Sunday 30 November 2008

A frosty, St. Andrew's Day walk.

After the bustle of the show yesterday I had a relaxing, if ever so chilly, walk with 3 of the dogs this forenoon. The temperature, I was informed, was minus 5 degrees, so ideal for a walk down on the flat carse ground on the north side of the village. Most of this year has been very wet, with extremely muddy conditions prevailing there. In fact, the weather has been so wet during the autumn that the potato harvesting was postponed till November, very late for this part of the world, and you can see from some of the following photographs that, in the end, it has been abandoned altogether and the crop "returned to the soil" by the grubber.
Due to the hard frost we all returned home as clean as when we left. The ice on the puddles was thick enough to bear my weight (all 6 stone+!!!!!???).
Must get out now with some more dogs, so on with the fleece and gloves again.

7 comments:

Gennasus said...

6 stone? Have you put on weight?!

Abbeyton Papillons & Phalenes said...

+? Must have been those victoria sponges. Delicious Pavlova by the way Mrs Mac, Thank you.

Pyatshaw said...

Why do you think I'm eating so much cake these days?

Anonymous said...

You active folks make me sick! Why not curl up on the settee with a nice book and to **** (supply your own) with walking outside on a freezing cold day(minus 8.5). These stupid activities are strictly for husbands.

jakay said...

Put both feet on the scales the next time!

Pyatshaw said...

Oh, is that how you do it? I have always balanced myself with a toe on the floor as I seemed to be so far off the ground and I do suffer from vertigo!

jrl said...

Feels like an eternity since we saw frost like that!! Hard to imagine when we are sitting in temps of the high twenties and climbing!!