we're all okay here

Abbey in gray and Quince in blue. I'm standing with a bag of hay that they didn't seem particularly interested in.. I thought they might be hungry with all the snow.

its beautiful

but very cold, I feel like hibernating...

bleh

photo taken last Monday, Scotland ground to a halt and I had to walk five miles home. the weather report for today has not been good, cold and wet rain this morning and snow is meant to come in after it and then freeze......just for the moment the sun is out and its very pretty.
I am very fed up with it now, and continue to have no car as it now needs fixing as the power steering has failed.
many blessings to everybody who keep giving me lifts up to the stables and back.
the greenhouse was frozen shut for over a week, I opened it this morning and the minimum shows -12C and the maximum 11c. brrrrr fed up!!!!

Abbey in the snow

trying out the video upload...cool!!

Abbey likes snow

Abbey likes the snow, she gets very excited and gallops off when put out in the field.

its much deeper than this now, but she is still careering round in it and has to be persuaded to come in at night time, as long as she is dry she is happy!

from wednesday to saturday

frosty on Wednesday

snowy on Saturday

brrrr....chilly..

cold and beautiful, the hills catch the last of todays sun.
Abbey makes faces at all the other horses as she comes down to the gate, modelling her red tartan raincoat... the horses have been turned out in the snow but for a shorter period than they would normally be out, they like to get out but complain they are starving by the time they come back in.

she discovers the camera is not edible.....

once she's in and has food she is more disposed to be nice to her fellow field mates, little Buttons would take the hay out of her mouth if he could reach!

at home Smokey Tiptoes sits on the mat and looks at the snow but doesn't go out...she's a house cat now!

and Daisy gets to stay in bed all day. Tansy did go out for five minutes but declined to have an 'in focus' photograph today. I should try to get one her on 'her' futon...no other cats allowed on it apparently, I haven't tried sitting on it yet so I'm not sure if I'm included in the 'get off!!'

no snow here....

recieved these in an email from a friend, so theres always snow at Christmas somewhere!!

hope everybody has a good holiday season!!

the birds too!!

barefoot in the snow

just a barefoot baby horse.....I had my wellies on!!!

thank you Katarina

the garden at 8.30am this morning.

its a nice thing to recieve an award so I must say thank you very much to Katarina for my 'E'. Katarina is from Switzerland and her blog Roses and Stuff has the most beautiful pictures of camelias.

The Rules are;By accepting this Excellent Blog Award, you agree to award it to 10 more people whose blogs you find Excellent Award worthy.

its difficult to choose as I read more blogs than this.

1. Wildside
2. I Was Born2Cree8
3. Veg Plot
4. Frogma
5. Withinsight
6. Blooming Writer
7. The Hesitant Scribe
8. Down on the Allotment
9. Green Thumb Chronicles
10. Snappy's Gardens Blog

the view

this is the view from the stables where Teddy and Robbie stay, near Slammanan, looking towards the Ochils. photograph taken late Wednesday afternoon on the most zoom the camera will do.

snow!

Young Angus takes a look at the snow
and doesn't seem too sure. . .

this is the car park at work, shortly after this it started to melt and turn to yucky slushy stuff. the local roads and traffic all ground to a halt, not being able to cope. . happens every time!

snow!

After a lovely sunny morning weeding and being busy in the garden I drove off to meet my gardening friend at Finlaystone, which opens under the Scottish gardens scheme and has a plant sale twice a year. After paying our entry fees we bought some plants, in the shelter of a nice poly tunnel, just as it started to snow. We decided to have a cup of hot chocolate in the tea room to sit it out. The gardens are lovely so its worth a good afternoons walk. It kept snowing. Then it snowed a bit more. Deciding that was it for the day we set off to her mothers for a cup of tea, lamenting paying entry to a garden we did not get to see, but the money is for charity so its a donation for a good cause. After we left Finlaystone the sun came out. It stayed out. Marvellous. Ha.
http://www.finlaystone.co.uk/

and it snowed

10 inches of snow fell last night! It is melting round the edges so it may not last long, just after I took the photograph most of it slid of the greenhouse.

and it snowed

I'm glad I managed to potter round the garden yesterday when the weather was cold but sunny.
This morning it looked like this!
Now the snow has started to thaw its not so pretty.