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[altivo]

Still haven't gotten around to making that icon, darn it.

Runny eyes, sneezing, coughing. I thought I was done with that but it came back again this afternoon. Maybe better by morning.

The moon is brilliant here, but it's "colder than a well digger's ankle" as my dad would have said. His mother-in-law, my maternal grandmother, was just as picturesque, only her expression of choice was "colder than a witch's teat." Which reminds me of the time my college boyfriend and I climbed up a wooded hill near her house to watch the sunset on a summer's evening. It took us a while to find our way back down and home to her place. She made us describe the location we'd been using.

"Oh," she said, "Was it like a little hill on the top of a bigger hill? All covered with thorny bushes near the bottom?"

We agreed that it was.

She laughed. "That's called 'The Old Maid's Nipple.'" And the funny part of that was, at the time, I didn't get it. Years later, when she was long gone, it finally dawned on me why... Duh.

Off to bed, I think.

Comments

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

I would've said Colder than a grave digger's....hmm perhaps not in polite company :D

Awww what a sweet thing to do with someone, watching the sunset.

Sorry about your allergies pony, I've been suffering from them too lately.

[altivo]

I keep thinking it's a cold, but it seems to be aggravated at work and wear off over night, so allergies are a likely explanation.

[schnee]

*s* I always rather liked the expression "kälter als am schwarzen Arsch des Teufels", myself (literally, "colder than at the devil's black ass", although in English, I imagine one might just leave out the "at").

And thorny bushes? Ouch. :) No wonder the old maid stayed a maid...

[altivo]

The thorny bushes are ubiquitous in that area, so the old maid wasn't the only one suffering from them. We wanted a place elevated enough so we could see across a large lake that was about a mile away. We failed to figure on having to negotiate those thorn bushes in the dusk, or the fact that we'd be exposed to a cold wind up at the top.