Two Pups

In spite of the extremely late start to winter (six weeks late), the snow level has reached the normal height for this time of year. Three years ago I had the seven puppies in the puppy pen, and they were climbing over the remaining one foot of fence and coming up to the house. Here are Smoke and Soot.
Not being let into the house right away, they ran round and round on the deck. Our deck goes all the way around the house, so they could just keep going round and round and round until someone opened the door.

Smoke had loads of personality. Unfortunately he died of parvo a few months after this picture. I named him Smoke because he was the same color as the smoke from our chimney. We were heating exclusively with wood that winter.