Snow, ice, sleet, rain, slush, power,mud and raising Hogs!

[Norsire]

We have had so much rain, that I feel like I'm raising hogs and not horses right now. We had a drought all summer and now it won't stop raining. It will stop for a day or two and then start right up again. It has not had time to dry out since Sept. I have gravel dust at the gates and high traffic areas, but with so much rain, those ares are sinking away too! What do other people do to help with mud reduction around there barns? The horses sure don't seem to mind slopping through it, but I DO! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

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[This message was edited by Norsire on Feb. 07, 2004 at 08:29 AM.]

[Norsire]

We have had so much rain, that I feel like I'm raising hogs and not horses right now. We had a drought all summer and now it won't stop raining. It will stop for a day or two and then start right up again. It has not had time to dry out since Sept. I have gravel dust at the gates and high traffic areas, but with so much rain, those ares are sinking away too! What do other people do to help with mud reduction around there barns? The horses sure don't seem to mind slopping through it, but I DO! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

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[This message was edited by Norsire on Feb. 07, 2004 at 08:29 AM.]

[jbonifas]

Tight fitting rubber boots...so they won't get sucked off in the mud. What about pea gravel? That seems to work pretty good around here and the gravel is so small that the horses don't seem to have tender feet walking on it. There is probably not a good answer...only dry weather. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Norsire]

Yes, I just went out and spent 40.00 on a nice tall pair of rubber boots with a thick lining for the coming cold weather with the mud! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif I have never tried pea gravel. Thanks that is a good suggestion. /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

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[Pony1]

Not wood shavings but the wood chips you see on the side of the road where small trees and limbs have been sent through a chipper and you see a pile of the chips -

you don't have to worry as much about your horse graveling - they absorb some water but mostly pack down and mud does not come through as easily - I swear by the stuff in all high traffic wetter areas

contact either a large landscaper or the state or even a sawmill?

My barn is on a hill and rubber boots are not enough you also need good tread to keep from sliding back 3 steps for every 2 you take up the hill! (when you are out in the pasture)

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[horse chick]

Some people have used limestone fines with success on muddy gate areas. It's supposed to get
very hard.

[Nikita]

Norsire, after going through soupy, boot sucking muck (heavy clay soil) I decided to try geofabric around the bad areas. We just put it down about 10 days ago and it's working fabulously!

The fabric is purchased in rolls, laid out on the ground and covered with limestone screenings. The fabric allows the water to seep through but stablizes the ground and the gravel or screenings are kept separate from the muck. The gate and water trough area of my bad weather turnout was always extremely mucky - to the point of being pulled out of my suctioned in boots if a horse came out of the field quickly. /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif It's now solid, decent footing after weeks of rain and wet snow. I know a few people that have done entire winter paddocks with it.

Here is a site that describes how to use it Geofabric Application (http://ohioline.osu.edu/aex-fact/0304.html) . We only had to prep a small area of the ground we were covering, laid the fabric, dumped the screenings and spread them. It took 2 days to do a 40'x40' area inside the gate, with about 4' on the outside of the gate and a walkway to the barn. And that was without anything but me, a wheelbarrow, a shovel and a rake.

One friend of mine that did an entire paddock scraped the area to lower it a few inches so that when they were done it would be level with the surrounding area. They did use a bobcat to spread/dump a lot of the crushed limestone but you have to be careful that you don't crease the fabric too much when moving the machinery on it. The raking and levelling still has to be done by good old fashioned sweat. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

I paid $350. cdn (about $230. US) for a roll that is about 11' wide and 330' long and I used less than half of it. One of the more economical ways I found to deal with the problem.

Do a search on Google for "geofabric" or "geotextiles" to find who has it in your area. One company in the US sells it under the name of Cow Carpet, but they were pretty expensive.

Hope this idea helps.

[Laurie@CBF]

We have just built a beautiful new barn. Because of all the excavation work associated with it - I am sure my mud is worse than anyone elses /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif . I am ready to go to Home Depot and get the knee high contractor boots used for wet concrete..... All my horses have a thick crust of new mud every day. I agree they don't seem to mind - but it is very slow going. One of my fields has the weanliings which I go out in twice a day to feed and hay. I know it is just a matter of time before they bump into me and I get to take a mud bath. ARGH!!


We are scraping off the mud and putting a blend of stone and screenings in all the gateways. It is slow work as they try to do it after a few "dry" days. Still won't help the rest of the fields though...

[Fairview Horse Center]

I am sooo sick of mud. I had a load of crushed stonedust delivered a month or so ago, but have not been able to get to it to use it. I just had another delivered to the middle of my parking lot, so we didn't have to wait until a dry day (yeah, right) We spread paths as many places as we can, but and it is much better, but still soggy in lots of places, and my small paddocks are like sinkholes.

We spend a couple of days terrorizing my young stallion to get him to go into his paddock. I thought he was going to kill me. He kept trying to join me on the "other" side of the gate, and no way was I going to actually lead him into the paddock. He kept saying, if you won't go in there, I am not either! My body space was becoming a serious issue, as once my foot got caught under the gate when he was pressing to get around it! I was beginning to like my space more than his 2 testicles! I finally quit blaming the problem on his testosterone, and realized he was just "self-preserving". Now, I use bribery. He knows there is a handful of grain in the bucket just inside the slop, and apparently the way to his heart is thru his stomach, as he walks (scrambles) nicely thru the gate.

I have not been this sick of Winter before March - AND IT IS ONLY NOVEMBER!

Darlyn
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[breezymeadow]

So Follow, Me Follow, Down To The Hollow, Where We Can Wallow, In Glorious Mud!!!!

A little ditty that my mother used to sing to us. Anyone else heard of it? Or am I the only one raised by someone odder than odd??

Anyway, I am also going thru an UNBELIEVABLE mud sojourn. To the point where my horses don't even want to go out - period. It is swiftly becoming uglier than ugly. To get them to cross the "ugly zone", I've been topping it with used straw/manure, which I KNOW is just ultimately adding to the problem. But I can't have any type of stone/dust delivered till things dry out a little, at least.

Turnout has now reached catastrophic proportions. Crazy horses that don't want to go out! HELP!

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[Run_A_Muck]

I live in the Great PNW Swamplands- home of 9 months of mud. We've found that "inch and a quarter minus" is the only way to go if you use straight gravel. If you use smaller like 5/8" minus...or pea gravel the horses will just blow through it and it mixes right in with the mud. The "inch and a quarter minus" has bigger pieces mixed in and will pack and hold together better.

[Norsire]

Pony1, the wood chips sound like a great idea, and the only possible thing I can do right now, until the mud dries up. My neighbors have huge piles in their fence rows from the state deptment. I will call them today and see, if they will let me have any of their excess wood chips. It is so deep and muddy right now this is the only thing I can do. I also, never thought of how much the wood would even help with absorbing the water. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

horse chick, the gravel fines are there and have disappeared, into unknown depts of the ground!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

Nitkita, I will look into the product you are talking about, because my gravel fines have sunk to unknown depts. I can not possibly do what you are suggesting until it dries up so I can get a dump truck in the areas to dump it on the fabric, that you suggested. Thanks! /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

breezymeadow, I love your Mom's saying. Now, as I slopp throught the mud this morning, trying to keep my tall mud boots on, I will be singing it to myself, so I don't cuss the man above for so much rain! My boots have almost come off so many times, it is not even funny anymore. I have to walk close to the fence so as one of my boots is sucked way down deep in the muck, I can hold onto the fence as I excavate my boot out of the sucsion hole, trying to pull me under to unknown depts! ROFL!!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Run-A-Muck, I have seriously thought about doing this in the one paddock. I was going to put the large gravel down and then go back over it with gravel dust. I'm just worried about stone bruises and gravels on the horses hooves. I guess they walk across creeks and rocks in pastures. But, it is such a concentrated area, I worrry about it hurting them. But, if the large gravel stayed down underneath as a filter to let the water go down and the gravel dust stayed on top it may just be my best solution. Thanks! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

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[Daydream Believer]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by breezymeadow:
So Follow, Me Follow, Down To The Hollow, Where We Can Wallow, In Glorious Mud!!!!

A little ditty that my mother used to sing to us. Anyone else heard of it? Or am I the only one raised by someone odder than odd??

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I used to sing that at camp every summer! I remember!

I am also beyond sick of the mud. At my place it's red clay that stains everything too.

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself." D.H. Lawrence

[Run_A_Muck]

"Inch and a quarter minus" gravel is a mixture of pc's up to an inch and a quarter and everything below that in size...so you don't have to layer it. They may call it something else in other parts of the country.

I have barefoot babies on it...unshod adults, and shod horses with no problems except for the 2 fools who love to dig in it. Going out to feed is a real treat when you roll the wheel barrow into a new water hazard that wasn't there the night before.

[Fairview Horse Center]

Is that the same thing as we call "Crush & Run". They use it here for gravel roads.

