no entries for a few days b/c my ibook went south on monday. no big deal, just a little bit of applecare and i'll be cruising again. the machine has lead a charmed life so hopefully it will be a quick fix. two days in a row with little b were great! we played walked when it wasn't too cold and listened to music. he seems to be warming to classical and techno. odd combo but it makes him pretty happy, the other day it was rochmanonov and paul van dyke, he would sit there, do his little dance and laugh. today was great, the little bit of new snow made for a great ride in, no beasties but it's hard to look around through a neck gaiter and yellow glasses and avoid holes and snow drifts. i miss seeing the beavers in the pond and the rabbits further up the hill, but i guess they are all sleeping for the winter. well, not the rabbits but they hide a lot more now. i wonder if the mountain lions are out and about. they should be. the other day shaubie and b were out on a hike, they were going down the hill, while they go down shaubie and b echo each others sounds with each step the whole way down, when they got to the bottom they saw a guy starting up and he asked shaubie if she had heard the coyotes up on the ridge, shaubie said no b/c she and b had been making so much noise themselves they couldn't hear anything. sure enough when they went quiet with they heard nothing!