Wow! I cant get more professional advice about snow than jerry, chicago, winnipeg, and northern maine. It would seem that my worries about Georgie in the snow were a little unfounded, because we recieved a crash course last night. Guess who had diarrhea?. . . . No, not me. Yep, Georgia girl must've had a treat from her stocking from Santa that didnt agree with her and every hour and a half from 1 am till about two hours ago, little girl was asking to go out for a walk. It didnt matter that Huckleberry and I had packed a manageable path for her, the 50 to 70 mph winds were covering them right back up! But she didnt care, like the bitchy diva she is she wanted to go where she wanted to go. Even though the tornadic snow clouds were taking my breath away, she stood strong and unphased, donning the beautiful and regal winter coat that mommy had stitched out of a christmas tree skirt, and let go! Then, despite my stern guidance, she trucked through her own trails back into the house stopping for ice cold snacks. When we got back inside, her snow white butt, uhhh, needed cleaning, and we waited for the next one.

But she's done an awesome job. The snow is light and fluffy, but there are unchartered drifts that keep changing, and I cant let her pounce into them like she wants. When we get a winter storm around here, they're usually nor'easters like this one and they can be pretty nasty, hurricanes with snow. Although it is going up to 50 degrees by the end of the week and most of it will be gone, last year we had four consecutive, and it piled up and stayed piled up (that pic of her is from last year), and they both had a hard time on the trails once they got more packed and icy. So I was trying to prepare myself for yesterday with my new three-legger and I appreciate the varsity support from you guys! I do have a ruff-wear harness, but I dont know when its safe to start using yet, four days from her one month ampuversary. I was worried about her diarrhea at first, but a few hours ago her brother had the same thing which makes me suspect that it was treats. But since I started writing this, Georgia just got up and vomited, so now Im worried about something else like maybe doggie flu; she was at our local vet last week and maybe theres potential to contract something there. Man, it just keeps coming...

We're supposed to have a warm Friday here as well. It's almost worse to have the few warm days thrown in. Unless it's warm, long enough to melt everything, be really careful when things start to thaw & freeze. The layers of ice (especially if it snows again) can be deceiving. It can be especially bad where melting snow drips from roofs & gutters. I'm usually pretty much in favor of letting Isabelle find her own way, but am extra diligent with the ice. She will do almost anything to evade me when it's snowing. She plowed out of the car the other morning into a drift because she couldn't wait one second & then couldn't get out.

Hope everyone is feeling better soon.

Happy New Year Everybody!!! Georgia is one month post-op today......Happy Ampuversary Babygirl!! One Month Conquered! You are my amazing little peanut and we're very proud of you! Love Mama and Daddy