Lucky Me

Sometimes you just have to stop and remember how lucky you are. I have a wonderful family and I have just become a Grandmother or as I have suggested being called YaYa.

This prompted my wonderful friend Kit to send me a gift of a Dotee. I am going to call her YaYa she will join Her big sister Bella also created by Kit and I will always treasure them . I am so lucky to have Kit as a friend.

Kit lives in Florida which seems a million miles from here . As I am writing this the wind is howling outside and the last of the Autumn leaves are being ripped from the trees ,but we are having unseasonably warm weather.

Yesterday as I walked my Labrador on the banks of the River Severn fisherman were waiting for the incoming tide enjoying the mild weather at other times they would need extreme weather gear. The photos I am posting will show YaYa in original colours and also altered with an APP on my iphone. Which I love experimenting with .

Festive Dotees

Although I have already sent 3 Dotee's to Ireland for Helen's swap I decided to make 2 festive Girls to add to the mix.

VERY STRANGE

As I was preparing the evening meal my 83 year old neighbour rang. Come an have a look he said mysteriously with no hint as to what i was going to see. When I got to the fence he asked me to hold out my hand and he placed into it a very large goose egg.

Nothing strange about that you may think but it was found by his gardener buried in the garden.

At first I was mystified but when I thought about it I guessed it was a fox. I put food out most nights for the fox and when I put out chicken eggs I often find them in the fields.

But a goose egg is something else very large and quite heavy. I appear to be the fountain of all knowledge and I was asked what they should do with it . I knew that the egg may be fertile but needed a mothers care so I suggested it was put back for the fox to feast on later . (Imagine these two funny scenes connected to this )

1- when the egg was found it was nibbled by P--- the lady of the house as she thought it might be china.

2- A basket lined with a towel was prepared to incubate the egg until I suggest (tongue in cheek ) that it may hatch calling her name

FROSTY MORNING PHOTOS

FROSTY MORNING 1

Woke to a very frosty morning and as I wanted to take photos I rushed out without gloves.

Big mistake after about 10 mins I had very little feeling left just managed to snap a few shots.

I missed the best of the mist but the low sun and frost were still there just. I need to get out earlier than 7.30