Winter Walk

This magnificent old plane tree is the Kurtkoy Kapili Cinar (Kurtkoy Plane tree with a door): we walked up the valley, following the river, to find it - and then all got inside it!
 

 

Monday morning

Monday mornings can sometimes seem rather dreary - but not this one!
Today's sunshine was wonderful - not only a reminder that the days are getting longer again, but also the first time we've seen sun since the snow came down last Monday.  After a whole week snowed-in, even the heavy frost couldn't dampen the spirit.

So this was my Monday morning:

• Get up, make coffee (8am)
• Feed cats, get boots on, go & let chickens out
• Notice that a wild thing has dug into the chicken pen and stolen their feed
• Have second cup of coffee, empty ash out of stoves
• Get out the wheelbarrow & tools, and dig a rough trench along the back of the chicken-yard
• Block up the wild thing's tunnel
• Load up some heavy slates, and get down into the mud to fit them horizontally under the wall
• Get another load of slates and arrange them along the inside; the wild thing now has 40cm of stone to get past with its next tunnel.
• Take the wheelbarrow outside the gate to clear the road and load up with branches which had come down in the snow, break them up for kindling & bring in to dry.
• Bring in armful after armful of firewood and fill crates with wood ready for the next few days.
• Empty ash bucket
• Collect eggs, put out more chicken feed, come in, take muddy boots & trousers off, change, have lunch, light fire. (4pm)

Where did the day go?!


CT