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  • #21
    I am so sick of the rain. And like someone said all this crap is then going to freeze and then just be a whole different story!
    To ride or not to ride; what a stupid question!

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    • #22
      I'll check in with ice here in north NH... I didn't so much mind the rain (resisted the urge to go put a rain sheet on - they've got shelter, and it wasn't cold!), and then the snow was very picturesque. Now it's just nasty. I was supposed to go out with friends tonight, but after watching/hearing the cars sliding around on the road when I went to check the mail at 5, I decided discretion was the better part of valour - so here I am.

      Times like this I'm happy I board, though - I have to do my own blanketing (though mostly I keep telling myself that girl doesn't NEED a blanket, as she's fuzzy and has shelter and it's only getting down to the upper 20s), but it seems like money VERY well spent right now not to have to be out in the ice feeding, hauling hay, and generally being out in the miserableness. Thank you, BOs/BMs!
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      • #23
        Originally posted by Kementari View Post
        Thank you, BOs/BMs!
        I never miss boarding except in weather like this. Good Lord it's just plain gross out.

        Hunting was canceled, something is wrong with the dryer and my clothes are coming out with holes in them, the wood for the fire is soaked, I went shopping for an evening dress which was just loads of fun let me tell you, came home to muddy dogs who had napped on my bed (which is why I bought a bedspread the color of Virginia clay), the horses and goats were miserable and fighting to come in for feeding, and then I had to drag a dead deer out of the front yard which of course had been gnawed on, was in pieces, and was soaking wet. went to collect eggs and noticed the roof in the coop is leaking and making a smelly mess.

        Then I stomped into the house - soaking wet, mud all over me, freezing, and ate a box of peanut brittle.

        I think I'm going to throw up.
        Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
        Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
        -Rudyard Kipling

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        • #24
          The peanut brittle was definitely your biggest mistake.

          Didn't you know that soggy, gnawed deer and nutty confections don't mix?

          This was a situation that clearly called for chocolate. And alcohol. And not necessarily in that order.
          Proud member of the EDRF

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          • #25
            The day ain't over yet.

            Egg nog sounds good. I've got egg nog in the fridge. Chocolate chip mint ice cream in the freezer. Doesn't that cover all the food groups? Is mint a vegetable?

            Sigh. It's raining harder now. I bet the first time that darn rooster sees me in a rain slicker he's going to attack me. That's just going to be a dandy way to start the day tomorrow - getting my butt kicked by an eight pound bird.

            Yeah - time for some egg nog!
            Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware
            Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
            -Rudyard Kipling

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            • #26
              Originally posted by Kementari View Post
              Times like this I'm happy I board, though - I have to do my own blanketing (though mostly I keep telling myself that girl doesn't NEED a blanket, as she's fuzzy and has shelter and it's only getting down to the upper 20s), but it seems like money VERY well spent right now not to have to be out in the ice feeding, hauling hay, and generally being out in the miserableness. Thank you, BOs/BMs!
              People like me (the ones doing the feeding, dragging horses around in the sleet for 12 hours a day) thank you! But can you pass the message alone to the BM of my barn - you know, the part about how your horse is fuzzy and it's getting to the upper 20's and she doesn't need a binkie? Because I'm getting really tired of having to take each and every horse out of their stall to go to turnout and having to put a baker sheet, a heavyweight stable blanket, and a heavyweight turnout with a neck cover on it over the other two blankets for EVERY HORSE going outside.... when it's 30 degrees out. I mean REALLY. And they look at me like I'm just plain abusive when I just put ONE heavy-ish turnout on my clipped mare.
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              • #27
                Weird week so far! 18 on Sunday (brrrr), 55 and raining yesterday (that is OK) and 34 and raining today (eeeewwwww). Ours went out with a shed and didn't want to leave the shed to come back in for dinner so I was standing out there at the gate banging on the feed bucket to get them to come in. (Nope...I didn't really want to walk out to the shed in all that mud and the almost freezing rain ...which went PLOP on my head with a thud but wasn't QUITE frozen...to go get them either!). They finally decided to make a run for it and as I tried to move out of the way quickly nearly got my poor boots sucked off!
                Providence Farm
                http://providencefarmpintos.blogspot.com/

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                • #28
                  Originally posted by Ritazza View Post
                  People like me (the ones doing the feeding, dragging horses around in the sleet for 12 hours a day) thank you! But can you pass the message alone to the BM of my barn - you know, the part about how your horse is fuzzy and it's getting to the upper 20's and she doesn't need a binkie? Because I'm getting really tired of having to take each and every horse out of their stall to go to turnout and having to put a baker sheet, a heavyweight stable blanket, and a heavyweight turnout with a neck cover on it over the other two blankets for EVERY HORSE going outside.... when it's 30 degrees out. I mean REALLY. And they look at me like I'm just plain abusive when I just put ONE heavy-ish turnout on my clipped mare.


