We are building a boat?

Two days ago these fields were under six inches of snow and it was difficult to travel into town....90 mile an hour winds along with torrential rain and a fast thaw mean the fields are now flooded along with my utility room...hey ho!

It's back again!

The white stuff that is.......

It's spinning!

There's a strange landing pad on the river and it's spinning!

It's at a river convergence, (Slitrig and Teviot), the moving water is making the ice spin, I saw it a 8am and it was still there at 4pm....how cool is that....actually it's way cool....lol....

Update 22/12/2010

Today, it's stopped spinning and is now anchored to the ice on the river bank!

It's here again!

More cold weather and snow storms......

But also the diesel for the tractors and the kerosene for the Aga and central heating ....it was only ordered for 3 weeks?????

But just in time coz it's a bit chilly out there tonight!!!! 

That's minus 16 degrees celsius!

What a view!

What a view from my kitchen window tonight and believe it or not that is green grass!

To the east!

And to the west!

Bbbbbbrrrrr..........

Snow...clean white snow....

Clean,white snow......not......

Ever wonder what they do with all that snow they remove from the streets?

A total 'White Out'!

My back yard!

Three Bridges!

Needs no other explanation really!

This is ridiculous!

Poor Juniper......frozen feet and it's only 28th November!!!!

British Summer Time????

What's all that about? 
The clocks changed on Saturday it's official, it should be spring a least!
Look what we woke up to this morning!

I managed to get to work, only just!  I thought about pulling in to let a 4 wheel drive truck pass but then thought that it was safer to let him follow me....maybe he would stop and help if I went of the road???  It's only 6 miles, but mostly on a single track road, I should have stayed home or waited until the road was more used by early morning traffic!

But this is my last work day, I'm off for 2 weeks....'Hooray' what fun, lambing time, tax returns, IACS forms and general farm accounts 'arrhhh....I can't wait'!!

Hope to fit in some quilting time (I have a Yurt panel to quilt, more on that later) and to get a wholecloth designed at least (if not quilted).

This was yesterday...the river is level with the fields!

Can you Believe it?

It's mid March and the Loch is still frozen!

View to the east....
Most people think it's wonderful to have a white Christmas, I'm a "Bar Humbug" kind of a person and think of all the extra work for people with animals to tend to. Weather wise Christmas turned out to be not too bad, even with the snow.

January was a different matter, "Brrrrr" we knew it was cold!
In January the temperatures here in the Scottish Borders fell to below -20C in isolated areas!

When the snow came even the farmyard had to be ploughed just to be able to open the barn doors and allow the feed delivery lorries access, (well, once the ploughs had cleared the single track roads). The temperatures dropped night after night, the ice was treacherous and of course the water pipes were frozen..... One cow needs three or four buckets of water a day, carried from the stream, (as long as that's not frozen too), a horse needs the same!! Now we have arms as long as monkey's!!!!
The sheep on the hills are hardy and hang around waiting for the quad bike or tractor with feed! Someone eventually comes!!!

This morning for a short time it was -6C, but now there is beautiful sunshine....

View to the west....


So, I wonder how thick the ice was in January for the Loch still to be frozen in March???









Did you know?.... Honey bees cannot survive a temperature below -20C, one of our neighbours has lost all of his bees, the hives are going to be very quiet........