11th January 2022
The sliding door in the sunroom froze last night. That meant that the dogs could not go out for a piss. It is hard to explain to a dog what the problem was, they were just desperate to get out.
The only immediate option was to let them into the garage and out through the door to the back garden.
The hard job was coxing them to enter the garage. This is an area they do not normally venture into, so in the freezing cold I called them. I tried everything, whistling, calling their names, and I even thought about smearing their food all over my body, but I didn’t fancy getting savaged to death.
The urge to piss finally got the better of them, and they both trotting into the forbidden zone and out the back door.
Getting them back in was easier, just my feeble whistle was enough.
I then had a look at the problem with the sliding door.
The sunroom does get a lot of condensation, it has a lot of glass and is full of plants, it is not so well insulated as the main house. The water had ran down the sliding glass door and into the track where it froze. The solution consisted of a hot air dryer, a screwdriver and an old towel.
I melted the ice, dug it out with the screwdriver then mopped up the water with the towel, problem solved.
All this, and I hadn’t even had breakfast yet.
Another Lifetime to go 