Meet knucklehead1 and knucklehead2. In case it isn’t obvious, the one on the right is knucklehead1.
Raise your hand if you thought I might be referring to the kids…
Lying at knucklehead1’s feet, errr- paws, is the reason they are posing so nicely. I’m holding a second snowball in my off hand while taking their picture with the other. They are patiently waiting for me to toss them somewhere.
Part of my at-home duties is entertaining these two knuckleheads. Possibly their favorite activity ever-in-the-entire-world is this one: chasing snowballs. I’m quite sure they would do this until they collapsed from exhaustion. Even then, they’d probably find a way to chase after another one.
Although it might seem a simple thing, throwing snowballs for them is not quite so straight forward as one might assume. I have to make the snowballs two at a time, throw one in one direction and the other in the complete opposite direction.
If I make and toss them one at a time, knucklehead2 will stand there yapping at me but will not give chase because he defers to knucklehead1. If I throw them in the same direction, again knucklehead2 will not chase because of knucklehead1. Thus, throwing snowballs becomes a carefully orchestrated event.
It is because of things like this that I refer to them as knuckleheads.