Portrait of the Dog as a Young Dog

Guess Who's Two!

Gatsby's Second Birthday

From June 16. 

"Gatsby believed in the green hat...."

Here, celebrating with his uncle Indiana:

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Explosives

Fifth Business

Guess who's five today!

Born on this day, 2011.

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Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie

Catoctin Mountain Dogs

Gatsby: 

Indiana:

(More) Scenes from a Snowstorm

Everyone pitches in to get the sidewalk clear, while Gatsby supervises:

Route 97 is still untraveled:

The view from the patio:

Churning through these drifts was easier than expected:

Happy Days!

Scenes from a Snowstorm

The boys are happy. Note: they are standing up.

Gatsby frolicks:

Indy ponders:

Yard stick reading of 18" as of noon Saturday:

I ventured out to plow/blow the driveway, if only to make clearing ops easier once the snow stops tomorrow. Route 97 had several inches of accumulation. Areas I cleared at the start had a fresh inch by the time I finished for the day, two hours later.

Views from the end of the driveway. South:

North:

Looking back up our driveway, from Route 97:

Good soldier:

Cask of Winters Opened

Snowfall began at 2:15pm Friday:

Accumulation of at least 1' as of 8:15am Saturday:

Winter Storm Jonas Prep

Installed yard stick:

Installed markers to define and hopefully protect retaining wall from County plow trucks (and over-eager snowblower ops):

Vehicles configured to allow tractor to be stored in the garage closer to the house:

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Not Winners