Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Pick Your Weather

Welcome to Clare County Ireland, the winter wonderland of variety weather.  I (Austin here) said it would be strictly rain on the agenda, but boy was I wrong.  In the five days we have had rain (it's raining now :), snow, mist, sun, cloudy, and extensive frost (ie so cold our water pipes in our mobile home froze).  The snow melted by midday, but was still unexpected and awesome.




Mark and Tina are absolutely the sweetest couple, and have been great hosts.  Tina cooks lunch and dinner for us just about every night, and we fend for ourselves on toast and cornflakes for breakfast.  They are great to converse with; we often spend at least an hour each meal just chatting it up about anything from our families to Irish and UK history to anything in between.  We cooked them our favorite Chicken Tikka Masala recipe (which I made wayyyy too spicy), but they actually choked it down with dignaty and had a great time with it.

Our actual WWOOFing work here has thus far been feeding those hungry donkeys (and chickens, geese, and ducks for that matter), and various projects.  Yesterday we watered their gardens in the polytunnel and scraped clean a cement rock garden; today the frost was too strong to do any digging, so we scrubbed and cleaned parts of the main house.  For both of us it was very fulfilling!

The inside of one of two polytunnels on site.

Kindra watering away!

So far, we have cashed our free time in on extensive walking adventures and an absolutely epic fifteen mile bike ride to the Cliffs of Moher.  I am serious, yes, the cliffs of insanity from the Princess Bride!  Soo freakin' cool.  And literally, cool, with huge wind gusts and chilly temps.

Staying warm at the famous Cliffs of Moher!


So our WWOOFing adventure continues, one variable weather/work day at a time!

For more pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/117860913937238604610/Ireland
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2013 at 5:53 PM

    So happy for you and appreciate you keeping us all posted on your latest happenings. Love the pictures! What a wonderful attitude you have! Personally, I prefer the 80 degree temperatures we have been experiencing in CA, but good for you to work so hard in more difficult situations! Keep the post coming! Love, Marti

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  2. AustinJanuary 24, 2013 at 8:10 AM

    haha thanks for the encouragement Marti! We honestly are getting used to the weather pretty quickly, and it makes us so appreciative to come into a warm home and have hot tea ready =) hope things are going well for you!

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 25, 2013 at 10:00 PM

    Hi-it's Beef! I'm so jealous that ya'll are on such an amazing adventure :-) I'm impressed you haven't frozen yet (shoot I'm frozen just hearing about it!). We miss you all! Keep us posted :-)

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    1. Austin and KindraJanuary 26, 2013 at 12:15 PM

      Sister!!! haha it's not really so bad, esp since we have lovely indoors/heaters/blakies/tea etc at our fingertips, and our hosts are constantly telling us to come inside if it's too cold or wet for us =) may be a diff story in Scotland tho, supposed to be even colder there!

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