warmed up to fifty yesterday

[Rich Jones]

28" of snow three days ago. Temps in the 40's next week.
It's going to be epic spring skiing. I just bought new skis and
boots and will spend the week having fun.

No bugs in sight around here.

[Gary Davis]

53 yesterday. No-jacket weather here.

[L.W. Baxter]

first bees came out for the pussy willow, the first tree to bloom. hummingbirds were on it, too.

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spring chickies let out to stretch their legs and necks and wings

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mister fergus made sure the bork dust didn’t fly away

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[Paul Pless]

he is a pretty dog

[L.W. Baxter]

he’s been on the paleo diet

[LeeG]

a few snow flakes falling this morn. I survived making cookie dough w three yr old grandaughter w 18 mo twins just outside the babygate. Their mom is the perfect prep cook.

[Rich Jones]

Not snowing at the moment but the wind is howling.
Driving home from church we had to come to a complete stop when a total whiteout obscured the road. I've never had that happen before.

[Rich Jones]

first bees came out for the pussy willow, the first tree to bloom. hummingbirds were on it, too.

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spring chickies let out to stretch their legs and necks and wings

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mister fergus made sure the bork dust didn’t fly away

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Chocolate lab? My BIL (age 86) has had labs his entire adult life, all of them wild and untamable.
Great dogs, but totally nuts.
The last one died a year ago and we were hoping he wouldn't get another. Wrong. He got a chocolate lab puppy 6 months ago. The dopey dog is now big enough that it's pulled him over numerous times when out walking. My BIL is a very healthy 86-year -old, but the entire family is worried about his safety. He seems unconcerned.

Woman asking her vet a question.

WOMAN: Doctor, when will my lab stop jumping around like an idiot?

VET: Two years after he dies.

[L.W. Baxter]

Chocolate lab? My BIL (age 86) has had labs his entire adult life, all of them wild and untamable.
Great dogs, but totally nuts.
The last one died a year ago and we were hoping he wouldn't get another. Wrong. He got a chocolate lab puppy 6 months ago. The dopey dog is now big enough that it's pulled him over numerous times when out walking. My BIL is a very healthy 86-year -old, but the entire family is worried about his safety. He seems unconcerned.

Woman asking her vet a question.

WOMAN: Doctor, when will my lab stop jumping around like an idiot?

VET: Two years after he dies.

well, if you think labs are totally nuts, try a german shorthaired pointer. which is what fergus is.

higher strung and more willful, in my experience, than any lab i have ever known.

[LeeG]

labs will rise to your training otherwise they’ll become total trash hound goofballs

[Vince Brennan]

well, if you think labs are totally nuts, try a german shorthaired pointer. which is what fergus is.

higher strung and more willful, in my experience, than any lab i have ever known.

Lived with a GSP named (what else?) Freckles, lovely dog, obedient on a leash, didn't get 'shirty' with other dogs or people, but she had one really bad habit. She was the main heat in our unheated (for a winter) house at bedtime, but she'd worm her way up between me and SWMBO (-4) under the covers and just when everyone was feeling nice and toasty, she'd either levitate, rotate and steal ALL the effing covers, or would suddenly roll to port and s-t-r-e-c-h her legs, resulting in either I or SWMBO (4'9, 85#) sudddenly emulating Wil Y Coyote and momentarily being suspended in midair. (Sometimes BOTH of us at once!)

Freckle found a nice farm to live on, and we then got Lancelot (Bonzo). a black male lab who loved to jump up and down when the leash was brandished, but whose bladder control was sorely tested in mid paroxysm of his doggy joy at the prospect of a walk.

Eventually he was called "Dammit". Can't think why...

[SKIP KILPATRICK]

well, if you think labs are totally nuts, try a german shorthaired pointer. which is what fergus is.

higher strung and more willful, in my experience, than any lab i have ever known.

We had a GSP when I was a kid, Barney. He was cray-cray! He is the only dog we ever had to re-home.

One of my dad's co-workers, who had a large farm near Leesburg took him. He was sent away to bird-dog school. On graduation day....well let's just say Bob got his money back. Instead of pointing at the quail he chased it down and grabbed it out of the air. Then he refused to give it up.

Beautiful animal though, one of dad's other friends had another GSP that was an excellent bird-dog. We hunted with her for quail and pheasant in rural Northern Virginia (rural no longer exists in NoVa).

[SKIP KILPATRICK]

Spring begins today. Only 22F this morning warming to mid-50's today. 80's F on Friday.