Snow!

I woke up this morning and it was all white! We’d had snow. I haven’t really seen snow before, so had to go and investigate. Mum took a bit of video as usual.



The trouble with snow is, so I’ve discovered this morning, if you sniff it, it goes up your nose!

Anyway, Mum and I went for a walk round the Ponds fairly early (well, early for me – Mum says most normal people & dogs have been up hours by the time I get up). You can see what it was like. This was the footpath by our house…



And here’s where people feed the ducks and where those horrible swans are that hiss and flap their wings at me…



You can see the young corgi I’d just been playing with in the photo – he’s a couple of months younger than me.

Then, of course, Mum took some more photos of me…







This afternoon I’ve been out for a walk with my Dad IN A BLIZZARD!!! It was a white hell! We could have got lost and wandered round and round in circles and starved to death before anyone found us! Well, ok, we were only up the Delph and walking along the Trailway, so I don’t suppose we’d really have got lost. And Dad didn’t seem too worried about it, so perhaps it wasn’t that bad. But there were lots of great big snowflakes falling.

The trouble with this cold is that it makes my leg ache. It does seem to be getting much better. Well, it was until I went to see my vet Duncan last Monday. And he pushed it around and kept making the knee come go out of joint, so it hurt for a few days after that. I’d had to go to see him for my booster injection – Mum says I have to have it so that I don’t get any nasty illnesses. I didn’t mind the injection though – it was all that pushing about of my bad leg that I objected to.

It doesn’t hurt anywhere near as much as it used to, though, and I’m not even taking any painkillers now. And I’m going for much longer walks to nice places like the Heath, the Country Park and the Delph. They are all really good as I usually meet lots of other dogs there. But sometimes the walks are a bit long and they make my leg ache afterwards. It’s difficult for me to tell Mum & Dad that I don’t want to go out as it’s making my leg hurt – normally I just try and run away when they go to put my harness on me. I don’t normally manage to get out of it, but sometimes I think I just have a shorter walk.

I’m really looking forward to this weekend. Mum says Linda and Paul are coming to stay as it’s Mum’s birthday (I hope I’ve got her a present as I’ve had to leave that up to Dad to organise). And then on Sunday Eric and Pat are supposed to be coming over as well. I’m getting excited already.