Brandon and Lindsey's pet dog Ike has grown to be an armful. He's a purebred Australian Shepherd, is extremely physical, and loves people. He goes from one person to another looking for pets and scratches, but he would just as soon jump in your lap. He loves it when his master picks him up, but being he is now 65 pounds I was encouraged to hurry up and snap this picture.
We drove to Lisbon on Sunday to see my mother and celebrate her birthday which will be on the 17th when she will be 91. We usually eat at the Parkside Lutheran Home when we visit her, and Sunday we ate some great steaks. There is lots of snow in Ransom County and in the whole Sheyenne River drainage system. I'm hoping some gentle thawing takes place so that it doesn't all run off at once. A couple days of thawing really shrunk the snow here in Mandan, but with the drainage river being the Missouri I'm not too worried about flooding.
