What Sixteen Degrees Fahrenheit Feels Like

So, my poor dog had not been for a walk for two days, because on Wednesday the high temperature was less than 10˚ and Thursday the high was 0˚. I was not anxious to go outside on those days, but today the high was supposed to be a balmy 16˚, so I thought I would take advantage of the nice weather and walk Petey.

The walk was only fifteen minutes long, but about halfway through I realized that my face was numb. My cheeks seemed too stiff to smile, and it felt like my nose was running, but you can't be quite sure when your face doesn't actually have any feeling. So I zipped my jacket all the way up so that the collar covered part of my face, and walked a little faster, which was difficult because my thighs were also very numb inside my jeans. By the time we got back to the house, my calves were also beginning to lose a bit of surface feeling.

But my cheeks had turned a fantastic, naturally red color that looked way better than any makeup I'd ever worn. If only one didn't have to freeze to get that look!

It is fun experiencing new daytime high temperatures that are so low, just because they are so new to me.