We're going to Bluemont in Loudin County, Jen! Here

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Ooh, that looks beautiful, lisah! I saved it .

Doggy Daycare did wonders for tuckering out my sisters dog when she was a puppy. Looking forward to the report!

Go on, Matilda!

Well, the power went out for good just as I signed off from work last night, so I had an early dinner and spent the night bundled up in bed. It came back on and it's been up and steady for about 4 hours now, so I'm back on the work network getting stuff accomplished. If someone can spare some -ma for the Aged Parents, they're in Houston with the power still down. They borrowed a generator and can cook on the gas range, but still.

Also, apparently all of you are heading for a Canadian shack with only one bed in the middle of a snowstorm? I mean, I respect your commitment to verisimilitude, but.....

For your amusement, the Fellowship of the Ring as Girl Scout cookies. (one guess as to who's the Thin Mint)

The Fellowship of the Cookies is terrific!

Still the prettiest.

We just got a call that one of the puppy’s litter mates has been diagnosed with parvovirus so we get to watch and worry for a while. Our pup seems fine and the rescue is obviously being proactive and responsible but :/!

Viruses, man.

Love the Fellowship of the GSCs.

I almost forgot amidst all the everything, but it's Pancake Tuesday! In 2020, Pancake Tuesday was the last time I ate out in a restaurant, and that restaurant has since gone under. So as anniversaries go, it's a bit bittersweet. But, I have an excuse to make pancakes tonight.

I hope all the Texan Buffistas and their families stay warm. One of my favorite recent TikToks is a woman from the Keweenaw Peninsula (which averages 300 inches of snow a year) bitching out Midwesterners for being mean to Texans. "They don't have snow dumps down there! They're not built for this! Be nicer!"

That seem shocking JenP. I actually didn't think of the pun until I typed it!

I hope everyone is warm. I will stop bitching that they cleared the sidewalks here, and then plowed the roads and the driveways so that you cannot pass the sidewalk.

I want to try the tuna recipe with zucchini noodles. I recently did cauliflower rice with an egg beaten in and parmesan, and it was so satisfying. Just needed bacon. Probably too many carbs for Keto, still, but pandemic kind of put me off the really strict wagon.

I refuse to leave the house because there's winter out there, so I didn't get any paczki (not that I've found gluten-free ones anywhere anyway), so maybe I'll make pancakes for dinner.