Snow will make you do crazy things...

As previously mentioned, we all had a great time in the snow, but Nacho's tender paws couldn't handle it for too long. AND as you all know, I have an extremely resourceful husband. And this Southerner was not about to let a few cracked, chaffed paws keep us and our pup from maximizing our snow time. Solution: homemade doggy leg warmers.

Bless Nacho's little doggy heart... he will let us (namely, Schub) do ANYTHING to him.

Now don't think that these are just as simple as a pair of socks rubberbanded around his legs. No no. These leg warmers had a layer of ankle socks around his feet, a plastic grocery bag over his whole leg, and the tall athletic sock pulled up over the plastic bag. As eager as he may look right now, I think he was staring out the window saying "Don't make me go out there like this."

aaannnnddd... they made it less than 10 feet out the door before the first one came off. But they kept walking. And it was less than another 10 feet before the second one came off. They were back inside in under a minute. Also, I must humbly correct myself. Schub just walked by and said "They were not leg warmers. They were paw protectors. I was trying to protect him."

Also, if we had at all disguised ourselves as being locals, this probably gave us away. As all our neighbors were out shoveling snow off their walkways and from behind their car tires, my husband was on top of his truck SWEEPING the snow away with a broom.


The snow did begin to melt a little yesterday, but in the end I think we got about 15 inches. We finally ventured out to Pizza Hut about a mile down the road yesterday with some neighbors. It took us at least 10 minutes to get there. The roads are still terrible. But I'm not bothered. I'm home from work today :-)