I do believe that y'all have had a harder time of it this winter than we have (midwest). Virtually ALL of our snow is gone. We haven't had any new snow for a long time, while my daughter in VA has had 10 snow days this winter. We've had ONE -- on a Sunday. No school cancelled.
well realize that the wimpy Virginians cancel much quicker than the hardy Midwesterners. We have not had snow in awhile now, but the temps are just taking forever to get to the WARM stage. we have a random warm day here and there, but getting up and leaving the house when it’s in the 30s is getting old.
Again I want to remind everyone that I have had a puppy to train during the course of this ridiculously cold winter. But on Friday I had the guy out to re-flag the yard and to train DaVinci to the electric fence. Because he is a genius dog [both the trainer and the fence guy have commented on how smart he is; xshub rolls his eyes at me when I tell him but honestly neither of these guys is given to false flattery. In fact the trainer is often looking to tell me that DaVinci has a screw loose! so I am guessing that he has that genius-madman thing going on, LOL!] he literally had one brush with the lowest of the low level shock and wanted no part of the flags. Did not even remotely get near them. Yesterday the neighbors had some sort of family gathering with lots of kids in the yard playing with a ball etc. and he looked LONGINGLY at them, wishing he could join them, but made no attempt to get anywhere near the flags.