You gotta know by now what my first topic will be this year - the new puppies!!!

http://reigningpages.com/puppies

Don't forget to check out all the Holiday Happenings if you missed them from last month!!

Here's a couple photos that I took at work. The center picture shows my desk; the picture on the left is my view of the Chrysler-Plymouth-Buick-Jeep Showroom; the Picture on the right is looking down the hall, past Gayle's office to Doug Waikem's office (he's my boss! and a really good one!)

Since it's January and this is Ohio, well, we have SN*W! Here are a few pictures to show what we're suffering through up here.

Notice the neat and tidy way that I pile the sn*w around the walk.

Next time your out shoveling your little walkways and drives,
think of all that I have to shovel living on a corner lot.

This view is out my backdoor and slightly off to the right. That building is the current Gibbs Elementary School. In the dark, with the snow, and the wind howling, this really is a bleak picture with the only warmth coming from the dim glow of the street light illuminating the falling snow.

(Click for a screen-sized (800x600) version of this sunset picture taken from my back porch)

It's been a busy week with the Boyz (that's the puppies, Aries and Zeus). Because they have nearly doubled in size, and because they started running for the back door when the big dogs went out, I decided it was time for the pups to get some fresh air. They decided that outside wasn't all that fun and that all they wanted to do was stand there, shiver and whine until I took them back inside. LOL

	Since our weather finally warmed up (It's a heat wave! We've had a day that was up to 40 degrees!), the Boyz and I went on an car trip, about an hour away to GrandMa Carolynn's house. Snoopy has told us that "Happiness is a warm puppy", so I figured that with her un-happiness lately (her husband Ray passed away just before the new year started), it would take at least TWO puppies to cheer her up a little.
The Boyz got to meet Randy's brother, Trent, who just recently moved into his new home not too far from his mom's. I'm sure that with her family shrinking (like mine WAS!) that she must be very happy to have her son so much closer now. And Trent should be very happy! His newly-built home is incredibly nice, with a wall of windows looking out into the back, and a huge "party" loft upstairs.
	While I was at Carolynn's, I did manage to snap a picture of the floral arrangement that my mom sent to Carolynn for Ray's funeral. It is quite a large plant and very pretty. Although the boyz thought they should "taste" it, when we were visiting. :-)

The boyz have definitely started to grow up. In this week alone, they've doubled their size, learned to bark and sing (howl, to those not so doggie-musically inclined. LOL), run, tug-o-war, sleep on the waterbed, gone outside, and done a LOT of eating, sleeping, and pooping!! And brought a TON of love and happiness into my home!!

Too busy to update this week, jump over the February!

Too busy to update this week, jump over the February!