Welcome to Snoopynut.com!

We are Lisa & Herb, aka the Snoopynuts, and this is our home in cyberspace. In real life, we live in the great state of New York, one of the most beautiful and diverse places on the planet. We're nuts about Snoopy, we love animals and we love the great outdoors. We hope our Web site entertains you, makes you smile and takes you away even if it's just for a short time...

*AND*, we welcome comments about our site or anything else!

Enjoy your visit!

April 10, 2008

Happy Birthday, Kristofur! .......and spring's here at the pond!

April 9th we heard the first chirping coming from the pond. Not bird chirping but frog chirping. We look forward to that sound each year, it's really awesome. I'll have to see if I can record it sometime to post on here for you city folks who have no clue what I'm talking about. LOL. ;)

Yesterday was a beautiful spring day here in Oswego County, NY and the Snoopynut spent part of it sitting in a deck chair on the back deck reading. However, the reading was short-lived as she was continually being interrupted by someone who was looking for his 15 minutes of fame....

(Click the button to the left to see the video.)

We haven't had a good SSS in a long time! This one was sent in by Snoopynut.com's most loyal visitor who asked not to be mentioned by name but we'll give you a hint. He's very good-looking and is married to the Snoopynut. :P

So can you see the World Famous Beagle in these fireworks?

I've been thinking about what would be the best advice I could give someone for Earth Day that would be something simple and easy that everyone can do and also would be a huge help. What I came up with is something we started doing a couple of months ago and that is to use cloth or canvas bags for your groceries or shopping. I have heard people say things like they can never remember to bring them, but really it's just a matter of habit. Stick them in the car and then all you have to do if you forget is go back out to the car. Eventually you will remember them every time.

We recently learned that brown paper bags take four times the amount of energy to make than plastic. (Not to mention using all those trees!) But we also know plastic takes hundreds of years to break down biologically and only about 4% of all plastic bags are recycled, anyway! So there must be a better way. And that better way is to use reusable bags. They even hold more and stuff stacks much better in them!! Do it for your mother. Earth, that is. ;)

Yes, spring has come in full force here in upstate New York. We could hardly believe it when we got an 85ºF day about a week and a half ago. 'Course, you realize that is way above the norm, prolly 20º. But it's been nice and we aren't complaining TOO much. Been too dry, though. The flowers and plants are severely thirsty, another "this ain't the norm for us" thing. Hmm. So what to do, Snoopynut, what to do? Well, where we used to have an annuals garden, we decided to instead fill it with decorative rocks....

It was difficult growing flowers there. It is a pretty good slope and is also in the shade. So we will move our annuals out into the sun and now this will welcome our visitors!

What do you think?

And if you're at all observant, you will have noticed the little picture of the Snoopynut with Snoopy at the top of the page. And if you're not, well, take a look...............ok, did you look? Well, that Snoopy was part of this group of neat wooden cutouts at a place called Beck's Grove in Blossvale, NY...

We really don't know what Beck's Grove is, although we have been by there several times over the years. We can only guess that these guys are new because you KNOW the Snoopynut wouldn't have missed Snoopy!