It was a lovely day for Snow.. but not for long

So today is my birthday and for the first time in about 10 years it has been snowing. What a lovely thing to have happened. It hasn't snowed very much, not enough to do anything with but it is still very pretty to see the snow flakes falling. I called Jochen at work to tell him and he told me that he organised it just for me. Isn't he so clever.

(Stop the press - someone I don't know has just come to my front door. I'll continue this in a little while.)

I've now had a crazy mixed up sort of day so far. The snow which is wonderful and the not so wonderful after the visitor at the front door. Let me explain.

This morning I got a lovely present of a relaxing massage voucher from Jochen and some bath and hand cream from Mum. I then went shopping and experienced the snow. When I got home I found one big Zakie dog on the front verandah. I have no idea how he got out but I was just hoping that no one had walked past our house with a dog as Zak would have attacked it. Anyway to now make matters worse I've just had a lovely little old lady come to my door with a picture of her dog. She was walking him past our house and Zak came out and attacked her dog. He didn't bite it or anything like that, he just made a lot of noise and proved who was the boss. The poor little thing was terrified (as I would have been), broke its lead and ran away. The lady, Joan, called round to see if I had seen it and strangely enough I had driven past it on my way home. What was even stranger was that I almost stopped to pick it up but as it seemed to look like it was hanging around home I decided that I had better leave it there. We worked out that it looked like her little dog had headed home as that is roughly where I had seen it. I have offered to help her find it and do anything I can, but I feel just awful just the same. Not only did our dog attack hers, which is bad enough, but I left it running around when I should have picked it up. I so hope everything is okay and that it is all right. I'm going to be worried about it now for the rest of the day.