Snowy fun

Boy is it cold just now!!

I have been having a lovely time up at Muirshiel, but yesterday I went over to the river for my usual morning dip --- but it was very slippy at the edges. Suddenly there was a loud crack and the groud gave way beneath my paws and I was up to my elbows in very cold water!. Luckily I was right at the edge and able to get back onto the riverside without any problem, but I decided it was too cold to go for a swim today. We went round on our usual patrol, and my hman kept stopping to take photos, sometimes I got into them, but then I gave up and just lay down to wait for her.

In the afternoon, we went up to the old Barytes mine [- a substance they used to use in paint and toothpaste and Barium meals apparantly]. There was snow all over the track as the majority of the track gets no sunshine in the winter - so the snow lies around - although the heather is so deep that lots of it pokes up through the snow cover if it is not too deep. It was probalbly about two inches deep on average - enough to over my paws!

It was very powdery snow, my human tried to make a snowball for me - several times - but when she threw them they just became a shower of ice crystals again - although I stilled tried to catch them! I a just glad she didn't try to throw any of the huge icicles which were on the rock face!