MORE SNOW and MORE MAIL (for us)

The flakey things are still coming down- so much so that we have over a foot of snow!  Mom had to head back our (yes, we had to kick her out of the house) to shovel out our lawn and the stairs and driveway again.  Thai and Chip ventured out to snoopervise, and follwed in What's Her Name's wake as she shovelled a pathway.  The snow on the driveway came over Thai's back, and that is the snow that fell since yesterday when it was shovelled by What's Her Name!  Ginger stayed safely inside, toasty warm, laughing at us!

FYI- card count- DWM received 7 cards in the mail yesterday.  The total is now 20 to 0!

SNOW DAY!!!!!!

Today, we were awakened to the sight of those flake things coming down- there were over 87 trillion of them already on the ground,as we already have 4 - 6 inches of powdery stuff on the ground.  What's Her Name finally got up and fed us, then trudged outside to shovel a pathway for us to the grass for our needs.  Then we had her take a broom and dust off our SNoopy in the front yard.  She even started shovelling the driveway so Dad would know where to park his car when he gets home tonight.  Now, we are taking our noon naps- snoopervising What's Her Name is exhausting work!

Yesterday she and Dad got our gift exchange pressies in the mail, and finished wrapping our gifts for the parish's Giving Tree.  We had them get the four kids we selected Build A Bear animals that say I Love You, plus lots of other stuff (all from us, of course- we just let them pay for it)

Saturday, we were chauffered to PetSmart to get our outfits and this weekend we are going to see Santa Paws!!!!  WE had a nice long walkie in the morning, but then it started to snow again, and hasn't stopped.  (It didn't start to stick until yesterday)

FYI-  our Christmas card count is 10- 7 in the mail and 3 email.  What's Her Name- 0!!!

No Sheeples Here: They Lowered Their Guns On A Miraculous Christmas Eve In 1914

No Sheeples Here: They Lowered Their Guns On A Miraculous Christmas Eve In 1914

World War I had been raging for a year. One million souls had already perished in the conflict. On Christmas Eve 1914, British and German troops stood face to face in trenches divided by “No Man’s Land” along the Western Front.

The winter of 1914 was bitter. The soldiers, unequipped to face the rigors of the cold and rain, found themselves wallowing in a freezing mire of mud and the decaying bodies of the fallen.

The men entrenched there could not help but have a degree of sympathy for his enemy who was having just as miserable a time as they were.

On the eve of the “Truce”, the British Army was manning a stretch of the line running south from the infamous Ypres, a small Flemish market town, just over the border from France, for twenty-seven miles to the La Bassée Canal.

Numerous support associations on both sides flooded the front with gifts of food, warm clothes and letters of thanks. With their morale boosted and their bellies fuller than normal, and with still so many Christmas goodies on hand, the spirit of the season entered the trenches. A British Daily Telegraph correspondent wrote that on one part of the line the Germans had managed to slip a chocolate cake into British trenches. It was accompanied by a message asking for a ceasefire later that evening so they could celebrate Christmas.

Longing for the warmth of hearth and home, the story goes that German soldiers began singing “Stille Nacht” or Silent Night from their trenches. British troops began to sing Christmas carols too. Thus began the Christmas Truce of 1914.

Along many parts of the line the Christmas Day truce was initiated through sadder means. Both sides saw the lull as a chance to get into No Man's Land and seek out the bodies of their fallen brothers-in-arms and give them a decent burial.

It is comforting to believe that the legacy of the “Christmas Truce”, nearly hundred years later, soldiers and officers who were told to hate, loathe and kill, could still lower their guns and extend the hand of goodwill and the hope of peace on earth that Christmas Eve.

It was one of the few bright moments amid the slaughter of the Great War, in which fourteen million people were killed.

Read more: http://nosheepleshere.blogspot.com/2010/12/they-lowered-their-guns-on-miraculous.html#ixzz17F8zeHnr

Mail Call and MORE SNOW!!!

We are ahead of What's Her Name in the card sweepstakes- received our second card from Jolly Old England yesterday, from our favorite Ginger Persian- Ginger Jasper!!!!  Mom is green with jellyness, as Frankie would say- She has NO CARDS to our 2!!!!!

Snow is coming down as we work on our blog- maybe it will finally cover the grass (and our "presents" ?)

What's Her Name has to see the people vet today- she has  a cold which has settled into her chest which usually leads to bronchitis. 

Snow Day (and Mail Call)

Today we are buried beneath loads of blankets as Northeast Ohio is inundated with snow!!!!  (OK, just flurries right now but we KNOW that tons of the flakey things are on the way- Frankie, you need to RUN)

We also received our very first card, from OSKAR!!!!!  Mom is going to get us a card holder since we know that we will be receiving more cards than What's Her Name

PEEE ESSSS- Greenies is giving away a 10.00 off coupon on their facebook page!