A little bit of winter fun…
Not much snow to speak of, but we still got outside and played a bit in it!
A little family photo – no longer counting in weeks of course, but here we are!
Kaner, showing off his 2o2o he likes to work on.
A little snow-dusted Payton…
and a teensy bit of dust on Kaner, too.
Maybe later this year we’ll get some real snow!
Payton playing in the snow (SNOWSUIT PICS)
Snow is a fine delicacy. It has been quite rare this year. Like when there was a pumpkin shortage except it’s snow instead of pumpkin.
I started throwing snowballs at him – that caught his attention.
Oh I see what you have there. I want it plz.
aaaaand this is where we start with some blurry photos LOL.
WANTS.
Umm, a little bit of “wrong breed” going on there, buddy, but that’s nice.
OMG this face hahahahaha
I threw one behind him to try and get him to back up so I could try to get better photos. Instead he just turned around and was like “!!” because the big white ball disappeared into the carpet of white and he was so confused.
I so wish this were a) completely in the frame and b) in focus, haha!
THROW SNOWBALL
Uh, you got a little something on your… you know what, never mind.
I’m so glad I bought this snowsuit. I don’t care. It’s hilarious.
Gahahahahaha
I will be good if you throw it…
Yessssssss
The best I got haha! We’ll work on it. XD
Auggie was also outside playing in the snow but he was just kind of like “WTF?” when I threw snowballs at him. He would turn and eat the one I just threw off the ground, then if I threw another he’d turn and eat that one off the ground… his nose was too busy being glued to the ground.
Snow + Flashlight
So it was dark by the time I got home… but Payton didn’t want to let that stop him, so I tried not to let it stop me either. I got a flashlight and the camera.
It didn’t work out that well but I got a FEW pictures that might convey Payton’s newest love… possibly even more exciting than leaves…
Snowfaec.
He plunged his face into the snow, came up for air, then plunged back down again, hahaha.
It’s NOMMY
And then he got the zoomies. For like five minutes. He just kept running laps and Auggie and I stood there just waiting for him to stop completely freaking out.
The wind picked up and started blowing, and in the light from the flashlight he could see the flakes… and decided to try to catch falling snowflakes. OMG so cute.
Ugh these will make cute pictures if I actually have light while it’s snowing hahaha.
This is our first REAL snow as opposed to a small dusting… I hope it sticks around for a few days so I can try for better photos in the daylight!
Snowtiems wit Auggiedoggie
Ohhhh hai. Is snowtiems wit Auggie!
Dis kinda deep snow.
HAVIN HARD TIME GETTIN ROUND HERE
kay now I run wheeeee!
Wheeeee! (ahhhh pure Auggie joy!)
Kay dats enuf.
No really. I ran in it once. Is okay.
No wai. Not going back out dere.
Mama said “desperate times call for desperate measures.” Then she picked me up and put me here in the snow. WHY???
Now what?
Gramma shovelin’ the driveway.
No, don’t wanna play in too deep snow.
No is kinda cold on my belly when I get in.
Why you do dis to me Mommy?
You throw me in another pile of snow. I ignore you.
WHY, Mommy? WHY?
Why you on other side of fence. Where you goin. Dis stuff is cold and I has snowballs on my feets.
Okay now we go inside. END OF SNOWTIEMS WIT AUGGIE.
YEAH SNOW
It’s probably over 3 inches and it’s still snowing last I checked.
SNOWFAEC
I don’t know if you can really see it when this is zoomed out like this, but his hocks were CAKED with snow.
Ayy mateys, my name be Auggie McSnowbeard!
More snowy-beard.
He plunged his head back into the snow and when he came up again, no more snowbeard! How does that work?!
JOLLY BALL TIME
He’d roll it around with his paws a while before deciding to pick it up… weird dog.
Oh hai, I has a this.
WAAAAH SNOW
This is how he ends up with all that snow on his face. PLOOMPF
Oh hai jolly ball
I’m gonna pick you up…
but first…
I’m gonna munch allllll the snow off this handle thing here!
LOOK MOM
I like jolly ball
Stop-animation photography, haha:
AHHHHHHHH
fffffff snow in eyes
I can’t stop laughing at this for some reason.
licklicklicklicklicklick… slightly more sophisticated than the face-plunge.
My little guy <3
More stop-animation photography… this is how Auggie plays in the snow besides plunging in his whole face…
sproing!
sproing!!
Repeat sproinging.
Sproing EVERYWHERE
ALL OVER THE YARD
THE END
More Snow Pics
I meant to post these last week; right after I accepted that we wouldn’t be getting any decent snow, we got decent snow. We got more yesterday, even, and will get more tomorrow. Of course, it does me little good when I’m sick. Now that I think of it, standing outside in the snow taking photos of your dog is probably not the best way to get better, either. Oops.
