I was out walking the Rangers this evening – we were walking down the middle of the road because it was a little easier there than along the mostly un-cleared sidewalks. We were ambling  along at a good pace until Memphis figured out I had some dog cookies in my coat pocket. She started nudging my pocket with her nose, as if to say, “hey Bud, I know you’re holding cookies….dish some out!”. So I gave Memphis and Georgie a cookie and as they were crunching them down, I noticed a fellow shoveling snow from his very large drive.

“Beautiful January day!”, I said.
He looked up from his shoveling, grunted, and said, “Winter! Like it was 40 years ago….”
“Yeah”, I said, “it just won’t stop.”
He moved a couple shovels full of snow then looked up again.
“Your forgetting about the big ice storm. In April, 2002.”
“Oh, was it in April? I forgot about that.”
He went back to his shoveling. I gave the Rangers one more dog cookie each and we continue on down the road.