Stuck to the ground

Flippin freezing here and I am having Mule problems.  Yesterday, I kid you not, my Mule was welded to the ground.  I left the hand brake off the night before to stop that freezing up but didn't give a thought to the tyres freezing.  First there was mud and then when that froze the Mule was stuck.  I had to carry water and hay round by foot and was revving and rolling the Mule spasmodically in the hope that I could unstick it before I had to get to the top of second for the sheep.  Eventually, with the aid of my spiked fence post we finally succeeded.  I have to be a little careful with the fence post as the day before I had been pounding at the water drinkers to defrost them and the spike went right through the bottom of one.

Today things got even more dire as the Poo Picker froze to the ground and this I could not free - despite carefully ramming it up the back with the Mule.  I think the tyres are frozen to the body as well (via a layer of mud).

Our neighbour has just told us snow is forecast so I am not looking forward to the journey tomorrow!

Ahh!  And house number 2 looks highly unlikely despite an evening playing with helicopters!

Bottoms' Up!

Today I have been mostly on my bottom.  Several of the alpacas nearly were as well!  Partly, this has been due to the number of times I have slipped up on the mud (three pairs of trousers in the wash) and partly due to knitting ordered from France.  The shop would not accept orders from anywhere but the UK so I have been desperately sitting here trying to rev up the computer enough for me to try to sort it out.  Please let it be easier on Wednesday when Super Computer arrives! (With the alpacas it was solely due to the mud being so slippery - they have not, obviously been on the computer!)

Everyone was wet and bedraggled today and we had fighting over the carrots at lunchtime!

I fear there will be more fighting later, this time in the house, as Carl picked up the new computer desk this evening and it is flat pack!