Darlyn
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[Norsire]

I just got some for my driveway about a month ago. On my drive way, we first put down #3s, which is 3 inches and then the crusher run over top to pack down like sement. If, the #3s did not come up, that would work great. But, I do worry about the 3s coming through. I'm off to sing my mud song and feed the hogs this morning! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
At least it was windy as hell last night so maybe it will dry up this week, with no more rain! /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

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[Laurie@CBF]

Now I have huge hunks of frozen mud for the horses to struggle with. At least with things being frozen we can add some screenings in the gateways. My two yearlings were so happy to have some soft/decent footing to play in. They were leaping around on a 12 by 24 foot section for over an hour - of course totally tore it up /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif - just can't win. I hope everyone else is surviving "the conditions".

[Norsire]

It is now frozen craters! Watch your ankles! But, atleast you can put down some stone now! /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

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[Policy of Truth]

...why don't you use the mud as an excuse to have a "sale" on your little filly BF FyresSiren Song (if she's still there!)?! /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

I'd gladly take her off your hands!

[Norsire]

So, Norsire...

...why don't you use the mud as an excuse to have a "sale" on your little filly BF FyresSiren Song (if she's still there!)?!

I'd gladly take her off your hands!

Which filly are you referring to? BF FyresSiren Song is not a foal or horse of mine. I think you maybe confussed. I did just attempt to do a video of my filly Shimmering Gold to send out to someone, but the mud was so bad, I'm going to have and try another day...now it is frozen crators and will break ankles! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

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[Policy of Truth]

Sorry! I got you and Sonesta Mixed up! She has the most adorable littly arab (GASP!) filly....I love your horses too, though!

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Cooling The Toes. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Down To The Hovel, Where We Can Shovel The Glorious Snow!!!

(Alright -- so I'm neither a poet or a songwriter -- but couldn't resist. Mom would be proud /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif)

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Falling Down Thrice. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Out To The Tractor, Where We Can Fracture On Glorious Ice!!!

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My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[Everythingbutwings]

I want a roll of that Geotextile Fabric!

We put down a ton (Mr. Wings did, actually) of stone dust which disappeared immediately into the bog that is our barn entrance. /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

(Breezymeadow, a brilliantly rhyming cook!)

Friendship is Love without his wings
-Lord Byron

[Fairview Horse Center]

Is it Spring yet? NO
Is it Spring yet? NO

Darlyn
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[Laurie@CBF]

We put screengings in all the gateways, and then a lane of wood chips along the fenceline (in each field) where the horses congregate (they love to lie down on them - unlike the screenings which they just have to dig big holes /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif ). Add on top of that 7 new Rhino "Wugs" . I am hoping that we are "under control" for the moment. This has been so all consuming exhausting - I haven't even thought about Christmas yet /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif-

Hope everyone is safe and "dry"

[square halt]

I feel rather guilty saying this, but I thought it was just ME! I have been complaining about the mud since the second week of October when we went to "too hot!" 85 degrees to "too cold" 30 degrees or less and rain, rain, rain! I usually love the month of October -not this year, and November was no great shakes, either. My babies have begun chewing the fence posts, and through research have found that early cold wet winters can prompt this! Well, I guess it is true, misery loves company. At least now I don't feel like I am the only one cranky about the weather this year.
The last week has been the best since ....well, since. We have beautiful snow! So much prettier than MUD! (I am intentionally ignoring the ice we had this morning!)

[PonyChick]

Oh that stink that you got so much rain. One time at our place we got rain for a week straight! I love muck boots for that kind of weather. But if the water is high why not get like high almost snow boots next time. Save your feet!

[PonyChick]

Oh my gosh today our school was canceled. (I need to go so i can figure out how to spell!) There was an inch of ice on my mom's truck it was such a slipery mess!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JB]

Ponychick - but what do you do when your muck boots get sucked off in all the muck! /infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif It is horrible at Rio's barn. The snow/ice is still (slowly) melting, then it rained Tuesday night, supposed to rain tomorrow too /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif It's not even officially winter yet /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Nikita]

Honestly the Geofabric is probably the best money I have spent around here! I'm so impressed at the nice, firm ground I have around my bad areas.

Last year my gate area was just boot sucking soup. The horses hated it so they'd try and get through the muck as fast as they could and I'm trying to lead them in and out and hanging on for dear life as I'm suctioned in almost to my knees. I'm using much fewer curse words this year. /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

A bit more work but we also tiled the area in front of the barn. We trenched a big branch pattern to a central trench which drains out into a ditch. We then covered it in pea gravel. It now stays solid - no muck at all. We're on a flood plain so we had to do something

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Soaking The Tush. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Down To The River, We'll Slip And Slither In Glorious Slush!!!



(Breezymeadow, who's slowly recovering from her own personal Tush-To-Slush Meeting yesterday. . . . /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif)

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[Fred]

but oh how I hate mud. Normally I am suicidal by April..Nikita, thank you for the suggestion about the landscaping fabric. did you price shop? where did you get it? can you just lay it over the uneven ground in the gateways? and then pour gravel on top?
and the wood chips, I'm a bit confused, do you put them in the paddocks too? heeeeelp. winter is freakin' here....

[Laurie@CBF]

Ok I finally found the OLN channel and saw a few horse competitions on it - so I surf by there all the time. They have an amazing amount of shows on hunting everything. Well yesterday there was a show on hunting in a swamp area. For some reason when heard the guide say "I will give you a tip" - I didn't change the channel. The tip was how not to get your boots sucked off.

Lets see if I can explain it. You get an old inner tube from a garage (car or tractor type). You cut a 1 inch strip - like slicing bread - so you have a heavy duty rubber band. You then put it around your ankle (over the boot). Pull the band and twist a loop off on the front of your ankle. Then slide that loop over the toe part of your boot. It will rest at the arch of the boot. In essence you have a figure eight around your ankle and foot (over the rubber boot).

The mud is definately back again - UGH. We have scratches on every white leg outside. They were just starting to clear up /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif I am praying for things to freeze so we can put more wood chips down. I have decided the winter is going to be terrible and I might as well prepare for the worst /infopop/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Good Luck to everyone

[Nikita]

I did a little bit of price shopping via the net but ended up going to the company my friend (who did the whole paddock) used. They were in Mississauga - Dixie & 401 area. I split the roll with someone and gave her the receipt but I'll be seeing her Tuesday and get the name and number of the company for you.

I did very little prep work because the ground, at that point, was pretty decent. For the most part just some small bumps and dips. I had to shovel some dirt out from right under the gate because with the 4-5" of screenings it would have ended up too high. I also had one big dip from where we had trenched to run electric and water lines out to the field. I put the gate dirt and a few shovel fulls of screenings to level the trench a bit.

Other than that I laid the fabric down overlapping it about a foot. I had read on that one site I posted to overlap because when the gravel truck drives over it the truck will pull it to a degree. I had some rocks & bricks holding it in place because this place is always so friggin windy! I spread the screenings about 2-3 feet past the edges of the fabric to lessen the odds of the horses catching an edge. Even though the babies dug at it like mad the first few days they haven't budged it at all. Right now, with all the thawing and rain, most of my field is like a swamp but the areas that I did are firm - even with ditzy mare pacing in front of the gate at dinnertime.

From friends that have been using it for a few years, they said that in time as the grass starts to grow through the screenings at the edges, it roots everything in place.

I tried wood chips the last place I lived and they worked well for a while and then ended up getting lost in the muck. Maybe you have to top them up every once in a while?

[breezymeadow]

while that sounds like a good tip, if poor Breezymeadow had to rubberband herself with inner tubes the 17+ times a day she goes back & forth from the barn, I think she'd be in mental as well as physical therapy before long.

However, am definitely interested in this environmental fabric stuff.

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[Laurie@CBF]

currently I have about four pairs of shoes "Stationed" around my place. One pair of heavy duty muckers for going out into the fields (for hay, grain, and watering, bringing some horses in and out). then I have the "dirty" clogs staioned just at the edge of the grooming stall - the most conveneint entry way in and out of the barn. These I wear in the barn. Then I have the "cleaner" clogs you wear in the office etc etc.... It is an eternal battle to keep the mud outside. Praying for it to freeze for the next three months.

I will have to look into the landscape fabric for next year - can't work the area right now /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

[luckyduck]

I live ON the Chatahoochee River....

We had 17 inches of rain between Sept and Nov 15th!

Because we are located so close to Atlanta, we have only 17 acres and 40 horses....needless to say, our turnout is very organized to give each horse at least 11 hours a day of turnout and play time....

BUT NOW....I am close to thinking that they may be better off INSIDE then out!

Scatches, cuts, blowouts! Soft feet and sore soles!

I am FED UP! Feel like putting rubber muck boots on them instead of shoes!!!!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif /infopop/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

[Faiths CremelloWB]

I moved to Ontario this year from BC and well it is a bit mucky here but way better than BC (British Columbia). For those of you who do not know it rains in BC from October to May. No kidding!! About 6 days a week and maybe freezes 2-3 nights over the whole winter. The property out there is so expensive that it is normal to have 20-40 horses on 5-10 acres. What a muddy mess!!!! I wish I knew about this enviro.. mat then.. Now here in southern Ontario, vitually no rain. But when it does the ground is clay so it really sticks to your footwear. (A size 6 foot will end up a 12,,;;giggles;; by the time you get the horses all in)

I am going to look into the mat... Where can I find info on it??
BCF (http://www.blazingcoloursfarm.com)

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Going Kerplop. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Out To The Paddock, We'll Swim Like Haddock In Glorious Slop!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif


Breezymeadow - just returned from the field & trying to decide whether to put horses out there or start a rice paddy. . . .

