A Skipper ROUS post:

I suppose most of my readers know Dobby Winnick. He is my BFF. But I’ve always thought he was “untruthful.” You know what I mean. One of the things I doubted was this thing he called snow. He said snow is flaked water that falls from the sky. Ridiculous. But then things are different on Washington Planet.

Weirdly, it turns out that snow is real, and it happens even here on Earth, and even in Buda. That is not a good thing. I found out that snow is both wet and cold. Wet is not bad but cold ruins it.

MelT says snow is pretty, but she doesn’t like it either. She made a big fire in our fireplace, which seemed dangerous and scary, but it was nice and warm.

Being a capybara, I know how to make myself comfortable. Lying in bed with the warm sun on my back is probably the best thing ever…after eating corn. That is where I was when MelT decided she wanted to take a photo of me in the snow. Ha! She is the crazy one, not me! She should take a photo of herself in the snow!

Can you see me in the snow?

The best MelT could do was take of photo of me with the reflection of snow on the window glass. You’ll note that she was the only one outside. The lower photo shows where I really was. I couldn’t even go out there to get my corn! Finally she put it on the porch, which was better but not ideal.

One of my horse co-pets, Phoenix, didn’t seem to mind the snow. She even got it on her nose and on her rump. It’s a good thing she doesn’t know about indoor heating or she’d be giving MelT a big bite!

I am so, so, so very glad I am not a horse!

Visitors are welcome at our house, but you might want to come back later.

I am interested in how humans in other areas on Earth or on Washington deal with snow. Are there other planets with snow? Do the horses get heated houses on those planets? What about Dobby Winnick? How can he survive? And, even though he wasn’t lying about the snow, do you think you can trust him about other stuff? Enquiring capybaras want to know.