A Wintery Windy Knoll Report
A view from the sun porch
Snow on the ramp
Snow 2-13-14
Wow! I’ve missed being with you folks, but thanks goes to Beth and Russ for their help. I told Russ he might have to take over the blog as we got more hits yesterday than usual.
What beauty we’ve seen — this area was really a winter wonderland. What is the saying – “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Well, I’m ready for Spring when its ready. This cold weather is hard on old folks and somebody replied to me that “It’s hard on young folks, too.”
Thursday morning I tried to move from window to window making pictures and all that time John was following along worrying about our only guinea. You see, the guinea roosts in the water oak right here in the back yard. He goes to roost between 4:30 and 5:00 o’clock in the afternoon and stays all night. Well — Monday and Tuesday mornings he didn’t get down ’til around noon time. He just sat there with his head under his wing. It reminded me of the nursery rhyme about the robin. I may not quote it right but — “The north wind doth blow and we soon shall have snow and what will poor Robin do then? He’ll stay in the barn to keep himself warm and hide his head under his wing, poor thing.” The water oak limbs were covered several inches deep with that beautiful snow and we kept looking thinking the guinea must have gotten down and gone to one of the several sheds where he could take refuge. Were we wrong — about 10:00 o’clock here he comes flying out of the snowy tree. He had been covered with so much snow we couldn’t see him and, too, he was higher up than usual. I don’t see how he made it — but neither do I understand how the cattle make. Baby calves were born and lived; however, two of our friends lost cows and calves during all this.
We have a friend, who is a lady farmer, and she complained about having to get in this weather and put out hay for her herd. I told her we didn’t have to put out hay and she could get rid of that herd; and then wouldn’t have to get out in the weather to do that. She doesn’t agree! We have just experienced a different Alabama kind of country living.