Bear Paw Meanderings
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I have been giggling every since. I was talking to a friend on the telephone last night. The boiler was churning out heat madly but with the temperature around twenty below, this was indeed what we would have called in Glacier National Park a Three Dog Night. That expression came from an area where in the winter, elk stay. It is called Two Dog Flats.
In researching the story of the naming of that area, I came across an old story, probably more fiction than fact, that name referred to how many dogs it took to keep you and your wife warm on a cold winter night. One dog was hardly worth putting the dog into the bed. A two dog night was around zero, a three dog night was around ten below and after that no amount of dogs would keep you warm at night.
I used that story every once in a while to describe how cold it got in the winter but then I heard that there was a down comforter company at Polson called Three Dog Night.
That seemed to be saying that the down comforters are as warm as three dogs in the bed with you and your wife and, of course, some blankets.
As we thought about these stories over the telephone I told my friend that I have had nights in my lifetime that I had three dogs in the bed to keep warm but not now. These days I have a long haired dachshund to keep me warm. He has enough trouble keeping himself warm, much less me. Matter of fact I sleep in a big bed and he is a small dog so if I put him in the bed to keep the both of us warmer, it is almost impossible to find him to help with the warmth situation at all!
Fallie moves around, finds a place to keep warm far from me, sleeps there for an hour or so, and then jumps off the bed and back into his house next to the bed where it might not be warmer but he is definitely more happy.
It is then that I am so happy that I happen to be covered with one of those Three Dog Night down comforters. Well, gentle readers, it could be an L. L. Bean comforter, I can’t remember but I am toasty warm all night too and I don’t have to depend on dogs to do the job!
