Joni

"I Think I'm Going to be Sick" – 56/365

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Today was the day that Joni got her next set of vaccines, so she had to travel in the car to the vet's, a thirty minute drive on twisty, bumpy country roads. You could tell she was feeling a little queasy from carsickness during the trip there, as she started to look like this… We made it to the vet's without incident, at least. She was relaxed and calm at the appointment, a real model pup. However the journey home was the undoing of her and she threw up. Fortunately I was prepared for it. Once again, I took lots of other photographs today, but this one was the one that I think topped the lot for cuteness factor. We can all do with some awwww every day.

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You Didn't Believe That Joni Runs on Top of the Snow? – 52/365

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I hadn’t intended to take a photograph of Joni and post it as my daily photo for my project. But the day raced away from me, fraught with problems and hassle and stress and in the end the only pictures I had managed to take were ones of Joni running across the top of the snow first thing this morning. A project is a project and so I am posting this. Besides, it ties in with yesterday’s photos of snow.

Yes, this is exactly the same snow as I stood in yesterday, sinking in up to above my knees. It’s probably 3 feet or more deep. But gradually it forms a fairly hard crust on the top and a 15 lb puppy can easily run on the surface. Not so a person, who sinks in and flounders about,, breaking through the top and losing balance on the lumpy hard layers of ice and snow beneath. I was not having nearly as much fun as she was. The next times I went out with her today (without the camera) I strapped on my snowshoes and I, too, was walking across the top of the snow! 

Joni is 12 weeks old tomorrow. Have a great weekend everyone! I hope you have as much fun as a puppy running across the snow on a lovely winter’s day.

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Joni in the New Snow – 50/365

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Sometimes our weather seems to come out of nowhere. I think we were supposed to get flurries in the night. Flurries, for the uninitiated means  "a very light snow that is rather brief and does not produce a measurable amount of snow (minimum of a tenth of an inch)".

Instead, this morning I woke up to a fresh fall of snow of 6-8" or around 20 cm. Steven was a little dismayed as that meant he had to spend the first 2.5 hours of his morning clearing it from the drive. Joni was delighted. She can still walk on top of the last fall which formed a crust and again finds it easier going under the trees where it is less deep. I am a lot heavier (!) and so I sink right in, well above my boots and even above my knees in the open areas. For the #fansofjoni  we have another Joni feature today! 😀

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Steven and Joni – 47/365

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I took lots of photographs of different scenes on Sunday, which was a very snowy day, but in the end this one is one that I liked best. Joni is not easy to keep still these days, so family portrait times are limited. Just Steven and his dog, having a playtime break. It made a pleasant change from Steven having to be out in the cold, the snow and the wind, clearing the drive. Joni didn't mind being out in the cold, the snow and the wind. But of course everything is play for her at the moment.

Joni plays with the blue ball in a different way with Steven from how she does with me. For him she will actually run in a low, border collie stalking run after the ball when he throws it across the kitchen, bouncing it off a chair (!).  After picking it up in her mouth and running past him a few times , tantalizing him with it, she drops it between his feet as he sits there on the edge of the hearth. Yesterday she tried throwing it at him as she does with me, but in the end decided that this wasn't going to work the same way with him and reverted to more 'normal' behaviour.

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