Police said witnesses reported seeing two males walking on **** at about noon. One of the men was carrying flat screen television; the other was carrying a large duffel bag.

Officers arrived within minutes and found the duffel bag and television behind another house on *****. They followed a set of tracks in the snow and within minutes, officers found *** and ***, who has been under the supervision of the state Department of Corrections.

Oh, and the cat, too.

I’ve been working from th ekitchen for about a week so I can hang out with the dogs. They don’t do stairs anymore and we haven’t cleared the path through the snow for them to get to my office from the outside.

So here they are hanging out withme. G.B. the cat has found his favorite warm spot in the house (with Tasha) and Daisy is on her cushy bed. What a mush.

Yesterday I proclaimed that today would be a powder day – regardless of how much work I have to do. We had a forecast of 7-12 inches of new snow.

The promised snow started before we went to bed last night.

But when I woke up in the middle of the night to a howling wind and then again this morning to the same, I knew it would be another productive day in front of the computer. It’s wild out there. Rich is still heading out to the ski hill. He’s insane. I certainly wouldn’t want to be sitting in the chair lift in this weather.

It’s what he refers to as a “character building day.” That’s an old joke from when he worked for a builder that, even in the winter, had his crew arrive at 6am and work until 4pm. Even when it was 5 degrees out and all then ended up doing was shoveling snow out of the foundation. I’d last about five minutes in a job like that. Give me my cozy office chair any day! 🙂

At a recent check-up, my doctor reminded me that now that I’m getting to be such an old lady (okay, she didn’t quite put it that way) I need to be more conscientious about my calcium intake. I asked her if the half & half in my coffee counted. No. How about the small bowl of ice cream once in a while in the evening? No.

I remember my mother telling me about a doctor appt she had in her late 60’s (not so long ago) when the doctor complemented her on how strong and healthy her bones were. Her reply to the doctor was that it was thanks to all those cookies she eats, because when she eats cookies, she pours a glass of milk to go with them.

So after lunch that day, (thanks to my husband’s habit of stockpiling cookies in the house (which is normally a really big problem for me)), I happily placed 2 Oreo cookies on my plate, poured myself a glass of milk, and fed my bones.

Egad – not snakes on a plane, but scorpions on a plane….

When it’s 35 degrees and raining slush, that’s PJ Day around here. Almost every day, I start the day by walking the dogs. But today was so nasty, I just came downstairs in my pj’s and let the dogs out to pee and “do the doo” and then right back in.

I think people assume that since I work at home, I do this quite often, but it is a true rarity – maybe twice a year!

I just realized it’s nearly noon and here I am still in my pjs. Just need to remember to change into street clothes before I head to the VTdotNET meeting tonight.

Dave Burke’s Five Things … listing some interesting personal details of his life that you probably didn’t know (and I certianly didn’t and was fascinated) has tasked me with trying to the do the same.

The problem is that I think anyone who reads my blog already knows anything that might be somewhat interesting about my deep dark past.

But now I realize that i’m not allowed to bail. I’ve also been tagged by Andy Beaulieu. So here goes:

1. I have been to a Playmate of the Year party at Hugh Hefner’s mansion in L.A.
2. I was a Cosmo Girl for two years in a row – interviewed by Helen Gurley Brown for Cosmopolitan Magazine’s annual “what are young, cosmopolitan women thinking about home, fashion, work, romance, money, etc.”
3. I have written software for Macs.
4. My first programming experience was on home-built Heathkit computers (by the math profs at my college).
5. For about 10 years, I split my time between programming and pottery. I had space in studio near my apartment in Brooklyn and spent about 20 hours a week there. I hope to pot again someday.

Okay, now who am I going to tag? Hmmm.

1. Mike Gunderloy
2. Kate Gregory
3. hmmm Sam’s been there and done that. Apparently, C was not his first language after all! 😉
4. Camey Combs
5. Amanda Murphy

is the American Heart Association’s campaign to raise awareness of the fact that women get heart disease and heart attacks, too! We need to educate ourselves. A friend of my sister’s had clear signs of a heart attack in her early 40’s (along with a family history of both her father and grandfather dying from heart attacks in their 40’s and the fact that she was already on heart medicine), but the obvious warnings were ignored by her doctor because she was a women and women don’t get heart attacks. She called 911 when she was having her heart attack and they basically told her to take some indigestion medicine. She managed to get someone to take her to the hospital where doctor’s had to immediately perform open heart surgery on her, which saved her life. So, I’m definitely a big supporter of this campaign.

There will be a Go Red for Women luncheon in Burlington on Feb 9th. A dear friend is one of the local Chairs of this and I am sponsoring a table of 10.

You can learn more about the Burlington event here, if you’d like to participate or donate a silent auction item.

On NPR this morning, Philip Baruth was lamenting the upcoming ABBA museum in Stokholm, even though he loves ABBA.

What I loved about his commentary was this quote:

“ABBA is like Coca-Cola for your ears… effervescent.” 

Tasha turned 13 years old last week. This is a pretty significant milestone for a Newfoundland. Because of their large size, they don’t have a long life expectancy. Tasha is getting acupuncture and lots of love and short strolls. Her weight is as low as we dare get her, but this puts so much LESS stress on her legs and her organs. So this has been another attribute that has helped. She does have a hard time getting up but manages. She’s pretty darned happy and as far as I can tell, her secret to long life is “as long as there is food on the planet….”.

Not to discount Daisy, who will be 12 in January. Daisy is in amazing shape and can still run around. Her only obvious sign of age is her beautiful grey eyelashes and her worn down teeth.

Here’s a pic of the girls I took a few months ago. Daisy (aka Daisy Dog) is on the left and Tasha (aka Boo Boo Bear) is on the right.