Mom's handwriting at 9 years of age

Snow snow snow snow snow (think music to White Christmas)

We got lots last night and it is a beautiful 20 degrees outside sooo Looks like we will be staying here until the sun hits the driveway and we can get down. MMM waffles for breakfast and a fire in the fireplace and lots of Wii for today :-) Petey just knows there is ground down there somewhere See I knew if I dug long enough I would find ground :-)- He loves it And this is only 3 inches. How many feet is it now in DC??? Wood got me some real snow boots several years ago for our trips to NY. Haven't used them in many years cause they are kind of thick and heavy to pack. But boy have they come in handy this morning. The birds are glad we have snow boots since we were able to go and refuel the feeders for them.

3 weeks ago beach- today snow

Well it started to snow about 3 hours ago and most unusual for us it is sticking. Glad we have Chili in the crock pot and wood for a fire tonight. Probably about an inch or so- so far Looks kind of pretty doesn't it? The birds are feasting as fast as they can to stay warm

One last day

Our last day here was a stormy one. We were going to head down to Jacksonville and St. Augustine in Florida, but ended up just hanging out and taking a break. Good thing too, because their were tornado watches most of the afternoon in Jacksonville. Not a time to be out in the carAfter the rain we headed out to the semi deserted and clean swept beach, low tide again by this time. We came upon a few feeding frenzy's. Petey pretty much had the run of the beach and run he did. Up and down and all around. He trotted pretty far in front of us and then would stop and turn around and look at us as if to say "come on you two, hurry up". Then when he was assured we were following HIS lead, he'd turn around and trot ahead. Couple of times we left him sniffing something beyond sniffable and then he'd notice we were about 100 yds ahead and run like a bullet to catch up. Pretty often when he was off leash and we were walking by folks, we asked him to heel, and most of the time he was beyond excellent - a little cocky and jaunty about it, but pretty much stayed either by my heel or Wood's. Pretty good little guy. I think this may have been one of our favorite vacations, yet!

Sunset walk

Sunset and very low tide made for a great time to take pictures. What a very relaxing way to end the day. I have never seen the tide this low. Storm is due in tomorrow so clouds are starting to build tonight. this is my favorite shot of the day. Pretty cool huh?We came upon a worm field and Petey took to sniffing them out. I just LOVE these little guys. Sometimes their legs go so fast it is just a blurrrrrrrr.

Fascinating critters

I really want to know what this is. If you click on the picture and make it bigger, it just is such an interesting creature And look at those barnacle freeloaders, seems weird that something so squishy could make a shell so hard Went back for another walk and took Wood's camera this time which has a better zoom than mine. These guys just fascinate me. Check out the tentacles. I zoomed in on it in Picassa and they are very thin little flappy over lapping things on the tentacles. Almost as good as a microscope :-). Let's have science class:-)