Well, the entire week was great, but the weekend was PAWSOME!
On Friday morning, we woke up to snow!!!
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| Friday 4:45am, Abby surveying the snow |
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| We thought Mom would be happy to allow us to play in the snow before she went to work, but apparently she was all into hustling us back inside. What a kill-joy! |
When Mom was at work, we surveyed the Winter Wonderland from our observation deck.
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| "How long do you think this will stick around?" "Noon. Maybe." |
And our snow did melt pretty quickly, but that didn't mean we didn't get to enjoy it.
When Mom got home from work, she took us on a walkie, and we checked out the remnants of the snow, and the last of the fall colors.
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| "We'll be doing snow zoomies in no time!" |
While the plows had cleared off the streets, there was still some snow at our house. Although
someone was pretty much sick of posing for photos at this point. Me? I knew there were sausage treats as soon as the photo shoot was over.
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| "Abs - the longer you look grumpy, the longer we'll have to sit here." "Mom will give in. Trust me." |
Mom took pity on us and just forked over the sausage treats.
While most of our snow was gone by Saturday, we were still able to get in a little early-season frisbee funballs in snow.
The key to a great season of Winter Frisbee Funballs is early season training, and we got in a great session!
By Sunday, most of our snow was gone but Mom kept looking across the canyon, talking about how the fall colors would be gone soon...
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| Aforementioned fall colors. |
And she thought a hike on the trail that loops around that hill would be fun. So early Sunday afternoon we hit the trails. It was an absolutely beautiful day! Mom was a little surprised at how much snow was still on the ground, but it didn't stop us, as we are Intrepid Hikers! BTW, biggify these photos for full effect.
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| "Follow me, Abs! I was hiking these trails with Mom when you were nothing more than a thought!" |
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| Wheee! Snow! Fall leaves! Moose tracks! It doesn't get any better than this! |
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| Onward and upward! |
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| "Abs, this is a Perfect Sunday Afternoon!" "Yuh. We should demand snowy trails and clear blue skies all the time!" |
To humor Mom, we stopped for a few "photo ops."
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| "Why yes, we DO enhance the scenery!" |
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| "Yeah, yeah - beautiful trees, beautiful doggies. Now let's get a move on!" |
Mom heeded our wishes and we continued on with the hike.
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| "Look at all the snow! And the mud! This is AWESOME!" |
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| "Abs, are we The Luckiest Doggies ever, or what?" |
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| I can see why Mom wanted to come up and look at the trees before all the leaves fall off! |
Once we made it to the top (
well, the top of the trail we were on - we could have gone higher up, but Mom is still getting over her sickies, and she didn't want to "push it" - she's feeling better, but she's still "recuperating"), we started heading back down. This part of the loop takes us through an aspen grove, and Mom kept snapping photos.
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| "C'mon Mom! There are trees to be seen and mud puddles to be explored!" |
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| "Follow the muddy brick road!" |
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| Did I mention that we are Super Lucky doggies? |
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| Mom keep looking up and oohing and aahing at the trees and the sky, so we let her take a picture that didn't include us. But only one! |
Okay, enough scenery. Back to us!
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| "Abs, stick with me - we'll find the best mud!" |
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| "And the best snow!" |
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| "We should do this more often!" "Definitely!" |
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| "This was a Totally Pawsome hike!" "Totally. Maybe Mom will take us snowshoeing this winter." |
It was a GREAT hike, and a beautiful day! The perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon!
AND, it wore the Hippobottomus out.
At least for a little bit. Which is all anyone can hope for.
Because she'll be back to this in no time...
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| Sproing! |
Have a great week!
*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Hippobottomus
