In The News II

The last couple of weeks have been especially brutal. The weather here has really been unrelenting, and there has hardly been a day where we have not had gale force winds, freezing rain, so much hail that it looks like snow on the ground, or some combination of all three. I know that the bad weather made the news in the states... Only because of the boat that has wrecked off the English coast. To be honest with you... I am a bit peeved that the US news only talks about the bad weather hitting "England". What about poor Ireland & Wales - both of which get the brunt force of the storms before England does. Ireland especially has had a hard time with the storms. In one week here three fishing vessels sunk off of the Irish coast with many of the men lost at sea. The weather has been so bad that the search and rescue boats and helicopters were not able to go out and search for them for a week.

Things now - thankfully - have calmed down. In fact, we are having spring-like weather. It is as if someone flicked a switch and turned off the clouds! February 1st is the first day of spring here... And we are so grateful that it has come a bit early this year! The farmers have been working hard to bring up all of the animals from their winter fields... And we have discovered our little road alive with new cows, horses, and that same ol' donkey that wakes me up each summer's day!

Ah... how I've missed that old donkey!