                  I think this is why the current barn requires everyone to do their OWN blanketing... It's not a show barn, no clips in sight, and a few of the oldies need blankets but most are nekkid. I OWN enough blankets to sink the Titanic, but I've always been a minimalist when it comes to using them.

                  If it's gonna be below zero, or very cold and wet (my girl lives out) then I'll get something on her. Otherwise, she seems quite happy as is! In fact, she's even (according the the BO) given up on the shivering every time a drop of rain falls even when it's 80, which she used to do when she was younger - thank goodness! (And I'm not exaggerating about the 80 thing... )

                  Mr High Maintenance is leased out, so his more extensive blanketing needs aren't bothering me this winter.
                  Proud member of the EDRF

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                  • #29
                    This barn owner keeps the horses in for this mess.

                    They were in yesterday, but went out last night. It started raining again this morning, they came in and will stay in until I get home from work tomorrow night.

                    I would much rather clean the stalls every 8 hours over a 36 hour period than have them all miserable, making mud by the gates.

                    It will clear up tomorrow around lunch time, and my property drains well, so by the time I get home, they'll be ready to go out.

                    I do 24x7 turnout about 5 months of the year, 16 hours turnout a day the rest, but when we have 2-3 days like this, the horses generally prefer to stay in, and the preservation to the fields is worth the added work.

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                    • #30
                      Could we please have a round of the Ice Ice go away?? We lost power a bit before 8 and the Ice just keeps coming. I am sitting right now in my truck so the lap top can recharge before going back inside for a cold night!! If this keeps up I am not shore when we will get power back (I have a feeling it will be days) and they are saying a high of 15 tomrorow night FUN!!!

                      Ok thanks pity party over just needed to get that out!!
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                      • #31
                        I would like the rain to stop. We have a ton of ice right now and tree limbs and possibly trees themselves keep falling. It's bad. We are surrounded by pines. I am worried that a pine will fall on the fence or my trailer or the house or the shed row or my truck or God forbid one of the horses themselves My Lab is barking non stop due to the trees.
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                        Standardbreds, so much more then a harness racing horse.

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                        • #32
                          Well, my husband has many thousands of dollars worth of corn sitting in a field and it won't dry out long enough to take the combine in! This is the first time in a long time I've prayed for NO RAIN.

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                          • #33
                            YAY!! Here in S. E. VA it has stopped raining .

                            I have standing water everywhere.

                            Hopefully the wind that's kicking up will speed the drying out process.
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                            • #34
                              How's everyone holding up with this ice storm?

                              So far, so good (knock on wood for us).
                              Minor damage, but have kept power (at least until a branch hits the overhead lines).

                              Roads are impassable due to debris.
                              Horses are really freaked out by the cracking and crashing trees but fortunately no trees near the barn. They are out in small run-ins and getting some pretty good exercise in the small space that isn't icy or 6" deep in water and slick mud.
                              Should be interesting when the wind picks up with all the ice on the trees.

                              Hope everyone's okay!

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                              • #35
                                It's a hard life taking care of a farm/horses when the weather is like this. It's nice to commiserate.

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                                • #36
                                  Yeah....the rain stopped! The barn held up for the first 2 days of rain but on the third day it flooded (last night). Sigh. I now have 13 stalls of flooded bedding that will weigh a ton and a half to slog out . Sigh. We have a lot of springs on our property.....when it rains forever like this the ground get sooo saturated that the water comes UP the french drains in the barn. Excavating in the past helped some.....but once the water starts to come UP the drains there is nothing to be done.
                                  Providence Farm
                                  http://providencefarmpintos.blogspot.com/

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                                  • #37
                                    Now it's raining again.

                                    Our creek is up over the road. We had to use the tractor to pull the plow truck out of the gully the aforementioned creek has created in said road. Luckily for me, I"m parked at the other entrance (because if the 4WD F350 couldn't make it through, my little RWD 1/2 ton DEFINITELY has no hope! ).

                                    We do still have power...for now...

                                    I'm guessing even the outside horses have been brought in (there are enough stalls for everyone when it's really nasty). I can't get down the road to check on my girl, but I trust the BO has things under control!
                                    Proud member of the EDRF

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                                    • #38
                                      OMGosh! I think I may have just seen some blue sky..... Course it may have been a complete mirage
                                      "You'll never see yourself in the mirror with your eyes closed"

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                                      • #39
                                        I find myself taking lots of naps in between slogging around in the muck.

                                        I just keep hoping when I wake up, it will be April.
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                                        • #40
                                          Sun is trying to shine here in my part of the VA coast. Our sacrifice pastures are literally under water. If they freeze over the weekend at least we can go ice skating!
                                          Ridge Farm Inc.-full care retirement
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