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YOU SHOULD SEE THE NIGHT

Last night the moon and the deep white snow joined in to create a glow that seemed to come from the Earth herself. I wish you could have seen it. It appeared to lift from under the snow like deep shuttered light from below. And after a day of screaming wind the calm of it was almost hypnotic.

Yesterday was so bad that The Six spent the whole day inside their quarters messing around with stuff.

I threw buckets of seeds into the deep straw so they could pass the day hunting for them. Their bedding is so deep now that I am fairly sure they could climb the gate if they put their mind to it.

Even the cold blowing snow did not deter the ducks from playing in their water. They sit on their feet a lot but I swear I have seen them surf across the dunes on their slick bellies like penguins when they are in a hurry to see what is in my bucket.

If this were a painting I would call this ‘the common birds’.

Mrs Pania and Mr Flowers spent the day up in the loft. They have no love of snow.

This much snow.

The wind was so fierce that it kept shifting the dunes – in the absence of ski goggles I wore my sunglasses to keep the snow from scratching into my eyes so between my reduced sight and the whirling snow I fell into a dune at one point. With so many clothes on I am like a cross between a T Rex and a blimp. I floundered about on my hands and knees in the dune for a few seconds trying to get leverage in the pillow like snow bank, slightly panicked but laughing at myself, before I got myself upright again.

I was sure that snow had not been there when I passed through five minutes before.

After days of low cloud and wretched conditions there is talk of sun today. Cold I think.

We will see.

Celi

“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”

― Mary Oliver

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  1. I’m sorry to be enjoying the image of you rolling in a snowdrift so much, but the description was perfect. And perhaps it was a little bit of fun, assuming the layers of clothing didn’t let any snow in…? I hope you have a clear and cloudless night to enjoy your blood moon.

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  2. Love the common birds and ducks skating on their bellies. Very smart to make a working game of finding the seeds in the hay. Keeps the pigs out of trouble, for awhile. We have clouds, rain and fog so not sure we will see the eclipse but I looked at the almost full moon last night and thought it beautiful. I’ll hope for the best tonight. I too have fallen in a snow drift and it frightened me for a moment to not be able to get myself out of it without quite the struggle. Then you laugh at yourself. Glad that’s no longer an issue for me. But you are a wee bit of a thing and the snow could have you for a snack and not even burp. Take care out there.

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  4. Great pictures and the ‘common birds’ is lovely It would be nice to have springs or anti gravity boots when we get in a fix. I’m glad you were able to extricate yourself. Thanks for sharing.

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  7. First we had flurries, then horizontal snow from the east for hours and hours, eventually it started wafting from the west and now we’re stuck on the hill with about 12 inches give or take a bit. No going anywhere for awhile.

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      • Oh yes, ice. All it took was a few cars trying to go up and down, then it thawed a little since it’s south exposure then froze again with the new foot or more of snow on top. Who would’ve thought it was possible to be snowbound in this kind of urban area just because the dead end alley on this hill is not plowed or salted.

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