The "frosty stuff"

The QAL pic was earlier. I took all of the pics that I have been posting here on Sunday and Monday morning, of this week. If that's what you were meaning by earlier. I took a bunch at once because I wanted to have enough for a thread for at least a week since on starting Monday I wasn't going to be home, for more than a few minutes here and there, for almost two weeks. However, i stopped at my place this afternoon for a bit, and it still looks like that:-p I'm pet/house sitting in Oakridge for about two weeks.

I know your schedule gets tight, plus that early morning job. Have you got interesting pets this time?

No problem keeping the thread going LOL So far everyone has been helping.

That's for certain! I'm loving all of the pictures here!

Yes, they are interesting. very cute too. They are English Labs. I'll take a pic of them tonight or tomorrow. It's very hard for them to sit still for a picture. I've taken care of them before. Always in good health and easy diet. 2 weeks ago, one of them started to throw up after eating and then last week the other one had a couple of seizures for the first time. They both went to the vets last week and the one is on meds for the issues with food, until the folks come back from their trip. Then they'll do exrays. So, i'm really keeping my fingers crossed until they get home again! So far so good though. The meds seem to be working and the other hasn't had a seizure, at least not while I was there.

That's got to be scary, especially while you're caring for someone else's pets. Sounds like you have it under control though. Hopefully nothing else happens before they get home.

It's a little intimidating. I don't think that I have anything under control!! The dogs are the ones that have it under control. We're all crossing our fingers (owners, dogs, and myself) that all goes well until they get back. Thanks for thinking of us Sally!

I'll be thinking good thoughts and saying a little prayer that your charges are going to do fine.

Time for bed, have a good one tomorrow!

Thanks so much!!! we appreciate it.
You too! and here's the cyclamen pic that I thought that I had already posted. i just spoke about it over in the hellebore thread, thinking that it was already here.

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Neat pics ladies!
rc, when the owners get back, ask them if they'll keep you posted on how the Labs are doing and what possibly caused the vomiting and seizures. Thank you!
Susan

nice pic Shelly - we do not get that frosty look here to often if ever -all white snow - here is a pic from x-mass eve out my front door this year.

Just found this thread. Been busy on mine. Wow great hoar frost shots. Love the spruce and the horse fence. A little more than hoar frost here.

I should say so! It's not frosty here today just fog. YUCK!

Same here, FOG....I am so sick of it......I would rather have the snow!!

Will keep good thoughts for you and your charges Shelly.....always scary when our Furries have problems cause they can't tell us what's wrong.

Hello. wha, Bill sent me to look at all the wonderful winter frosty and icy pics you all have over here. I know a few of the people here. Hi Shelly, as usual gorgeous pics. Some pretty cool stuff. We have a lot of snow right now. It was doing some melting today but I'm afraid the deep freeze is going to return early next week. This is not frost but a snow collar forming around an oak tree.

ngam they have really cool hoar frost that we do not have

I have never seen anything like that before....what causes it????

ngam oviously they don't have snowaround long enough to no what cold/some what warn for a day/cold again will do. not really teasing zhin - jealous of the hoar frost!!

in colorado those can be really big and if you ski into one alone you can't get out - true story

Well you are correct, here in Olympia if we have snow hang around for more than a day or two that is a BIG Deal !!! They may get that closer in to the mountains where the snow is around a lot longer than here.......Loved the Hoar frost picture!!! I lived in Alaska for a few years as a kid and love the snow and cold....my husband is a Washington boy...moved all the way from Seattle to Olympia and he hates cold weather (and he hates really hot weather.....hmmm)........

But when you talk about skiing into them.....I think they call them Tree Wells here.....I know we have lost a
few skiers that way...

