It's a Friday in Winter Again

    Hi everyone. Happy end of another Monday through Friday work week. Not that I go to work Monday through Friday any longer, but I still separate the work week from the weekend.

   Today I am joining Nicole at Friday Face Off and Gillena at Friday Lunch Break. 

   The good news about this past week is we've had several warmer days. Now  by warmer I mean it's been around the freezing point, but after weeks of some very cold days with wind chills driving the temperature down to around -10 degrees F/ -23 degrees C or even colder, these days at about the freezing point are wonderful. 👍 😀 ❤

  My husband is now semi-retired and working only 3 days a week. The other day he was off, and we went out to run an errand and to get some lunch. On our way to lunch we noticed that the runway on the Big Lake near us (Lake Winnepeesaukee) was open, and there were a lot of planes coming and going. We stopped to watch them for a bit.

  In fact, the frozen lake was hopping.  You can tell it's been a cold winter because for several years there wasn't thick enough ice for this runway to open. This is the only FAA sanctioned frozen lake airport in the lower 48 states of the US, and since it was a beautiful winter day at that point, I think  the pilots (and people) were taking advantage of being able to be outside.

    Here's (photo below) a plane taxing down the runway to take off. I couldn't get a photo of that actual liftoff since he was too far away to take a photo on my phone. I had hoped to catch a photo of a plane coming in for a landing since they land at the base of the bay near where we were, and I thought I had snapped a couple, but I guess I didn't. 😞

   And ha ha, notice the covered pool table and the raised fire pit at the bottom of the above photo. Off to the side of the runway are lots of ice fishing shacks.  I guess some people want something to do while they wait to hook a fish.

   All this adventure is right across the street from one of my favorite summer time places to eat, which many of you have seen several times in some of my posts. It was too bad they close for the winter (though they never even did take their umbrellas down this past winter) because a  Pop's lobster roll would have hit the spot. 😏

   Instead we drove around the lake and went to a local NH only chain restaurant that serves  tasty food. I had a bowl of fish chowder .

   By the time we finished lunch the clouds had moved in and a couple of hours after we arrived home we had another 4 inches/ 10 cm of snow. Here's the view from the restaurant parking lot. This view is another bay in another part of the same  big lake (Lake Winnepeesaukee.)

   I need a face  for Nicole's Friday Face off, and since the only photos of faces I've taken all week are of the dogs, I guess one of them will have to do. I take daily dog photos to send to my daughter since she likes seeing what the family canines are up to

   Now this may just look like Miss Maddie laying in a dog bed, but this has been Mr Pete's point of concern all week. This is actually Pete's bed, and Pete isn't the most flexible of dogs. Especially since Maddie believes her bed is my and my husband's actual bed, and she will  growl at Pete if he even looks  at it. For the last 10 years, this has been Pete's bed, and he hasn't had to share it.

   Then all of a sudden during the Superbowl, while Pete was laying on the floor elsewhere, Maddie climbed into Pete's bed, stretched out and went to sleep. Pete didn't know what to do. He kept looking at me and at my husband with a  practically panicked expression. If expressions were words, his face would be saying  "Oh no. Help! Maddie is in MY bed. What can I do?" And this event didn't happen just once.  It's been happening daily all week. 

  If you looked carefully  you can probably see that there are 2 dog beds in the photo,so I tried separating them so they would both have a bed. Ha ha. Neither of them would get in either bed, and Pete's expression this time said "What's happened to my bed?".  So the beds went back together, and the saga continues.

  Ha ha. You can tell life is wildly exciting at my house, can't you? 😂

  That's all for me. I hope everyone has  a great start to the weekend and of course, a lovely Valentine's Day if you celebrate.