April Snow

This last week since I've been home we been doggy sitting Sophie my Mom's little dog. (Mom went to spend some time at Becky's.) We only lost her out the gate once and the front door abt. 3 times. She really needs to learn "come". When you say, "Sophie Come" she just looks at you and runs the other way. We aren't used to her energy. You see she is only 1 year old and very much a puppy. She kept trying to play with our dogs; Koira who is 15 yrs. old and Tena who is 13yrs. old. Our dogs just don't remember how to play, but they did very well ignoring her and calming her down. Our cats were another story. Kissa did very well at putting up with her follow him around. They are the same size and close to the same color. It was so funny watching her follow him all over the yard and house. (I tried but couldn't get a photo of them. Darn!) But he drew the line at following him, every time she would try to play she got hissed at. Our other cat Teemu went into hiding for 11 days. I think we only saw him half a dozen times. If he should even glimpse the puppy he would hiss and spit and run. I picked Mom up at the shuttle today and took both Mom and Sophie home. It's much quieter around here now. I'm anxious to see how long it takes Teemu to come out of hiding.





Sunday was a weird weather day here. We woke up to a blizzard. By 10am when we left for church we had about four and a half inches. It probably started melting around 1:00 or 1:30 pm, because when we came out of church at 2:15 the roads had no snow on them. Most of it melted yesterday by the time we went to bed. But we still have a little up by our house in front.