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:
Where did the day go?!
CT
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
