Frozen car - nearly needed a crowbar to open a door.
Frozen straw at work.
Frozen hands despite Hot Paws gloves.
Horses will be inside because there’s not enough snow to make the ice safe enough for outdoor turnout.
I will be interested to see if my horse’s soaked hay is frozen tonight.
If it’s gonna be cold, at least let us have snow for turnouts and riding and building insulation.
Aaaaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh!
This morning is -3F with forecasters cheerfully warning that the rest of the week will only get worse.
At least the sun is out & so far the *!&@ wind is calm.
Removing pee spots from stalls now requires a jackhammer.
Ditto for picking manure from paddocks.
Neither is gonna happen until it warms up.
Daily prayer for power to stay on as watering horses becomes problematic when it goes out.
Took the truck off-property yesterday to fill the tank.
First actual drive in months & tranny was not happy.
I do let it run for 20min weekly, so prayer now includes “Please, no major mechanical problem!”
I tell myself just 3 more months to survive & 1 of them is short.
I am grasping at straws.
After reading both of your rants, mine seems silly.
Yesterday (Sunday) was 60F. This morning we had flurries. By Thursday our high will be 28F and low of 9F. If it is going to be cold, I’d rather it stay cold. None of this flip/flop junk!
The weather around here has been all over the place. The on/off showers that have been popping up throughout last year has made it difficult to go ride. It’s been too slick to even try :(.
After last year? When it snowed every other day and there was 2’ of snow on the ground (a lot for here) and it not only stayed below 32f for almost 3 weeks, it stayed between -5f and 15f for most of it?
18f, sunny and dry is fine with me, especially after a couple of weeks in the 30-40f range with some T storms even.
Not going to complain. Also not going to do anything outside…it’s still cold.
I live in the desert.
I need to figure out how to save this thread so that come summer time, when it’s 115F, I’ll remember not to complain.
My heart goes out to you all. I don’t know how you do it.
Good luck and may your winter be short.
Today’s my last day off, and it’s very windy with a quickly dropping temperature. So, I’m in the house on the computer instead of riding.
I’m just going to link it because people are going to stop believing my awful weather stories.
http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-162_metric_e.html
Edit: you can click the little “F” to translate.
Frozen gate latches. I keep thinking of the kid in the Christmas Story getting his tongue stuck to the pole as I breath on the latches to melt the ice in the mechanism. I hate that movie!
Wasted hay because I worry about the weanling not getting enough and losing weight so I put out extra.
Falling on the ice. Walking like Charlie Chaplin so I don’t fall on the ice which screws up my hips. I’ve already fallen once. Darn dog tripped me.
Climbing and slidding on icy metal gates to get in the paddock due to the aforementioned frozen latches.
At least the days are getting longer!
I HATE MUD!!!
No mud and no bugs. And no huge weird spiders or poisonous things or tornadoes or earthquakes or tsunami’s. I keep telling myself it’s worth it.
I hate the snow because the dramatic weather change caused my horse to colic and die last January.
And now that it’s chilly and windy, my poor gelding with a torn suspensory who has been on stall rest since June, who tries SO HARD to be good, is a big weenie. You can see it in his face that he wants to spook so bad with a huge gust of wind against the barn, but he fights it, usually. About once a month he’ll snap but if that’s how infrequent it is I can’t complain, bless his little heart.
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I’m just going to link it because people are going to stop believing my awful weather stories.
http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-162_metric_e.html
Edit: you can click the little “F” to translate.[/QUOTE]
Looks like what we’ve got today. It’s brutal. Sure we’ve had worse down here, but to go from October to February in a single day is just stupid. The reason my stupid car was frozen shut this morning was not because it was that cold, but because I had been driving in 0C while some sort of heavy wet crap that wasn’t exactly rain, but wasn’t exactly snow was coming out of the sky. Temp plummeted an hour or so later and boom, frozen car.
But hey, at least frozen gear shift wasn’t on my list this morning, so it wasn’t that bad right? RIGHT? lol
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I HATE MUD!!![/QUOTE]
Yesterday we had Mud. Today we have (you guessed it) Frozen Mud.
We had lows of 3F, highs of 11F, 5" -6" of snow, that is still all laying out there, nicely.
The horses loved it, even spent all day yesterday rolling and taking naps in the snow.
Today, not so nice, we are now having a chinook wind, that is said to be the name for snow melter, but is really just blowing the cold around big time, where even the horses are hiding out in the barn.
The snow is still all out there, doesn’t seem to be wanting to melt any yet.
Yes, could be worse, the snow piled in big drifts here and there, but thankfully we had a beautiful snowfall rare for us, not a standard blizzard as we get.
They are still discouraging all travel, many accidents, roads snow-packed and iced over.
Just remember, every day now closer to spring.
It was -10F here this morning. Actual air temp, not including wind chill. I think wind chill brings it closer to -20 or -30F. Horses are inside because of the weather, and probably will be in quite a few days this week.
But the real tragedy is that a fellow boarder’s horse was euthanized this morning (unexpectedly). I feel terrible about the whole thing. Sick, actually. Poor dude was euthanized in the indoor arena (probably so he would not have to go out into this awful cold for his last moments), so the indoor will be closed until he is removed. I’m certainly NOT complaining about that, as I think it was the right thing to do. However, it definitely doesn’t make this day any better.
Can’t complain about the temperature here. But that doesn’t mean I can’t complain. Here’s what I’ll be dealing with for the next couple of days. At this level – I mean the level they are predicting – we will have water through our barn and turnout. Which means rearrangements, set up, and being stuck here alone for the next four or five days.
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No mud and no bugs. And no huge weird spiders or poisonous things or tornadoes or earthquakes or tsunami’s. I keep telling myself it’s worth it.[/QUOTE]
But many of those things the rest of the year, and the December weather installed lots of ankle breakers by the gates. I cringe every time I watch my horse tip toe over those.
Um, saultgirl, cross tornadoes off your list and replace with hurricanes, ok? No-one wants to upset Mutha Naytcha (you bitch*), by making a mistake and having her go and show you your mistake next summer, right?
*her, not you. She’s a fickle bitch in my books
HOT HOT HOT and the air conditioning is broken in my car. SOB!
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