3 Granddaughters

Once the stew was simmering in the crock pot I left the farm to drive to Sarah's house. Today I wanted to take a few pictures of her new puppies and Stephanie agreed to meet me there with cookies for our next guests coming in.  Rhoda, Iris, Stephanie, Elisabet had already arrived. Of course when one has 3 granddaughters one just doesn't take puppy pictures. Below is Iris, Rhoda and Lee's 5 month old daughter.

We were laughing at Sarah and Nolan's Christmas tree set up. The ONLY way to keep the tree and presents safe from Zion was to put a puppy cage around it. 

 Elisabet had fun playing with all of Zion's toys. Rhoda put them on the chair for a picture then gave them each an ornament to play with. 

 Baby Iris wasn't too sure Zion should be taking her headband off in the picture below. 

 Elisabet and Zion were having fun playing ring-around-the-rosy. 

Sarah brought the puppies out next for a few group pictures.

 It was hard to keep them facing forward but left to right in both the picture above and the picture below is the biggest male weighing in at 11 ounces, the female and the other male who both weigh just over 10 ounces. 

Sarah's other two dogs, Maddie and Rizzy were let out into the yard and both were having a ball running around playing. Maddie is their new puppy. I think she is around 8 months old. I forgot to ask Sarah how old she is. Maddie is a Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier. They are an exuberant Irish farm dog, happy, friendly and deeply devoted to their family and what sets them apart from other terriers is that silky, gently waving gold coat. Meet Maddie:

After playing with Maddie and Rizzy we went inside to take a few up close face pictures of Arri's puppies.

 Above and below are the two male puppies. 

 Below is the only female puppy. 

We went to Flat Top Grill for lunch before each of us headed for our homes.  Mark came home a little early and discovered the heat was not on at church. It was programmed to come on but for some reason the boiler didn't fire up.  He made some phone calls, someone went personally and turned it on. Church was cool but tolerable tonight. After church I still needed to clean stalls and feed. It is still cold outside, we never made it above freezing and started the morning with 10 degrees. Galesburg started their morning with 1 degree but they had 11 inches of snow on the ground and we only have 4.  We were told that warmer weather is on the way but it is going to arrive with more rain.