
Jack and Orion spend some quality time together. I am trying to convince Jack that a nylabone is a better chew toy for Orion than the remote.

Jack and Orion spend some quality time together. I am trying to convince Jack that a nylabone is a better chew toy for Orion than the remote.

It is not unusual to get snow in April, but it is rare to get so much. What makes this snow particularly strange is the temperatures have hovered right above freezing, and the snow is still accumulating. Tomorrow is supposed to be in the fifties.

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!
The snow is very wet, and much needed. Rion came in looking as bedraggled as if he had been out in the rain. We even had some lightning and thunder before dawn.

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.

According to the newspaper, Colorado Springs did experience blizzard conditions yesterday. However, out little micro-clime seemed to escape the worst of the storm. Of course, anyone who experienced the Blizzard of October 1997 has a hard time taking seriously a storm that doesn’t dump a few feet of snow.