Bump

SUMMARY: The elder statesman.

Bump got short shrift in yesterday's post. So here he is, all 14 years and 1 month of him.

Sierras, Goodbye!

SUMMARY: We had a great weekend!

Spent the weekend with my gracious hosts, Dan and Karey, and their three border collies: Styx (compact little girl with prick ears), Dig (whom I think of as a "classic" black and white border collie), and Bump (the graying guy, 2 years older than Tika (retired from his Platinum-lifetime/platinum ADCH agility career)), and all of them handled 2-3 miles of snow hiking per day just fine. The dogs had a blast, and I loved just being there.

Got home at 2 this morning, in bed by 2:30 or so. Slept till 10. Catching up on email and photos and such, doing timecard and status report, moving the 1000 photos from one computer to the other, a little unpacking. Most of the photos I haven't even looked at yet! Now must go work.

Here are a few shots from this weekend. (If you're on facebook, you've likely already seen many of them.)

Saturday morning

Dig, Dig, Styx & Boost, Styx, Tika.



Saturday Afternoon and evening
Karey and my dogs, resting up.
Sunset. (The brilliantly colored one is the same as its preceding photo, but with saturation extremely exaggerated for fun.)



Sunday Morning

Tika, Styx, Boost, Styx



Sunday Afternoon and Evening

Tika with a rainbow, Boost, Bump with a rainbow, sunset, all of us.

Sierras, Here we Come!

SUMMARY: Hoping for a little snow.

From previous trips--

Home But Still Sorting Photos

SUMMARY: Wordless Wednesday

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New Year's Day in the Snow

SUMMARY: A few photos.

Home away from home when I arrived Friday evening.

Then snow fell overnight.

So this is what it looked like twenty-four hours after the 1st photo.

Another view of their cabin. I'd live here!

This is what you'd see looking out through those windows:

Out and about, late morning. We weren't the first out in the beautiful new fresh 4 inches of snow, but pretty close.

Tika loves the snow.

(Not so much snow in her face--every time I threw the toy, it collected snow, so when she shook it, she got snow-face big time. Not popular with this pup.)

But she loves to run and play.

Although, after a couple of hours in the snow, she cleverly figured out that she could follow someone else who was breaking the trail.

Karey and Dan point the way. Dig watches their shadows.

Hey, look--it's 1:11 1/1/11!

Tika in the fresh snow out on the deck.

Boost, too.

We didn't really plan on coming up to the snow to sit in front of the computers (we each have our own here).

Really, we didn't!

Even grumpy Dig got excited, and she and Boost played wildly for about 4 minutes in the snow in the yard.

Tika, Boost, and Dig ran a wild game of chase around the front yard.

Heading out to destroy fresh fields of snow!

Beauty everywhere.

After and before assorted humans and five excited dogs pass through.

Wayyyy below us, a train passes under I-80 on its slow winding way up the Sierras.