Longer and brighter days

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you're all having a nice, quiet and relaxing Sunday.  Ours is good, just the way we like our Sundays at this time of year.  Did you notice how much brighter the days are getting? We sure did. When we take the pooches out after their 5 pm dinner, it is brighter and soon we won't need to turn the outside lights on. Same in the morning. It's happening folks, the days are getting longer!

This past week was quiet and good for both of us. The remnants of our flu are disappearing with each day. Russell saw his doctor and got a chest x-ray. All is clear, good news. He's still winded but that will go away. He will go back to the gym on Wednesday and take it slow. I'm much better...not sure if being a woman has something to do with it....just kidding. Anyway, we're good and are not complaining. When we see what's going on around us and around the world, we count our blessings.

Our pooches are doing well. They haven't been on walks much lately but they don't seem to mind. We play with them, do some fun training and lately we've been playing the "find it" game. We hide a tiny treat somewhere in the house and they have to find it. Cooper, being the food hound that he is, will tear the house apart just to find the treat. Spicy prefers the "point me to the treat please" method... much easier and faster!

On Thursday, a Havanese friend of ours had to say goodbye to her wee pup Mikey. He would have been five years old in May, so young. It was a very sad day.

Friday marked the one year anniversary of Russell's knee replacement surgery. Wow, one year already, so hard to believe. Just for fun, I thought I would include a couple of pics of that event....the first one taken a few hours after surgery, the other taken when Russell got home two days later. The new knee is doing very well.

Yesterday, we got some snow, not a whole lot though. It is crisp out there so the snow is light and fluffy. I shovelled some paths for the pooches this morning. They seem to always enjoy fresh snow.

That's my blog for today. Russell is watching football, the Super Bowl Teams will be decided today. I'm reading a good book. Cooper and Spicy are waiting for their dinner. Have a great week everyone!

Cooper and Spicy navigated the paths...
they found their favourite lookout spot.

Cooper took his time to survey all the new
snow!

Spicy stopped to taste the snow...she likes it!

This is their classic pose...what is next!?

Russell post op one year ago....looking good!

All the comforts of home after surgery...a pup duvet!