Author: Dackel Princess

It’s All About Time…

Time is running out and I still have a little shopping to do. Perhaps tomorrow, or Friday. I’m not going to stress about it.

Did you all notice how quickly Christmas has come upon us this year? I’m just not ready for it. Perhaps the trip delayed my shopping, or put my mind in other places.

Today Hubby and I did a little shopping for each other. We got these great hats at LL Bean that match. His is blue and mine is black. I will have to get a picture of us in them! We also bought some clothes and I quite happily found a new oatmeal colored wool sweater. You know me, I LOVE LL Bean!!!

When we got home Hubby worked repairing our snow blower so it is all ready for the next storm. It blew the head gasket during the last storm and so the repair was critical. Please don’t ask me what a head gasket is, I am sure that I couldn’t explain it if I tried…LOL

I hope you will stop in tomorrow for a special entry. I’ve been working on it for a few days and I hope you will enjoy it, as much as I did making it.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Making Someone’s Day

Every year since we moved back to New Hampshire, I have baked, and delivered cookies, jams and jellies to special people in our lives. The Post Office people who sort our mail, the Veterinarians, who takes care of my fur kids, and various neighbors who make our lives wonderful!

Today I delivered a few baskets to people. The best was to our 90 year old neighbor, Frank. He is a widower and lives alone at the top of our driveway in a house that he and his late wife built. He is a man of few words, but whenever I see him I always give him a big smile and a big hug, no matter how bad my day is going.

And I always come away from our visits smiling.

Today I brought him his cookies, jams and some apples from our trees and he told me I didn’t have to do that. I said, that I did.

“Why?” he asked me.

“That’s easy, because I love you!”

I could see tears well up in his tired eyes, and I hugged him.

You know, this is one of the best Christmas gifts I get every year. The gift of knowing that I have made someone else’s day.

I think that is what Christmas is all about!

Global Warming?

Life is full of surprises, right?

We got up this morning and found a good 6-8 inches of snow had fallen during the night. The snow was over the heads of the puppies as they tried to go out, and I had to get on my boots, hat, coat and gloves and shovel a small path for them.

After breakfast Hubby dutifully went out and using his ancient snowblower, cleared our 500 foot driveway. For those of you that don’t know, this drive is all uphill from our house, making it a driving challenge in the winter.

While he did this, I baked the cookies I’d been promising myself I would make, and I watched “It’s A Wonderful Life” while I did this.

And still, it snowed.

We’re now in a lull in the storm, and we have a total of 8-10 inches of snow so far. More is expected overnight.

Now this is getting truly weird, because we ordinarily do not have this much snow this early in the winter. Since we returned from our cruise at the end of November, we have had over 2 feet of snow!

So the next time someone is sitting next to me telling me that life is going to end in one great puddle of melting ice due to “Global Warming” I will simply laugh.

I’m sorry, but I have to, because I’m sitting here on top of a very high pile of snow in a cold and snowy New Hampshire!

5 Wishes

I’ve been tagged by Becci . Every one else has 5 very nice wishes, world peace, world love, etc….but I think I’m going the other way…5 things I really REALLY would like for Christmas!

1. Health for my family and friends.
2. The ability to learn and create new things on the computer.
3. Another healthy litter of pups.
4. A laptop that works flawlessly.
5. People to leave me MORE COMMENTS!! LOL

I tag whomever would like to be tagged

It’s Begining To Look A Lot Like Christmas…

Today I went crazy. Yes, crazy. I went out, on a Saturday to shop, and we all know that this is a CRAZY thing to do 10 days before Christmas, especially when a major snow “event” is being forecast for the next day. However, I had a good reason to do this. I needed to buy important things.

Flour, butter, and brown sugar. Yes, the makings of cookies at Christmas.

Tomorrow New England is due for a big storm. Whether this actually occurs, I cannot predict, but I thought that I would get everything I needed to make cookies so I can watch the New England Patriots game and bake.

Football and cookies. It doesn’t get any better than that!!!

I love to bake cookies, and I am going to bake four different kinds. Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, Snickerdoodles and Ginger Crisps. If all goes well, on Monday I can start making deliveries to those I want to remember with some home baked goodies.

Yes, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Snow, Cookies and Football!

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SMALL

I bet you all knew that my pictures from last year when the puppies were born would be my small pictures! They were so small and so sweet. I can hardly wait for the next litter to arrive!

These were the babies after they were delivered via cesarean section.

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Me with one of the newborn pups.

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I Am Getting Old…

It’s snowing again. A lot.

Now I like snow, I really do, but we have had a lot of snow already this year, and right now I am getting a little sick of it!

If I could go out in it once or twice a day I could live with that, but the puppies want to be out running around, so they con me into believing that they need to wee-wee. So out we go and then they just take off, running like little wild ones around the back yard!

Good times!

I also have discovered that bringing them out is easier if I shovel the patio and then a little walk way, and I have also discovered that shoulders and lower backs ache after doing this.

It’s painful to realize that most of these feelings are due to the fact that I am getting old-(er). I can recall the days when I could shovel snow for hours and play with my doggies in the snow and not feel chilly and wet.

So while children in New England are happily singing about a “White Christmas” I am sitting here saying “Bah Humbug”!

The Christmas Letter

It has snowed and rained and iced here tonight. I think good old Mother Nature can’t make up her mind.

One thing is for sure, the roads are a mess.

Which means it’s a good time to stay home and finish our annual Christmas letter.

It was tough this year. There was so much to write about, and yet we limit ourselves to a single sheet of paper. However, Hubby’s great composition skills and my computer savvy, seemed to have put together an interesting read.

I sure hope so, as I would hate to think that anyone would get our letter and exclaim, “Oh No”!

So now Hubby will print them up and I will finish addressing the envelopes. True team work!

Maybe I can get the dogs to lick the envelopes!

Ha!

The Birthday

Monday was the big birthday. Birthday # 1! We got a cake and the two girls came over for the celebration. The kids came down and we got candles on the cake, and sang Happy Birthday to the little furballs!

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Our singing was sweet and melodic (LOL) and the pups seemed to know it was all for them. They wanted that cake more than anything. So first we offered it to Anneliese who grabbed the entire thing in her mouth!

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We managed to get it out of her mouth long enough to break it up. Then she at up the entire piece!

Next we got Arnie. He took one look at the cake and just inhaled his piece! Isn’t it amazing how dogs and children learn to eat cake like this?

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It was a wonderful first birthday and everyone had a good time, and lots of cake!