… in the middle of the afternoon. Yesterday darkness fell about 3.30pm. A storm was rolling in. All the animals took note and began to take their places in their barns. ‘Calling it a night.’ Early.
The wind began to rise and bring it’s freezing rain then later the snow. It howled all night. Not conducive to sleep. The snow barely touched the ground as it was carried past at face peeling speed.
We will see what the ground is like when I go out to do chores. Where the snow has been thrown. When John brought me my coffee at 5.30 am he said his work is canceled.
Well, mine is not, I grumbled. Though in weather like this I will let the big animals stay hunkered down until the wind passes. The forecast says mid morning the wind should drop but it is dangerously strong still.
Of course the birds and the little pigs will be wanting attention at the normal time. Thirty minutes past dawn. Especially Jude and Molly’s Six and the ducks. The little pigs big outside East facing door is closed – I closed it in the night when the wind got so strong that Jude’s heat light started making like a pendulum, gale force rain reaching in for his bed – so I will need to re-organize the little pigs food and water. Luckily the wind has begun its swing and is now coming in from the Nor’West.
I hate having any animal locked in – even when the weather is bad.
You should hear it. The weather is loud this morning. I miss the sea in weather like this.
It will be a wild day. God knows where my buckets will be. I did not take the forecasts seriously and even forgot to bring my boots in off the verandah. I don’t care though. At least I have boots. And it is kind of exciting.
I hope you have a lovely day.
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
58 responses to “CALLING IT A NIGHT”
Playing catch-up today as I un-tethered to the sunny shores of the Bahama’s last week for a resounding birthday cruise! The Mouse and I had a dance or two but there is no photographic evidence…. Winter has come I see. Now the countdown to spring begins. I’m sorry about Molly being bullied by Poppy. Does Sheila just ignore the young wild girls? Manu looks like a svelte handsome fella!
Happy Monday dear! I hope the winds settle and you get some sun today.
Sheila gets mad at them both and attack’s whoever is near when she has had enough. Much better now that they are separated
well too badyou don’t ave a long enough extension cord to enable you to wear an electric blanket while working….hahah just joking! Take care!
Just imagine!!
We un-tethered for a cruise to Panama and Jamaica for my birthday. HOT! Came back to the coldness here and promptly ended up in the hospital with pneumonia. We’re still trying to unpack! But then I read about the blizzards back East and the thousands of delayed flights — I just shut my mouth in the lament/complaint department. Happy bucket/boot hunting, Ceci! You’ll love your ski pants in this weather!
Pneumonia is very serious- I hope you are feeling better now?
Stay warm!
Roger that!
We got 15” in 20 hours here in Eastern Iowa!
Wow…I always wanted to live in Iowa…maybe not LOL
Haha! It’s fun for playing… less fun for shoveling 😂😂
That is a terrible amount of snow – merciful heavens. Poor you.
Thank Goodness the public system is very effective and the roads have been clean since this morning. And very great neighborhood where neighbors watch out for each other and help who doesn’t own a snow blower!
It was grey and raining here this morning as we set out to look at an oven on the outskirts of Barcelona. The vendor has an old factory in the suburbs with holes in the roof and nesting pigeons. By the time we’d finished the sun was out and I cycled over to the old city for lunch in a favourite spot and was welcomed with open arms …that really made my day!
I hope you have some improvement with the weather tomorrow.
How delightful! Did you find an oven?
I’m not sure yet – we have been looking at a lot of equipment all over the place.
I was wondering about the hen in the tree too. Hope she took cover in the barn!
I watched the horizontal snow blowing up the back alley and the whirling dervish snow blowing up the busy street in front last night in the bubbles of light the street lights cast. Poor Smoky got blown off his feet when we went out early in the evening, a huge gust of wind came whipping around the east side of the building and blew him over, which at a wobbly 16 years old, isn’t hard to do. I picked him up and got him back inside where he snuggled against the baseboard heat and didn’t want to go out again till this morning when the wind had dropped off. We didn’t get too much accumulation (about 5-6 inches) but it’s wet, gloppy snow. The driveway and alley aren’t too bad but it’s the first real snowfall. We’ll probably end up housebound before the winter is out, that slope on the alley is miserable even in dry weather. Fortunately, whatever it was that caused the “glacier” that formed on the sidewalk in front of the building stopped during the summer. Stay warm.
We didn’t get any precip but the wind, it did howl. I always have a window open when I sleep and it was actually whistling! I, too am glad I’m forced to go out at least a couple of times a day, I start to droop if I have to stay inside over long. I have to admit though that there are times when I get out there in the winter weather that I wonder what on earth made me think it was a good idea!
Hearing your stories always makes me smile.
My word, that blizzard doesn’t sound like much fun, but even if the animals don’t like being cooped up, they’re warmer and safer than they’d otherwise be. We are facing some fairly catastrophic weather here: 41°C/105°F, strong hot winds, bushfires raging inland from us creating a huge brownish reef of smoke overhead, terrible air quality due to all the ash particles, no rain or temperature reduction in sight… I wish you a warm change, and hope we get a breath of your cold air down here.
That sounds awful Kate. I have never lived with fires and the air quality must be terrible to live with.
I’ve been lucky so far, but asthma cases are way up and people with COPD are getting hospitalised. Rain would solve everything…