Waiting for...Snow???

  The Fanny the dog got me up at 5:45am with that itch she can't reach, shaking the bed in the other room against the wall.  She has a scab on the inside tip of her ear from a tick that she pulled off (what a dog!) that is healing very slowing because she keeps scratching the scab off.  And bleeding...on the top of her head where the tip of the ear reaches when she shakes her head...and the side of her head...where it rests when she stops scratching it!  She looks like she's been in a fight...and lost!  But she lets me clean her up and put Bag Balm on the scab.  It's getting smaller but how much longer it will take to totally heal ???  I think she secretly enjoys the warm wet microcloth washing the blood off her head, and the soothing Bag Balm applied, but do we have to do this at 5:45am?  
   This area is under a Winter Storm Warning with a Nor'easter moving up the state from the south.  Cooperstown was predicted to get 20-24" of wintry mix but we're predicted to get only 3-5" (from WKTV or 8-15" from the CBS TV station from Albany so who knows what we'll get?)  Right now, it's not doing anything outside.  It's even warmed up...to above freezing! We're just waiting for...snow??
  I cleaned up my knitting area last night and put away what's left of the sweater yarn, just leaving out what I'll probably use for Christmas presents.  Ripped out what I had done for one and restarted it on a larger needle.  Goes much faster and is becoming a nicer looking lacey cowl.  Still got to get 2 steins of sock yarn at JoAnn's.  Maybe Monday.  
   Today may turn out to be the perfect day to sit by the fire and knit by.  I've got enough wood inside to last until Jeff comes up later.  Maybe bake some cookies.  But a nap by the fire may be the way to start the day...Fanny's already gone back to bed.