November is Mitten Time

Daytime temperatures have scarcely been above freezing these days, resulting in cold hands on our walks. Gloves helped to some degree, but when I have to be holding onto a cane the whole time, and possibly removing the gloves to take a picture or seven, the poor little digits do suffer,

It was time to charge up the mitts, which you may recall, do have batteries and heating built in. They had languished unused for lo these many months.  ➡️ 

After plugging them in, the missus and I headed over to the pharmacy for both our flu and COVID jabs. Neither of us have suffered from either shot in the past, but I don't think that we have combined them like this. This morning, I can report that I am feeling fine and that I even had a half-decent sleep of almost six hours.

From the pharmacy, we headed to the grocery store for dessert and rolls for tonight's family dinner. I think it has been more than a month since we've had the fam over although we did get over to theirs for Thanksgiving a few weeks ago.

After shots and shopping we returned home to bundle up for what would be a pretty cold walk. Before heading off, I wanted to memorialize our first wearing of our hand warming devices for the impending 2025-26 winter. 

I set up the tripod. Our first efforts all turned out like this or even worse. Somehow, when I tried to trigger the phone camera from my watch, it caused lens to zoom. It was most perplexing  

After several more efforts, we achieved this ↓ result. Although it is good enough, it was still zooming in somewhat on its own and cutting off a bit of my foot. While that wasn't much of a problem, I wanted to get it right. I went back and forth between our pose position and the phone several times, but I was getting at least some zoom every time. 

We began to figure out that, somehow, it was moving my sleeve to trigger my watch that was, somehow,  causing the problem. We tried it again (we're on maybe the fifth try by now), but this time we found ourselves taking a video. Pretty funny, but would we ever manage to take the shot the way that I had set it up?

Finally, I captured the composition that I had envisioned, with Sue being the one to trigger my watch as I held my sleeve out of the way. 

Oh and by the way, I captured a very Bleak November sort of photo on our subsequent trail stroll.

The wind was howling, and then it began to rain while we were still a distance from our car.