The snow is melting ! The snow is melting!

The snow is melting! It got to 41 degrees today! Spring might come after all!

Winter is really hard on me, I suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder), the lack of sunlight. I also ache all the time from all of my injuries from car accidents. So needless to say I dread winter. We try to get out of here for a week or two and go somewhere warm but with the ecomony the way it is we go nowhere.

Anyway THE SNOW IS MELTIMG TODAY!

Results from CT scan

My husband hit two Percheron draft horses at 65 miles an hour on the highway in August.

This has been hard not only on him from his injuries, but me for the worrying. He doesnt stop or slow down until he is in so much pain that it floors him. He has constant headaches and memory loss. According to the CT scan there is not any damage to his brain, he does have some bulging discs in his back.

Is this a relief to me? Yes and no.....Yes because it shows no perment damage but what is the reason for the headaches and memory loss? I guess it is a good thing we have this done and one more thing elimated from the list. But the worrying will go on.

Front of the Surburban

Left side of car

Pheasants on the fence

I took this picture two summers ago. For some reason we had a lot of pheasants coming in our yard...it probably helps that i was feeding them. They were very brave to come this close to the house. I counted 12 making themselves at home on the fence. I think they liked the squeeker that I used to call Shiloh. This year I am going to see if I can attract some of them back.
I know there are a lot of bunnies because I am feeding them now, we have so much snow I dont know if they are finding a lot to eat.

Sorcha Catori

Sorcha Catori

This is Sorcha Catori. Sorcha means light-brightness in Gaelic and Catori is Hopi Indian for Spirit. It is probably a good thing I didn't have kids who knows what kind of names they would have ended up with. Sorcha is a 20 pound Maine Coon who also happens to have 9 toes on each front foot, she looks like she has snow shoes on. Sorcha came home with me through my best friend Cheri, she took me to see fluff ball kittens (my weakness) and the rest is history.

She like to hang over the edge of the stairs and stare at me when I call her. She most defiantly has her own mind.

Up close and personal. She was laying on the bed with me and we looked

at each other eye to eye.

My two fuzz balls. Sorcha tries to give Shiloh baths which are not very much appreciated.

I think Sorcha has a love hate relationship with Phadrea. She was the only cat for a long time and now there is this pain in the butt kitten who needs to be put in her place daily. As you can see there is quite a size difference which Sorcha uses to her advantage either by sitting on her or swatting her with the over size paws.

Shiloh the Golden Doodle

This Shiloh ~ she is what they call a Golden Doodle, a Poodle/Golden Retriever cross. She doesn't shed, loves the kids, swimming at the lake and helping you catch fish.

She is Miss Personality Plus and she thinks everyone wants to pet her.

This was her favorite place to sleep and she always sleeps with something in her mouth

The Golden Retriever characteristics show up when she wants to play ball. She doesn't take her eyes off that ball, she can't even be distracted with food.

The joy of playing ball

I have never seen a dog sleep like this! I wondered how the footprints got on the wall!

She still thinks she can fit on the footstool. This is how she looks when she isn't groomed, we call it the woolly mammoth look.

Shiloh loves to play in the snow and if she is not groomed she collects snowballs to bring in the house and the only way to get rid of them is to let her melt. Puddles everywhere, sure am glad we have concrete floors.

She goes every night to this same spot and waits for Chuck to come home. If you notice the stuffed toy hamburger next to her, she greets everyone at the door with a stuffed toy of some sort. It is hard to find stuffed toys that are big enough for her mouth.

This is my Golden Doodle puppy that I wouldn't trade for any other dog in the world.

Phadrea

This is my kitten Phadrea (Greek for light). She came to me through a friend who had found her on the roof of her gargage, very loudly voicing her opinion of being up there. She was a tiny ball of fluff with bright blue eyes that fit in the palm of my hand. Phadrea has her own opinion on everything be it the tempture of her milk or how she is wrapped in the blanket. She was sweet and loved to be cuddled and rocked to sleep.

Then she got older and more independent. No more rocking and cuddling for her, she was busy. Things to do, trouble to get into. Phadrea has two big sisters, Shiloh a Golden Doodle and Sorcha a very large Maine Coon cat. Size does not stop her, I guess she figures the bigger they are the more fun they are to torment. What she does not realize is they can both sit on her and give her a bath when they are tired of being bugged. Needless to say she is a very clean kitten.

It seems every day Phadrea figures out new ways to drive us all crazy. My friend tells me she is being a teenager. I dont remember being in trouble every single minute of every single day when I was a teenager....but that was also a long time ago. lol Anyway, Miss Phadrea went from the sweet little kitten in the above picture to this!!

I want a BBQ hot dog!

This is my husband Chuck and if you are wondering what he is doing he is cooking a hot dog in our fireplace. You have to understand it was at least-20 outside with out the windchill. I told him to cook it on the BBQ in the garage but he stated it was still to cold out there. Needless to say i reminded him he is the one who wants to live here.

I guess where there is a will there is a way...lol

This is my life in Minnesota

This is my life in Minnesota...everything stated on here are my personal thoughts on living in Minnesota. I cant say I like living here. I live here because this is where my husband grew up, where all of his siblings and parents still live.

It amazes me that so many people who live here have never been out of the state. There is such a big world out there and they have no desire to experience it. But that is their choice.

So this will have the trials and tribulations of my life in Minnesota.