The Adventures Of An American Woman On An Organic Farm In Scotland

Monday, February 04, 2013

Winter is great but a bit underwhelming on the "adventures" scale haha!

A typical blustery gale-filled, hail flinging, lighthing-and-thunder cracking northern Scottish winter. Which means I spend most of my time basically wearing my house like a hermit crab shell haha!

Remember our Christmas lamb? Well here he is doing very well!

We don't often get snow but when it arrives it really cleans up the otherwise mucky, muddy winter landscape. This photos was taken up in the heatherlands at the farm where Erlend grew up. You can see the island of Hoy in the background, those big hills.

Some of our woolly ladies at the gate.

Inga and Benji turned 3 on January 21st!!

One of our elderly barn cats getting some soft "senior"food. We work with the local cats protection charity to rehome their wild un-re-homable cats. They keep the rat population down!

When I get cabin fever I come up with really odd ideas. Like, "Gosh I should learn how to make Turkish coffee!" And here is one of my attempts...

Which failed. All of the coffee grounds floated to the surface!!

Two wee girls + glittery shoes found on sale = hours of fun!

Benji helps daddy to fix our broken heat stove. Of course the stove failed during a freezing snap - turns out a MOUSE found its way into the fan mechanism! Nasty...

For some reason Millie likes to spend her time chillaxing like this in the kitchen!! She really is a silly pooch!