Happy Easter???!

Easter Sunday is calculated as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. This year it fell earlier than for 95 years. And didn't we notice! More like Christmas......

We woke up at about 6.30 am to see snow tumbling out of the skies, no view beyond the beech hedge and quite a lot of white stuff on the ground. It continued to tumble for the next few hours. Probably about 3 ins covered the ground when we did 'breakfast' for the yard. The ducks were totally unperterbed; in fact,they seemed to relish it; out of the poultry palace they waddlled and almost immediately sunk themselves in the soft white stuff, before waddling off to the pond for their early morning dunk and dive. The chickens on the other hand were going nowhere!
Conchita looked out of her boudoir door and clearly said "Moi? Out there? Not today, thank you" and promptly retreated into the inner warmth. Who'd blame her ?
Rocco and his mates thought it was picturesque; but didn't raise much complaint when they realised they were spending Easter indoors.....

And as for the dogs -- well Pilot sided with the ponies and poultry and stayed inside whilst Lancer (puppy at heart) and Gunner (never seen real snow) went out and made complete asses of themselves --- rolling and charging everywhere, behaving like they were truly in a winter wonderland.....
And within a few short hours it was almost all gone.

Still,we saw some children tobogganing on the hill and built a snowman for the dogs to play with......

The next time Easter will be this 'early' is 20 65 or thereabouts.... doubt we'll have too much to say about it then.....!