Dan continually lets the volunteers and me know about his ‘steel trap’ mind that never forgets anything. He is so good to point out what we forget so …. When there is a water puddle in this location the pony tank overflowed. The reason – someone forgot. Also, this is the first fill after installing the new faucet so fill time has gone to 15 minutes instead of 2 hours. Which did you forget son?

STILL AFTER THE SNOW 11-17-14

vvvv

At least they made a sippy hole.

Someone asked me which horse is the dirtiest. I told them it depended on the day. Today the award goes to Target.

Mattie and Patches enjoy the warmer day.

After the Snow 11-17-14

When I did chores today I noticed these snow lines in the arena. When I looked I realized that apparently the shade from the fence rails kept the snow from melting.

Long view of the 'snow rails'.

Lil thought we had enough cold and snow so this was how she spent some of her time in the warmer afternoon.

The temperatures got above freezing for a few hours so horse 'maintenance' was not too bad.

FIRE BREATHING DRAGON sort of

I was taking pictures and realized it was really cold as I looked through the view finder. I wasn't sure that horse breath would show up but it does. Check out my short video here -  Fire Breathing Dragon

JUST BLOWIN IN THE WIND

When the wind is from the west and you throw hay over the east fence ......

THE DAY AFTER OUR HIGH TEMPERATURE WAS FREEZING

When I went out to do chores at noon, I found these in the ATV. This told me that ice was thick this morning when Dan took care of things. You are serious when you break out the sledge hammer.

 MUCH thicker ice today.

Ice on the sides of the tanks.

Ice across the tanks.

Yea! Only water now.

It was worth being out. If I wasn't, I woud have missed this.

OUR HIGH WAS FREEZING TODAY

On cold days we stay in if possible. The ‘boys’ are in direct line with the heater. Notice – Taz doesn’t want his picture taken. Behind him, Drifter has staked out ‘his’ chair.

 

These were outside in the box on the ATV. The one on the left was frozen and the one on the right wasn’t. 

I had to psych myself up to go out to do chores. By the time I did the sun had come out and it looks like Midnight found a warm spot for a nap.

And, since digesting food keeps them warm the rest of the ponies were chowing down ….

Yup – there was ice again. Butch was glad to see me.


I love this shovel. Instead of water running down my arms it drains out. The ice was fairly thin when I tackled it however; I think tomorrow morning will be a different story since it was freezing over an hour after I lifted it out of the tanks. Tiffany made sure all the tanks were topped off yesterday and that makes a difference in the first freeze.

  Some of the horses will make their own sippy holes during the day. Teefa is not one of them. Notice, she started to drink even before I took the ice out.

Are you bringing more food? You don’t want us to freeze or starve do you?

 

In case you need to know mittens are really warm. If you have spare time it is possible to tie hay string into a knot. It is possible to open and close gate snaps but be prepared to pull mitten out of snap. Warmth or speed?