I have been left in the house with the slave and the two canines. The other humans have conspicuously disappeared. It is an odd quiet that has fallen across the domicile, for the slave doesn't make a lot of noise and spends a good amount of his time reading or pecking at a machine for hours on end.
Yesterday I watched in wonderment as he ventured outside in layers of fake animal hides to brave white fluffy masses of cold water. He walked back and forth with a rigid bit of metal, throwing the stuff into the air and neatly stacking it to the side. Then he'd come back inside, trailing a mass of the white stuff, and collapse into the couch for an hour. This "snow" stuff is quite intriguing, all fluffy and white until it comes inside then it turns into water.
This morning, I heard him shrieking. It seems all the work he did yesterday was for naught, for the snow is piled even higher than it ever was before. I couldn't withhold a snicker as he covered himself yet again in hides and crawled out the garage window with the shovel thing. It seems the doors were all blocked by hulking masses of white and wouldn't budge. And to top it all off, the dogs needed to go out, so the human was forced to meander all the way around the outside of the house, sinking to his waist, to reach the back door and clear it off to open it for the dog's to go out. Poor thing.
He's been at it all day and still hasnt managed to clear off the big cement area in the front of the house that the wheeled carriages use. I think he's given up for the day, cause he's moping now.
Between you and me, he needs the exercise anyway.
Posted by Navarre at December 23, 2004 09:22 PM