Anyway, here we go!
This was the night we got the snow. I left work, raced home, let Auggie out immediately… but still didn’t really have enough light to get good photos. The few that turned out are pretty cute since he plunged his whole face right into the snow.
Sound effect: PLOOMPH.
These were taken Saturday afternoon, once I got out of my all-day class. It was about 4PM so the sun was starting to go down, but I still had some sunlight. This is how Auggie plays best. He will fetch, yes, and wrestle and tug… but he loves, loves, LOVES to run.
Specifically he likes being chased. He gets a kick out of me going “AAAH’M GONNA GETCHA” and starting towards him. He’s like a little kid, going “Eeeee hee hee!!” and running away squealing or something.
I’d like to make Auggie a slot car and race him on a track. Wheeeee!
The next day, Sunday. I stood out there, feeling sick, nose dripping with snot, hollering “RUN, AUGGIE! RUN RUN RUN!” And he ran.
He ran so far away.
This photo reminds me that I should live every day with Auggie’s mentality. That is… “WHEEEEEEEEEE!!”
Okay, to me, in this one he looks like he’s going “Huff… huff… can I stop running now? Huff… you’re right, Mom, I did get fat… huff… oh God I’m out of shape, huff… why… why…” I later found out that my dad, who thought he was doing everybody a favour by feeding Auggie breakfast the two weeks he was off work for Christmas, had been over feeding him. I KNEW IT. I knew he was fat. See, I wasn’t just being mean – he was being overfed and he really DID get fat.
Anyway, that was a month ago and I’m pretty sure Auggie is back down to his regular weight now. He got a bath last week and his body shape under all his fluffy fur looked correct to me, so I think we’re good.
Okay, I got some cute Auggie + snow pictures. My Midwestern winter for 2007-2008 is now complete.
Not-a-lot-of-snow Pics
A few days ago, I looked on The Weather Channel to see how the weather would be for the weekend. The front page reads in ominous letters, “BIG FREAKING SNOWSTORM COMING RIGHT FOR THE MIDWEST WHITE DEATH IT’S AWFUL!” (Okay not that exactly, but you get the idea.)
Unfortunately, upon checking our local forecast, I discovered this big snowstorm was actually only going to hit the NORTHERN parts of the Midwest. You know, like Chicago isn’t getting enough snow anyway, right? Of course, it didn’t really give a decent snow when I was IN Chicago, but it sure is snowing there now that I’m back in Central Illinois.
It’s almost mid-January and I’m resigned to the fact that we probably won’t get a good snow here this year. We MIGHT get a blizzard around Valentine’s Day… that happens on occasion, though we had one two years ago or so and I think we’re good for another 8 years until it happens again. So I’m not counting on it.
Therefore when I looked out the window today and saw big snowflakes floating through the air, I bundled up, grabbed the camera, and hauled Auggie outside for snow pictures… less than an inch of accumulation or not.
I attempted some Auggie-running shots, but he wouldn’t run unless I threw the tennis ball.
I shoot action shots on auto-focus, and in the unfortunate case of snow, the auto-focus seemed to be more interested on… the tiny little snowflakes rather than the DOG bearing down on me.
I threw the ball a total of three times; Auggie only retrieved it a total of 2 times. He was far more interested in searching the backyard for rabbit poop and trying to eat it. Therefore all of the rest of these photos are rather static.
“Shake off first, Auggie. Auggie, shake off. Shake off. Auggie…”
Nope. He insisted on going inside with all that snow on.
And now, some blooper photos…
I love when people are like “Oh your dog is so handsome!” No he’s not, he’s an idiot.
I frequently catch shots of my dog burping. Like this one.
First big snow of 2008! And winter’s almost over.
The sun was starting to go down so the light wasn’t 100% great…
Head buried in the snow… munching rabbit poop under the snow, no doubt…
This is his “I hope I hope I hope” face he makes when you have a treat… he was sitting nicely for a snowball, which was all the “treat” I had to make him sit so I could get the pic of the snow on his nose!
My handsome boy. Who needs a bath. Because the night of the snowstorm he thieved a BROWNIE out of a bag my mom left sitting on the floor (facepalm) and thusly he got the hydrogen peroxide treatment and I spent twenty minutes outside in the snow with him waiting until he puked it up, and now he’s dirty and nasty.
Hanging out in the path we made out to his ex-pen.
Obligatory “running to get me” pics. I wish the light had been just a biiit better, and these would have come out perfectly clear.
ROFL… I THINK he’s running in this one…
Shake shake shake!
aaaand last one. That’s my boot in the bottom right corner there.
I’m going to guess it’s about 9 inches. At this point, the top of the snow is really wet and dense… you sink down about three inches and then stop before you hit the ground from all the densely packed snow. It’s starting to melt fairly good though.
