He immediately began to pack up. After all it was beer o’clock and getting dark.
Sadly the weather was not on our side and we were unable to have the Friday drink out on the dance floor of the coupe, instead we sat inside by the fire. The Matriarch said maybe next Friday. I told The Kiwi Builder to invite his whole family next time. His children are all home schooled so they will call it a field day. 
The strong cold wind howled all day, and no-one would come out of the barn and into the sun for a photo. I found L’il Puss The Scrapper (one of the barn cats) guarding the milk bucket, and managed a low light shot but every one else had their heads down. They all hate the wind.
So both my photographic plans were thwarted.
Good morning. We will try for the last of the shots today and then new shots will happen and who knows what will come next. It is hilarious to even try to plan what images will appear on any given day.
So, in the barn are three kittens. Author who is a female tabby, LouLou who is the wee ginger male and L’il Puss The Scrapper who is older, was discovered hiding in the hairdresser’s back room in town and is now the boss of the barn. Cats are important for keeping the rodent population down in the barn. Where there is feed, there are mice. Hence the cats. The kittens literally sit under Daisy and wait for their milk in the morning. Before Daisy moves out of the milking parlour she puts her head down very low, hoovering from side to side and kind of scoops any strays out of the way with her nose.
I hope you all have a lovely day. It will be warmer here (in the low 40’s I think), so the hoses will come out and all the water containers will be cleaned and refilled in preparation for the next cold snap which they say will be very cold this time.
celi
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53 responses to “Beer O’Clock I called to the Kiwi Builder”
Wild winds and arctic cold, exactly what they say we can expect shortly also, but it does sound so nice..the thought of drinks by the fire!
Mornin’, c. Our cold snap arrived last night, when the temperatures dropped within hours from the melty plusses to the bone-chilling -20’s with windchill. This confuses my daughter, the scientist. “How is this POSSIBLE!” she demands, with her best six-year-old authority. I tell her that we live in Alberta – this is what the weather does, here – but more so recently, since humans are working so hard on breaking the weather. She has vowed to fix it. Sweet girl 🙂
she will fix it too.. it is all about letting the earth take over again, obey the balance! sweet girl indeed,, though the ability for the weather to plummet is an old one! c
Weather can ruin the best of plans, can’t it? But it seems the Plan B fireplace side drink was quite enjoyable. Wind chills in the minus 25 to 30 range here in Minnesota today with sub-zero air temps moving in.
and you often send your weather to us afterwards, well oh dear, try and use up some of that cold for me, that sounds formidable.. c
That shot of Lil Scrapper is lovely. The low light makes it even better. I wish we could send you our high-pressure system, to give you all some warmth. Good luck with the increasing cold.
Oh Dog! I bet those kitties are happy in that barn! I would be happy running outside in that cold air!
I agree: a great shot of The Scrapper: he looks positively Rembrandtesque!
Does beer freeze in those temperatures? I can recommend a hot steaming spicy punch to warm the cockles!!!!!
Too bad you didn’t have a chance to christen the coupe properly. It’s a wonder that you could even consider such a thing in January. Our weather sure is a mess! I hope you can conduct your coupe get-together on Friday. It will mean the cold spell that’s coming is short-lived. Sounds like it’s going to be awfully cold! Today’s a good day, though. I hope you can enjoy it. 🙂
Celi, you’ve stopped taking photos of the thermometer – I’m sorry to be asking if you already mentioned that and I’ve missed it? It sounds very cold indeed – over here we’ve just had Sydney’s hottest day ever – 46C. It was like stepping outside into a hairdryer. I love that you have a Kiwi builder who knows what beer o’clock means.. 🙂 xx
Celia has stolen part of my comment, while I was distracted by and was commenting on her bread making post! It’s incredible to see it so cold & windy, (I hate the wind) when we apparently had the hottest day on record, eve hotter that a week or so ago in Sydney. (Both of which I missed. For the first I was away up the coast where it was also very hot for a few days, and Friday I was in the office from 7.30am to 6pm… ) And yes also, beer o’clock is common in Aussie usage, and Kiwi I gather now. Is it common in the U.S. or universally I wonder? This post is the culimination of my review of the last few weeks of your posts while I’ve been away, wondering what’s happening on the farmy, seeing only snippets on my email post lists & phone having little internet coverage, and it’s been wonderful catching up. I’ve loved seeing the cats, Daisy well again, Ton Ton & Big Dog, the magnificent Kupa to name just a few. It’s so good to be back, at least from a WordPress point of view 🙂
Having a lovely warm spell here…which I’m sure will head into the heartland sometime after it leaves us. Makes for doing chores ever so lovely. All the animals and I are delighted, the chickens fores sure are they are able to escape the coop run and bath in my garden.
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Celi, it is going to be a delight following the building of the coupe. Have a wonderful and hopefully warm week-end. V.
The cats quite literally know where their next meal comes from! How smart they are! 🙂 I hope the opportunity to sit and enjoy the beautiful bones of the new abode will come soon. It does sound just a wee bit nippy to me for outdoor much-of-anything! 🙂
It’s a shame the weather ruined your plans but a dink by the fire still sounds like a lovely idea to me xx
Moving inside to fireside sounds like the right approach to the weather’s howling winds.