Blimey! Winters arrived. A bit too early for my liking.
This was the scene we woke up to yesterday.
It was minus eight degrees first thing this morning and all the car doors were welded shut. I had to detach the trailer from the car in order to take Jake to school but only after wrapping the hitch in a woollen shirt with a hot water bottle to release it!
I had hoped to replace some broken rotten fence posts this week but there's no way I can get a spade in the ground at the moment.
Not that I was particularly looking forward to digging holes but it would have been a welcome break from picking up leaves which at this time of year is never ending.
Hope it clears up for the weekend or our 'open day' could be a closed shop.!

Goodbye to Fleur

Another alpaca left our clan this week. The lovely Quelvehin Fleur survived her 10 hour drive down to Marc and Odiles herd in Auroure apparently unperturbed by the journey,and has settled in well.She was a hard one to part with as she was mated to Atlas and having a black father herself was well placed for a possible black cria. Just what we want ourselves! Oh well,
business is business,needs must and all that.