Snow Days

I don't think there is any greater joy than being a child and waking up to, as Spencer says, "beautiful blankets of soft snow" ( I believe that is a quote from Thomas the Tank Engine, go figure, LOL). I can remember being about Spencer's age when we got about a foot of snow, or at least it seemed that way to me. Goodness it was fun! Dara, my sister, was still too little to go out and play with me in it, but I can distinctly recall making snowmen and snow tunnels. What a blast.

As much as I dislike Mountain Home, I will say this: they get some winter weather. I've preferred cold weather to hot since I outgrew (or got too busy for) living in the swimming pool all summer. Give me a wind chill and some snow ice cream any 'ol day of the week. That was too big of an order to fill most months living in central Arkansas, but not up in the northern part of the state. And I have to say, I love it!!

And Spencer has certainly been having a great time...

Notice how Trogdor is all up in Spencer's business the whole time they are in the backyard. Trogdor is part Great Pyrenees and, way back in the day, they were bred to guard sheep in the Pyrenees Mountains where it is super cold. He has been going out into the snow and just hanging out. I think he is enjoying the fact that it has been cold enough for it to stick around and was hoping that Spencer would frolic with him in it. :-)