Victory Dalmatians: Busy Weekend

We went to a fund raiser for Dalmatian Rescue of North Texas yesterday. They had Santa Paws photos with Santa. DRNT has wonderful volunteers who do this every year, and it is so much fun and a great deal for Christmas photos of your family and dogs. I will share some of the photos DRNT took of us between now and Christmas. We then went shopping for outdoor Christmas lights and picked up a really pretty lighted wreath and a lighted sign that says Merry Christmas Ya'll. I never thought I would say ya'll, since it wasn't something we say in the midwest, but I really find that word pretty handy to use! Then we had to go buy horse feed and goat feed, Purina of course, then home for awhile, cleaned horse barns, fed animals, and then went and did a little Christmas shopping. Today, went to church, cleaned and vacuumed the pickup and the Traverse, decorated the house for Christmas, picked up 10 huge trashcans full of leaves, and did laundry. We have 24 large old oak trees around our house, and they are so messy. Lovely in the summer, when it's hot, because they really keep the house cool, but no fun in spring and fall, they are so dirty. It was 83 degrees here today, way too hot for December, and really dry, too. Praying for rain! The dogs always give me dirty looks when I scoop up the leaf piles, because they love laying in the leaves outside. Wishbone found himself a large pile of leaves, and watched me work. I don't like the leaves on the ground because we have found copperhead snakes in them, when we pick them up. The copperheads blend right in with the oak leaves. Here are some pictures of the dogs in the yard today during leaf cleanup, and one of the photos we got yesterday at DRNT. Merry Christmas Ya'll!