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Losing One's Feet. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Down To The Barn Aisle, We'll Skate There Freestyle In Glorious Sleet!!


Merry Christmas All!! /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[equescool]

I have come to love rock.

I wake up and hear the rain and think 'now I have rock' and my whole day gets better immediately.

I have solid gravel between the new barn built last year and my house - about 60 feet. I do not have the horses in that area on a regular basis. Their entrance is through the four stalls that face into the pasture itself and there is a 10' overhang entering the stalls that is packed rockdust that was wetted. It is like concrete and has held up very well with the traffic of seven horses on a continual basis.

Heaven HAS to be rock..... for so many years I slogged thru horrible mud in the various places I had kept the horses. I will tell the mud story in a spearate post. I like the sound of the geofabric and will try to find it in my area. Thanks. Pam

[equescool]

My son was eight. He was playing near the barn while I was feeding. I was tired from sloggin thru the mud, and he was piddling. I told him to come on, I was done. He didn't move. I got cranky, then saw the look on his face - "Mom", he said, "I can't move!" looking a little panicked. I trudged back thru the mud to get him, in the process of getting him unstuck, we BOTH fell in the mud. It was hilarious after a while and we both laughed....the real problem was that I had my husband's car - so now I was the panicky one. He hated even one horse hair in his car (WHAT was I thinking???) . Fortunately there turned out to be old newspapers in his trunk. I papered the car, and he was none the wiser. My son and I still talk about that day and laugh. I truly hate dealing with mud, tho.

[valentine1]

Flanders and Swan, two English entertainers. At the Drop of a Hat was one of their most popular shows. Probably 50s, 60s.

Have Some Madeira, MDear
It's Very Much Nicer Than Beer
...

[Laurie@CBF]

I don't know how we are going to survive the next 4 months http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif Somebody please give me a pep talk. Need some cute foal pics or stories to keep me going.

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Shorting My Fuse. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Out To The Driveway, We'll Fall And Float Away In The Glorious Deluge!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[Norsire]

I was just thinking about you as I was out feeding in this lovely, wonderful, wet and cold rain tonight. If, this is the beginnig of 2003, I think I would like to skip right on over to 2004!!! This Fregin SUCKS!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
http://www.norsire.com
Realtor RE/MAX Renaissance, Million Dollar Club

[Weatherford]

You guys don't KNOW about mud til you've been here - I don't think it EVER dries up, either! That's why Irish horses are SO good in the rain and slop, and really hate (or perhaps they actually LOVE, I'm not sure) California!!!

I wear "PIG BOOTS" - they are the knee high TINGLEY pull on boots that you buy in the US farm stores - you can wear them over the shoes of your choice - or even your paddock boots or VOGELS http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif - since they are knee high, they can also be used to walk XC courses... And it is really hard to walk out of them - you notice before you come out all the way!!

I wear my Dansko clog under them, and most of the time leave the clogs in them when I come take them off in my kitchen (no mud room, unfortunately).

Great things to have!!

At least in Ireland, we don't have the hard freeze to go with the mud!

It's OUT! Linda Allen's 101 Exercises for Jumping co-authored by MOI!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

[Norsire]

I could not live in Ireland....I would just kill myself!! I was thinking today, I don't know how people live in Oregan, England and Ireland...I know I couldn't. Why do you live there? A job? You are originally from the USA right? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
http://www.norsire.com
Realtor RE/MAX Renaissance, Million Dollar Club

[breezymeadow]

But did go out around three with my new trusty foxhound in tow to throw some hay for a late lunch. Everyone was warm & toasty, even with the major flood in half the barn aisle.

My yard - actually EVERYTHING - is a cross between chocolate soup & the LaBrea Tarpits. Can't wait until tomorrow morning when I get to turn all these lunatics out. Sigh. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

The electrical storm that came through around 4:00 was a nice touch. Happy New Year!

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[pintofoal]

http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif

Row Row Row your boat, forget the mud, get me some life boats! this place is under water A river runs though it... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[Priya]

Oh I feel for you all! We had our horses in for 3 days when the temps went into the pluses at the end of the year. Everything was wet, soggy and muddy outside!!! However thankfully last night a cold breeze came in, refroze the ground and my horsies got to go back outside http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif Yeah!

I was in the UK this summer and had glorious weather.....after a month there I was wondering if all the tales of overcast, rainy days was true. Other then the few days there was a flood alert and I just stayed at my flat....I actually enjoyed the weather there http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Gold

Coloured Horses....Oh My!
http://www.trinitybreeders.on.ca

[evelyn]

It must be muddy everywhere. Last week we got eight inches of snow, & now it's rained for two days. Walking down the hill to the barn, I slipped and created a mudslide. Nice way to break a new pair of jeans http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif. Slip... Slide, Slip... Slide, Sliding away!

Brick Run Farm, Home of Crusading Light

[Sonesta]

I'm just SO tired of mud. The smaller paddocks now look like feed lots! Will try the fabric if it EVER dries up enough to get in there with a gravel truck!

Oh, attached is a phto of my daughter and her friend a few years ago making the best of the mud (it was summertime and I tried to tell them there was probably a lot more than just mud mixed in there. I sent them to the wash rack afterwards).

Sonesta Farms (http://www.sonestafarms.com) Hanoverian, Knabstrupper & Arabian Sport Horses

"Find something you love & call it work."

[Norsire]

Snow, snow, snow, and more snow.
will turn to more mud,mud, mud and more mud!!!!
Man, I've had it and it is only the beginning of Jan!!!!! YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
http://www.norsire.com
Realtor RE/MAX Renaissance, Million Dollar Club

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like Them For Pickling My Gizzard. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Out To The Tack Room, We're Stuck There Till June With Glorious Blizzards!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

(Can you tell that I'm bored & disgusted out of my friggin' skull?????)

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[This message was edited by breezymeadow on Jan. 07, 2003 at 07:34 AM.]

[Norsire]

Breezymeadow, I was wondering what you would think of my little tune above!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
http://www.norsire.com
Realtor RE/MAX Renaissance, Million Dollar Club

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Making Me Old. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Out To The Snowdrifts, Where We'll Freeze Quite Stiff In Glorious Cold!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif


It's SIXTEEN DEGREES here this morning http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif Sledgehammering ice out of the water trough at 6 this morning was like working rockpiles on a road gang. I CAN'T WAIT until the summer when I can start whining about how HOT it is!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[breezymeadow]

For Letting Them Form Here I Feel Like A Putz. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Out To The Moonscape, We'll All Stand And Gape At Glorious Ruts!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[pintofoal]

OK I HAVE TO RANT http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif Forget the mud now we are living on the surface of the moon, the mud pits have frozen to sharp points, the horses can barely walk.

Everything is frozen http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif What may I ask is SOOOOOOOOOOOO difficult about knowing how to drain a hose??!!! I can not for the life of me seem to exsplain it to the barn helper--he just loves to freeze up my entire system, by leaving the full hose hooked to they hydrant. Now I just got back from a hellish dental visit and of course had to feed/water the horses. But watering is a little hard when its ICE, so it took me over an hour just to do the lower barn then I went to the mare barn WHAT A NIGHTMARE not only was everything again FROZEN but my barn guy has been filling the buckets and not de icing them so I have 50 pound solid blocks of ice in each bucket--go to break the ice out of the buckets and that takes about 10 mins each, then on the last bucket the darn thing bounces instead of the ice breaking, wacks me in the leg and smashes my foot http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif so now I have a goose egg on my leg and black toe nails and my whole side of my face is swollen and killing me (from my fun vist to the dentist) I don't know but the mud is looking pretty good right now http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

OK I feel a tad better getting that off my chest, now back out to struggle around getting the mares in....

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[Laurie@CBF]

Oh Liz - I feel for you! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif Everything is frozen at my place as well. We had to water the horses with buckets out of the sink - it took FOREVER!

At least my local tree guy dropped off two loads of wood chips - somthing to put over the frozen chunks of mud. That will be my project tomorrow - after everyone gets their morning "hot tea". I have one mare that waits by her tub for me to pour the blazing hot water in - it melts the ice and ends up slightly warm for her to drink.

This is going to be the longest winter http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif Not looking forward to foal watch in Feb. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

[Spot]

Ive gotta say that the cow carpet stuff Nikita put down is the best stuff going! Even when its soupy and goopy mud, the stuff is firm enough for all the horses to walk on and play on, and it doesnt bunch, nor does any of the mud come through the carpet or the screenings. Plus, when the freeze does come, it freezes flat.

What Nikita had left owner, my barn owner has bought and come spring, our paddocks will been done as well.

