We’ve had a couple of days of interesting weather. It snowed very heavy wet snow on Friday and our electricity supply was coming and going every few minutes. We managed to drive into Kirkcudbright for some supplies around noon but the snow was drifting as we returned to Craig Cottage. At 4 o’ clock in the afternoon the electricity supply shut down completely so we lit the wood burning stove and got out the candles. Luckily, our cooker runs on bottled gas so Gabrielle was able to cook us a candlelight dinner.
The wind was driving the snow from the east side so it backed up against the main door. Fortunately the side door out from the utility room was clear and we could get out to start moving some snow.
Here’s Gabrielle working her way through the snow drift blocking our gateway.
We went for a walk across the fields. The wind had plastered everything with a coating of snow. This is a tree near Corseyard with Barlocco Island in the background.
Here’s the gate at Corseyard with the ‘Coo Palace’ hiding behind the tree in the background.
The birds were having a tough time. We put out extra seeds and attracted some skylarks and siskins as well as the usual complement of chaffinches, blackbirds, goldfinches, greenfinches, tits and robins. The electricity supply was re-connected at 6 p.m. on Saturday just as we were preparing for another night of wood stove and candles.
Sunday was much sunnier but the wind was even stronger. Daytime temperatures were above freezing and a lot of the snow melted from around the house. Our local farmer helped us out by ploughing the snow from our track so that we could get a car out to check out the local area.
The snow had been drifting very deep in a few places and some local roads were still blocked. This is the road through Chapelton Row, between Kirkandrews and Borgue.
Around Craig Cottage we have seen some new sections of coast exposed.
