OneGuyFromBarlick

my old boys relaxed in the morning sun...



and my place to sit and enjoy the view...

I love seeing retired horses and donkeys enjoying themselves Wendy. Pure love I reckon.....

Mist over Weets yesterday evening...





And beyond..

Nice pics Wendy......

A dramatic sunset tonight.

Thanks Wendy. Missed the sunset this evening, as on cinema duty; that looks like a furious sky...

Big advantage if you face West when it comes to sunsets. West coast sunsets over the sea are great the world over. Nice pic Wendy.

...and Wendy has a grandstand seat!

It's a wonderful place to be.

Hold that thought Wendy when the wind is blasting up the valley throwing horizontal rain ans snow at you! I'll bet you're stocked up with fuel for the winter already!



The poor bugger who did all the work! Hey Farm, June 1977.

Good photo Stanley. We have a huge pile of wood waiting to be processed and Col got some cut and stacked before his health problems started. He isn't back on form yet, but I'm hoping he will be before the winter sets in!

Wendy, I learned very early in life that if you wanted to keep a woman happy 500 gallons of heating oil in the tank, five tons of coal tipped up in the yard and a big pile of good split wood. I had the LR Safari at the time and used to tidy up fallen trees for farmers. I made a good job and burned all the brash leaving things tidy so they were happy to let me have the wood. Some big trees but a lot of dead thorn which burned well!

David posted a photo of the sun rising this morning in Bank Edge View, and here is the sun setting in the west this evening.

Excellent Wendy - stuck in a meeting this evening and missed it.

Perfect sunset.....

Another lovely sunset tonight.....





But what's that strange black cloud on the horizon!

Heat rising from the Town Square?

We went for a Xmas morning walk down Harden Clough to Kelbrook then back up the other side. I took a few snaps on the way.

Here's Col & Bertie setting off down our track. We had a blocked drain up by the barn causing a small river to run down the track, but Col managed to sort that this afternoon.


Dennis & Sparky came to say hello as we passed by...look how sunny it is on the south facing side of the hill!




Then down past Brown Hill Farm with the old oak woods on Kelbrook Moor looking lovely in the sunshine.


Passing Kitchen with Harden Clough Farm in the distance nestling under the moor.


As we walk towards Harden New Hall in the bottom of the clough Harden Old House looks lovely up to the right with Cocket (Now renamed Stoneybank Farm) in the distance up on Bleara Road.


We come out onto Cob Lane and go down into Kelbrook before heading back on the other side of Harden Clough up Heads Lane.


Looking across to Burnt Hill from the other side of the clough....a slightly foreshortened view of the three old farms, Brown Hill, Lower Burnt Hill and Higher Burnt Hill. No sunshine on the north facing hillside at this time of year.


This is a zoomed view. You can see our water supply and pump house (enclosed by wooden fencing) to the left of the old sycamore below Brown Hill. The water is pumped right up the hill behind to another holding tank in a field above our house.

Lovely pics Wendy that took me back more than a few years..... Love the old horses, treasures in heaven.

Thanks Stanley, I'll post a few more later once I've put the boys out to play in the snow!

A lovely snowy view of the moor.


Bertie helping to put the ponies out.


Dennis & Sparky after a good roll.


View over Barlick & beyond.


Nice to know that this old workhorse is sitting there waiting to be useful!

Lovely stuff Wendy!

Not entirely glad below the snow line where we are...

Love the photos Wendy.

Glad I just happened to catch this moment!

You could be lucky Wendy, not a lot of snow in the forecast, just hard frost. Those old lads are so lucky! Full bellies, freedom and warm coats, it doesn't get much better for an old horse! Look after yourselves just as well!