Happy Monday with Julie

Julie: Saturday was the best day of our weekend.

That's because it was sunny and I was on the porch.

Sunday we had a BIG snowstorm.

It snowed, then it rained and then it froze!

Mom says our city is a big mess.

Be that as it may, all I know is that I cannot get on the porch

and snooze like I did on Saturday !

My big brother JJ wishes he could sleep on the porch too.

The ducks have taken to hanging around our yard.

They have discovered the seeds Mom puts out for the birds.

Well, they are birds too.

While it is not sunny, there is a good thing about today.

Mom is home with us as it is Heritage Day!

I am waiting for her to sit and read her book.

She has a nice warm lap I can sleep in!

What Is This?

Mom went grocery shopping on Saturday. When she came home, she left the back door open while she unloaded the car. I came to see what was going on and she called to me to come outside onto the deck.

Whoa. What is this stuff?

Okay, I've come over here to say, "Hi" and get an ear scratch. I do not think I like this.

I'm going back inside. This stuff is cold.

I hope you don't have to be out in this.

See you next week.

Pilchard

Comfortable

It's so very, very cold right now. Mom says, when it gets cold like this, she doesn't like to do much. She spent Sunday afternoon in the recliner watching football on TV, and she doesn't usually do that. This kind of football was different than the other times. She didn't yell or jump up and down like she does when she watches the Iowa Hawkeyes. She just sat in the chair, occasionally reading, sometimes napping.

Our furnace has been going non-stop to keep the house warm. She moved our food out of the kitchen and the cold tile floor to the living room where it's warmer. I have to tell you, though, the warmest place in the house is on mom's lap.

Stay warm.

See you next week.

Pilchard.

Wake Me Later

So  mom said something about there being a "new" year coming. I liked the old one. Didn't seem to be anything wrong with it, so why get a new one?

In the Chicagoland area, where we live, that new one came in with a bang. It started when mom got home early from work, grabbed the broom and started sweeping the deck. She continued to do that, off and on, for the next day. There was a pile at the end by the stairs.

No, I didn't go out in it. Are you crazy? Mom was supposed to go to work today but she stayed home to shovel off the deck, shovel out the Jeep, shovel the front steps and to the mailbox. She started shoveling part of the driveway until the neighbor across the street with a really loud machine came over and made the snow go whoosh. Now the sun is out and mom says it's supposed to get really cold.

You know what? Wake me when it's warm.

I'm just gonna sleep on the bed.

Happy New Year, everyone. See you next week.

Pilchard.