TKG Take Ten : Wednesday : A laughable ten minutes!

And Good for a laugh. THREE degrees Fahrenheit (negative 16C), (then another ten degrees for wind chill) and windy. When this was shot it was the middle of the afternoon and that was the high.

And it was a lot warmer than the last few days.

This kind of cold means pain for the farmer: in the hands, finger and toes (serious cold seriously hurts) so I was thrilled that the phone camera decided to take control of todays TKG Take Ten because I was too busy smashing the ice on top of the cows water in the small time frame before my hands started hurting.

So, the wind was in kahoots with the camera. I would never move the camera across the junk yard!! I hide that! The wind is shifting the phone camera using the phone like a kite. It was about 15mph. Not a strong wind. Just an uncomfortable meddlesome one.

The camera is attached to a little tripod that I have attached to a dolly so I can push it all over the yard on its sturdy wheels. And it is heavy enough to stay put. I use the dolly to transport a couple of bales of hay each day too so sometimes it gets a little messy but it works.

When I get back into the workshop (when the cold lets up and Him Indoors can drag out the welder for me) I am going to weld steel shelves across the sturdy dolly to make supports for the camera. Then I can shoot at different levels.

Here is a picture of my kiwi ingenuity to date. Not pretty but it works!

(Yes. Of course I can weld. What are you like? I am the boat builders daughter remember).

You just never know what you are going to see next here on TKG Take Ten. After all, this began as a bucolic scene of Mr Flowers sleeping in the winter sun and a cat in the barn window! And ended up on the track! (Did you see the postie’s van way off in the distance?!). (They don’t call them postie’s here in the US they call them Letter Carriers. But I love our posties no matter what they call them!

Have a gorgeous day and do please SHARE with a friend who you think would love to have ten minutes a day with me - on the farm. This is such a special undertaking. I love it. And I love to share.

Celi

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