And the wind blows
Posted by Anja on January 9, 2008 at 10:30 | Last modified: July 10, 2012 03:33
This morning it swept our BBQ off the deck and one of the solar garden lights into the pond. Complete with the hook it hung on. From time to time the whole house shakes under the fist of a gale (74 km/h the weather report says). The neighbours’ discarded Christmas trees are rolling across the road along with a lonely trashcan nobody seems to miss yet. It’s juuuust a bit spooky.
Last night rain and lightning pelted us, and with *plus* 11C this weird January heat wave (the average temperature for this time of year is supposed to be -10C) has even the fishes confused – they swim around once more in the ice-free pond, thinking it’s spring.
Plan B (left) and Agent Orange (right) have been spotted frolicking in the balmy waters. We hope Moe is still alive as well. He’s a hard one to make out with his camouflage colour.
A curious peak in the skimmer revealed three dead frogs on the bottom (a bit icky, that) and two live, if very sluggish ones on the rim and the branch that’s floating inside. We’ve since heard the skimmer referred to as ‘the place where frogs go to die’. *le sigh*