They use it in Parks and Rec departments for heavily travelled areas, and they also say you can drive heavy equipment across it in the muckiest of weather and the carpet will dissipate its weight across its entire surface.

Cow farmers have used it the most, around their feed and water areas with the heaviest traffic, to keep the areas dry and habitable for humans and cows!

It is also the cheapest, by far, of any product we could find, so it really is a win/win situation!

"Spot"

[Norsire]

Boy, I'm so glad I invested in automatic waters in every single stall and paddock on my place. I have 17 of them!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif I forget that horses actually drink water! I do have one paddock that needs the heater replaced, so I am carrying a bucket out several times a day for Billionair. Luckily it is only one horse in the paddock, so I just rotate one bucket, let the other thaw in the tack room and then switch buckets. I do remember the days of beating ice out, running electrical cords and buying heaters every single year...they only seem to last a year and then they are burn out and done. The ruts are unbelievable!!! I have two mares with swollen ankles from walking across the ruts. And of course they are the two due the beginning of March, so they are huge as houses right now. I feel so bad for them, with those HUGE bellies going across the ruts.
My rant for the night is I just got back from showing homes to a new client who insisted on seeing 2 houses tonight in the dam snow. He says, well it is not snowing here...well, I"m an hour away and it was snowing when I left at 5:30 to meet him. By the time I got home, I passed two wrecks on RT 9, the road I live off of. But, I am thankful, I made it home with no problems. Lizard, hope your swollen face is feeling better tomorrow.

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
http://www.norsire.com
Realtor RE/MAX Renaissance, Million Dollar Club

[arnika]

I don't know how I managed to miss this thread until now! I remember the days of below freezing weather before we moved to Fl. and they're definitely NOT fun. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

Liz, you have my sympathy and I hope you're feeling better tomorrow.

Norsire, I feel for your two mares as well, hopefully you'll have a thaw soon.

Breezymeadow I bet you didn't realize just how fun it was to read all your songs at one sitting! I was laughing so hard I woke up my toddler http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif. Thank you for the happy thoughts as I'm heading to bed.

[breezymeadow]

Liz, You Poor Thing!!!

You need a member title/signature line like someone else on the BB does (I can't remember who it is): "Drain the hose or I'll have to kill you." Even Mr. Breezymeadow (the farm "Gunga Din") got a laugh over that one.

I am sitting here finishing up my coffee & getting ready to brave the elements & feed/water the gang here, & from what I'm hearing on the radio re: single-digit temps & from what I can see out the window, it is NOT going to be pretty. Me bundled up in my "Randy/Christmas Story" snow gear sledgehammering ice out of the buckets & troughs, dragging the stupid hose into the basement & trying to hook up the hot water, testy horses just DIEING to go out & injure themselves, lunar moonscape now evilly hidden under slippery pristine white. . . . God this is fun!

Let's be careful out there!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[pintofoal]

Thanks guys am feeling a bit better this AM. Just had a "talk" with the barn guy AGAIN about this water or should I say ice problem--hope he got it, we will see. I'm off to hatchet my water trough too.

Now not that I am as good as breezymeadow (and am stealing her phrasing) but here is my little poem:

frozen buckets, frozen hoses, Glorious frozen everything. . . .

Nothing Quite Like It For smashing my fingers and toes all over a hose. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Down To The faucet, We'll cuss There and muss there until we http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif proclaim to kill everyone who can not drain because it puts us in pain.

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[breezymeadow]

Liz,

You'd make a TERRIFIC coffehouse beatnik! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[square halt]

Oh, great!! Just saw the forecast for this week. 18, 14, 10, 12, degrees for the high temperature! I am not sure my weanlings can stand another week of this frigid weather! They must think this is a horrible place to be, their little noses covered with frost in the AM. Thank heavens for the Nelson Waterers!

[Spot]

Square Halt - quit complaining!

Our temps of 14, 18 and 12 all have minuses in front of them.

Your temps would be downright balmy and sun tan weather in my eyes! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

"Spot"

[square halt]

So true! Temps are relative! I was in Florida recently, and they were screaming on the news to bring in your pets and livestock! The temps were going to be 40 degrees! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif At 40 degrees, the barn help and I were running around without our coats in Pennsylvania!

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Making Me Cathartic. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Out To The Tundra, We'll Freeze And Wonder At The Glorious Arctic!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[JackieBlue]

Everything's frozen, nothing will thaw,
In order to graze the horses must paw
and stamp and tear up the ground.
A decent-looking field can scarcely be found.
While waiting for Spring and its luscious green grass,
This arctic winter really chaps my...

Well, people were waxing poetic and it just looked like fun! I had to add my 2 cents.

[Norsire]

All I can say is,@#$#$%#&%*%R^!!! Even my heated waters are freezing up. I'm not use to thawing hoses and setting up water troffs!!! Friday, can't come soon enough for me!! It will be in the 30s!!!! WOW!!!!!!

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
http://www.norsire.com
Realtor RE/MAX Renaissance, Million Dollar Club

[Fairview Horse Center]

Ahhhhh, but we have to get thru those bitter winds coming our way tomorrow. I know you Canadians are laughing at us (ok, we are wimps and proud of it http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif ) But I really have had enough of this.

One of my boarders keeps being nice and rolling up the hose, but the drips left in the loops keep going to the bottom of the loop and freezing little plugs.

Every time my newly turned out colt with the barely healed broken fetlock encounters a new challenge (mud, show, ice, frozen cups) I just hold my breath.

I wanna take a vote. I vote we fast forward to April...maybe May

Darlyn
http://www.fairviewhorsecenter.com

Are We Having Fun Yet?

[spirit]

Just a little weather information for those of you worried about the COLD. It was -41 (that's the same in Farenheit and Celcius) in Edmonton Alberta this morning. Of course we can chuckle at our friends in Edmonton; we're quite warm here in Calgary, it's only -32!

NOW it's time to bring the youngster's in at night!

[Janet]

"The Hippoptamus Song" is the actual title of "Mud, mud glorious mud".

And I am old enough that I actually heard Flanders and Swann sing it in concert.

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Chasing Me From Suburbia. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Down To The Tropics, Where Sunburn's The Topic, Not Glorious Hypothermia!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif



(Twelve degrees here this morning with a supposed wind chill temp of ZERO. Couldn't even sledgehammer out the stupid trough & see a lot of hot water lugging in my immediate future today http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif)

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Inducing Pain. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Out To The Ice Rink, We'll Need A Stiff Drink For Glorious Freezing Rain!!


Does this weather ever end??? What happened to the weather prediction the day before yesterday - i.e. "sunny with temps in the mid to high 40's"??? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[jbonifas]

Sorry but it will be in the low 60's toady and 70 Saturday and 75 on Sunday. The only bad about this is the possiblilty of tornados when the cool front comes through the first of next week. This also doesn't help the West Nile problem that we have or the ticks. Enjoy your bug free cold but I will think about ya'll when I'm feeding in short this week-end. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_cool.gif

[breezymeadow]

Start looking over your shoulder Jbonifas - I'm coming after you, & it won't be pretty. . . . http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[jbonifas]

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[JB]

Oh God it's back... 3" of snow on ground that had finally gotten decent to ride on. Turned into 1/2" of slick mud on top of frozen ground. Turned into frozen mud. Then it rained for 3 days. Nearly got my duck boots sucked off again today http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

[pintofoal]

http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif Finally a good day in VA not freezing, not raining, not too bad---unless you are a white horse http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[breezymeadow]

Exactly Liz! All my horses are "chocolatized"!

I was going to add another little ditty, but couldn't find anything to rhyme with: Greasy-Mud-Over-Frozen-Ground, Greazy-Mud-Over-Frozen-Ground, Glorious Greasy-Mud-Over-Frozen-Ground. . . . http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[JB]

Liz, I have always wanted one of those mudpinto horses, that's so cool to see that you are raising them too! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Breezy, I'm so disappointed, I wanted a "Greasy-Mud-Over-Frozen-Ground" ditty!

[Spot]

well - today the mud isnt there any more, with the high winds, we kept looking for Dorothy and Toto to fly by!
And we are fitting everyone for ice skates and teaching them the basics of staying balanced on blades!
The mud and snow has turned to sheer ice, so the horses will have their choice of skating on the clear ice or the brown ice.

Sigh ... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

I KNOW it could be worse. I know we could be on the east coast where they have been buried under 10-15 feet of snow and have high winds and everything, but it still isnt fair that those California people keeping making those nasty warm weather jokes with us ...

"Spot"

[JB]

Spot, shall we shoot them? Oh, wait, it was 67 and sunny here yesterday, perhaps I should be quiet... http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

Ok, it's down to 28 tonight and only 47 tomorrow, Spring really isn't here.

Now, given the torrential downpour we had this morning, where are my duck boots... http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[breezymeadow]

Nothing Quite Like It For Chapping My Skin. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Out To The Front Gate. . . . Spring Will Just Have To Wait With Glorious Wind!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif



If I have to go out & chase down those trash cans one more friggin' time. . . . .

