…sticking straight up from the frozen ground… the arm (or leg) of a small stu
ffie that “some dog” (who shall remain unnamed but you can read more about it here.. “Why do they hide stuff?” ) most likely buried. Last week was warmer and then it froze so this little red arm was anchored in the ground. Recognizing it as one of Olivia’s favorites I thought to myself: “how hard could it be to dig it out?”
So first I got a scissors… hacked and dug and hacked and dug… no luck..
Then I got one of those 
things to loosen ground in the summer time… no luck..
Each one brought me a little closer to freeing that special little stuffie for Olivia but not yet.
And then I bent it… that last thing I used which is also to dig out stuff in the summer… ok, so I was trying to leverage it by putting it under the stuffie and then standing on it but no amount of pressure was going to break up that ground/ice mixture surrounding it. This last picture is a better shot of the bent tool… That was it.. done.. I had spend 2o minutes on this and I was done…
Sorry, Olivia.. I guess you’ll just have to be satisfied with your other 15 stuffies that surround you on a daily basis!!
Oh… and does it look remarkably like the red toy that is in this photo taking at Christmas??
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