Oh no, my pen's spazzed out!

toenail clippings

And now that it is so tempersome and cold you are always going out into the nastiness and getting wet or frozen every day.

...Mills had first spoken his gibberish of good intention, always careful, though they did not travel in armor, to lean down from their mounts to shake hands in the trendy new symbol of emptyhandedness and unarmedness that they'd picked up on their travels.