five minutes…because in the last 11 days we’ve accumulated FOUR FEET OF SNOW.
I don’t have four feet of snow in the back yard – closer to two feet – but when Madison forgets that she’s a princess and dives head-first into the fluffy white powder, she is buried right up to the tip of her little black tail. And Casey, ever the snow bunny, is gleeful as he plows almost effortlessly through the drifts. Sunday I shoveled three times. Monday, and today – only twice – because I spent most of the day at work.
Welcome to my winter in central New York!

Casey’s been having a good stretch since his 15th birthday on November 25 (hope I’m not jinxing myself by saying *that* in my out-loud voice!) But since solstice, when dark started coming a lot earlier and the nights started living under 15 deg. F., he’s been cuddling harder, sleeping deeper and he’s seemed just a bit more out of it each morning than usual.

Until today.
Last night, we got four inches of snow – that fine powder that means fast cross-country skiing, that he can easily leap in and out of and snowplow through with his nose. So although it was tough to convincMerry Christmas, everyone!e him to de-tangle from his soft nest of blankets this morning, once outside I could hardly slow him down.

Even Madison, a southern belle to her core, danced in the new snow. She plowed a few paths with her nose, made herself some snow angels, and then sat pretty for a holiday portrait.

Now, what I need is a new snow shovel ;)

Happy holidays from Casey, Madison and Pat at Dog Trainer’s Log!