Yesterday evening, just as we were winding up barn chores, the rain of the past two days turned to snow. And it snowed. And snowed. We woke up today to about 8 inches, and it continued throughout the day. By tonight we probably had about 12 inches of snow.
I took the photo above of little Smokey, one of the two wobbly brothers who arrived from Ohio back in October. This was their first snow ever, and they loved jumping through it. What I think they loved the most about the snow, however, was that it gave them something soft to land on when they fall!
Smokey, like all of our wobblers — dogs and cats — has a knack for doing what I call a ‘body block.’ They walk straight for you (straight being a figurative term here), aiming for your legs, and then drop themselves right on top of your feet. This maneuver is deliberately designed to stop you in your tracks so you’ll have to bend down and pet them. Every one of the cerebellar hypoplasia animals does this … and it’s very clever, because it works! I was out trying to take photos of some of the dogs frolicking in the snow, and Smokey kept parking himself on my boots. So I looked straight down with the camera and got that photo.
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