Re: Spring Cleaning

Lu- You have some definite issues....and some seriously ill Karma. Send out ugly negative vibes they can only come back to YOU. Not nice to contribute to the worlds pollution problem with such ugly feedback. I wish you well. YOU ARE IN NEED OF WELL WISHES.

You are advertising in a non advertising text group - I certainly do not need, nor want, your well wishes.

"bagitup" wrote

Oh damn, clean out the handbasket. Lu?? LU????? I should not ROTFL at such heavy karmic pronouncements. The stars in my crown are falling ping ping ping on the floor. But---LU???

Dawne

No need to shout, we're not deaf you know.

I know, doesn't fit in any way at all :)

I heard the pings this morning but I never realized it was you falling from grace.

How's the new furbaby?

Lu (a name I've been called and hated)

"lucille" wrote

No, you do not strike me as a Lu either. The new furbaby is lovely, except that he greeted me at the door when I came home from work tonight with a smiling face, shining eyes, a wagging tail--and great determination that I should take him for a walk. It is minus 30 something out there, and by the time I got back from a short shuffle of about 6 blocks my hair was frosted from my breath and my cheeks were slightly frostbitten. Dog, with thick fur coat, and even thick hair around his paws, was pretty happy with the whole excursion. I thought I had a new burglar alarm, apparently I got an exercise program as a free bonus.

Dawne

Nothing for it - you are going to have to knit yourself one of those Balaclava type head covers, with just eyes and mouth exposed. It sounds like he has settled right in though, and that's a good thing. Think how nice it will be in summer lol

I'd find a balacava with the one way barrier fabric over the nose and mouth. Keeps the moisture in and lets you breathe freely.

Cheryl

"lucretia borgia" wrote

Dog has such a heavy coat that the shelter suggested he would appreciate a summer haircut! He is moping around in the hall right now because I will not take him out--the windchill is -43C.

Dawne

I recommend those haircuts - my Belle (border collie mix) is a lot happier when we cut her in late March!

Linda

I can't imagine that kind of cold. My little wimp, Puff (who has no undercoat at all) doesn't want to go out when the temp drops below 60F. He will stay out a little while if I bother to put on his coat, but if not, he does what he has to and flies back in.

Lucille :^)

"lucille" wrote

When I was in highschool, they used to translate the windchill into very ominous statements about how long it would take "exposed flesh" to freeze. This gave my mother much ammunition to try to convince me to wear ski pants for my walk to school since the miniskirts of the time certainly left expanses of skin exposed, and pantihose really don't have much insulation value. (At that age I once froze my hand because I was walking and reading--sigh--a love letter.) This isn't done any more (urban legend has it that merchants felt it kept people from shopping), but this is definitely "under 10 minutes" freezing weather, possibly closer to 5 minutes.

Dawne

I'm a New Yorker so I do know a little about cold, though never as cold as Saskatchewan. My father once got frostbitten hands when he was loading up his truck on the docks in Manhattan and I remember the agony he went through till he was able to use his hands properly again and he never really got all the feeling back in his fingertips.

"lucille" wrote

Yes, the "unfreezing" can be excruciatingly painful, and the skin very very sensitive as it regains feeling. You can't always feel it coming, to know when you have passed from cold to frostbitten, and on the playgrounds we were quick to tell people when their nose or cheek turned white.

Dawne

A little anecdote from when another couple and Jill and I rented a house in Tobago. When we were talking to the owner, she remarked how cold it could get in the hills on the island. We suggested that the temperature might get down to +65F. The lady said "It gets cold, but not THAT cold". Jim.

Has he gone from Sparky to Dog ? You can change the name and he will quickly respond to a new name. When I got my little Peke, she had been nastily abused, she had some terrible name I forget. Within a week she answered to her new name. Once in awhile I would try out the old name and I believe she remembered it but it scared her, maybe she thought she was going back there !

Show him at -43C windchill you are the Alpha dog and there is no walking lol

Or not to stick their tongue on the metal uprights lol