Snow for Chloe and Thibodeaux

So far this winter

everyone,

and I do mean everyone,

has had an uncanny amount of snowfall,

that is except for

Greenville and it's surrounding area's...

It would snow inches to feet anywhere else

and we would get rain...

I had come to the conclusion that this

area should hence forth be known as the

"Mud Capitol of the World"!

Miss Chloe being the "Princess" she is

will go out and come back with

only

the very pads of her "tiny" feet dirty..

only to walk them across the

entrance rug,

placed there just for that type of thing..

ON THE OTHER HAND

Thibodeaux...

well, let's put it this way..

he is all

little boy!!!

on a wet and muddy day

he seems to see the back yard

with it's one water hole and one muddy spot

as an exciting amusement park

filled with fun and adventure...

he will run laps around the yard,

making sure to pass through the

water hole with each lap,

thoroughly soaking his under carriage..

then to the muddy "spot"

(a place about twice his length in diameter)

to stand and "Scratch off"

causing mud to fly..

clinging to his back legs and to his belly...

I am not all together sure which he considers more fun..

the mud or the clean up before he can

get to far in the the door...

let me add here that

at this juncture in time at least

my boy has NOT

decided to lay down in the mud and

"waller"!

Ahhh,

then last Friday afternoon

we saw the first few

snow flakes..

I did not hold my breath..

deep down I knew it would not last

and the yard again

would be transformed into a muddy

theme park..

But, lo and behold!!

what should happen?

Four,

yes count 'em,

four wonderful inches

of pure frozen clean white snow!

It was Thibodeaux's first real snow fall !

It accumulated

covering not only the red mud

but also the whole yard,

the neighborhood,

the streets and the whole town...

this snow stretched to

Charleston and they even got

right at an inch in

Savannah!

Chloe and Thibby loved it!!!

And so did I!

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Saturday morning yard inspection...

Here comes the sun...

As the warm beds across the neighborhood

gave up their slumbering children

to dress in layers of warmth

topped off with knitted boggins,

Not only did snowmen start appearing

across the neighborhood

but

entire snow families ,

along with

snow forts with snowballs stacked in

hurried piles beside them..

The air was filled,

not with the usual sound of the rhythmic bouncing

of the basketballs

however,

with the "Splat!!"

of a hurled snowball,

fired at ones best buddy!

Each thrown snowball

followed with joyous laughter

and

boastful promises of the next ones flight path

and estimated landing pattern.

playing opossum...

now, that's a big snowball

a look out the front door

The "Princess" looks out the back door

"Snow in the South is wonderful.

It has a kind of magic & mystery that it has nowhere else.

And the reason for this is that it

comes to people in the south not as the grim,

unyielding tenant of Winter's keep,

but as a strange and wild visitor from the secret north."

Thomas Wolf

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And now so Miss Bo-Bo

won't feel neglected and forgotten..

a slide ...

She is closing in on eighteen years

and for as long as anyone can truly remember

that tail has been following her around

and upon occasions going so far as to

taunt and aggravate her...

which inevitably leads to..

"The Great Chase"

also known as

"Catch Me if You Can."

She usually catches it ...

for a moment or two

then it

always slips her clutches..

only to continue it's close game of follow the leader..

p.s. Does anyone know where they might sell mud flaps for...puppies?