A winters tales

I was woken up by Owen making a racket out on the landing this morning as he really wanted to go out. Not because he was desperate more that he had looked out of the window and seen the huge snowfall we had, had overnight which was a lot deeper and thicker then the snow on Monday. As I was up I decided to join Owen and Grumpy for their early morning walk which admitally wasn't so early at 8.30am but I'm on Holiday so that counts as early :-) I decided to take my camera with me as who knows when we're going to get snow like this again!
Owen as we've discovered loves snow as was running across the fields here there and everywhere having a whale of a time.

He seemed even more full of energy then usual which for Owen is quite an achievement. He did seem to stop and look around a lot almost like he was looking for someone. Grumpy reckoned that he was probably looking out for one of his 'friends' to play with. I.e one of the six or so Dogs he tends to see out and about.

The advantage of going quite early was that hardly anybody else had been in the fields so it looked quite awesome with snow as far as you could see.

The only small problem we encountered was that as the snow was so deep we didn't know where the paths ended and the road began! Grumpy actually managed to step in a snowdrift deep enough then it went over the top of his wellies. This is the view from the green down the side of our house. The house on the left is ours

This is Grumpy and Owen as we made our way up to the fields. The only time Owen didn't seem to enjoy the walk when it was time to come home. I'm sure he would have bee more then happy to stay out there as long as he wanted.

Tap Dance got snowed in, out in her little cottage so she was unable to get to work. So she had a 'snow day' as well. Come to think of it, it seems like most people on our estate did as well as there were a awful lot of cars still on driveways this morning.

The snow started to melt a bit towards the end of the day but then stopped as night fell. We're supposed to get another four inches of snow overnight so I guess we'll see in the morning what the state of play is.

Later folks!