Too Cold to Click!
Frosty fronds and freezing fingers
I haven’t been taking many photos recently. It’s way too cold to struggle out of my skiing gloves, juggle PupperJack’s lead and the horsewhip I carry to dissuade any possible dog-thieves from the very idea, and possibly a poo bag — to take a picture.
It all stopped some time ago when I automatically reached for my phone to take a picture; the wind suddenly blew up a storm, PupperJack suddenly yanked on his lead, the poo bag fell to the ground, and I dropped my phone because my fingers were too cold to keep hold of it given all the other provocations.
However, this morning, which started off like the picture below, I couldn’t resist the frosted ivy.
Look at it! (above)
Gah!
This is actually an older picture — my fingers were too cold to take a photo at this point, and this picture was taken on this date a year ago, so it’s still a fairly accurate representation of the day and the weather.
Even PupperJack suggested we might miss out on his daily sniffathon today.
However, I am wise to him. If I’d taken him up on the suggestion and stayed in the warm, he would have started nagging me in a deprived tone of nag later on when I’d be trying to work.
So off we went.
And the first thing I saw was the frosted ivy leaves. They had to be clicked, frozen solid fingers or no.
And so they were, as you can see.
But no other pictures were taken on this sniffathon.
But if PupperJack does his I’m-too-cold thing tomorrow like Doggo above, then we’re gonna stay home. Under the duvet.
(This painting above was around for quite a while, also published on greeting cards, before I realised quite how menacing the snowman is — instead of the picture being about a dog who is horrified at the very idea of having to go out and get his paws frozen on such a bitterly cold day, it could easily have been about a devil-possessed snowman instead.)
Under the duvet — like this doggo — he knows what’s best!
PS I have now managed to submit one tax return. I have another to do, though, yet …
Coffee will help me through.
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