Hopeful - those dogs are so cute! What kind are they? I didn't think of it before, but how do moose and other critters survive in those temps outside?

Thanks Holly - They are Wirehaired Pointing Griffons.

jtv, yes, good to see you posting here. Peter NC -- that story about the cat was oh so very sad. Says something about you that you cared enough to bury it. Hopeful - those dogs are adorable. Gah, I want a third dog too... Ribs - safe travels home. 8 mile run with MP intervals planned for later today. Supposed to cover a late afternoon deposition that I am hoping with be canceled along with my a.m. one so I can get it in .... I hate it when work interferes with the important stuff. The case trial date is being bumped from early March, which also means my worries about missing a relay in Arizona are gone. Whew.

Mary, your dogs are sweet! But I don't wish I had a third dog - two are enough! I'll try to post a pic of my two four-legged running buddies. It's warm and windy again today. I just hate running into the wind, so I was considering taking a bus, and getting off five miles upwind and running back to the office. Anyone ever done this? I guess I could also run five miles downwind, then either call someone for a ride, or take a bus back, but then I might get chilled while I was waiting.

I just hate running into the wind, so I was considering taking a bus, and getting off five miles upwind and running back to the office. Anyone ever done this?.

We're runners...What ever we do, does not have to make sense to others.

Moose Update: Just talked to my neighbor, she's got her husband home from the hospital and he's going to be ok... very battered and bruised, possible cracked ribs, but home and resting with pain pills. He was out with the dog, heard some branches snapping behind him, turned and was hit full force by a huge cow moose. She had her head down and just charged him, ran him over and took off. Amazing... he made it back to the house and called his wife, who had just gotten to work and she turned around and came back home and had to really convince him to go get checked out. This sort of thing always sticks in my mind... I've been chased by moose by the hay shed when I had horses... these critters are huge and powerful. He's really lucky to not be seriously hurt. So now I really have a reason not to go out early morning/late night dark running!! Holly, the native critters are all adapted to these temps. My horses even did surprisingly well in it, but they do eat and drink a lot to keep their furnaces going! Sad story in the paper awhile ago about a cat who was missing from home for a couple of weeks, was found trying to keep warm under someone's vehicle. She survived, but is missing her ears, most of her tail and her two front feet were amputated. Those little house pets don't stand much of a chance. BTY... your great grandfather was a ginger tabby cat?

BTY... your great grandfather was a ginger tabby cat?

Really? Is everyone esle seeing Leo too? You should see what I see...shouldn't you? A circa 1850's picture of an Irish-American horsethief turned railroad worker.

Short walk (2.5 miles) pushing GD this afternoon. The weather was wonderful! Waiting for a call back from the Oncologist with my tumor marker level.