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[Daydream Believer]

The forecast for our area is rain from Friday afternoon through Monday. I am so sick of mud! I have that awful red clay mud too. I guess I'll have to keep everyone in at night and have 4 stalls to clean as well and a weekend of indoor activities to look forward to.

I don't know how I'll ever get ready for the spring shows if I can't ever ride! UGH!

"Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal" Winston Churchill
"No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle..." Winston Churchill

[JB]

Up to the eyeballs in mud again over the last weekend, FINALLY starting to dry out thanks to 35mph winds for about 3 days http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif and what do we have in store for us? Friday through Monday is supposed to be something like rain, rain hard, rain and sleet, sleet, rain and snow, snow, and rain some more. Won't THAT be fun? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

[Spot]

Kwitchercomplainin ...
http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gifwe have snow, ice, high winds AND cold temps!
I'd give anything for some nice mud right now ...

"Spot"

[Fairview Horse Center]

Well, there is mud, and then there is Mud, and then there is MUD. We have been lucky enough to have all 3 kinds in the last 24 hours.

The kind I hate the most, is the 9" deep mud that freezes just enough on top to "almost" support the whole horse's body weight as long as they don't breathe. Then with out warning, it begins to collapse at every step like a frozen ice pond. When turning out, they panic, spin, and launch themselves back over top of you to get back out of the field. Good luck trying to convince them to go back out.

I have been sick of this Winter since the middle of November.

Darlyn
http://www.fairviewhorsecenter.com

Are We Having Fun Yet?

[Spot]

FairviewHorsecentre - you kinda have a point there ... http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

"Spot"

[aurum]

With all that freezing wouldn't the West Nile Virus being killed now?

http://www.gestuet-falkenhorst.de
Top class and exceptional colored German Warmblood Sporthorses

[Daydream Believer]

Speaking of insects and diseases, would you believe I pulled a tick off of one of my dogs the other day? It had just gone down to 10 F a week before but we had warmed up for a day or so which I guess brought out the bugs. It was a full grown brown dog tick. I wouldn't count on this winter killing mosquitos and WNV.

"Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal" Winston Churchill
"No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle..." Winston Churchill

[JB]

Nope, this winter has not been cold enough for long enough to kill a good many of the bugs http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif We haven't had one of those winters in a long long time. Besides, with WNV, it's in the birds (crows mostly around here) and as soon as the Skeeters come out again, they'll start biting the birds and we'll start all over http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Not sure anyone really wants this mud. Horses walk and every 3rd leg that goes down shoots 2' in some direction whether that's the direction the leg is really intended to go. They are up to their ankles in mud, and heaven forbid boss hoss tries to make bottom of the pecking order (botpo) move - boss hoss gets really pissed that botpo doesn't move fast enough, botpo panics because he CAN'T move fast enough, so botpo either gets nailed, or botpo leaves shoes behind never to be seen again, or poor botpo strains tendons. Or all 3 http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Sometimes I really do envy those up North with frozen ground and snow cover :\

[HaltAtX]

We all Kinda laughed here at our farm when we woke up and watched the weekend forecast:

Snow Friday, Then the report goes on to say, no one knows when it will stop, they predict monday, and that it will continue on and on non stop from friday Am till monday PM or "whenever"
Estimated 2+ feet!!!

&lt;sits here thursday evening&gt; We will see! I am PRAYING we don't get it as the winter and cold and gloom affects my health as I bet it does some others!!!

The almanac says we are suppose to get a blizzrd this year...

Hmph http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_redface.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

A Sport Horse breeder Of Color.

[JB]

CMBF - are you SERIOUS??!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif They are still saying rain and sleet/freezing rain/wet snow for the next 4 days, but they don't really know what track it's going to take so we could get "significant" accumulation here as well http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Daydream Believer]

What! It may come here too! I had it...I'm moving to Florida or at least back to Southern Pines where there's no mud since it's as sandy as a beach there. Major drag this weather and this winter in general.

I am NOT looking forward to this weekend. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

"Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal" Winston Churchill
"No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle..." Winston Churchill

[HaltAtX]

Yep I'm serious!

Now they are saying it's a hit or miss... either we get the snow storm and ALL of it, or we miss and get none.... and they still have NO clue which way it's looking! I will be posting tomorrow night if we get snow!

A Sport Horse breeder Of Color.

[pintofoal]

Snow, snow, Glorious snow. . . .
Snow, snow, Glorious snow. . . .
Snow, snow, Glorious snow. . . .
Snow, snow, Glorious snow. . . .
Snow, snow, Glorious snow. . . .
Snow, snow, Glorious snow. . . .
http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Nothing Quite Like It For trapping us in. . . . So Follow Me, Follow, Out To The plow. . . . they say its not stopping it's gona be whoppin With Glorious snow!!

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[breezymeadow]

I'll be expecting a royalty check in the mail, Liz. . .. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[Norsire]

Here we go again!!!! But, atleast this storm will have enough snow, so we can go out on the snow mobile!!! And some serious sleding. Hum, how old am I? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

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[Norsire]

OMG!!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif We have 12 inches as of 8:00 AM this morning and are expecting another 24 inches before it is all over! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif The next few days is going to be HELL taking care of 19 horses. I had a horse transport call me last night and leave a message that they would be here today at 3;00 to pick up a horse...YEAH RIGHT! I told them of the storm and they said, oh we deal with alot more snow in MT and out west...well who wants to bet they won't be here?

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
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[breezymeadow]

I am far too disgusted to even sing this morning. . . . http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[SoEasy]

When I went to bed at 11 last night, the weather guessers said "snow beginning in mid afternoon" ...... it has, of course, been snowing since 7am, or maybe before. NOW the 'your local weather page' says 'light snow' til midafternoon, THEN it changes to 'snow' for the forseeable (sp?) future. If what is happening out there is 'light snow' and it gets worse, this part of SE Pennsylvania is in trouble!!! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif

[BelladonnaLily]

I think I'd be happy for all that snow...we only have about 6 or 7 inches here...but it's been sleeting sideways NONSTOP since last night...the wind is horrible...

I was ALMOST glad for everything to be frozen since we have about 3 foot of that good ol' Va red mud at our place, but our pipes at the barn are frozen also. Oh the joy of hauling buckets on the back of the pickup... http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

[Daydream Believer]

North Carolina checking in. We have about 1-2 inches of sleet on the ground and it's coming down heavy. Lot's of wind gusts and about an 1/4 inch of ice on the trees from the earlier freezing rain. If we still have power in the morning, I will be surprised and very happy. Isn't this fun?

"Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal" Winston Churchill
"No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle..." Winston Churchill

[JB]

*sigh* it's getting you too DDB? Ick. However, on the bright side, and am VERY thankful it hasn't been freezing rain all day. I'll take the sleet over that any time. The wind sucks - those ice pellets hitting ears HURTS! Oh Please Dear Lord, just let our logs for our house still be covered in plastic *prays feverently*

[Norsire]

Well, as of 6:30 PM I measured 18" and still comin down! It seemed like sleet/snow at that time...and we are only getting to the "HEAVY" snow tonight after midnight...yeah right. If, that is the case we will have 4 feet!

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[breezymeadow]

After feeding, haying, & hose-struggling (mostly by Mr. Breezymeadow, who is ready to divorce me), I am mere steps away from hanging myself from the nearest shower curtain rod. . . . http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[Rockin']

MUD AND RAISING HOGS ,I know what y'all mean !!!

[Laurie@CBF]

I am with you - breezy meadow. It is 1AM and I just finished evening chores http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif. The last hour I was definately asking myself - and why do I do this? I have my first mare due to foal on Wed. I am giving her a "stern" talking to that she had better keeps her legs crossed for quite sometime (until I recover...).

The drifting snow is making things REALLY tough http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif.

Lots more to come tomorrow (uh - I guess today) for us http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

[breezymeadow]

Definitely!! I'm so tired now I can't fall asleep. And the friggin' sleet banging relentlessly against the windows isn't helping. Lord knows what it will be like tomorrow!! Or - forgive me - later on today. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[pintofoal]

Snow, snow, Glorious snow. . . .
Snow, snow, Glorious snow. . . .

OK Breezymeadow don't kill me! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif

Here's a photo essay of "the snow" at silverwood

First photos: Sunnyboy and the snow--he wants to know if there is anything to eat in there...

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[pintofoal]

Sunnyboy confirms that he hates me and is plotting his revenge...

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[pintofoal]

Hope we don't need to take the truck and trailer anywhere

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[pintofoal]

Good mare's finally in their shed

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[Spot]

I see bits of hay poking through - you're not making poor Sunny dig for his breakfast, are you?!

That poor pony! (and dont tell us its one of your 17hh horses stuck in there!)

