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I woke up this morning on January 1st and after blech weather and rain for most of December. This is what I saw....









After losing everybody in my family, the holidays are a little hard on me. This made me realize that as long as we still live there is still hope for the future. It made me feel much better. Strange how the little things can do that sometimes......

Here's pictures of my dogs hanging out on a nice winter day. They look so harmless. Hobbes ( the big one) is pretty harmless. Sheba (the smaller one, the boxer) is actually paralyzed from the ribs back.






Before you feel sorry for Sheba, I've never seen any animal with the kind of determination and spirit that this dog has. The paralysis has not slowed her down much. She has a wheelchair but only uses it for long walks, the rest of the time she gets around by balancing on her front two legs. She actually does quite well that way. Manages to get into a lot a trouble with just two legs as the following picture shows. I had put the dogs to bed for the night in the kitchen and Sheba decided that she wanted out to wander around the house. This is what I found after I met her at the top of the stairs.......




She actually managed to break the teeth of the lever arm of the child's gate....

The wheelchair was stored in the hallway so she did this on two legs.... :-)