It's been very cold and wet today.
I went out just after 7.30 am, it was still quite gloomy and spitting rain. So I waited to see what happened. By the time I'd scraped out and done the drinkers it was raining pretty good, so I left them in. With my lungs standing around in the cold and wet is no good. It has rained for most of the day and I think we will get more this evening.
When I went out to feed them at 3.30 it was still cold and raining, but the pigeons were fine and the loft was dry and not cold. I built it with a fairly big open vent in the floor at the back wall to allow plenty of airflow in the heat of the summer. By completely closing the front in the winter it cuts off the rapid flow through the shed and it really is quite cosy, despite being able to see the ground under the loft through the fly screen over the vent.
I was talking to a bloke today who was spitting tacks. It's The King's Birthday long weekend and both his kids are away playing sport. He was aiming to get his youngsters up the road, maybe all three days. It's only 2 weeks until the first race and now there's a panic to get them ready.
Well, that hasn't worked. It's going to be wet again tomorrow, probably a bit better on Monday.
This is why I started tossing weeks and weeks ago. Mine have had lots of little trainers, quietly got out to Marnoo, the first village on the west road, 20 miles, and are now set up. I'm still 4 weeks away from my first race, ( the first two races are from St Arnaud, so it would be 3 miles to me
) so I had already planned to not train them for a week. A couple of days off and a few days hard loft flying, then just a few longer tosses to be ready to go 63 miles in a month.
That's the plan, let's see how badly this unravels.
