The Book of Ramblings

David and I decided to head up to the cottage on the lake. For those that don't know, we sort of watch his ex-wife's cottage. She moved away to Washington a couple years ago and hasn't been able to sell it. She let us borrow it when we first got Dahlia since we had nowhere else to take our new dog and we've been keeping an eye on it for her ever since. It's a nice place to get away for the weekend as it's in this little alcove right on Oneida Lake. It's dark and quiet and really peaceful up there.

Plus it has a washer AND dryer!

So this weekend we decided to go up there to get away and to tackle some of the laundry that needs to be done (we only have a washer at home).

We debated where to walk Dahlia as the railroad tracks will be teeming with snowmobiles. And then we discovered a super nice thing about central NY. The lake was frozen over. So solidly frozen over that snowmobiles were racing on the whole thing and people were ice fishing out in the middle of it. So David got out his cross country skis and Dahlia and I accompanied him out onto the lake. It was fun getting out away from shore in such a way!

First day out on the lake.



David decided to ski down the hill. He ended up landing on his butt. LOL






The view of shore:






Racing off to catch up to her Daddy, who was skiing.



There was big chunk of ice where apparently the ice sections came together or something. I'm not sure how this happens, but it was interesting.






Dahlia walks VERY funny on this snow.







Following her Daddy. For once a good distance behind. Most of the time she followed RIGHT in his ski tracks, sometimes even stepping on the skis and almost falling over. Wish I had gotten a video of that.



My photos from our second stint came out much better. I started experimenting with a fill flash and some manual settings (I tend to forget my camera has these!).



I'm not sure but..is this a happy dog?









Dahlia loves her Daddy!



Well, actually, she came up to him and poked his glove. Yep, it was glove killin' time!











Uh oh! Daddy's gonna take it!





Dahlia wins!



But wait...another glove?





Dahlia says, "That was fun Dad!"






But it's not over...because MOMMY also has gloves! Lucky Dahlia!







Again, I ask...I THINK this is a happy dog, yes?