Awwwwwww - Bambi

I can't remember now what it was that I came up to my room for this afternoon but a quick look out of the window revealed Bambi in all her glory, foraging for food in the field next door

You have to feel sorry for the wildlife just now in this kind of weather. Absolutely perishing, well under zero, and not a chance of getting anything out of the garden unless you use dynamite.

I'm struggling for water now. Today I had to undo the top of one of the water butts (luckily I expected this kind of weather and so I fastened the tops on with wing nuts) and smash my way in through God knows how much ice on the top of the water. I filled 4 kettles like this but of course at tea time they had all frozen up in the verandah because it's well below zero in there too and has been for all of the day.

It's almost impossible to go outside in this. Luckily I threw all of the wood into the lean-to in the summer so at least I'm out of the wind in there while I cut up the supplies for the evening. And it's emptying out quite well in there and when the weather eases I can definitely build the stairs that I promised so that I can climb up to the next level in comparative ease.

 Meanwhile back at the ranch, I didn't manage to finish the wall. Nothing like, in fact.

In between the phone calls I had to deal with the wiring for the second set of plugs and that took quite a while - most of the day in fact Threading it through the conduit is ... errr ... exciting and of course whenever I do anything involving electrical wiring there's always a pause after each connection while I go round to see if anything has been set on fire. Not my strongpoint as you know.

But at least the wiring on that side of the room now is all done and I can press on tomorrow assuming that I don't have any more interruptions.

But this cold weather is starting to drag now. I've never known it as cold as this in December. Who said "Global Warming"?