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[MurphOnMillerAve]

.... We have two Great Danes....

Holymackrel! That's a whole lot of carrying of large bags of dry dog food(s) and a goodly sum of money to be spending on TWO big lugs, huh, Mitch. Better you than I. That would kill me, I'm sure. I can see why you've stayed so trim and healthy looking!
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

62 degrees yesterday, 68 degrees today...this keeps up I'll have to mow the grass on Tuesday.

No, it's not going to dry out - more rain on the way - and then it's going to get cold for the weekend....

Well, at least it's not muddy out back anymore (because the effing dogs have tracked it all inside!). Heading up to see Sarge tomorrow...maybe the rain will wash some of the salt off the roads.

Entire backyard is still a big mud puddle that's just beginning to dry up - bit of a valley that the surrounding houses drain towards, so it's a total re-seed and start a new lawn season soon.

I'll be heading up to see Sarge tomorrow.

[rex desilets]

.... We have two Great Danes....

Holymackrel! That's a whole lot of carrying of large bags of dry dog food(s) and a goodly sum of money to be spending on TWO big lugs, huh, Mitch. Better you than I. That would kill me, I'm sure. I can see why you've stayed so trim and healthy looking!
Murph

Grown Great Danes don't eat very much....had a friend with one and was surprised at how little she ate.
Now, while they are growing is a much different story.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Utah has 5feet of snow on the ground (!)

[Mitch]

Grown Great Danes don't eat very much....had a friend with one and was surprised at how little she ate.
Now, while they are growing is a much different story.

4 cups each in the morning, 4 cups each in the evening, and whatever they can mooch from anybody near them.

[healey36]

Wow, Mitch, that's 16 cups of food per day between the two of them. My retrievers each get one cup in the AM, another cup at night. I feed them chow with little-to-no grain component, so not too much filler. Cuts way down on the volume going in and out.



Even at only two cups per day, my younger (the blonde) is 5-8 pounds overweight.

Healey

[Mitch]

That's just due to wintertime inactivity. When the weather breaks and you can get them outside to rump and play, they'll trim down a bit. I once had a Beagle that gained enough weight that she couldn't jump from the ground and make it to the floor of the cab of my truck, and huntin' season was comin! She'd try to get in, and find herself hangin' on by the front paws, then fallin' back to the ground. In just 4 or 5 evenings out chasin' bunnies for a couple of hours, she trimmed down enough where she could make it from the ground to up on the seat in one fell swoop.

Looks like we may be headin' for some flooding around here. Went down to the boat ramp this evening on the way home from work and the water of Buffalo Creek is nearly in to the parking lot. Height wise, that's a good 7 or 8 feet above normal, as the boat ramp is pretty steep. My daughter lives on first street and I'm hopin' we don't get a call at midnight to help her move stuff off the first floor. Heard on the news earlier today of a 9 mile ice jam on the Allegheny north of Kittanning. Pools number 7 and 8 hold a lot of big curves, and one curve on pool 8, (if viewed by aerial photo) has a near 180 degree turn in it. It's not uncommon to get flooding up around Parker and Brady's Bend.

[healey36]

Four inches of slop dumped on us today. Scraped off the driveway and sidewalks, but if we get the predicted sleet/frozen rain overnight tonight, that may prove to have been a mistake.

Hagerstown Almanac has us closing out the season with a pair of Nor'easters, one February 24-26, the second March 4-6. I can't wait. Effing groundhog...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Effing groundhog...

Told you to put him on the grill!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

When I was out-n-about this morning and afternoon, the air immediately around me and the low-hanging sky were connected in what I have always referred to as a metallic, gray damp cold that penetrates any clothing and lets us know snow is coming, soon. Somehow, in my mind, being out in the air on such a day is like touching the side of a gray battleship that has been in very cold waters, heavy, frigid, and threatening.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[robert.]

Ice,ice, baby.

[NJPiney]

I'm still sore from all the firewood I pushed myself to split over the weekend, but considering the weather since, I'm glad I did it while able to. This season's weather has been unbelievable. It's thrown monkey wrenches in my most of my plans, both at work and at home. I lead hikes for the park system I work for and we've been constantly scrambling for alternative trails that aren't flooded. Trails we've hiked for years with no issue are now virtually impassable without rubber boots, even days after that last precipitation.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm just glad that I split all that I did to fill the firewood rack last year; had fire in last night to take off the chill and damp.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Oh, it be icing, all righty. Really comin' down, now, coating everything solidly. I cancelled important (to me) local appointments along local roads I had scheduled for today, and am staying-put inside, totally.

P.S. Rufus, I worry about you out there flailing away at myriad logs. How long can you still do that in your life? Not that I look askew at such shenanigans, especially since I used to chop down trees for exercise as a teenager, using only a long-handled axe, but at one point, I decided it was not my calling in life and abjured a single other chop, leaving such work to younger, well-muscled, strong-hearted , better equipped dudes. Eh? Huh?