How low can it go?

The forecast for tonite's low is -9 degrees.  It is now -4, or actually -16 with the wind chill factor.  It always makes me nervous when it gets colder than the forecast says it will.  I don't feel nervous when it gets hotter than what the forecast predicts - don't know why.  May because... Maybe cause?...  being too hot is mostly just miserable, but not painful.  (Unless of course, you have odd MS symptoms that grants that character building gift but we're back to pretending we don't have MS). 

But being too cold hurts like hell, and those of us who live in the cold can all relate to how much it hurts when an extremity gets too cold.  And then again the pain while it's warming back up is just as bad.  That is the pain in my hands and feet 24/7 when things start going downhill. 

Maybe that's why when it gets colder than it's supposed to, I just plain start feeling nervous.   

Plus my phone is out, so should I get stuck in a snow drift while taking out the dogs for one last pee, I'm shit out of luck.  Never mind the fact that I never take my phone out when I walk the dogs, despite multiple pleadings from others that I do so.  It's the damn freeze that has paralyzed the air particles that cell phone waves travel on.  Don't EVEN tell me that the cell phone wires are underground.  Ben.  You don't know EVERYTHING. 

Muttin:  Who's Ben?

Me:  Remember?  That guy you slapped when we were all up on the my bed in the old house?

Muttin.  No.

Me:  You had licked him, and he hates that, so he slapped you.

Muttin:  Hmmm. 

Me:  And then you stared at him for a few seconds, and then you reached out your paw and slapped his hand back. 

Muttin:  Hmmm.  Nope.  I just don't remember.  (As she saunters out of the livingroom).

Me:  Yea right. 

Me:  (Looking at Jeffrey)  Guess it's a good thing I left out the part where I told him to slap her so she'd quit licking him. 

Jeffrey:  You're no dummy.  (As we share a chuckle at the diva that she is)

Muttin:  (From the bedroom)  I heard that!

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Comments

[JustBen]

Well, of course the phone lines for cell phones are not underground. They are bounced off of satellites in space. Of course, due to sunspot activity, there may be intermittant outages in cell phones from time to time. But I don't even own a cell phone, so what do I know.

[MsShad]

What, no comment about your best friend Muttin?

[JustBen]

I think my comments about your rat dogs have been duly noted from time to time. But, my that Duke is a good looking dog.....

[Poogie]

wow! I'm glad cats don't have to be taken for walks! Mine refuses to go where there are no ceilings.