I am sitting here watching the snow fly. Again. And I am wondering how many more days of snow sliding off the roof of the indoor this will mean. :concern:
My new horse is mostly pretty good about it. ( Except for the one time he was feeling fresh and did a little buck-bolt!) I hate it. I can see the sheets of snow/ice hanging precariously off the roof. I swear it waits for me to ride next to it before giving way with a Whoosh, Thunk, Crack!
I try to view it as a training opportunity, but I am sick of it. And it startles me!
It is the first full day of Spring. Stop already! :grief:
Funny I was thinking the same thing as I have a lesson tomorrow. I keep reminding myself it’s good practice.
Yeah. SO over it. Snowing here again this weekend. Sigh.
Rode in a lesson where the snow was falling off the indoor roof like mad! Not a single horse spooked! Another older rider and myself jumped every single time. would look at each other and laugh because we were being so jumpy! Our horses were golden and didn’t care; we, on the other hand, were anticipating spook after spook that never happened.
Horses are smart, they do get used to it. People…not so much.:lol::lol::lol:
My spooky horse is fine if it’s something that falls from the roof and lands in soft snow. He might flinch if there is a thump. What he can’t tolerate is ice sliding down the metal roof. He goes ballistic. If it’s warm and sunny I probably won’t ride. Too risky for my taste.
Ear plugs are your friend. After having to jump to the ground when my horse went sideways during rising trot, I decided to invest in some ear plugs. Don’t totally get rid of the sound but for my horse, made it tolerable enough to ignore. I was dealing with ice sliding off roof then smacking into metal walls :rolleyes: pretty hard to desensitize to that when you never know when it’s going to happen! It always seems to happen directly over the area you’re working in also.
My guy comes home at end of month and even though it will only be trail rides for a few weeks, I am sooo looking forward to being out of the indoor arena!
I wonder if the ideal indoor in the snow belt would have roof heater wires built in. People have them on sloped driveways here! Just keeping the roof above freezing would prevent accumulation.
Also sliding ice isn’t the worst thing!
Last week I saw news footage of two separate fabric coverall arenas in Alberta that collapsed under the snow. While people were riding. No injuries. And I know someone in Idaho that completely lost her coverall last winter, but I think it went down at night. Completely unsalvageable.
Around here a bunch of greenhouses collapsed in 2016/17 when we had unusual amounts of snow.
