Thread by @_cingraham

Anyhow that’s enough MN politics for me for one day, I’ve gotta go rake a few feet of snow of my roof

Oh man you guys. So I’m out at the shed feeding our rabbit (pictured below in his enclosure, which has been transformed to a little rabbit snow-fortress on account of the weather). I’m trying to close the janky shed door, which is basically held shut by a padlock

There’s a shitload of snow pressing against the door and my arms are all weak and fumbly because I’ve been doing this for the past two hours, so I’m having a hard time pulling the door shut AND holding on to the padlock. Thick mittens aren’t helping either

What I really need is one more hand. So without thinking, I pop the arm of the padlock - the metal padlock - into my mouth.

The air temperature at this point is about 5 degrees.

Interestingly it doesn’t hurt right away, but I immediately realize I messed up bad - real bad - because every surface of my mouth in contact with the padlock is now stuck to it.

So instinct takes over and I immediately yank the lock back out of my mouth.

And there it is, with a layer of my lip stuck to it. Fortunately this all happens like 0.1 seconds, so I didn’t lose *too* much skin

This is me now

For the “bring the bunny inside” folks - the summer before his first winter outside he started digging like a fiend as soon as the first hint of fall hit the air. We couldn’t tell what he was up to

Eventually we realized he was digging himself a massive underground burrow. I went out there with a flashlight - couldn’t see to the bottom of it. He camps out in there when it’s real cold. But as long as it’s above -10 or so, he’s hopping about in his enclosure

He’s sheltered from the wind by the shed and some straw bales we set up outside, and being out all year he adapts and grows a thick winter coat in the fall. We wouldn’t take an indoor rabbit and set him out in the middle of the winter!