The longest cold snap in years is right now descending upon us from the northwest. It's still a tolerable -5°C at Inner Drive Technology WHQ, but this forecast, man... It looks like temperatures will dip below -17°C (0°F) around 2am tonight and stay there until 7am Saturday, bottoming out around -22°C (-7°F) right before dawn tomorrow.
Cassie has a double coat and paw beans of steel, but she's not a husky, nor does she have great judgment about how cold she feels. She also completely fails to predict the future farther than about 30 seconds in advance. So as a rule, I limit her outside time based on the temperature. Above -5°C she can stay out as long as she likes; at -10°C it's 15 minutes, declining to 3 minutes at -18°C or below. So it's possible she will only get 12 minutes of outside time tomorrow. Have you ever seen a Weimaraner mix on only 12 minutes of walkies? Yeek.
Somehow I'll get stuff done tomorrow and Saturday, including an eye exam at lunch time. Ordinarily I walk about 15 minutes to the optometrist, but tomorrow I think I'll drive. Can't wait.
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