snow country

Friday night, I regretted that I signed up for chicken feeding duty Saturday morning. But Taiyo and I were troopers. He was totally up for chicken feeding and sidewalk shoveling. At the garden, the beautiful new snow was knee deep for Taiyo. He was totally up for a new challenge. He trekked across the garden making track marks. But after 10 minutes he was crying because snow got into his rain boots- he didn't even have snow boots or thick gloves. So his thin gloves were also soaking wet and he was crying that his hands hurt. I finished the chicken feeding quickly and we had to get out. He whined all the way to Tiny's because I couldn't carry him with two buckets I had to return. But I was quite proud of him trekking into the deep snow by himself. He didn't feel like shoveling when we got back to the restaurant, of course, and that was ok with me.