Back from the dead.....

Hey, where do I start. I set up this blog about 5 years ago then completely forgot about it.

I am now about to celebrate ten years on Skye. I'll always remember as Skye my Golden Retriever was born  in this house in April 2005.

Life here is quite challenging. Employment revolves around the seasons and there is plenty of work in the summer but then the garden requires alot of maintenance. so it is a real balancing act.

In winter it is a matter of sorting out jobs inside, sometimes you don't feel like doing anything.

Today it has turned very wintery with frequent snow snowers but not really lying at the moment. We haven't had a decent snowfall at Sconser since about 2007

I was very excited about setting up a weather station here at Sconser as Weather can be quite extreme here. I will link it to here as soon as I've worked it o

Return to the realms of winter!

This past week has seen days of lovely sunshine but with a very chilly North Easterly wind. There were times when the wind wasn't so strong it felt quite pleasant. Thats why I took the opportunity to mow the lawn, even though I had a raging sore throat. I felt ok all the time I was upright and mobile but when I sat down that was it for the day.Anyway mission accomplished for a couple of weeks. What a difference a day makes it feels like we are back to March.

The garden is beginning to look a little bit better lots of spring flowers and I have been spreading the manure recently collected from Sue and Kevin's croft.

Heather has been doing a bit of manual labour for me but I'm still hoping she will sort out the posting of my weather data. We live in hope...........................

Big crane from Rasaay

A very blustery start to the day brought a larger Ferry to Sconser the Loch Brushda carry a Heavy Lifting crane which has been lifting concrete blocks and steel shuttering at the new pier on Rasaay for the last 2 years.. The lorry had a small problem negotiating the roadworks but was finally on its way.

Both the Loch Striven and the Loch Brushda have been ferrying large and small vehicles back to Rasaay all morning . Loch Striven to the old terminal and Loch Brushda to the new one.


Today has brought plenty of stunning rainbows as you can see from the above photo.

Still haven't sorted problems with Weather Station but have Techno wiz Heather here to sort it out. So watch this space .....AGAIN