Just to be different today. Why? Because the day was different in many ways. Yesterday Dafad had a nose like a gurgling downpipe ... with the constant companion indoors of a loo roll (cheaper than tissues) hankies outside sufficed. Today, it's gone to my chest. "*@%+&" Then the rain began ...
As I was still in charge of 13 chickens, 2 rabbits and my own dog, the day had to be faced. So fully togged up with more layers than an onion, I headed bravely out into what seemed more like the icing sugar dusting for mince pies, only I wasn't a sweet treat and the icing was tiny floaty balls of snow! The chooks at least were eager to be released to eat their wet mash, and I was rewarded with two more, very fresh eggs.
But the skies were already dark and foreboding with a front heading our way.
Taken from over a well built stone wall, the view you see here was soon to be occluded as from every angle it seemed the weather was closing in ... and fast at that. The sun was struggling to break through ... all too soon the skies were ominously dark ...
that's when the icing sugar turned into real, westerly blown snow! Within minutes we were white with snow of the large, fluffy, flaky kind. The ground was so soaked with last nights rain, the snow quickly soaked in, though on the higher slopes it shows.
Hard to believe that the snow was still falling as I took this photograph ...
As for the rest of the day ... rain, hail, snow and sleet;
Time to hibernate indoors methinks.
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