a99kitten's Musings

Today is New Year’s Eve. The day/night before we start the calendar all over again. And when most people swear they will do things differently. Most never do. But hope is always eternal. Personally, this year can be over, done with and gone. Goodbye 2010. See ya. Don’t let the door hit you in the arse on the way out. Good riddance to ya (said with my 25% Irish brogue.)

12/31 was also my Mom’s birthday. She kinda hated that since it was so close to Christmas plus a holiday on its own. But did acknowledge it guaranteed she got a party to go to every year. She passed away a few years back but I always remember her drinking her Bailey’s or Irish Coffee (the only alcohol she would ever drink were those 2 and only around Christmas and New Years/her birthday.) Happy Birthday Mom. I do miss you. But probably best you left first.

Today is also the day we picked up my 2000 Christmas present, Angelus:

me and Angelus :)

I believe I blogged last year about the trip to get him and his first weekend with his new family. I have always kinda-sorta considered this to be like his birthday since it is when he came into my life. His actual birthday is 11/7 and we have celebrated that as his birthday but that is also the day my brother actually left me this year so I think 12/31 will stay Angelus’ birthday for me. He deserves a purely 100% happy day :)

And to celebrate his birthday this year, the weather Dogs (see what I did there?) gave us a lot of snow leading up it and then blessed him with a temperature fit only for huskies! The low this morning was 2. We went out after it had warmed up to 2.8. When I first looked at the temp, I thought it said 28. I thought to myself “wow that’s warm for so early in the morning.” Yeah…

Stormy decided it was too cold for his partial nakedness after a little while so we brought him back and then Angelus and I went back out. He was so happy. He is truly geared to be a cold-weather mountain dog. We found a trail that some snowboarders created and off we went! Mom (that’s me) started to lose a bit of feeling in her toes and fingers so we did go back after an hour. I told him we would go back out when it warmed up to double digits – like 10 degrees or something!

So happy birthday/welcome to my life day to my first-born awesome best black & white pal husky!! Also, more snow is coming tonight, tomorrow and Sunday so he will be stretching this birthday celebration out :)

This was him this morning after we got back from our walk and I left him off-leash once we got to our easement road. He took off to the neighbor’s driveway and ran around in the snow. I missed capturing that fun run since I had my big gloves on and iPhones don’t do well with gloves. He made it clear he wasn’t quite ready to go back inside!