szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

We are asking our #dogs, #IdąPsięta, not do anything dangerous today. There's no way we could drive them to the vet.

As predicted yesterday, some branches went down under the weight of the snow.

Snowing. #Polesia #wetlands #EasternPoland

Heavy snow can break branches, and we want to keep those trees, as they shield us from the road. It's good to have a supply of 6 m (20 ft) aluminium masts which we normally use for our #RuralBroadband installations – they're great for removing some of that snow. The dogs have no idea what's going on, but enjoy it.

Half of our driveway is clear. The other half is not. Spot the brown dog, Vuko

Pines are covered with heavy snow, but the ground underneath them is still free of it. #IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #Polesia #winter

The weird wolves of #Polesia – our #IdąPsięta pack of #DogsOfMastodon, warily exploring the strange new environment that fell on them during the night.

Perhaps we should wait until spring before resuming our installations.

Had to call of today's #RuralBroadband installation. This means I could start the day with a glass of whisky, but I'd have to drive to the village store to get, and I probably wouldn't make it – our only 4WD car is being repaired, so we might be cut off from civilization for a few days. The joys of living in the middle of nowhere.

Weird creature in a #forest in #Polesia #DogsOfMosstodon #DogsOfMastodon

The old, corroded sluice gate is permanently opened now, and all the water in the ditches will flow into a small river, Mietiułka, then into Włodawka, then the #Bug River, one of largest rivers in Poland which, for much of its course, is the border between Poland and Ukraine and Belarus, and then into Poland's largest river, Wisła, and finally into the Baltic Sea. When summer comes the #wetland #meadows will be dry as dust, but the farmers will be able to mow them without getting their tractors stuck in the mire. They don't really need to mow those meadows, but they get paid for just doing so, so when the wetlands are wet, as they should be, they face a financial loss.

The ditches are full of water, most of the ice is gone.

Finally we had some real sun today. I went on a tour of our #wetland #meadows with our #dogs, #IdąPsięta. #Polesia

Bruno, senior of the #IdąPsięta pack of #dogs, cosplaying Eeyore in the #wetland #forest of #Polesia

I don't what's going on here. Winter madness, I guess. #IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #dogs #forest #wetland

The road is clear. No tracking cookies detected. #IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #forest #wetland #DogInfoSec

A dead #tree full of grubs is a woodpecker's #AdventCalendar.

Bruno's favourite pub. One of the few places around where there's always water, even in the summer, though a few months ago it went dry. #IdąPsięta #DogsOfMastodon #wetlands #Polesia