The first Snow of 2009/10

Posted on by Ian C.

The weather predictions were correct, eventually – the Snow storm arrived later than claimed, but it did deliver at least a foot of Snow; hard to measure as it was very windy as well, giving deep drifts in some parts of the garden, and almost nothing elsewhere.

Chloe seems to have never met Snow before; when I opened the door this morning, she look shocked by all the white stuff, poked it with one paw, stuck her head in it (!) then turned and walked away; and hasn’t been near the door since!
But she still likes outside, and keeps looking out the windows, though when I went out to take pics and see how deep it was, she stayed in:


The high winds created some very interesting Snow sculptures. Also here, I dug out some of the steps to the front door, to give an idea of the Snow depth:

Building the Christmas Tree

Posted on by Ian C.

As soon as we got back from Florida, Margaret was ready to build her Christmas tree – I got the tree parts, and all the many boxes of baubles, out of the attic, then stood well back 🙂
The tree is built from four parts, with lights permanently fitted – so you just plug them in, and (if everything lights) then you’re done!


You can see, Chloe is fascinated by this new “indoor tree”, and quickly decides to “camp” under it!