DWB'ers To The Rescue!

So, mom gets home from work last Sunday night, and there was a phone message from the neighbors that said a "huge piece of rain gutter" had fallen off of our house. We went and looked, and sure enough, gone! Brought down by the weight of the melting snow and ice. Anyone who heard it said it came down with a really loud rumble and crash.

Most of our house is 2 stories, and in the back it goes 3 stories high, so mom really didn't know what is behind/under gutters. It was supposed to rain the next day, did she need to call those 24 hour roofers that advertise in the Yellow Pages? Were there now giant holes in the house? Is this an emergency or what?
So, she's googling "gutters, what do they do" and sees Suzy's dad is on line on Facebook! Thank doG! He said he used to live in Alaska, and convinced her it could wait till morning, which is good, because I have heard that some of those roofers are really gypsies, and Maisie and me could of been dognapped and wearing little clown suits and workin' the carnival circuit by now if Suzy's dad hadn't gotten mom settled down!
After that was settled, she decided to go to plan "B", as soon as she could figure out what it was. Our roofer had retired, and she heard on the news that it was nearly impossible to hire a roofer these days because of the snow and all the damage people were having.. Then,she remembers reading that Cosmos & Juneau had blogged about their daddy being a construction guy, or something like that. We have never met them, but knew they lived in the neighborhood, so mom sends their mom an e-mail. Thank doG again! At 8 AM we had their daddy's cp number, and a message to call him. He said somebody would be here WITHIN THE HOUR!!!!
They fixed up the place where the gutter came off, and noticed all of our gutters were "torn or bulging" because of the snow, so then they went to work putting salt in all the downspouts, so the whole mess would melt. When the weather gets better, and mom gets the insurance claim filed, their daddy is gonna get us all fixed up with new gutters all around the house.

We had to have them back again today. (click to bigify)

After the rain, 2 days of warmer weather, and then ANOTHER SNOWSTORM, we had another ice build-up on the other side of the house.



Look at those chunks of ice they hammered and shoveled off! Sure had us barking!

So, big thanks to Suzy, Cosmos, & Juneau's daddy's. We are very grateful.

On a happier note - look what came from Amazon!

A new shovel, since ours broke during the first storm, and a car ice scraper, 'cause ours got lost in the snow someplace. So no more shoveling with the dust pan, which, by the way, held up pretty darn good. And still works best for the porch steps.
And, our play yard melted down to where it is actually fun again!



Still snowing though..

It's just been all about the snow...

And, we are really getting sick of it. There was the really, really big snow, then, a couple days later there was the big snow, and now, we are getting a couple more inches today.



We still don't have a snow shovel, as ours broke on the first day of the really, really big snow. Mom uses a dust pan, or, we just walk over it, I think she has just given up. There is not a shovel to be found in Pittsburgh right now anyhow, and, even if we could shovel it, there is no place to put it!
This is our house and street last night, a week after the really, really big snow.


This is an official "Pittsburgh Snow Chair"

Snow chairs are supposed to be illegal, and can be treated as abandoned property, but anyone who has even spent a small amout of time in Pittsburgh quickly becomes aware of the snow chair rules, and if you move somebody's snow chair, and take their parking spot, it will probably be the last time you ever even consider doing it again!
This is mom's snow chair. DO NOT TOUCH IT!!


These are pictures mom took of the neighborhood on her way to work yesterday.
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We are still playing in our play room for exercise. Everybodys sidewalks are still covered with snow, and it's just too hard to get around.

DOGGIES!

LISTEN UP!


BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!




We were liking snow, but, this seems a little ridiculous!

This is where the steps up out of our play yard used to be.

Mom could only get half of our porch dug out. we couldn't even get out the door.

The only way out to go potty, was down through our play room, and out the door to our play yard.

Fortunately for us, mom is built for power and not speed, so, she plowed herself around the yard and made us a maze so we could get around.

That made things a little better.












Mom says we got about 20 inches of snow in the backyard. That is a lot of snow!

We're Morgan & Maisie. Hi!

Mom said since we are entered in Mango Minster I should say something about myself & Maisie, because there might be doggies, and kitties, and who knows who stopping by, and maybe we can make some new friends!
We are Shetland Sheepdogs. I am a bi-black, and Maisie is a tri-color. I am 6 and Maisie just turned 1. We are related. Her grandfather is my father,& we have the same great grandmother.
We are entered the herding group. And, we are good herders. Ask anybody in our neighborhood! If it's moving, we're running!
Mom took me to Erie PA. to do some sheep herding. I did pretty good, and got the sheep in the pen. The sheep herder teacher lady said I was too worried about what mom was doing. Since then, I have been doing agility,and I have more confidence now, and learned to work away from mom, so we are going to try herding again, and take Maisie too.
Mom thinks Maisie will love it. She got interested in herding last summer when the G-20 summit was in Pittsburgh, and helicoptors were flying over our house. Here is a picture of her trying to get to the door, because she hears one coming by.

Here's me doing some agility:


And here we are,on the move!


your pals, Morgan & Maisie

Vacation at Rocky's House - Part 2

Well, we finally got the peace flag for the FarmVille farm, and the stupid pink, cow, and then the whole thing got expanded until it's big enough for a house, OH, MY, DOG.... So, now I can show you some more pictures of the fun time we had at Rocky's. This is the best part, saved it for last. The nice, snowy hiking path at the Rails to Trails.
You remember Rocky, right? He didn't want his picture taken on Christmas day, but when we were on the trail, he didn't mind.

He likes to lay in the snow.


The best part about this trail thing was that it was so cold, hardly any other dogs were there, and most days we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves.



The trail is just a couple of minutes drive from Rocky's house, so, when we got cold we could get back home fast. Here's some more pictures of our fun.














It was good fun. Thank's Rocky and Aunt Lu, for the nice holiday!