Charlie Charlie Girl Rogers

April 2011

Our beloved dog of 15+ years passed away today.  Her health had been declining and yesterday she had a stroke and became unable to walk.  While it was not a shock, it is still a huge loss.  She was an amazing dog.

Charlie "supervising" work in Lucy's room as I painted.

I loved the look of her covered in snow.

I will miss my little shadow.  Love you, Char-Char.

Farm Fresh News!

  Meet the 6 chicks that are currently residing in the Rogers' garage!  Lucy and Daddy picked out 3 New Hampshire Reds and 3 Americana chicks for our family.  Even more interesting is the fact that they were purchased on the way home from Charlie's vet appointment today... so there was one very upset doggie in the van when they came out of Tractor Supply! I can just picture the van with all of that excitement.  :)
Needless to say, Lucy was bursting at the seems to tell me the news when she came to my classroom at the end of the day.  "Mom!  We have chickens in the garage!"  Daddy rolled his eyes and sighed, as if somehow disappointed that the 3-year-old couldn't keep the secret.
I am very sure that there will be many more pictures of these cute little things as they grow.

Love, Thankfully

We celebrated Valentine's Day with Chocolate Ebelskivers! Grammy B had kindly sent us a whole Ebelskiver cookbook as well as mix to make the chocolate ones. I dabbled a bit with fillings too, trying both raspberry jam in some and chocolate chips in others. Delicious! Many thanks for sending those our way!

Later in the day they enjoyed giant pink heart cookies that Mom had made for them.














Today we have been trying to survive the day off of school (notice I didn't even attempt to say "enjoy" in that sentence). We have spent some time outside, but the boys have both had to spend quite a bit of time in multiple time outs. Thankfully, their mother loves them a whole bunch (even though they make her want to tear out her hair).

When the boys weren't in time out today, we went outside for a while and enjoyed the relative warmth (high 20s). The boys were sledding and Lucy and I played together. Later we were joined by Papa Denny and Cousin Kaleb. Owen had fun sledding down and wiping out, saying "that was awesome" after he sprawled out on the driveway. Kaleb and Mitchell took turns racing down the hill. Charlie even got in on the fun, looking rather youthful as she played for a few moments with Papa Denny.

The 10:00 Skunk Club

Here's one for memorable family moments:

Last night Ken and I were sitting in the house enjoying the breeze when all of the sudden we noticed a VERY foul odor. SKUNK! We raced around to shut the windows before the stench settled in too much. We find Charlie outside, dripping wet with skunk spray. YUCK! So we try calling the animal control officer (Ken's dad) to see what is the best for cutting the smell, but he isn't answering his phone. Luckily, Mom was just a phone call away, and she was ready with a special skunk remedy from her ~many~ rounds of late night skunk showers with Cricket. While Mom drove over, Ken went down and talked to his dad and learned lemon juice is also good for cutting skunk.
So Charlie got bathed late last night and slept in the garage; she'll be the proud owner of many baths in her near future I'm sure.

That's what I get for taking a nap yesterday morning.....