So we are well into March now and we still have a white outlook all around.

However I think today may begin to change that. The much promissed March storm seems to be with us.

We started the morning with ice pellets and I brought the horses in around 7am.

Now it is around 11:30am and it has settled into the evil freezing rain!

At some stage it is set to change to rain.

The last two days have been georgeous. Sunny and clear.

That in itself should have alerted me to the impending storm. It seems to have been the patern through the winter. Bright still conditions, followed by major storms.

We have been doing some contract cleaning for a friend lateley.

This week we have been cleaning in Dorchester prison.

Our job has been to clean walls, floors, outside of cells, common seating areas and prison guard offices.

We were working in the psyke wards.

The top floor was ok. They are the long term low risk catagory.

But the other floor we worked on held the acute catagory.

We had escorts wherever we went and the guards on this floor were really careful that no accidental meetings would take place.

We cleaned the outside of the cells and the inmates were all inside. That was kind of weird.

Most were asleep (thanks to meds I should think), but some would come up to the window and watch us.

It is a very depressing place and I am glad to be finished there.

On a more cheerful note, the llamas were realeased from their winter captivity yesterday and went out into the sunshine for the first time in about 3 months.

Because we had so much trouble getting them to come inside out fo the severe weather we decided to shut them in for a couple of weeks to start with, but with the frequent storms the doorway got snowed over and we couldn't get them out anyway.

It was different for the horses who we could lead in and out, but as my llamas are pretty unhandleable (that might be a real word) we just had to leave them in.

Well yesterday we dug out the doorway, (about three feet deep) and opened the door.

They were cautious at first, but eventually went out onto the frozen snow and had a nice afternoon in the sun.

I was glad to see this morning that tey were back inside and so we will now leave them to come and go as they please.

The llamas enjoying the sun.