So we are back from vacation, just in time for a major snow storm of the year (or several years) -- how lucky we are!
We managed to pick up Caitey right before the big snow started falling. We were greatly relieved to see how well she has been taken care of. She was very happy to see us come and ran straight to me while waving her tail violently... and it hit right in my left eye and almost blinded it for 5 seconds, but I was just SO happy to see, feel and hug her.
She also picked up a trick at my friend's house -- she would hit the bells hanging at the patio door just to go out and play, before she would only make that signal with her nose touching the bells when she needed to take care of her business outside. Today she did this so many times and annoyed my husband greatly. After he pulled and dragged her back home from the foot deep of snow for the last time -- she started to protest under the table and ignored him completely!
Now she has already started to act like a wife -- you go girl! :-)
In the afternoon, she had great fun playing with her sisters outside and jumping up and down all over the backyard. Her dad spent hours snowblowing the drive way and making a little jogging trail for her to go thru the backyard, but later we found out that she prefers to walk on the snow anyway. The girls and I brought her to see the snow tunnel that our neighbours' kids built, and when a boy went deep into the tunnel to dig with most of his body buried in the snow, Caitey started to dig into the snow in panic trying to "save" him because she must have thought he got trapped under snow.
I had great fun taking a ton of pics and videos of Caitey today, who is 50 lbs now with long wavy hair like a big beautiful girl.
It is sure nice to be away from things that you will have to do most of your life and travel to warm places in the winter, but it is nothing compared with the satisfaction of shivering in the wind for Caitey even when I didn't even know if I still had my feet below my legs.
