Musings of a shepherd.

Rain after snow.

After the heavy snowfall of saturday today has been WET WET WET. It really is quite miserable getting wet every time you step outside. All the animals are looking fed up again I think even they must be searching for signs of Spring. There seems to be mud everywhere now which means that wellies are the only possible footwear. After a dry winter the rains have finally arrived but it is good news really because we had a serious drought last Summer with water restrictions which have continued through the Winter. The lack of rain caused us considerable problems in that we didn't have enough grass for all our animals and had to feed hay from the end of August onwards. Extra work which we didn't need. Anyway we are off tomorrow to our house down near Carcassonne so we are looking forward to a break and hopefully warmer weather. WE have some friends who will come in twice a day to take care of all the animals. Without them we wouldn't be able to get away so we are very gratefull to them. I hope these few days away will recharge our batteries as we have quite a lot of work that needs doing about the farm.There will be no entries to my Blog for a while as we don't yet have an internet connection in our other house. I shall bring this up to date next week.