Sleetfall

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For two and a half hours this afternoon, we had a thunderstorm with hail and sleet instead of rain. Lody, the Collie, who has moderate thunder phobia, paced and moaned for most of that time. Orion was pretty upset as well, and I couldn’t tell if he was reacting to Lody, to the storm, or to the disruption in his schedule. Snow is forecast for the next two days. Springtime in the Rockies is here!

Orion and His Gorilla

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One of Orion’s favorite and oldest toys is his latex squeaky gorilla. He is not very destructive with his toys so far, though I keep an eye on them to make sure that they don’t have dangerous bits he might swallow. However, his gorilla was not very sturdy to start with, so today I replaced the old gorilla (missing its tongue, squeaker, and arms) with a new one. Orion seems to approve, and has been playing with it since I gave it to him. He has been trying very hard to entice Lody into taking it away from him which is a lost cause.  She didn’t like dog toys when she was a much younger dog.