I can't believe it, after all the lovely dry, warm, sunny weather...today we have had howling arctic winds which have been buffeting the animals and knocking large branches off trees, all accompanied by rain peppered with hefty snowflakes.
Last week I was floating around in a summer frock and today I'm loading logs into the wood burner like it's going out of fashion...so I guess it's helpful that nature is tossing down a few more branches to replenish the next year's stock!
I can't quite believe the change. I've had to bring my wind chimes back in again so we can sleep for the din! Not so much a delicate tinkling as a discordant clang!
In common with the livestock - by my observations on their reactions - I don't like the wind! Not when it is gusty like today because it is so unpredictable. Trees topple and invariably smash precious fencing, rubbish appears in trees like unruly washing and I have to collect it! The log burner can get too hot or not burn at all if the wind is in the 'wrong direction' and I inevitably get hay or grit blown in my eye whilst doing the feeding chores on the farm so spend a while crying copiously from one eye...thus making my nose drip too! Whilst I dodge low flying branches and spend an inordinate amount of time hunting down wind tossed empty buckets!
I was just starting to enjoy spring as well...ah well. Perhaps it will last longer next year.....
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