Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Warm, Sunny Wednesday

We've gone from winter, back to summer. It's 54 degrees right now, and beautiful outside! However, that's not my main topic for this post.
Bobbie...you should stop reading here!
I've been putting off telling you all that Sassy passed away Sunday. She appeared to be healthy, but Saturday afternoon, she did act a little strange. I called to her and she took off in the opposite direction. At the time, I thought it was just her usual "attitude". I let her go off, telling her that if she wanted to be that way, I'd just give Scamba her biscuit. This was not really unusual behavior for her. She was well named. Sassy was the first pup of our first litter. We kept her only because she had a bad hip from birth. Most breeders would have euthanized her right then, but we kept her and loved her in spite of her independent and stubborn, sassy nature. Dennis found her in her bed Sunday morning when he went out to chore. She apparently died in her sleep. She was 11 years old. We're trying to give Scamba extra attention since Sassy died, because he's over 12 years old, and we don't know if he will survive the winter. He's really showing his age.
Well....now you know (Bobbie's still reading because she no way would have stopped where I told her to stop!) our latest news, and we have just one dog left now.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Sunday Slush!

What a wonderfully warm winter day! We enjoyed mid 40 temperatures, but the snow has turned to slush. My poor little snowman is turning into a big drippy puddle!
Zach and I enjoyed our trip to Iowa City yesterday. In addition to having our delicious treat at the Cold Stone (NOT Stone Cold, as I said previously) Creamery, we took in the Old Capitol Museum. Zach enjoyed participating in the activities they were having for the young visitors. He learned to write with a quill, did a treasure hunt throughout the building looking for interesting facts, for which he received a prize, and when we got back home, Dennis took him sledding.
Today we visited the Victory Faith Church in Ft. Madison, where Lynn regularly attends. We really enjoyed the service, and saw quite a number of acquaintances who also attend. Jacob goes to the youth program called U-Turn on Wednesday evenings. He has been involved there for a couple years and really likes it. If you can get the 89.9 radio station, you can hear the pastor speak on Friday afternoons, around 4 o'clock I think. He's really very good!
Tomorrow, it's back to the bus! Kathy, Gail, Wyatt and I are planning to make a quick shopping run to Coralville. I have another coupon for a FREE Cold Stone Creamery concoction!