Yesterday – Scarlett had planned to come to Harris with Ady and I to feed the animals and I was half thinking of not going myself and staying with Davies. But she decided to stay behind as there was lots of wind turbine power and Davies got up earlier than usual too, so Ady and I headed off instead. There is a missing cow who didn’t arrive for feeding although another one was very late to arrive so maybe it was just lumbering along slowly. Back to the village to collect post, feed Ali’s chickens and get stuff from the freezer then home for a late lunch.
I made dinner in the afternoon as it’s a condensation creating meal. After careful monitoring of the power, the wind and the heat of the turbine charge controller we decided to tie the turbine up as the wind was clearly way stronger than the 50 mph gusts we’d been forecast. A bit scary as it involved Ady up the ladder in the dark in said >50mph gusts but he did it while I monitored from inside and got ready to kill the load on the turbine as soon as he had it tethered. Mad our lives!
Today – An at home day all day. It’s continued to be wet and very windy all day but very mild too. Ady went out once to do a big animal feeding rather than the usual two and do some work on the pig fence as Waddles keeps getting out. We think she is in season which always makes the girls restless anyway but she is a pain. The sheep are scared of her – quite funny to see them all sort of interacting with each other.
We watched some iplayer stuff – a crofter on Lewis and some Revolting Rhymes. I made pizzas and did more crochet.
Scarlett and I took down the Christmas tree and decorations. The tree was starting to tinge brown and drop needles and I was ready for it to go. I bullied Scarlett a bit as we had said New Years Day but everything was feeling just too chaotic for too long in here. Bonnie’s crate has been in Scarlett’s room so that is now back in the lounge, all the chocolate is divvied up into boxes, all the other food is put back into cupboards and the drink put away. The big piles of boxes and gifts have found their way into the kids rooms. Yay! I love Christmas very much and I love it when it’s over too.
It’s a year tonight that Ady was helicoptered off. I’ve felt quite twitchy the last few days in a very irrational manner but will be really glad to get that anniversary out of the way.