Looking at very low temps from Wednesday night into Friday. Horse gets an extra blankie and the day off on Thursday, with below-0 low and 10 dF predicted as the high. I’ve asked the barn manager to bring her inside for a few hours if she’s turning out the stalled horses on the cold days. Right now, I am more worried about ice than anything, as we had the same snow followed by a few very warm hours but not enough to melt the snow.
Since it’s the 12th day of Christmas (give or take a day depending on how you start your counting):
On the 12th day of xmuh Mutha Naytcha (you bitch) gave to me:
12 below and dropping
11 hundred pounds of straw frozen
10 frigid fingers
9 nasty curse words (see above and below for reasons)
8 indoor turnouts (somepony will not be happy to be unable to hog the arena for the whole morning)
7 snoticles dripping
6 sodden tissues (but hey, they’re not all over my house and they are my own)
5 cats as scarves (ok, the bitch did good on this prezzie and really it was only 2 but what is 2 but 5 upside down anyway)
4 frozen car doors (more swearing)
3 measly centimetres of snow (What’s the effin’ point of that?)
2 iced up augers
and an almost recovered pony (at least she was yesterday. Now that I’ve written this stupid poem and put it down for all to see she’ll probably decide to try to hack up a lung in greeting me this evening)
It’s so muddy the horses are swimming.
Last week it was 60 and tonight it’s snowing, tomorrow night in the teens, both nights with winds up to 30mph. The normal night turnout shift is out tonight but I expect they’ll all live in the indoor tomorrow night.
Good thing my horse likes his heated bucket.
:lol: I’ll trade you.
It has been rainng since Friday and I am over it!! Now it is cold outside -17 Degrees tomorrow and I don’t like cold weather at all!!
Supposed to be 2F Wednesday night. @&$+^%#¥
Weenie Southerner here so I don’t have much to complain about, but the high Wednesday is going to be 31F. We don’t have an indoor at my barn, so if it’s sunny and not windy, we tough it out if it’s above freezing. But the high for this whole week is going to be 48 and sunny but very windy and it’s the wind that gets me. Bleh. It’s been rainy for the last few weeks, but at least it was warmer!
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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![/QUOTE]
That is good weather here! And you’re gloating, I think. Shame on you!
It’s -something, it doesn’t really matter. The wind could die off completely and I’d be…not happy, but I could pretend to be.
I feel terrible, watching the dogs try to cop a squat on three legs. Especially the guy with bad hips.
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:lol: I’ll trade you.[/QUOTE]
Deal. I’d rather shovel than slide around on ice. 
When I started my ride tonight it was 9F with minimal wind. 15 STINKING MINUTES LATER it was -1, windchill -20. No indoor, TB hates the cold but needs the mental stimulation, only had 1 quarter sheet on, and I was dumb enough to try no stirrup work (only for the first 5 minutes and then I wisely gave up).
There has been snow on the ground since November 10th. I remember this date because we had to bring cattle home in a blizzard. I was on the ATV and ended up with ice on my coveralls and eyelashes.
Tomorrow night’s low is going to be -15F. Wednesday’s high may not get above 0. Oh, and it’ll be windy, because it’s South Dakota.
LOL, I had to pull my tiny little Newer Spreader with my Chevy Silverado this morning! My lawn tractor just would not go in the snow. I could not even see the spreader behind the truck.
OK, I will whine now. Show I was going to work this weekend cancelled, unheated arena, looking at starting the morning classes around 0f. Been below freezing since Sunday evening, next 3 days running highs between 10f and 15f and lows 5 to -5. Pipes might freeze and cannot water the ring, it freezes in the tank, stuff you add to keep the dust down in freezing weather has limits.
Have to wait to run errands, roads are pretty slick under 3" of new snow. Interstate closed going on 3 hous with jackknifed double trailer Fed Ex truck, other interstate just reopened from jackknifed semi using it instead of first one, surface streets that are not slick are packed with interstate traffic.
Was going to take down exterior holiday lights. Can get out to the back, slider to deck is frozen shut. The front lights are screwed into the porch light with an adaptor, awkward to unscrew in tight space. Impossible with gloves or frozen fingers.
And I am on staycation this week. Guess I’ll just waste time on here. I could do housework…nah.
Chiming in again from the desert.
Sitting here watching the morning weather news. It’s bad. So bad for so many of you.
My heart goes out to you. Stay warm. Stay dry. Stay safe. Good luck.
I have to say this is an addictive thread. Probably the whole “misery loves company” thing… And you guys are way more motivated/brave than I am. Riding, outside, in -20 windchill? Wow…
Here it’s currently -4 (windchill -15) and they’re predicting a windchill of -41 for tonight… The ponies are wearing 3 blankets and I am staying in watching PBS tonight. 
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Impossible with gloves or frozen fingers.
And I am on staycation this week. Guess I’ll just waste time on here. I could do housework…nah.[/QUOTE]
Clearly, you are not Canadian. We can fish a chosen tissue (of the half dozen stocked there) out of our pockets and blow our nose with any combination of mittens, gloves, and frozen fingers. lol
Sorry you’re getting crappy weather for your staycation 
My horse has been sick with a virus and not working and getting careful t/o in the arena because she’s a runner. Yesterday, she had to share the arena with all the other horses which meant her all morning t/o got cut to about 45min. Let’s just say when Nanook here threw a leg over last night things got a little exciting.
No-one got hurt. I didn’t even get launched, but geez, the cold with the wind, with the steel building contracting, combined with the lack of exercise sure made it an interesting tack walk with a little trot. There was no posting trot, that’s for darn sure. And the walk? The walk may not actually have been a recognizable gait most of the time. The head shaking of frustration at not being allowed to leap into the air and run off full tilt was pretty recognizable though. :lol:
We tank out this afternoon and the high tomorrow is single digit + wind. Wednesday nights low is below 0. At least it will be sunny and we aren’t forecast to get snow.
Too cold to even bother hauling to an indoor to flat a horse. OTOH, I’ve gutted a couple closets and we’ve been eating like Royalty.
Just got our first snow of the season - 3 inches or so here. Due to poor planning, manure trailer is full and at bottom of hill. Cannot get up driveway to empty, so now need to set up emergency dump spot for caretaker to use for the next week. UGH. That will be fun to clean up when I get back.
Here the gates and doors are still working.
There is no ice under the snow.
The water tanks are not frozen; nor are the underground pipes.
My biggest complaint is that the ponies will have to be in over the next two nights because the wind chills are in to -30 to -50F range. They run into the barn when the wind is that bad (and they even have run-in sheds!). The barn is not heated but feels warm out of the wind…
I am never happy. :sigh: Pulling my nice warm breeches up over Cuddl Duds is difficult. I have nice warm leather gloves, but I forgot to put my hair in a ponytail before I put them on. And leather gloves and pony tails don’t mix. So I had to take them back off. Which meant I had to fiddle the nice long cuffs on my ceramic gloves liners back up under my sleeves. And then I couldn’t zip my tall boots. Ice in the zipper?
So getting dressed for the barn and actually getting up on the horse wearing all that stuff was a real trial on my patience. I had a very nice ride and was warm and toasty in the 14 degree temps and the footing was nice and Mr. Horse cooperated. But then I had to take.it.all.back.off!
