Staying inside mostly, but the scenery is nice to look at while taking my walks with Pepper.  The temps have been very reasonable, almost balmy feeling, but another cold snap is headed this way, with -20 degrees over the weekend.  The firewood has almost all been used up, and another load will have to be brought inside and stacked up in the living room. 

I've been trimming Pepper's fur in her back parts.  That's always a good thing to get done before the fur mats up and becomes a problem.  I have an electric trimmer, but have never even turned it on, as I'm sure I would end up pulling the fur, or not doing it right.  I use a cuticle scissors and hold it in my right hand, with the sharp end facing out; I use my left hand to hold the fur between two fingers and cut right behind them.  I always feel to make sure there is only fur behind the scissors, never flesh, and don't pull up and away from her body, so no skin will be pulled up to the scissors.  Whew!  In such dense fur, it is a scary thing to do, but now's the time to do it.  She always worries that I might disapprove of  her in some way, and keeps eye contact, so she can watch every reaction of mine, as if she thinks I might disapprove of her growing fur.  What a love bunny!  I so adore her.  

I'm proud of what Obama has done so far in his two days in office; these are the changes I can believe in, all right.  Rolling back the gas and oil drilling leases in the Red Rock canyon and other places, closing Guantanamo Bay within the year, and the other, many orders he's signed already, such as pay freezes for top staff.  When will it be our turn to get some help?  I signed up to do some work of unknown description to get the changes started, but doubt I can be of much use.