Awwhh hell, I've walked into one of those "things" (we have a name for that affect, I can't remember) around the trees before. However, I only had to do it once to know to learn that I absolutely must pay acute attention when getting close to the trees while walking on snow. It's really freaky for a split second. I did it the first year that I was supervising trail crews and we were blazing a new cross county skii trail. fortunately no one got a picture of me! However, I have a great pic of a friend of mine, trying to get out of one...unfortunately not digital though :-( I made him wait while I took the picture before I went over to help him out.

Bill, I love the lights under the snow. It makes a lovely glow!! Hey... you should post a pic or two of all of that mess that you had down in your yard right after the Ice storm, but before it all melted.

Thanks Ngam.... Happy to see you here. Thanks for sending folks Bill. It's nice to see everyone all over the place. That pic of the tree is cool. It looks as though it's wearing a belt. Show us more! Snow, Ice, whatever, it all works.

Yep, Sofer.... I'd say that's a little more than frost. But, I love looking through the ice. Sort of reminds me, in an odd way, of the water drop pic. that I've dedicated to you over in the other thread, teehee

Tree wells!!! that's it!!! Thanks Tricia. I was going to call a friend of mine and pic his brain about what those were called.

When skiers were mentioned it came to me because I remembered the News stories last winter....do be careful around trees and snow!!!

Wha - I've heard of that problem and could never figure out why it got so bad. It's nice to actually see a picture of it.

I grew up in Fairbanks, AK and never knew about such a thing. Maybe we don't have the fluctuations you have . . . very interesting.

Yep, not much snow here. If we have it, it's fleeting (or is that sleeting - LOL) and is melted after a few days. This year was an exception: http://picasaweb.google.com/katiegirl2u/Snow2008DEEPFREEZEDay6?feat=directlink

wha-great snow picture.

ngam-I like the snow ring picture. We have those wells up in the ski areas.

rc-I meant the first picture posted on 1/21. Black and gold with the red in the background.

Katie, We lived in New Stuyahok, a little village half way between Anchorage and Fairbanks, about 90 miles upriver from Dillingham. Had no roads, one truck in the village with a winch for pulling boats out before freeze up......I loved it there.

Oh, sorry I didn't figure that out. Unfortunately I don't have any others like that one. that was definitely "the one of the bunch." To bad it's not the heather, the one at the top, I have plenty more of those to share.

Tricia.... that's crazy. What did everyone do for jobs? and how does one 'get out' if there's only one truck in the village? Or maybe there cars, can't imagane that they were much use in the winter though.

Trisha - that's crazy. I lived up there all my young life and never heard of New Stuyahok. Dillingham, yes, but New Stuyahok, no. What ever were you guys doing there? What years were you there? I left AK for warmer (and more accessible) parts in 1981.

My parents taught school in the village there. We were the only non-native residents.......weeeellllll there was one other "white guy" these and he was......nuts? The villagers all lived off of fishing in the summer and trapping and hunting in the winter. No roads there...we always flew in, float plane or land on the gravel bar in summer and on the river ice in winter until they cleared a little landing strip out back after an ice jam flooded the village up river and they had to evacuate everyone to our village in big military helicopters...... in winter they would drive the truck on the ice down to the next village for dances etc.... the only reason they had the truck was to haul up the boats in the winter time. I don't know if you ever say or read One Man's Wilderness on PBS...but it was a lot like life in our village. The school and the Duplex where we lived were the only places with electricity. The maintenance man who looked after the buildings an power plant lived in the other half. The villagers all lived in one or two room log cabins. Several years after we left they came in and built some "real houses" for many of the villagers. They didn't like too much....said our houses were too cold. This was all back in the early 1960's..........also no phone, no TV......just two way radio and we got order movies and a village wide movie and dance night once a month.

Trisha, that is fascinating! Thanks for sharing some stories of your childhood.

I share the same sentiments as Mauryhill! So when you left... we you sad to leave it behind, or happy to be getting out of the one truck village!

So, for those who were wondering about my "charges"... here they are. Although I'm sure that they feel that the situation is the other way around.

Mozz and his rabbit. He just loves that rabbit.

