Basset Hound Town resident, Sophie checks in from the Upper Peninsula
December 10th, 2009 - 9:09 am KY Time
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and freezing cold hound dog lovers: Basset Hound Town resident, Sophie checks in from the Upper Peninsula of MI. Her Mommy, Kerry sent this shot in yesterday for us!
Burrrrrrrr. That looks cold little girl. Look at those ears flapping in the wind. Looks like Nell, the Sussix was smart and stayed inside with Mommy.
Let us know howl you are doing Kerry.
More UP, MI news later…..Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma
Comments(8)
How cool! No pun intended. Ha! I sure wish we had some snow down here in south Texas to play in. I’m sure we’d get tired of it pretty quick tho!
Brrrrr! It is cold here in Chicago, but I expected to see Sophie is a coat. It is just too cold to be without a coat.
say ya to da UP! sophie is a yooper! (dat’s upper penninsula talk)
we love michigan!!! but it does get a tad cold and snowy this time of year…especially up there in da UP!!!! buster would be screaming for his coat (okay he screams for his coat in jersey in november and wants to wear it thru late april)…me thinks sophie would be laughing at him and calling him a wuss!
yoopers are a tough lot…a hardy bunch…
stay warm miss sophie…don’t get lost in a big snowdrift….
lois, buster (i am not a wuss…just sensitive) & cooper (i have sensitive feet and don’t like snow)
The depth of the snow was the big challenge for the dogs. My husband would shovel them a path and an hour later it was full again. Mostly they spent the day sleeping in a pile (our other dog – Nell – is a Sussex Spaniel) … they were warm as biscuits and not interested in going out. The snow has finally stopped – about 20 inches from the storm and probably pushing 30 inches since Monday.
The next few days we’re facing wind chills of 15-30 below zero, so everyone here will have to be careful.
Lois – you have the yooper lingo down perfectly … donchaknow!
Cat – thanks for letting Sophie stop by Basset Hound Town. Nell waits for Sophie to blaze the trail, so she was standing right at my feet.
A beautiful Winter Wonderland…but Brrrr to cold for me!!! I am a California Girl!!!
ah…6.5 years in michigan..gave me time to perfect my yooper-isms!
i graduated from hope college, in holland and spent an extra year coaching their jv field hockey team, and then i returned to the state a few years later to spend a couple of years working at sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore in empire (near traverse city). i managed the platte river campground and did law enforcement, ems, etc.
i loved my time in michigan. it is a beautiful state and the people are awesome. the UP is beautiful..i love seney wildife refuge and pictured rocks nl as well. i had hoped there would have been job openings in the area but unfortunately there weren’t and i was hired in the mean time at the statue of liberty.
next year is my 30th (egads) year college reunion..so i am going to try and make it back to the state and of course back up to both sleeping bear and hopefully yooper-land. i want to see the shipwreck museum in whitefish bay as the “edmund fitz ” (fitzgerald..think gorden lightfoot) went down right before i started college in 75).
i saw my share of winter lake storms coming off lake michigan…they can be impressive…but i am drawn to superior…funny…i have spent my life either on the atlantic seaboard or the great lakes…guess i am meant to be near the coast…no dessert living for me. i love the history of the us life saving service…now the us coast guard…they used to row out to ships in distress to save the crews and if need be show lines out and rig breeches bouys (life rings with canvas seats) to get folks back to shore…hard nasty work…)great reading on a cold nasty night by a nice fire…
oops…sorry i ramble…