Donaldson Crew Adventures

It has been raining a lot this winter so the ground is quite saturated. However last night it poured all night long hard! Below are a series of pictures and videos of the lanes by our house starting at the end of our lawn and progressing down the road.

It stopped raining today so we took Erin around for a drive along the coast by Ogmore by the Sea. Lots of sheep out grazing.

We picked up our tree yesterday (Sunday), but after decorating it once we had a bit of an incident involving Noah, his intense interest to take things apart, and a quick-release lever on the tree base which resulted in the tree on the floor with lights not working, broken ornaments, and pine needles everywhere.
We replaced the lights and re-decorated this evening-take 2!

Still 20 days until the winter solstice but the days are already short, but not surprising given that we are about 51.5 degrees latitude. I stopped on my way to work this morning and snapped this shot with my phone at about 7:50 am.

Father Christmas came through the village of Cowbridge near our house today with a few of his raindeer in to kick off the Christmas season.  

Last night we participated in a local 'roving dinner' with the 10 homes in the Clemenstone farm area where we live. It was great fun! We started at a single house for drinks and then split up spending different courses with different groups until we all met up again around midnight for drinks and music again. It had been raining hard all day and the roads were flooded - a lot of water even for here! Below are a couple of pics from this morning where the water has dropped. The videos give you an idea of the water levels on the road last night!

We celebrated Thanksgiving in Wales with some American friends. Kids at their table and Kelly's nicely decorated adult table.