-20ish today and tomorrow. The wind is brutal.
That reminds me, I must phone the h/a Monday, and arrange for my gutters to have a routing. The crows like to Rob the moss on the roof for their nests, and little bits roll down into the gutters and block them up in the spring.Icy cold start, but the Sun came up, and we went to the Farmers/Craft market at Chatelherault....which was a muddy mess and unbelievably busy. I think half of Lanarkshire and their dogs were there.
On a good note though, Himself and Son2 got the ladders out and cleared the rones. Plants growing in them apparently. I reckon it's the damned pigeons dropping seeds.
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Blackbirds perform the same service here.That reminds me, I must phone the h/a Monday, and arrange for my gutters to have a routing. The crows like to Rob the moss on the roof for their nests, and little bits roll down into the gutters and block them up in the spring.
Blackbirds down here are the worst nest builders around (after the pigeons, but they're just flying rats anyway): Every year we have one that builds his nest in the Virginia creeper; the thing is, the most rigid thing going outward are the leaves' stems, which might do for a small bird but can't cope with the weight of a blackbird chick, let alone 3. We managed to save one last year, as although he couldn't yet fly he had his feathers and could jump from branch to branch, and we fed him a couple of days before he flew away.Blackbirds perform the same service here.
Mind you, it's easier to clean up after them than after the Sahara Desert sand that turns up occasionally.
You and your dog are having a grand life