This is a fast breaking TDB news flash. I'm your saddened doggie reporter Chester L. W. Spaniel.
Yes, I am howling sorrowfully here. I just found out my dear friend Mr. Jack Freckles (aka MJF) has crossed the Rainbow Bridge. We're sending lots of tearful hugs and condolences to his family.
Hello everybody! This is The Daily Bone and I'm your diligent doggie reporter
Chester L. W. Spaniel.
It's been snowing almost all day! It started real early in the morning, after 2am when ghostwriter finally went to bed.
8am: Debbie Dove was sitting on the window birdie feeder. You can still see the grass sticking up through the snow behind her.
11am: I went and did some great snow zoomies!
1:30pm: the snow plow came around. Look at all the snow falling now!
We live on a three way intersection. The truck always stops, backs up, and turns around a couple times to be sure he clears out the entire intersection.
Wow! That's a noisy truck!
But now the road is good for the school bus to drive on!
2pm: I was out for more zoomies. The snow was still falling steadily.
Do you see that crummy rotten squirrel on the tree trunk?
Now I'm headed back inside for a nice nap! Dad and ghostwriter didn't have anywhere to go today. Those are the best kind of days!
4:30pm: The snow stopped and the sun came out for a few minutes before it clouded up again. After all that, we only ended up with about four inches of snow on the ground.
10:30pm: It's snowing again. We'll see what tomorrow brings!
Hello everybody. This is The Daily Bone and I'm your dutiful doggie reporter Chester L. W. Spaniel.
Now hear this! On Friday, February 2, 2018 ghostwriter went back to work at the nursing home on 3 to 11pm shift after being off for four months for her knee replacement surgery. She got through it. The next day she said she woke up feeling like she was run over by a truck. But her new knee was OK! Hooray!
But I'd rather she stayed home. I mean, look at this yum yum dinner she made for Super Bowl Sunday! Ooooo! Crockpot ribs with barbecue sauce, and collard greens that were cooked with a smoked turkey wing, and mashed sweet potatoes, and little sausages in a blanket. I got to try everything, and it was all super delicious!
And now Dad is watching the Super Bowl Football Game. I've kind of figured out what that is. It's this game played by big strong guys in tight pants with lots of shoulder padding and big helmets on their heads. They have to get a squeaky ball to one end of their back yard or other, and they all try to stop each other by smashing into each other. I tell you, if I got hold of that squeaky ball, I'd run as fast as I could right out of that back yard, and I wouldn't stop until I was home in my doggie bed!
Ghostwriter says that she still doesn't understand all the rules of football. So instead, we watched some videos, like this adorable owl in Finland:
And this lovely Sasquatch family. (Notice in the first scene, Mommy Sasquatch is whomping a squirrel against a rock. Wow! That's my kind of Mommy!)
I could spend hours watching those Suburu car ads with the Barkleys too!
Ghostwriter and I watched the half time show, though. Dad is very hard of hearing. He has closed captions playing on the TV all the time so he knows what's being said. (Those are the yellow letters on the lower left screen here.) Sometimes he watches TV with no sound at all and just reads the captions.
This year he got some special headphones that play the TV sound directly into his ears by some magic wifi technology. Now he can read the captions and hear the show too! But ghostwriter and I can't hear a thing when he does that.
Hello. This is The Daily Bone and I'm your earnest doggie reporter Chester L. W. Spaniel.
Look look look! Our snow is back! It's been falling continuously since the middle of last night! Wow!
It's not too deep yet.
But it's good enough for running!
It was enough for the snow plow to go by!
The sky was gray all day long.
Needless to say, we spent most of the day inside. But ghostwriter decided it would be a good time to finally learn how to make magic fancy artistic pictures. And guess what?
Well, we figured out a few things anyway. But I think ghostwriter and I will get good enough to be able to ask my dearest Princess Leah if she would meet me in Paris on Valentines Day so we can make a postcard for the Blogville Valentines Day Blog Hop.
And look look look lookie look! Yesterday I went to see Miss Jacquie the groomer to get a hair cut and a bath. So I'm not a ragamuffin anymore.
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This is a TDB Special News Flash. We did not expect to see the moon tonight with all the clouds that were present all day. But now I'm pleased to announce that the clouds have broken up and we were able to see the big full "Blue" moon. I'd like to take this chance to remind everyone that there's going to be a lunar eclipse in the early morning hours of tomorrow January 31. We're going to set the alarm clock to wake us up at 5am, and hopefully the sky will not have clouded up again.
Moon light shining on icicles.
Moon through the trees.
Moon cradled in the branches.
More icicles.
I'm going to go to sleep right now so I can be awake early tomorrow. Good night.
Greetings friends and fans. This is The Daily Bone and I am your amiable doggie reporter
Chester L. W. Spaniel.
As you can see, it's sunny and all my wonderful snow has melted again. It's supposed to warm up more tomorrow, and then get cold and snowy again. I wish this weather would make up it's mind!
I have a very good story to tell you today. I just met a new kitty cat cousin named Winter Moon. He was adopted from a shelter by our good friend Pat in PA.
Winter Moon
Pat had a kitty cat named Tricky for a very long time until he had to go across the Rainbow Bridge. That was so heartbreaking that Pat decided she would never own a pet again. But Pat's daughter Deb sent her some pictures of a couple kitties who were up for adoption at a local pet store. Pat saw Winter and thought she might consider fostering him for a while. She contacted the person who was fostering Winter at the time just to get a little information about him. She was told Winter wasn't very happy because he was afraid of the two doggies that lived there, and spent most of the time hiding behind the couch. She was also told Winter had some kind of heart problem, so that nobody else wanted him. Pat decided then and there she would take him. When she brought him home, he explored the house and then took a nap on her bed, and has been sleeping there ever since. When she took Winter to the vet, she was told that Winter was probably about five years old, and that there was no heart condition after all.
Here's a link to the shelter Winter Moon came from:
Wow! I have five kitty cat cousins now! Imagine that!
Speaking of the moon in winter, in one week there will be a full moon. It will also be considered a blue moon, because it's the second full moon in the month of January. There will also be a lunar eclipse. I sure hope this crazy weather cooperates so we can watch it!
But in the meantime, here's an article I found about it:
Hello fellow doggies. This is The Daily Bone and I'm your indignant doggie reporter
Chester L. W. Spaniel.
Despite our collective doggie objection to squirrel appreciation day, here it is again! As loyal readers will know, I am the last remaining member of the Double Doggie Homeland Security System since my esteemed colleague Joseph (Joey dog) Spaniel passed away in 2016. I still strive to keep the Evil Squirrel Cartel out of my territory. Although many humans actually like (gag) squirrels, I don't, and I keep a close eye on their activities.
Yesterday I saw alias Twinkletoes the squirrel eyeballing the birdie feeder, trying to think of a way to plunder it.
He decided he couldn't jump up onto it, so he decided to climb up the clothes line pole.
There he sat, twitching his tail, and staring at the feeder.
I guess he didn't think walking across the clothes lines was a good idea. (Besides, if he did manage to get onto the feeder, his weight would cause the feeding ports to close. We have yet to see a squirrel take seeds out of this birdie feeder!)
I went out and chased him away before he burned out what little brains he had between his ears.
Ziggy
For some reason, there were hardly any squirrels around my yard today. They must be all attending the big Squirrel Appreciation Luncheon put on by the nice little pony in this video. As you can see, those squirrels don't have very good table manners!
Hey, you know what would make me appreciate squirrels? This:
In case you can't remember when squirrel appreciation day is celebrated each year, here's an article that tells you:
