Feb. 10th

Jasper is 8 months old today!
Mostly had a "frittering day" - a couple errands: to the eye doctor for repair of spectacles (yes, "the dog ate my glasses"!), to WalMart for Kitty Litter (7 house cats, you don't want to run low on Kitty Litter), then home to do some little things (like not paying bills...), finally got out to ride Paddy in the snow. Very strange, these woods today - familiar paths not so familiar with the weight of the snow bending the trees this way and that. Silent riding, no hoofbeats with this much snow on the ground, but no deer to be seen - I expect they are bedded down in the valleys somewhere. Riding in the snow is fun, surreal, floaty. Paddy seemed to enjoy getting out. I rode bareback so at least the part of me sitting on his plushy back stayed warm.