at the wharf in Mattapoisett on my solo walk with Ollie.

Ollie is so excited by his rawhide that he doesn't notice the tissue paper, wrapping paper, and chocolate all over the room!

Ben's granny wears Ben's mom's new hat as she opens her Christmas presents.

TIRED on Christmas eve.

Ollie loves the snow!!!!

I dunno how Ben's mom does it, but this is how much apple she piles into a pie.

After a day of packing and cleaning, we headed to Ben's mom's house for Christmas:

When we got there, Ollie got to play in the deep untouched snow in the backyard:

I never manage to drink my whole cup of coffee, so Ben has started making me appropriate sized cups of coffee:

Ben rode Ollie today. It looked like fun.

Ollie and Ben love to play:

and I made yummy dinner with almost all the stuff I needed a use for from the farm:

Since I desperately needed to finish a paper today, we sent Ollie to doggie daycare. They take pictures there and post them on the internet. We were pleased to see that he wasn't so scared and anxious like his first day there, and when Ben picked him up, he was told that Ollie had found a girlfriend!!! Check it out:

Disclaimer: I'm almost completely sure that these pictures are out of sequence and we don't actually know the full story of what was going on, but we sure can make up fun things about what might have been going on!

Ollie brought home a Christmas tree from his walk.

Ben only hires employees who dress like him... Well, backwards of him...

The book of the week.

Ollie's got cotton hanging out of his mouth. Crazy dog.

Kisses.

Ben got me a pomegranate that I will consume when the semester's over. I'm a lucky lady.

Ollie says "What? What did I do?"

Don't know why I took this picture, but I did.

Ben lost the puppy.Then he found the puppy.

Then he constructed a new attachment for the puppy's leash, which the puppy chewed through later today.