Skol Vikings!

***Relaxed and cooling off on the sidewalk at home; January 6, 2009***

It's amazing what energy bright and warm sunshine offer. It may only be 2 degrees here now, but it is the warmest, prettiest 2 degree day you can get. January is one of the, if not the, sunniest months up here (November is the cloudiest).

Just a couple little things today. Bernie read yesterday's entry while enjoying her morning coffee today and was incredulous that I did not include on her "Favorite Things" list beef bones straight from the butcher, sniffing, the Milk Bones that mysteriously appear on the front porch daily, and poking her nose/face/head through doors to see what people are up to (she did that twice today already, as a matter of fact). And getting the mail, she adds.

She's good, real good, 95 percent of pre-Valium self. I'm thrilled. She's had a fat left lip the past several days, a bit better today. Real fat though painless, unrelated, as far as I know, to everything else. My roommate, Nichole, wondered aloud today if Bernie's meds caused some sort of reaction. Well, she's only on the same anti-inflamatory she's been on for over a year and an anti . . . antibiotic. Dr. Vet and I decided to give her one just in case. Well, no more . . . I'm the vet of this domain! Honestly, a swelling reaction from antibiotics would explain a lot, more than just the fat lip.

She ate (wet) dog food today.

She ate scrambled eggs today.

I ate bacon, eggs, grilled ham and cheese, soup, a grapefuit, a banana, a V-8, lots of water and juice, and a bit of chocolate.

I'm going to put her Susan Buthcher Iditarod Snow Booties on now, and together Bernie and I shall walk.