-48 wind chill dressage moves

[HXF]

...well, drifts work just as well as cavaletti. They certainly have amazing moves when trying to keep warm.

After doing chores this morning, I must complain/whine to the general public. There, I feel better already. Good gravy, I haven't seen cold like this since we lived in Saskatchewan. Brrrr.

Ooops, now I realize I forgot to check the automatic waterer, wish me luck...

[Elegante E]

-48 wind chill. That's just not right. I bought gloves with electric heating batteries. You need yourself some.

[Rhiannonjk]

It was +40 degrees here yesterday, and I was whining. -48 is inhumane!

[HXF]

...waterer is still good.

I just did the conversion. -48 celsius is -54 fahrenheit.

Daughter has a snow day, I'm staying put and hubby is working from home today.

But honestly, I'll take this over a hurricane anyday.

[HXF]

-48 wind chill. That's just not right. I bought gloves with electric heating batteries. You need yourself some.

Yep, I'm thinking you're on to something there, although I'd give anything for a battery heated scarf right now. And how about a heated toque? Hubby with the bald spot would kill for one of those :cool:

[MistyBlue]

HXF...where are you located? When I saw the temps you posted my first thought was, "Must be near Saskatchewan." :lol:
I love winter...but then I'm in southern New England (CT, less than 10 miles from the shore) and our cold rarely gets much below zero. So we don't get frigid here...and if we do get sub-zero temps it's usually a short cold snap, normally not longer than a couple days or so. So it's quite liveable temperatures.
If we get much below zero, they will start calling some schools off for the day. The buses don't start. (we don't keep ours running, some areas have block heaters though)
I'm not sure how much I'd enjoy winter in -50 degree temps though.

[HXF]

We're in Alberta, but haven't seen cold like this in ages. Thank goodness we're booked on a Mexican cruise in two weeks.

I'm always so impressed with the horses. They handle the cold so well. Although with that nasty wind I did break down and put every blanket I own on them. We have shelters, but the two socially inept geldings tend to get voted out once and awhile so they needed the extra help. Between that and free choice hay they do fairly well.

I have a semi retired I-1 schoolmaster that has spent the last 8 years of his life indoors. He loves being outside, even in this. He's crazy.

Having said all this, I just love living here, wouldn't trade it for anything - I guess I'm crazy too :).

[Mozart]

We are getting that weather tomorrow, aaacck...(I am two provinces east of you). My horses have all been prancing and playing for the last two days, just wait I told them, just wait.

I am taking a stack of work home with me, as I suspect I will be home tomorrow.

However, there is NO WAY I would ride outside with -45 windchill. :eek: In an arena, sure, but not outside!

[Valentina_32926]

...waterer is still good.

I just did the conversion. -48 celsius is -54 fahrenheit.

Daughter has a snow day, I'm staying put and hubby is working from home today.

But honestly, I'll take this over a hurricane anyday.

God no - with a hurricane you can leave and come back in a few days. Doesn't last long.

Farm/house may not be there :eek: but weather is usually very nice after hurricane.

[TropicalStorm]

Hey, I'm in Alberta too, and feel for you. I only had to clean out two stalls this morning and I was whining and complaining. My automatic waterers actually froze-although not completely. But even so, I've never even seen them with ice over top!

The horses will be getting a 5 day break, me thinks ;) I don't even want to ride the outdoor horses in the indoor. I think its just too harsh on their systems. Might very well leave the indoor horses alone too!

[DownYonder]

Must be that global warming thing that Al Gore keeps harping on. :lol:

[fsf]

Check these out: http://www.ajprindle.com/products/sku-12601__id-106__orderby-nw.html

And too funny, Down Yonder!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[HXF]

Farm/house may not be there :eek: but weather is usually very nice after hurricane.

Thanks for the visual :D I like shelter :yes:

We took our horses out of indoor board a few years ago and haven't regretted it. The warmth was good for the older ones, but honestly, the 24/7 turnout has been much better for them. And our training progress has been better, even with the winter off. I would have never believed it - I just thought I was being cheap. Well, I am cheap but whatever...

Anyhoo, glorious sunshine now and the wind chill is down a hair. I think I might just take that shovel and attack those drifts. I see the horses are running around having a ball...

PS - Tropical Storm, I really think you need to change your screen name to honour this cold snap - it's just so not Albertan :winkgrin:

[HXF]

Check these out: http://www.ajprindle.com/products/sku-12601__id-106__orderby-nw.html



Message from the paddock "And the link to the battery powered horse blanket is where???"

[TropicalStorm]

PS - Tropical Storm, I really think you need to change your screen name to honour this cold snap - it's just so not Albertan :winkgrin:
I try to delude myself by thinking happy thoughts ;)
But mayhaps it should be Frostbite?

[Elegante E]

HXF - get this for your hubby http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?page=mad-bomber-hat&categoryId=45061&parentCategory=502860&cat4=502857&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langId=-1&feat=502857-sub2

Got one for mine and have a good laugh whenever he wears it, but when it's freezing outside is does its job quite well.

Have to laugh, it was only in the low teens, maybe around zero with windchill, last week and I took the week off. Getting pathetic in my old age. I did it for the horses sake, of course.

Oh and get yourself a neck gator, fleece ones are great and wash well. Scarves are useless, IMO. My wonderful SIL made me one with velcro for easy wearing and it's the bees knees. Works well when one's nose turns into a faucet - gross yes but inevitable in such cold.

Have fun in Mexico!

