They Can Keep It

Everyone is frantically getting ready for this next wave of bad weather. At least they aren't talking snow for the Borderland area. I couldn't find the graphic for the snow prediction for the Black Hills. The weatherman was talking almost a foot of snow for the Hills. They can keep it!


As it is, we are supposed to get a bunch of rain. It all depends on which model they look at. As you may have gathered in some of my other posts, I'm a weather freak. I always have an eye to the sky and an ear to the weather forcast. I guess it's for two reasons.

Reason# 1: I work far away from where I live. Everyone jokes how the weather is always different south or north of I-90. Well, let me tell you, the weather is different in all four quadrants of the I90/I29 coordior. I know because I typically drive through three of the four and when the weather is bad, I drive through ALL FOUR.

Reason# 2: I'm always worried about my oldsters. I have to pay pretty close attention to the weather so that I know when to stall them, when to blanket them, and when to let them just roam free in the pasture.

As I was coming back in from morning chores, the National Weather Service upgraded the upcoming storm. I can only hope that it stays in central SD. We were just starting to dry out the swamplots. The bigger drylot was actually fairly solid and the smaller drylot had spots where there was firmer footing. Now they are predicting an inch of rain, which means I'll be back to wading through ankle deep mud.

I haven't yet decided what I'll do as far as stalling horses. If I don't stall the mares and the drafts I'll have to do some blanketing. I know they HATE their blankets but it's better than getting drenched. Queen is getting better about letting me blanket her although she's still grouchy about it. I've learned to blanket her during grain time. I also bought some safety pins to put in Bob's blanket. It's a couple inches too big so it slips and gets caught on his leg. So hopefully I can do some "mad safety pinning" on his blanket.

I'm really not looking forward to the rain. If we get too much more all the farmers will be beyond crabby. The horses are starting to get grumpy with this weather too. The horses are either on the pasture or standing on the concrete next to the barn.

I guess as long as it's rain instead of snow I shouldn't complain. I also have this Friday off so I can pull horses into the barn Thursday evening to dry out, warm up, and stand on solid ground. Oh for that Indian Summer everyone was hoping for.