"Spot"

[pintofoal]

The bank barn

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[pintofoal]

The barn entry

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[pintofoal]

I think my mother inlaw is staying awhile

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[pintofoal]

girls venture out

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[pintofoal]

and last but not lest, the snow does make home sweet home picturesque

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[Norsire]

OMG! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif This morning I looked out my kitchen window at my fish pond with a water fall that was working last night...this morning, there was no pond in site or a waterfall. I know my fish need the water moving for oxygen so I ran out and started digging at my pond and under the 4 feet of snow (como of snow fall and snow drifting off the barn in the corner) there was the waterfall still running under all the snow. I just dug enough so there is oxygen getting to the water fall. I hope my fishies are OK. The horses seem fine this morning. When I put Gold Card, out he runs, rears up and bounces around like a little kid in snow. I'd say from his expressions, he loves going out in it after being in last night. Billionair seems less thrilled about the ideal of going out for the day! I wish I knew how to pull the photos off my camera to post some. The horses had such long ice sickles last night, that as they walked, they clanked together and made beautiful music. This morning all the ici slickles are gone now. None of them are shaking or seem unhappy in anyway. I think we are the whimps here and they are fine. I know Spot and Nikita are laughing at us, they deal with this all winter long. Spot, do you guys get like 2 feet at a time or is it small 6 inch storms that just pile up over time? I think our problem is it all comes at once. We have a major interstate 81 blocked with 100 plus cars since last night and the people are still trapped there. They had to finally call the news in Wash, DC to get any attention. The state police claim no one out of 100 cars called.....I don't think so!!! They are just now checking on the people and sending the police and rescue there after 12 hours and the news calling and requesting help for the people. Plus, I just heard about a barn that collapsed with horses in it in Poolesville, MD. They have rescue people there now. They reported the horses were fine, just trapped and they need to cut them out. That must be a mess.

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
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[JB]

Liz, omg, that pony!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif You'd better watch your back! He'll come sneakin' up on you as soon as he can sneak! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Norsire - hope the fishies are ok too! I have decided I'd MUCH rather have 1" of ice pellets frozen everywhere than even 1' of snow, let alone 2' or 3'!

[Daydream Believer]

I'm glad to hear you folks up there in the worst of this snow are doing OK. Barns collapsing are no joke. In the winter of 98-99 in Northern New York, (when I lived there) we had some 30 barns go down due to a series of exceptionally heavy snowfalls in January. Like 5-6 feet I think it was. Mostly they were the newer dairy barns but they lost a few horse barns too. We helped shovel the roof off where our horses were boarded. If you have a metal roof, you can drag a hose up there and run the water from the peak and wet just the bottom layer and hopefully it will slide off. This worked for a friend up in NY that winter. Be careful not to make it all wet or you could collapse the roof with the additional weight.

Liz, If the snow gets much higher, your horses are just going to walk over the tops of the fences. Nice pics especially the pony. Very cute!

JB, I can't believe we still have power this morning after the December storm I had little hope. We have about 2-3 inches of sleet and it's frozen to a hard crust. I did put the horses out and they are doing OK on it. I hope your logs did OK last night. I am not looking forward to my 40 minute commute to RTP in the morning to go to work. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif That should be interesting.

"Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal" Winston Churchill
"No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle..." Winston Churchill

[Spot]

We are actually in a decent area of our province. We are on the "lee" side of the lake which translates to less snow (yeah!).
North and east of us (where Freehold is) and west (where GGold and Quinn are) and even a bit to the west of us where Fred is, they get it a lot worse than we do.
We are in the soft fruit zone, where peaches, plums and grapes are grown. The climate is more temperate, spring comes 2 weeks earlier than in the rest of the province and fall 2 weeks later.

Buffalo, NYK (which is only about 40-50 minutes east of us) is on the WRONG side of the lake! Those poor buggers will get whacked with *foots* of snow on a regular basis!

Where we had our farm before, we were DEFINATELY in the wrong area! Waist deep snow getting to and from the barn - not nice at all!

Good luck everyone and hope your fishies are okay too Norsire!

"Spot"

[Norsire]

I have now managed to dig a hole down and find a section of the pond and drop a water troff heater down in there...I hope in a few more hours, I will be able to see my fish again and see if they are moving around down at the bottom. I have some photos I have to get developed of my german shepherd Nico with his head down so deep in the snow, all you see is the tips of his ears...that should be a good one. I will let you know when I can see the fish again. Liz/Pintofoal how are your fishies, can you see them? Sonnyboy looks thrilled about his photo shoot just outside the barn doors. Let me know when the sled path on your hill is ready...not that I could even get there now. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
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Realtor RE/MAX Renaissance, Million Dollar Club

[HaltAtX]

Reporting here from MD...All of MD in state of Emergency, no vehicles allowed on the roads ACK!

2 feet and 6 in of snow and going... Stopped for now... supposively calling for 6 more by tonight....

ANd I thought Spring WAS COMING! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

A Sport Horse breeder Of Color.

[breezymeadow]

Sorry folks - I am completely out of snappy tunes http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif.

Mother Nature has mercilessly beaten me into submission.

Stalls need stripping - AGAIN! This is murder. I'm working like a longshoreman (& so someone tell me WHY I still have a build like a Fisher-Price Weeble???? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif)

Will try to get horses out today, but I am by my lonesome & they are nutty as fruitcakes. If you don't see anymore posts from me for the rest of the day, send over the National Guard (or a St. Bernard with some very good brandy. . . .)

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer- upper".

[JB]

98,000 people still without power and will be until Monday in all liklihood (thankfully we still have power), 1.5" if ice coating everything, taking down more branches and trees, blocking people in driveways and out of streets, wading through the immensely deep slop to clean stalls (thank goodness I still can, even if I have to load the wheelbarrow only 1/2 full and pull it backwards through the mud) and looking forward to 60 degrees on Sunday, just in time for more rain next week http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

[Norsire]

I knew this tread would pop up again, sooner or later!! The never ending weather. I hope it stays cold for a while!!! Once this snow melts, I'm back to raising hoggs and not horses. The mud is going to be unreal after all this snow melts off. I am going to own stock in gravel and gravel dust after the melt is down with my driveway and walk ways on the farm!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
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Realtor RE/MAX Renaissance, Million Dollar Club

[talloaks]

I'm with you Norsire!!! I had thought about getting some gravel and stone dust in earlier during one of the freezes but then the snows came, and came and came again!!so there is no chance to do anything but look at the gravel that has been scooped up into the snowpiles!! We will need gravel everywhere on the driveways and stonedust on the pathways!!! I wonder what spring flowers look like??? I wonder if my daffodils will have survived under the huge snowpile?? This time last year the early bulbs were blooming and the snowdrops were finished!! This too will end and then we will complain its TOO HOT!! I wonder if we will have spring or go right into summer??? http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

[Silly Mommy]

Well, when I lived in the Adirondacks...

(Yes, that is Mandarin, and no he never escaped!)

Proud member of the Sunnieflax Clique, IDAC Clique http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
"Poster formerly known as SQW"

[Norsire]

OMG, Silly Mommy!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif I guess if he wanted to, all he had to do was step right over!!! Now, that is some snow, and packed tight to hold a horse!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Home to the stallions Zillionair, Billionair, Issue of Gold, Gold Card, and Pure White Gold.
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Realtor RE/MAX Renaissance, Million Dollar Club

[Silly Mommy]

Yeah,

He was always very conscious of any footing, and would only stay on his pre-packed trails. At one point, you couldn't see the fence at all, but he still only stayed on his trails to the trough and whatnot. That pic was taken from the backdoor of my garage - his paddock opened from his private barn, and the others' barn was off to the left a bit - all stalls opened out and were left open unless we had bad winds. That way, shoveling "could" be done when it was "convenient" (constantly).

Proud member of the Sunnieflax Clique, IDAC Clique http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
"Poster formerly known as SQW"

[Fairview Horse Center]

Snow, Glorious Snow??? http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

Just when I was begining to think it was safe to go back outside. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif

...just couldn't go out like a lamb could ya

Darlyn
http://www.fairviewhorsecenter.com

Are We Having Fun Yet?

[TatteredDaydreamer]

Here here Fairview! I woke up this morning, after days of rain, to find it SNOWING again! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif Just when I thought it was safe to start pulling out the spring/summer clothes! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Lindsey and Endeavor

"And my good dreams? They all come with a velvet muzzle and four legs. All my good dreams are about horses.--In Colt Blood

[breezymeadow]

There are no words to express how I feel about today's weather. . . . http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer-upper".

[near miss]

When I got up to feed at 6:00 am it was pouring down rain, now it is snowing buckets! Just when things are really drying out and all the mud divits are leveling out too!! It was almost 80 degree's here all week and now this!! AAAHHH! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

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[JB]

It was 79 sweaty degrees here yesterday. This morning we woke up to POURING rain and SNOW!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif more dragging the wheelbarrow backwards through the mud http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

[pintofoal]

Now we are getting a sunny snow blizzard http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif it sunny out but the snow is comng down hard! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[Fairview Horse Center]

.... http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_confused.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif

note the date on the start of this thread

Darlyn
http://www.fairviewhorsecenter.com

Are We Having Fun Yet?

[breezymeadow]

And we're STILL knee-deep in MUD. I'm so disgusted I can't even grunt out my little ditties. . . . http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer-upper".

