And still it snows.....

It continues to snow: this was the Church Field at breakfast time this morning..... just when we think "That's it!" it starts again..... everytime we go out, the footprints we made the previous time have been obliterated by further snow.

A farmer friend from the village delivered our newspaper on his tractor yesterday afternoon. "Bit Deep on your drive" he said and by evening his tracks had completely disappeared. But at least today it wasn't windy. Yesterday even when it wasn't snowing from above the wind blew the snow up and about and made it seem like it was falling........

Another friendly farmer from the village delivered some hay this afternoon as we were close to running out:

"Bit deep on your drive" he said "Won't be able to get your car out for a while, I shouldn't imagine" he said....

But now it's stopped snowing and this evening his tracks up the drive resemble the cresta run..... lethal frozen chasms between deep snow walls..... Not driving up there tomorrow....

With the exception of Puddy Cat ("What's all that cold stuff outside my door?") all the animals seem to rather enjoy it. The horses each had 5 minutes of rolling and romping in the snow yesterday, the pigs continue to rootle below the white stuff seemingly oblivious to the snow, the dogs leap through it like dolphins swimming in the sea (Gunner intent on finding yet another hare "somewhere under there") and Ginger's little ones venture out for vigorous spurts whenever they get the opportunity, though mostly it's a case of running around inside their ark whilst watching the snow tumbling past their doorway...... It's a beautiful winter wonderland.....