It Took A While

And we are by no means out of the cold weather for good...but today we did have record high temps.

83*

This is now a nightly occurrence at our house.

And God forbid anybody should try to take him out for a walk but me! 

He reminds me of an exclusively breastfed baby who WILL NOT take a bottle from anyone. Crude analogy, I know, but it fits.

Gangsta Style

It's Spirit Week at school. 

Spirit Week has basically no purpose other than to give the kids a week of fun at school where they can have "themed" dress days.  The Middle and High School follow a reverse chapel schedule which leaves them 45 minutes at the end of the day for a fun activity.

Today was comfy day - I don't work on Mondays and I HATE missing comfy day. Grr.  Anyway, Zack wore his Florida gator pj pants and a matching gator t-shirt and, somehow, won the award for the best boys dress of the day...actually I think it was his brother's panda sleep mask that pushed him to the top!

Tomorrow is "70's Gansgster" Day.  Say what?  I've never heard of such a thing...so I turned to google images.

This is what we could come up with...

I wanted to go to Goodwill to find a derby hat but he didn't.  And I wasn't about to spend money on something I didn't know if he would wear or not.

Also, he is choosing not to wear a tie.  And he is borrowing my sunglasses - which I better get back in one piece because I need those!

Dinner Out With My Boys

It's hubby's weekend to work nights and I love our tradition of going out to dinner - just me and my boys.

I actually really miss the days when C.J. was still here and all three of us would go out.

Anyway, Zack and I really like Buffalo Wild Wings but Jon won't go there so, instead, we go to our old favorite...Tortilla Flats.

It is so hard to get a good picture of the boys...neither one want their picture taken anymore.

Here Jon is making plans with his friends for later in the night and Zack is trying hard to be silly.

We love the chips they serve before the meal.

And they have a great fish fry on Friday nights.

Back on the Path

It has finally hit 70*

And that means the return of the nightly walk.  Last night I was planning on skipping the walk since after dinner I was compulsively cleaning the house.  But, Ollie had other ideas and would not calm down until I finally gave in at 7:30 and walked him around our yard.
Jeesh!

Today I thought we'd check out Terrell's Island - the first time since November.

And everything was going well until we came upon this scene:

several hundred birds who would jump into the water as we got closer.

and this is what they left behind

Apparently, it's nesting season until the end of July so Ollie will have to be leashed.

I leashed him as soon as we got close to the birds and the eggs - but he didn't really seem to care about either one of them.  He'd smell the eggs and just walk away.

Once we turned around it was funny watching all the birds getting out of the water right away to get back to their eggs.

Then I let Ollie off leash again and we finished our walk.

Could it FINALLY be Spring?

A few early showers, then some sun. Mild and windy this afternoon. Patchy clouds overnight with weakening winds. Some fog possible NORTH after midnight.

Saturday

• 67°
• 44°

Partly cloudy. Mild, but cooler lakeside.

Sunday

• 69°
• 51°

Sun and some afternoon clouds. Mild again.

Monday

• 66°
• 52°

Mostly cloudy with scattered t'showers, especially at night.

Tuesday

• 75°
• 54°

Morning showers, then partly sunny. Warm and windy.

Real or Not

Ever since we got our big screen hi-def T.V. Ollie reacts to seeing dogs on the screen.  Sometimes I won't even be watching the T.V. but I'll hear him start whining and get all excited. And, sure enough, when I rewind the T.V., there will have been a dog on there.


The other night I was watching the Wizard of Oz.

However, I ended up turning it off halfway through the program because someone would go crazy every time Toto was on the screen.

 

 

I though that eventually he would settle down and ignore Toto but - nope - he kept it up for at least 45 minutes until I finally turned it off.

Crazy!

First Walk of the Season

FINALLY...last night was nice enough (average temperatures) that I could take Ollie out to explore around the yard.

Waving to us from his bedroom window.


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