[JB]

Yep, Fairview, amazing isn't it http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif Mud mud mud mud mudmudmud

[near miss]

Here we go again! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif I hear it may stop by Sat, but then ofcourse start again on Monday! Of cousrse this summer we will probably be begging for this rain again! So much for happy medians!

www.equinewellnessmassage.com (http://www.equinewellnessmassage.com)

[breezymeadow]

NO WAY!!!!! The very first time I hear anyone say the friggin' word "drought", I will go "postal". . .. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer-upper".

[Laurie@CBF]

Will this rain ever end???

I just saw the movie "Adaptation". I feel like I am living in the swamp scene - and CAN'T GET OUT http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif. The most prolific thing on my farm is the mosquitos.... I don't care if it rains every weekend - just hoping that we get four days in a row of sushine so the farmers can cut some hay.

Aren't we due for a break soon?

[pintofoal]

Isn't it the pits!!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif I want to throw a tantrum, just like my daughter when she was 4--I know it will not do any good but sometimes a good old fashion tanturm makes you feel better http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

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Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[TatteredDaydreamer]

It's not much better here in PA. As soon as the sun comes out, the next day it's pouring. I'm so sick of this weather! It makes me want to eat and sleep and we all know I don't need any extra calories!http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif When will summer arive?! I go to the beach in two weeks and can only hope for warm weather. Blah.http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

Lindz & Endeavor

"And my good dreams? They all come with a velvet muzzle and four legs. All my good dreams are about horses.--In Colt Blood

[sid]

I have been laughing (and agonizing!) at this thread since last winter.

My farm stinks! I've never had a stinky farm. It's always been pristine and I love it that way.

But, man, this mud, rain, more mud, on top of all the manure left over from the winter out in the pastures is just disgusting.

Has anyone been able to chain-drag their fields since last November??? I've been trying to have my older fencing replaced since last year to no avail. It will have probably fallen down by the time they can get to it.

The farm feels like it's been wearing dirty underwear!

But the flowers in the garden look just gorgeous, so I stare at it every day and try not to look "out yonder".

Susan Doner, Little Bull Run Farm. Standing Boleem, Argosy and King's Camelot. www.littlebullrun.com (http://www.littlebullrun.com)

[square halt]

I was just thinking the same thing! Our fields look like #$%/. We have a lot of steep hills, and cannot use the equipment on them when it is so wet and muddy. Even the horses look depressed about the weather.

[breezymeadow]

Good Lord - what a morning. It's windy & raining buckets - BUCKETS I TELL YOU!!!

My barn aisle is now halfway underwater. Tried to construct some sort of straw/mud "berm" to no avail. Stalls are damp, dark, & revolting, but at least I was able to put down a nice dry fresh new bale in the mare/foal stall. Will have to wait until a lull in the wet so I can throw someone outside (no one will go out now), & try to get stalls somewhat presentable.

My mind is going, going, going, gone. . . . http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer-upper".

[Norsire]

Like I said, when I started this thread last FALL, I am raising hogs and not horses anymore. My individual feed pens along my fence, smell just like a hog lot. I have 16x16 pens with gates on them so the horses can go in and eat along the fence without the old switch around routine and feed them all seperately without bring them in. And let me tell you when you drive up my driveway right next to them, you would swear you were entering a hog farm not a horse farm. This is just unbelievable! The farmers are going nuts with NO hay cut and it is now JUNE 20th!!! YIKES!! We are going to be paying through the nose for hay this year. I've had people beg me to sell them a few bales and I just can't as I have enought to get me, until we can cut more hay this year. This SUCKSSSS the big one! I am listening to the rain, just beat down on the skylights now. Oh, well I must go out in it to my office anyway.

My neigbhor has on her answering machine, Eric and I are out building an arch, only the very best fine specimens need apply for a spot on our arch!!! LOL! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

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[Fairview Horse Center]

I KNEW IT. AOL News is reporting Washingtonians have had 40 of the last 50 days with rain, and 19 of the last 24 weekends. So we have the 40 days part. Guess that is about 1/2 way, just 40 nights to go and Northern Virginia will be totally under water http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

I vote we pack up and move the whole state to the desert.

Darlyn
http://www.fairviewhorsecenter.com

Are We Having Fun Yet?

[ThirdCharm]

I desperately want to redo my back fields, which were swamps all winter and now I can see grass about a foot and a half high coming up (which I want) but first I needed to pulverize the whole field (it is full of ruts) so all that grass is going to get wasted.
M
My horses are only getting out for a couple hours/day in our two front pastures, when it's not actively raining.... thank god we redid them last October before this started!

I am SOOOO glad I signed that year-long contract for guaranteed alfalfa delivery at $240/ton. It is starting to feel cheap, NOBODY is getting in hay this spring!

Jennifer

[Ladybug Hill]

These are the days that truly test our love of horses. I could have never gotten through the winter, if I had known the summer would be like this. I have worn out multiple pairs of boots. Tired of brown wet socks!!

In addition, I was so sick for so much of the winter (unusual for me). Dragging hay on a tarp uphill through 2 feet of snow with a temperature of 102 is certainly a challenge. Now, this spring I am pregnant and starting to feel the easy fatigue and added bulk of my midsection. Trudging through the mud is disgusting and difficult.

Now I have 3 horses with swollen legs, presumably with fungal or bacterial irritation. I have been dipping and soaking feet when the horses come in. Started two on antibiotics.

The only thing that has kept me sane is my saint of a husband. He doesn't even really know anything about horses, but he is always willing to help. He offers to carry grain up to the one horse that stays on pasture, just so I don't have to trudge up that long hill. He also takes out my wheelbarrows while I clean stalls. THANK you out there to all you non horsey husbands that are willing to help!

Chris

Ladybug Hill--Hunters and Ponies
Specializing in Palomino TBs

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[breezymeadow]

Yes - kudos to all of our non-horsey, but helpful husbands. Mine was out there this morning shoveling mud away from the doorways & trying to coax our 2-year old colt that yes, he really could make it thru the muck out to the grassy field. Hubby also does the wheelbarrow dumps for me & even has his very own pitchfork for helping with stalls. Am not even pregnant - just physically & mentally challenged! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

As I look out the window here, I see that it is raining AGAIN, so guess while the 2-year old is out, will play musical stalls with the others so that I can do stalls. My QH will go out in the mud/rain, if absolutely forced, buy my 2-year old filly just stands her ground - to the point of almost sitting down dog-like - rather than go out in inclement footing/weather. What a prima donna.

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer-upper".

[Laurie@CBF]

http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/no.gif well my hoglets are ready to get weaned http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif! Unfortunately they weren't born with webbed feet. The few horses that have shoes are losing them left and right. Every day I keep thinking that - this has got to end.... I am getting very worried that we are going to have a "repeat" winter.

Hope everyone on the east coast is getting "shored up".

Have to send my Devon entry in this week - now I KNOW it will be raining that week http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/cry.gif Note to self - stock up on extra pairs of athletic socks, khakis and running shoes....

[near miss]

I think last year was the first time it did not rain for most of DAD! The ground here has never really dried out, got 2 inches rain last night from storms! Figures the one year I dont have a horse I am eventing who needs to do lots of conditioning, hills, gallops, that the ground is soft. Usually in the summer here, with the red clay, the ground is like concrete. So what ever happened to a happy medium!! And Lord please dont let this winter be like last year!!! I dont think I can stand it!!!

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[Norsire]

Do you guys realized I started this tread last Nov.2002!!!! And it is still raining non stop. Hay making has been a real challange this year. Lots of hay once you could cut it and alot of ruined hay from the dam rain. As one guy put it, July this year was 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cutting all in one cutting!! We have had down pours the last 3 nights in a row. I have filled in my feed pens with new dirt and it is now disappearing. If, this winter is like last year we are domed!!! I should start building an arck and load up! The grass has been very plentyful this year, so hay feeding should start much later this year...that is the only good thing. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

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[Fairview Horse Center]

Near Miss - you must not have been there the afternoon of IBC day (see attached http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif)

The hay I am finding is so stalky the horses won't eat it. And a lot of it the farmers tried to make, didn't cure properly, and is dusty - or it molded. and the prices are still high http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif

Darlyn
http://www.fairviewhorsecenter.com

Are We Having Fun Yet?

[Norsire]

The problem you are describing Fairview is the hay on top is too dry and over done, but the lush green grass is below and you are baling old over cured hay with the lush ready new hay, that is why we are calling it 1,2 and 3 in one cutting and it is a mess.

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[near miss]

Yes Fariview you are right, I was not there last year, only heard that it was nice (warm and not raining most days) for the majority of the week, considering how it usually rains all week long and is cold usually. Last year I went was '01 and it was very cold! Doesnt look like I will make it this year either, starting to have withdrawl symptoms, but I may be stuck at home in the mud any way!

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[Norsire]

Well, I thought I would drag this old thread out again. It has now been a year since all this darn rain started after the long drought last summer. Now, Isabel...dam her!!! Go away!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif Now, I guess we will all be raising fish and not horses. I hope everyone weathers throught this storm with minimal damage to property and that all our horses weather this storm as well. I've battened down all the hatches and I'm now a sitting duck just waiting for it come. I guess, better to be a duck right now with all the rain coming... http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

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[breezymeadow]

nothing quite like it for making you insane.
So follow me, follow, out with the duct tape. . . . we'll be just wind-bait for the glorious hurricane. . . .

