BOXER ADVENTURES

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 I was doing my own meal prep and made some healthy treats for the boys. A quick look on Amazon and you can find a whole array of dehydrated treats.  Liver seems to be popular.  You can also find chicken, ducks and even sweet potato.  The really good ones don't have or need any extra preservatives.  So they are healthy and nutritious.  They make great training treats because they are usually small and dogs love them. They are also typically expensive. Now mind you, these treats are lightweight, but still, they rind in anywhere from $39 - $65 per pound. I try not to let money be the ultimate determining factor but YIKES! So today, I decided to give it a shot myself. I bought a tub of perdue gizzards at Walmart (found in the same place as the fresh chicken).  It cost $1.36. I cut the gizzards into small bite sized potions, and laid them out on racks.  I set my oven to the air fryer setting at 175 degrees F and popped them into the oven 2.5 hours lat...

 If I get a day off and the sun is shining, there is no better feeling than to get outside with the doggos! Running?  Obviously.  BUT I am looking forward to when the snow melts and instead we can get out and take a leisurely hike in the woods.  With no traffic or loud noises - just nature and these two. Soon I hope!

Today I got up and decided that I'd had enough running the local roads. Unfortunately, no one plows any of our local trails. I debated whether is was worth the trip to Syracuse to run the Onondaga Lake Trail. In some ways it felt like it would be a stupid waste of time to drive over an hour there and back to only run a handful of mile, but I just needed a change of scenery. So we packed up a lunch and headed out.  The dogs were happy to be in the car not caring where we were going, just that we were all on a trip. I needed my sunglasses on for the first time in way too long. We arrived at the trail and found it PACKED with walkers, runners, a few brave bicyclists, and many dogs happy to be out in the warm sun.  .  I ran with Booker while Marc walked Sisko. It was, to be honest, a rough start.  Booker was way over-stimulated from all the people and the dogs.  Right off the bat we had a Goldendoodle lunge at us as we tried to run by - which Booker thought meant...

 Adventures?  What stinking adventures? The only thing that we've been doing is sitting in the house and trying not to freeze to death or die of boredom! Somehow we have all survived and when I got up this morning and it wasn't below zero, and I had the day off, I hopes to get the dogs out for a bit. But first, Lincoln's Birthday has always been the day off that we get our taxes done.  So we worked on that all morning, while the dogs both pestered, chased each other around and generally let us know that they wanted to be entertained.   With that finished it was mid-morning and the sun was out.  I asked Alexa what the temps were outside and she shared with me that it was 20 degrees.  That is COLD for most people, but when you've been mired in the deep freeze it felt almost tolerable! We got more snow yesterday and the plow drivers had clearly been in no hurry to get our road cleared off, and it was wet sloppy snow.   Sisko's CCL has been heali...

 A major cold snap with a TON of snow is keeping us inside - I hate it. Today, I wanted to get in a short walk, just for the dogs to stretch their legs. I think it took us longer to get dressed since then to walk since we had to put on so many layers! They were happy to be out.  When we got home it was cuddle time.  

 We live in an old house and the kitchen wasn't really built to be the center of the house like houses are now.  And counterspace is limited. I had bought several years ago a rolling kitchen island, but it was pretty small.  I decided to upgrade. I purchased a new kitchen island and it came in 2 boxes that needed to be assembled.   Of course, I know 2 dogs that were VERY eager to assist. It took us about 2.5 hours to get the whole thing assembled.  They bailed on us pretty quickly, as soon as they realized how boring the project was!! But we ended up getting it together.