Archive for January, 2010
Christmas and New Year’s were so much fun. We had lots of relatives over to visit, and lots of guests having special dinners. I got the best leftovers! The dining room was all decorated up, and there was New Year’s confetti everywhere, and it was a tail-wagging good time.
It’s already snowed a few times this winter, and January and February are usually when we get the most. We had a HUGE storm a couple of weeks ago and Yosemite was actually closed for a while! Hundreds of trees were down all over the highways, and there was so much snow that cars couldn’t get in on any of the highways, and the power was out in three counties! Now that’s a big storm.
We had ghost hunters here last night, and I wonder if they saw Lyle? They had cameras and motion-detector thingies and recorders all over the place, like in the basement and of course in Lyle’s room upstairs. I can see him, of course, and he usually leaves because he doesn’t like all the attention. It would be neat to see him on a video, though, because I keep trying to tell people he’s there, but usually the humans just tell me to stop barking.
A few early flowers are starting to bloom already, especially down lower in the valleys. They all smell so good, the little daffodil ones and the mustard and other things I don’t even know the names of. I can’t wait for the almond orchards to bloom, that’s one of my favorite things to see from the car window. And then when the petals fall, it almost looks like snow all over again.