Poor Exhausted Old Girl

 

Dad here-  I don't know, there's just something I love about these photos.  It's like she lives for our laps, hopping up, turning around once, twice, occasionally a third time and just melting into them.  Have yourselves a wonderful weekend.

Hoo Boy, Talk About Random!

So here's a mishmash of a post:

 1.) Mom and dad, ever the wanderers, drove down to Looking Glass Falls in the Pisgah National Forest recently. 

Mom's been wanting to check the falls out for some time, and this particular Saturday found them wanting to do something outdoors. 

Not too far from the falls is Sliding Rock, a 60 foot, well, rock, which you can slide down on your butt, landing in an 8 foot deep pool.  

Sliding Rock

2.) During a recent routine appointment dad lost a crown on one of his chompers, and since the tooth was a lost cause decided to just have it pulled.  Mom, ever the mom, made sure dad didn't wither away to nothing while having to endure a day of liquid diet followed by a day of soft diet.  She cooked and pureed some delicious mashed red potatoes and peas & carrots, and soft-scrambled some eggs with sharp cheddar in them. 

In spite of his baby food jokes dad said this was delicious, and thanked mom for taking such good care of him.  Of course, on the third day he was miraculously cured enough to go out for breakfast, and even stop for a beer at Guidon Brewing Co. in Hendersonville on their way home from Looking Glass Falls.

3.) Take a gander at some more recent neighborly sightings: 

One of the neighborhood cubs was right at the end of our driveway. 

Sadly, dad recently found the dismembered remains of one of the cubs in the field next door.  We're not sure what- or who- did this.  Finally, dad was standing at the kitchen sink one morning and caught movement in the lot next door, and out from the brush came this handsome buck. 

The quality is horrible because the picture was taken through the window screen, but you can see the rack on this young guy pretty easily.

So there you have it.  My hodgepodge of a post.  Y'all have a great rest of your week.

Chin Scritches by Laptop Light

 

As you know, dad and I like to sit together most early mornings.  That's when dad gets his computer & blogging stuff done, and of course he needs my assistance most of the time. 

On this particular Sunday morning we were posting our comments on all y'all's blogs, dad tapping away and me, well, doing what I do best, and I managed to get in some tantalizing chin scritches. 

We apologize for the poor focus on this last one.

  Either dad had had his fill of his maple flavored liquid jolt or the motion of him giving me my scritches caused the fuzziness.  Here we are, almost a month past Christmas and as you can see their little Christmas shrub is still alive.  Dad's oldest daughter sent out a Christmas package that should ordinarily have arrived in time for Christmas morning, but didn't show up until a few days ago.  Luckily, the shrub is for year-round enjoyment, so they had a place to hang the grandkids' special handmade ornaments to display post-Christmas.