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Low Arvie winter 12/5/2010 2:28:18 AM
Hi
I suppose you could say we are really lucky to only have a couple of inches of snow here at Low Arvie when you consider the rest of the UK under their thick covering of several feet, but it doesn't seem like that.
Although we have little snow, the temperature is very low - mostly below freezing all the time and all the water systems are frozen, so poor Richard is ferrying bukcket after bucket out to the cattle several times a day as well as their feed of cattle cake, silage and straw.
We have had the TB testing done and all the animals are surviving the weather well under their thick double layer coats. Zinnia is ok and feeding both her calf and little orphan Bella for us, so that is one job less (making up Bella's milk twice a day.)
Our roads are clear and well gritted so we can at least get out and are going down to Pringles for lunch today. I managed to do all my visits this last week, too, and enjoyed my Latin class. I was teacher for the day as Cate was snowed in (she lives a bit further north than us.) We translated the story of 'The Three Little Pigs' from the Latin book of Fairy Tales which made a pleasant change from Ovid and Cicero! I also got to my Dorothies in Kirkcudbright but we sat and chatted rather than doing Spanish. Dorothy 3 has fallen and broken her femur and so we were just 2 Dorothies and me. I was glad I could get there as, being well over 80 now, they are unable to get out in this weather and appreciated a cup of tea and a natter to relieve the boredom.
Well, must get back to ministering to Richard - I supply hot drinks at intervals between the water carrying to help keep him going!
