We had a genuine BLIZZARD yesterday! We were all ready to go have some fun in the snow, when Zoe and Cupid dashed out the front door and disappeared into the white-out! So we got in the car and went after them. Big mistake! The snow was falling so fast, we couldn’t even follow their tracks. We did spot them at one point, hauling ass across the desert after a jack rabbit! After about an hour, I really started to get worried. Whippets are stupid when there are rabbits involved and they could easily chase them for miles, stop and not know where the hell they are. Since they have no body fat, they have nothing to keep them warm and the snow was really coming down hard! Here are some pix I took while Nick and I were driving around looking for them:
Desert Heights
Desert Heights
As we turned down one road, I saw 2 dogs running and thought they were Zoe and Cupid, but it turned out to be coyotes!! They were big and fluffy and fast! I managed to get one pic through the windshield- He is looking right at me, right in the center of the pic, beneath the windshield wiper!
Coyote!
I tried to follow them- big mistake! I couldn’t see that I had turned into a wash and not a road! Half way down, I spotted Cupid, sitting there in the snow like a dumb ass, soaking wet! He jumped right into the car and Zoe showed up about a minute later, also soaking wet and freezing! I cranked up the heat and drove forward and…got stuck. The front right tire was about a foot under the sand.
Totally Effed.
That’s Zoe in the driver’s seat. Cupid was curled up in a ball in the passenger seat, under the heater.
Wet, naughty Cupid!
I was on the phone with my mom, who was also out driving around looking for the dogs. I told her I was stuck but had no way to describe where I was! So I sent Nick out to walk up to the road so she could pick him up and go get a shovel. Well, he couldn’t find the road. He walked around in circles like that guy from “Into the Wild”. While he was gone, I was outside, trying to dig the front wheel out, with my bare hands! An exercise in futility. Everytime I tried to get out, I dug in further. Nick came back totally frozen so i let him sit in the car while I took the GPS and started walking toward the main road. Halfway there, I saw a pickup truck headed toward my car, so I turned around and went back. It was some tweaker in a 2 wheel drive truck- not too bright. I appreciate he made the effort but there was no way anything lass than a 4×4 was going to pull me out! He got stuck. Then my mom called and said one of our neighbors who owns a towing service was on the way- he lived right by the wash and knew exactly where we’d got stuck AND he had a 4×4. After the tweaker unstuck himself and took off, he hooked up to my car and we tried for about 30 min to pull it out. Finally, after a lot of swearing, we got it out! He dragged me backwards about 500ft and then I was able to turn around and get back on the road. I wiped out twice on the way back to my house, but the whippets were fine and that’s all that mattered. I gave my neighbor $20 and a hug and that was the end of our adventure!
Here’s what my house looked like:
My house
The whippets were totally mesmerized by the snow, especially Romeo.
Romeo
Rocky, Cupid, Tigger
Today, the sun is out and the snow is melting!! The mountains are covered in snow- something I have not seen in the 10 yrs that I’ve lived here!
29 Palms
Zoe
Daisy
Rocky
Gromit
Nick and Chaz
Despite the fact that my whole house is full of mud, my car is filthy and I am sick as a dog, I really hope it snows again on Christmas!!
