[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Snow or SUN
- From: "Carolyn" <marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lfossland@xxxxxxx>, <Windwalkergsds@xxxxxx>, <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:27:22 -0700
Our kids believe it. THEY DID IT!!! <G>
Almost lost one for a moment in an under-snow stream that had accumulated
during the night with
a Chinook wind that was melting the snow underneath and we couldn't
tell.....YIKES!!
Grand Kids all go up to snow board and ski in the same area.........so THEY
BELIEVE IT!! <G>
To make this dog related....the GSD coat is PERFECT in snow country as long as
it the correct
harsh coat and not the soft coats we are starting to see. Long coats are a
nightmare as their coat
and any soft or silky coat gets balls of frozen snow on them and it is hard to
get it to melt off. The
correct normal coats stay clean and dry in snow......two shakes and they are
dry .......and clean.
Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.Marhaven.com
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From: Liane Fossland To: marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Windwalkergsds@xxxxxx ;
Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:50 AM
Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Not all bad or SUN
Do you remember telling your kids how you had to walk to school in knee deep
snow and snow
drifts that reached your shoulders (as kids)? And then they'd respond: Yeah,
right! Not believing
you for one minute. And that's exactly the way it was. We were wrapped up
right to the top of
our heads in wooly stuff, snow boots and all. Once at the school,get the
outer layers off and then
go into the classroom with one wood burning stove in the room. Sitting in
front of the class was
an honor as your feet would not get cold, the stove was close to the
teacher's desk. And the
bathrooms were outside. You had better do your business fast otherwise your
hindy would freeze
to the rim.
Parents did not walk you to school nor did they pick you up. But it always
was a feast to come
home and have mom waiting with hot chocolate and cookies. And the house warm
and toasty.
I remember my dad boasting of having the first central heating in town.
Those were the
days! Lee
arelee_1020@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Evan you describe a beautiful setting, typical of a Holiday card, and
youdon't want to go there?
I think for many of us who have become California transplants from states
> where we always had a white Christmas, that many of those places are a
nice > place to
visit.......but we wouldn't want to live there now.
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That goes for North Dakota too. I remember as a child building snow caves
out of the huge snow
drifts and actually walking up on the frozen drifts to the tops of houses. I
wonder now how my Dad
ever made it to work every day.... To make it dog related, I had a Flat
Coated Retriever who used
to trudge along with me sledding. When we would get home I had to pick
the ice chunks out of his
coat and feet. I wouldn't even want to VISIT North Dakota again.....
Jamie
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I am born and raised Californian and lived in snow Country in
"Sunny"California In the Tahoe / Donner
area. We had icicles on our eaves 4 ft. long and I threw a ball every
morning for the dogs to break a trail
through the snow to get up to the road so the kids could go through the
trail with 8 ft. high walls of snow
to catch the school bus. We had one dog that spent all winter burying
those long icicles like bones!
The dogs ( GSD ) would play with the kids on the sleds and rode toboggans
with them and would lay
curled up like Huskies out in the snow while the kids played .....and as it
snowed it would literally cover
them up as they waited for the kids to get through playing on the hill with
their sleds.
Our kids wouldn't come in to warm up by the fire until their hair sticking
below their hats was frozen....<G>
California has it's share of freezing snowy winters......just not where
Evan lives.
We left the snow Country in 1971.......can't say I miss it.....but we still
get a little snow here occasionally
in the foothills of the snow Country of California. It's not all beaches
and convertibles as Evan says. <G>
Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.Marhaven.com
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