It’s been sunshine and showers and bright blue skies and hail and clouds and a little bit of wind today. Briefly there was snow settled on the very peak of Askival (the highest Rum peak) but then it rained again and washed it off.
We sat for over half an hour this morning watching three golden eagles (two adults and a juvenile) flying while crows mobbed them. I learnt later than the odd sound we heard coming from the hill behind us which sounded like barking was probably a deer hind, apparently a calf was accidentally shot yesterday late afternoon so she was probably calling her dead baby 🙁 The carcass must have been left out (no point in bringing it in, it can’t be sold as venison and does not count towards the cull numbers) for birds to feast on, which accounts for all the activity we saw.
Ady and I went to meet the boat as we had diesel coming back on it. We called in to the shop first to collect yesterdays post and get some crumpets which had been a popular request for lunch. After the boat we popped back to the shop to get todays post and then came home for lunch.
We had planned to keep the car on the croft for later in the day but the rain set in so during a brief weather window Ady shot off down the hill to put the car the other side of the river. We spent the day mostly on screens of some sort although the kids made a birthday card for Robin who will be 1 on Saturday and I did some knitting. I had a fairly long phonecall with my Dad which was nice.
We’d agreed we would head down for the fireworks at 6ish if the weather was on our side and it was. So we donned coats, gloves and torches and walked down. There was soup and mulled wine and a brief firework display. It all seemed over very quickly really but the kids said it was more impressive than the one on Saturday which went on for ages but was pretty tame – this was bigger bangs, brighter colours but much, much shorter. Conscious of weather windows we headed back off up the hill home again.
We’d left the jacket potatoes for dinner cooking on the log burner which saved lots of gas. I’ve not been sleeping well so ordered a new pillow tonight which I am hopeful may improve that. It is very cold and very condensation-y in our bedroom now and I seem to do a lot of waking with random pains and niggles that have all gone by morning but keep me awake in the small hours. I am very glad it is our bedroom that is the coldest and dampest and that it is my side of the bed which seems to be the worst ( I sleep furthest from the log burner and closest to the east wall of the static) because I’d feel horribly guilty if anyone else was suffering more but I do wish I had a magic wand to wave to put us all in a more weatherproof domicile for the coming season.
if you have wind power would that be enough for a dehumidifier?
Comment by Mich — 06 November 2013 @ 6:38 pm