(I am way, way past insane here. . . . http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif)

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer-upper".

[Norsire]

Breezymeadow, I was hoping you would come up with one of your tunes to get us through this Hurricane Isabel. How is everyone doing? We are just fine so far. I lost power, just as I walked in from feeding the hogs/fish, and was about to step into the shower...bam there goes the lights and the bad part of the storm is not even here yet. We are expecting the worst b/w 10:00 PM and 2:00 AM...so may not be on in the morning due to lack of power. Hope everyone has a smooth night....Breezymeadow, please check back with us in the morning......with a tune inspired from the night!! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

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[breezymeadow]

I've been working with a chainsaw, just to pass the time away. . . .
Can't you hear the generators going, rise up so early in the morn. . . .
Can't you hear your husband shouting "Why the blasted heck do we have all these horses anyway!!!!. . . . . ."

(Think "I've Been Working On The Railroad", but with a trick ending. . . . . http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif)

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer-upper".

[Norsire]

Last night we got more rain, from the little old rain storm than we did from Isabel. In Leesburg they got 6.5 inches of rain. We got 4.5 inches of rain and Isabel only dropped 1.5 inches of rain. This weather is crazy. We have flooding today!!! Pintofoal, how is your creek???? I've been trying to get you by phone. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

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[Norsire]

http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/no.gif MUD, MUD, MUD, MUD for a @#$%^ year now!!! I ruined a pair of tennis shoes this morning putting the hogs in their feed lots to eat their breakfast!!!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif
Is it ever going to STOP?????? http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/no.gif

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[near miss]

I hate to even mention that I have only had a few days of a little bit of mud lately. Today it was 80 degrees here!!! Weather like this makes me kind of leary of what bad weather could be to come! We have only had a light frost twice so far, so I still have some pesky flies around. Tommorow night we are finally supposed to get a "real" frost. Figures it would get down in the twenties the night before I have my colt gelded. Cosidering he has never felt such cold temp's he may have those "parts" sucked up to keep warm and out of reach! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

Did any one break down and get that "ag fabric" stuff after all the mud this year? I am still toying with the idea.

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[Norsire]

I think, Dorthy blew in over night from Kansas!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif And they are suppose to get higher today, with trees and lines down I'm sure!!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif Well, I guess I better go find Toto and let the horses out. I guess the pregnant mares won't blow away with the extra weight, but not sure about the stallions,retirees, and the two yearlings. http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

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[Silly Mommy]

Yup,

Didn't put em out first thing this am, came in and checked the weather - HIGH WINDS UNTIL THIS EVENING!!!! Put em out to blow around - maybe the winds will dry up the mud??? http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Most people who go around fanning the flames of crises are themselves the problem.


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[breezymeadow]

It's a freak of nature outside today - a "hurricane with sun". . . .

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer-upper".

[Silly Mommy]

You have sun???

Try spreading th manure in this. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif I'm going to shower. http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Most people who go around fanning the flames of crises are themselves the problem.


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[near miss]

Poor Silly Mommy!! Thats is a funny thing to picture though! We have had a bunch of limbs falling all over the place. Strange thing is the baby is not spooked at all, but the older gelding would not even come up to the barn to eat (they have to pass "boogie man's corner" to get to the barn if out in the big pasture). I was not about to try and drag his 17 hand butt up to the barn for 2 cups of grain, just to have him rip my arm off. Poor old guy spooks if the grass moves the wrong way. Gotta love big ole TB's!
Other gelding and mare where pretty sane at least!

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[pintofoal]

Well, now, it's been what over a year and I am still raising hogs--at this point they have adapted nicely and are use to not having to bend their necks down to graze. They officially have the stub leg or no leg look that is becoming a very common affliction in Northern, VA.

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[pintofoal]

Of course if they wanted they could cross the creek and graze on the nice dry hill side, but again they are so use to not having to bend to graze that they prefer the mud!

Liz Hall silverwoodfarm.com (http://silverwoodfarm.com)
Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[pintofoal]

and last but not lest two girls mud grazin http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif

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Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[breezymeadow]

Nothing quite like it for horses to slog.
So follow me, follow, out thru the slurry,
we'll pick cranberries, in the glorious bog!


(Sorry - couldn't resist. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif)

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer-upper".

[Norsire]

http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif OMG, Liz!!! I've never seen your place that deep in mud...that last HUGE rain really did in your low area!!! WOW! I'm going to come by and see his in the flesh!!! That is amazing...it looks like they are missing their legs or they are sawed off dachsens. Happy Thanksgiving very one!!!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

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[near miss]

Yes Liz, I will not complain about my muddy areas around the gates and entrance to new barn any more!!! I don't have it any where close to how bad you have it!

Supposed to rain all day today though! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif So much for getting a lot of riding done this week!

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[Erin Pittman]

I have learned to utterly HATE MUD!!!!! This past spring, it rained so much that my sacrifice lot was slop - unfortunately, every time it started to dry out, it would rain again. I don't even let the horses in there now because the mud is about 6-7 inches deep in front of the shelter. I am so sick of rain I could scream. Mud Ponies Clique anyone?

[Dancing Lawn]

Well, that's just jolly wonderful. I was taking a peek at this thread, and now I have the Hippopotamus Song running through my head, and I have this sinking feeling it's going to be with me for a while. For whoever wrote the parody, THANKS A HEAP!!! http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/lol.gif

less hard work, more fine dining.
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If guys can do it, how hard can it be?

[breezymeadow]

Oh, & just in case you're not satisfied with all the mud, just heard that we are to expect possibly heavy snow squalls tonight. No accumulation - just a teaser for all the good things to come in the next few months. . . . http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

My body is a temple - unfortunately, it's a "fixer-upper".

[near miss]

Too far south in VA for snow here, but I have had rain blowing in every direction, only when I have to be out side of course!! As soon as I come in, it stops! Imagine that! Just found the new barn, on the high side stall has had water running into it since the water is pooling (no where else to go since the ground is saturated) right by it. Guess I will be doing some digging tommorow. Thanks goodness I don't have to put any one in that stall!

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[Dancing Lawn]

Well, now I've really had it. 9 Yes, 9! weeks of rain, 2 days of sun, and now, 2' of snow, freezing temp. and of course the mud still isn't frozen, so you sink down through the snow, and get stuck in the mud, while trying not to get blown over in the gusting wind. Isn't there another planet we can move to?

less hard work, more fine dining.
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If guys can do it, how hard can it be?

[near miss]

Oh boy, I could never live so far north as some place like Canada! Too freaking cold for me!
Looks like we may get our first taste of snow this weekend, down here in southern VA. I was just out side working in a t-shirt this week! If it ever really becomes winter around here, we are all gonna be in for a shock!

And of course snow always seems to lead to more mud!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_mad.gif


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[pintofoal]

winter...here we go again http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif 4 inches, still coming down strong, no school http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/sigh.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/uhoh.gif http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/dead.gif http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif

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Pinto & Colored Warmbloods Stallions

[Dancing Lawn]

Well, just picture this. Major snowstorm on Monday. Roads closed. Horizontal snow. No power. Temp dropped from + 10f to -20f. Now, we have 18" of snow, plus drifting, and of course, now the mud is nicely insulated, so it's not freezing. So, you plow through snow that is higher than your 20lb. boots, and sink into another foot of thick, oozing mud. I want to run away from home, and move to where all the world is paved.

less hard work, more fine dining.
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If guys can do it, how hard can it be?

[Norsire]

Well, here we go again!!! Rain and 80 degree temps in Nov. now snow, more snow and more snow!!! DAMMMMMMMM http://chronicleforums.com/images/custom_smilies/no.gif We had about 5 inches on flat surfaces, and 6 1/4 inches in the grassy areas....and it is suppose to have stopped, but I'll be darn if I don't see HUGE flakes still coming down now. Then, it is suppose to start up a NEW storm tonight. Well, atleast I can have fun on the snow mobile tonight!!!! http://chronicleforums.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

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[Erin Pittman]

Hey all you folks in Colorado (or Arizona, or New Mexico...). Do you want some of our rain for some of your drought???? Seriously...I'm from Colorado originally and I'm beginning to think wistfully of those bare dry pastures. Peanut's abcesses would sure appreciate them, too. I need to buy stock in duct tape.

Erin

[near miss]

Well all my snow/ice has melted, leaving "boot sucking off mud" just about every where! Tonight we could get an inch or two, but it looks like it is gonna go north of us.

SO where is it that I can find that Ag Fabric again???? Of course it may be too late to get it down for this year, but better late then never!

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[PaintBy#s]

We still have a foot+ and are due for 3-4 in tonight/morning....At least thats what it says now...We're in MD

So many sayings about life! The most important? LIVE IT UP!

[Nikki^]

We have gumbo (prairie soil) here down south. When it rains, it turns into this thick mud that pulls shoes off. Picking feet out is a chore and when it dries, it's like concrete.

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