First Snow and Bird Ornaments

We spent a wonderful weekend at the cabin and even got to enjoy the season's first snow.

 

I just love seeing the first snow and tried to get a few pictures of Baxter in the snow.  Not much success there.  This one by the fire came out better.

 

I tried to take a picture of how beautiful the snow was dripping off the pine tree, but since this was taken with my cellphone the quality isn't very good.

 

On the way home I picked up a "new" used crate for Baxter so we won't have to lug his back and forth to the cabin.  I've been looking on Craigslist around here and haven't been able to find anything under $40.  But, this guy in Staunton was selling one for $30, so I nabbed it.  It's a bit smaller than the one here, so it should also be easier for traveling.  

Since I'm talking about my sweet dog...I should also say that I'm mad at him.  Yesterday, I was cleaning the two extra bedrooms and saw a little yellow spot on the carpet.  And then I saw another larger yellow spot.  Pee!  When we adopted Baxter a year ago, we had a hard time getting him house trained, but I really thought this was behind us!  I pulled out the trusty Little Green Machine, but for some reason, it wouldn't suction properly and just spread the urine spots.  I must have used 49 paper towels trying to dry the spots.  

Today I attacked the urine spots again.  They are better, but the urine smell is still there.  Argghhh! 

I finally hung the bird ornaments.  J saw them when she came home from Auburn...thought they would be ok for Etsy....I wish.   

 

 I still wasn't able to photograph the blue one well and it is such a beautiful blue.

 I finished reading Unbroken by Laura Hildebrand.  Excellent book; it's hard to believe that Louie went through such an ordeal during WWII.   I found especially interesting how Louie dealt with life after returning home.  He didn't want anything to do with the church and he was consumed with trying to exact revenge on his POW captor.  Then he went to a couple of Billy Graham seminars and remembered a promise he made while floating on a raft in the Pacific Ocean....that he would devote his life to God.  It turned his life around.

Makes me think.....