#SoCS / Just Jot it January - 20/1/24

It's Saturday so the prompt for Just Jot it January is the prompt for SoCS (Stream of Consciousness Saturday)  both of which are hosted by Linda.

For all the details and rules go here.  Oh and yes the prompt is "in a nutshell"

Well, in a nutshell our weather is a bit on the barmy side.  All this week it has been really cold - so cold that our local lake had frozen over.  And yet by Wednesday they are forecasting temperatures of 15 degrees C.

Positively balmy after the cold weather.   But before that we have to get through Storm Isha.

We never used to name storms in the way we do now but it's becoming a common thing.  Isha is predicted to bring us a lot of rain but also very high winds during the day tomorrow.

It's a bit annoying as the knitting group I attend were going to hold a yarn and cake sale tomorrow but, as the venue is quite small the plan was to put the yarn inside and have the cakes on sale outside, under a gazebo.

Gazebos and wind are not a good combination.  I could quite easily envisage the gazebo taking off into the air!  So no sale until next week when sunshine and warm temps are forecast.

Reminds me of the worst storm we encountered when camping in France.  We were actually hanging on the the tent during the night as we were convinced we were going to be blown away.  A tree did go down on the site - it was struck by lightning and some scaffolding that was on site also collapsed.  We had hail the size of golf balls - cars were damaged by them and yet the following day was beautiful.

Here it can definitely feel like we've had all four seasons in one day sometimes but I do like to experience the seasons, watching how the landscape changes and things coming into bloom.  As for the nutshells, hopefully the squirrels will find all their hiding places and I won't have trees springing up all over the garden!