We went for a spring hike this week.  As you can see by the trail, it is no longer snow/ice covered, but very, very muddy!  It is quite messy hiking in the spring. Annie misses the snow.  She absolutely loves the snow.  But she still loved every minute of our hike. She would run ahead...

Well, I don't think he's used up all of his nine lives... yet... but he's got a good head start on it!  Our sweet orange cat, whom we affectionately call Simba (he's got a white circle on both sides of his body,the circles reminded us of the song Circle of Life in the movie the Lion King, hence his name Simba).  Simba...

Since Spring seems to be dragging her feet .... and winter/cold weather just keeps lingering around... it is the still the season for some comfort food! So, when I say the words "comfort food" ....  most likely this brings up visions of involving a special soup or stew, or a special dinner, or perhaps it may be...

I don't know if it is!  I checked the weather reports for this week, and we are on schedule to get an inch of snow several times this week, followed by rain!  Since Wednesday is officially the first day of spring, our weather is really not acting that spring-y!  Winter just doesn't want to leave!  But,...