[Rhiannonjk]

Snow drifts may make nice caveletti - but you would never believe what rain blowing sideways into the covered arena does for impulsion!

[HXF]

Ah yes, weather induced dressage - gotta love it.

Thanks for the links. Hubby has a hat just like that - but nothing seems to do the trick with weather like this. I lasted 15 minutes completely bundled up. It was the cold induced asthma that put me back inside. I suck.

I just wouldn't be Canadian if I couldn't complain about the weather.

Bring on Mexico!

[Mozart]

I just wouldn't be Canadian if I couldn't complain about the weather.

Bring on Mexico!

Now there is thinking like a true Canadian!

We are scanning the travel deals ourselves. Vacation booked, horse/dog/house sitter in place...just need a good deal on a vacation spot with a kids club and drinkies that are not tooo watered down!

[DiscoMom]

Well, if I didn't know I bought my horse from a woman in Alberta, I would never know it (you would think he came from somewhere sunny all the time). It snowed here (in the PNW) and he was terrified of the "scary white monster covering the ground" - I don't think his feet touched the arena for a good twenty minutes (and mind you, he wasn't actually in the snow, but he could see it). :lol:

[RileyMonkey]

I'm also in Alberta and mad the mad dash to buy a new winter blanket (why do they rip them as the temp plummets?!?) and then layer the poor guy in just about every blanket available.

This is Riley's first winter living out and I'm having a much tougher time than he is. He'll probably be off for the week as well. Oh well, it's hit and miss witha 4 month old at home anyway.

[HXF]

..use an old fly sheet over the turnout. I'm down to minimal blanket repair. And they do last in the cold believe it or not.

[Bluesy]

Heh....
-52C (with windchill) this morning.

I'm in Alberta as well ...please send heat as soon as possible.

[neVar]

been in the -50C with teh wind all week- alberta you can have it back! was -57C when my parents left edmonton on monday made me think of the 03 trip to the WAZ Clinic and it was the same temp 5 of us in the jeep scraping the windows with our credit cards so we could see... . i'm still amazed my lil sunfire started the next morning with out having been plugged in. AHHH Good fricking cold memories!

[Mozart]

It is now a balmy -40 here. I will be riding tonight :yes:
In the insulated indoor. Now as long as my car starts afterwards we should be peachy.

[petitefilly]

Hell froze over, eh?

LOL I cannot imagine such temperatures! I whimp out at about 20 degrees F; I clean stalls and that's about it when the weather is that cold. Good luck with the frozen North!

[Waddles]

-50'C was our lowest. I do live in the NWT though, so can't complain - at least the ice fog is clearing. Sadly I am not off to any warm places soon - and of all the weekends to have a dressage clinic, we need to pick this one.... :lol:

[Zigea]

been in the -50C with teh wind all week- alberta you can have it back! was -57C when my parents left edmonton on monday made me think of the 03 trip to the WAZ Clinic and it was the same temp 5 of us in the jeep scraping the windows with our credit cards so we could see... . i'm still amazed my lil sunfire started the next morning with out having been plugged in. AHHH Good fricking cold memories!

I remember that vividly. My god we were stupid. We couldn't even see out the window to find the bloody barn. It was -43C and that was the AIR temperature, I wonder what the windchill was?

It sure was a fun weekend though.

[TexasTB]

... and this is when I'm glad that I live in texas.
74 degrees today.. I was even able to give my horse a bath.

But the summers are MISERABLE!!

[Marieke]

DON'T GO TO MEXICO. it makes the cold all that much worse when you come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We went to Cayman in January and when we came back it was only 10-15F and were I usually don't care about that temp much, it was unbareble for the first week. I was glued to the fireplace and completely unable to move. Thought strongly about taking the next plane back. It was miserable, completely miserable.

[jej]

My thoroughbred dressage horse practices some particularly difficult movements this time of year.

She has become very proficient at canter piaffe, and tempi changes (behind only) on a 20 meter circle.

When Cold Weather Dressage Tests make their debut, I will beat the pants off of all of you! I can see it now - regular dressage in the summer, and Great White North Dressage in the winter!

[Hidden Pond Farm]

When Cold Weather Dressage Tests make their debut, I will beat the pants off of all of you! I can see it now - regular dressage in the summer, and Great White North Dressage in the winter!

We can muse what the official dress might look like for the show. Need to get that bomber hat over my helmet somehow. Rimfrost boots of course. Special gloves that can get that snot drip off your nose (or do we make that part of the outfit....):confused: Does my reader get to use a blow horn?

My friend and I just got off the phone complaining about this. We decided next year we are going somewhere south!

And we have more to come--9 above high by the weekend.

Yulch.

[DressageGeek "Ribbon Ho"]

Hell froze over, eh?

LOL I cannot imagine such temperatures! I whimp out at about 20 degrees F; I clean stalls and that's about it when the weather is that cold. Good luck with the frozen North!


I'm with you.

[HXF]

We're going to kick serious behind on our rider scores...nothing like a little flash freezing to keep your leg in position.

[Mozart]

We're going to kick serious behind on our rider scores...nothing like a little flash freezing to keep your leg in position.
Unfortunately, it can also make your hand a bit too rigid.....
In Great White North Dressage, it is also acceptable to halt in the middle of your test to change the hot shots in your boots or gloves.
Geek and petitefilly...if we didn't ride in these temps well...we wouldn't ride from oh...December to March! At that rate your horse might see second level at ..oh. 16 years of age!:lol: