Snow

We had two snowstorms in three days, leaving us in a beautiful winter wonderland.  The first was Sunday afternoon into Monday morning, which gave us eight inches.  We had a break Monday afternoon and evening, but then it snowed all day yesterday and left another five inches.  Along with the snow came some very low temperatures.

When I took Turbo out at 6:45 a.m. today it was 7 degrees.  It's been a snowy and bitter cold few days.

Here's a photo I took mid-day yesterday, during a break in the snowfall.  It snowed enough since then that this morning Turbo didn't want to go down the steps to do his business, and it was cold and dark enough that I wasn't inclined to pick up the snow shovel.   We ended up going down the front walk which Ben had shoveled as he left to go to the climbing gym even earlier this morning.

Here's the little fellow yesterday.  This was his first time walking while snow was falling, and he took it all in stride.  So many things are still brand new to him, and having cold white stuff come down from the sky on him was just another new thing to wonder at.   

Here's a few photos taken at various times during the past few days.  The snow sure is pretty, isn't it? 

We spotted this Halloween dragon while we were out delivering Meals on Wheels on Monday and thought he was pretty cool. 

Speaking of Halloween, these two photos were taken Monday morning.  Now these pumpkins are buried under the snow.  

The schools were open with a two hour delay on Monday, but they had a full day yesterday, though CU closed its campus at noon and the city closed its offices at 2:00.  There's another two hour delay today, probably more about the temperature than the snow.  I see that it's now 6 degrees; how did we lose a degree in the last hour? 

Living with an energetic puppy during three days of cold and nasty weather has been a challenge.    Anytime Turbo went outside he ended up in our tiled bathroom where he was toweled off and dried with the hair dryer, so instead of playing outside we spent a lot of time in the house.  Turbo's favorite indoor activities currently include chewing the rug and and practicing his "counter surfing."   To keep him busy we played fetch, gave him a variety of chew toys,  and did a lot of training.  This photo was taken when That Handsome Dog Gus came over and Paul ran through the basic commands of sit, down, shake, and Paul's favorite which is "Circus Dog" (both front paws hooked over Paul's arms).   I love how they are watching Paul so intently.

Still, it's a good thing Turbo is so darn cute because he has to be supervised constantly.  We often end up crating or leashing him up for short periods so we can get other things done.
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I was able to find time to get the two holiday runners and the wall hanging basted together and even started quilting them.   I also did some design work on a wall hanging I have underway showing a European hillside town by a lake.  That really made me feel good!

Recently I found this quote from Willie Nelson:  I think I need to keep being creative, not to prove anything but because it makes me happy just to do it."  Sure rang true to me.