I sent them out this morning while I was making their breakfast because Tigg jumps like a Jack Russel and causes food to go everywhere. And it finally warmed up today. I think that it might have only been 42 or 43. but, it seemed warm. Good time for them to be out. However, you can tell that they don't agree with me. They drug that stuff out into the yard from the garage.

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Oh hi back again. Shelly those puppies are just way too cute. Such personalities they have.
The snow here can do some really odd things with the temps going up and down and wind shaping mountains here and sweeping the ground bare over there. Then sandwich in a layer of ice along the way and all sorts of strange things can happen. Usually me falling on my butt is the normal result. Bill is right though we don't get that neat frost like you do. Makes some very cool pictures. I love all the patterns it makes. Had an 8" or so high thin pile of snow balanced on the porch rail after the last batch of snow. Kept leaning more and more, curling over at a 45 degree plus angle. Looking at it you couldn't figure out why it didn't fall over. Tried to get a pic of it but too much white on white. The camera wasn't picking up the lean very well. It finally did fall off when the afternoon sun hit it. Here are some frosty pics from the east coast winter, hope you like them. This is about as heavy a frost as we get out here.

This is a purple heuch dipped in frost.

This is a pine tree after an ice storm. I was lucky here, we did not loose electricity like so many around did.

Oh Definitely. Tigg and Mozz have lots of personality. Tigg jumps every where he goes and Mozz carries either a stuffed animal or a blanket with him at all times.

Those are great pics Ngam. I really like the heuchera. Mainly just because it's a heuchera:-p Your frost there is really comaparable to my average frost here. The heavy frost comes and goes, but it's pretty when the sun is out on it.

Nice pictures, ngam - verrry frosty. I can see the texture in them.

Shelly, are those babies cute or what? I love their little black-rimmed eyes. What sweet babies. It sounds to me like they must have eaten something - you don't carry sugarless gum, do you? The artificial sweeteners in it are one thing that can make dogs sick and/or cause seizures - like grapes, onions, raisins, chocolate. There are quite a few dangerous things around. And labrador retrievers have such an "oral" tendency that they are known to eat quite a few things - with their "parents" gone, they may have sought comfort in something they usually leave alone.

Trisha - that sounds so much like Alaska. There's always a crazy person or two. What a great story. You really should write this down for Laura. My parents each wrote their life histories after retiring and there was so much in both their books that we kids didn't know about. They were surprised that we hadn't picked up those facts along the way.

I loved it there, except for the Earthquake......I was eleven when we moved back here....the school there only went to 6th grade and they didn't want to send me to boarding school.......

Katie, I have started writing some things.....haven't progressed as far as would like, but plan to keep it up...... I wish my dad and mom had done that.....dad is gone and mom doesn't remember a lot things any more...

Love the pictures and the furries!!!

No, I don't carry sugarless gum. But, I wasn't staying there when they came down with whatever they have. Mozz started throwing up stuff a little over two weeks ago and hasn't done it since being on medication. Tigg had the seizures a little over a week later, hasn't had one since. I didn't start staying there until several days later. They're had the dogs for about 4 years now and are pretty good about figuring out their quirks and are quite careful about what they leave out. All of their gum is up in a cupboard! If i had to guess I would say that Mozz probaby, accidentally ate part of one of his blankets and it didn't digest. But, that's just a guess. He carries them while running and playing. Just like a kid with toys!!! it would be easy to see how he could bite down and get a chunk of it while not intending too. They'll take exrays when they get back to see if he has an obstuction. I'll let people know what the verdict is when I know!

Another Strange thing Katie, last year my mom showed me an article in our local paper.....it was on the drinking problem in New Stuyahok Alaska (the Chief allowed none of the natives to drink in our village when we were there), mentioned the head of the New Stuyahok Police.....Ivan Wonhola, a boy from my class when we lived there.....grades 4, 5, 6 were taught by dad.....all 16 of us.

Neat story ZM. Do you know where Indian, AK is? My brother lives there.