Cold Temps On Their Way

Well, I opened my big fat trap and sure enough the quiet disolves. I looked at the weather forecast yesterday before heading out to do chores. It's a good thing because we are dropping into some nasty weather. Luckily the high today is 29 but there's a wind chill. I have Rain and Queen snug in their blankets for the day but I'll have to do some rearranging tonight to figure out who goes where.

I've lost three stalls and haven't had time to repair for this winter. I'm really kicking myself right now too. But I did do a lot of prep work last night to make tonight's chores a little bit easier, knowing that the weather was going to be bitterly cold by the time I get out to do chores. I like having happy horses, not grumpy horses.

I prepped the stalls and threw out extra straw in the new leanto, "Habitat for Horses" shelter, and with the ponies. I should probably be throwing out new bales of straw every week or so just to make life that much more comfortable.

This morning I couldn't find Queen. I assume she was in the shelter, snoozing on the straw. I noticed Brego was in the leanto. He even decided to go for a roll in the straw before coming up for breakfast. The ponies didn't care at all for my extra efforts but I'm not surprised.

I'm anxious and a little nervous about this weather. The way I have the stalls set up and the pens set up aren't as ideal as I'd like them to be so I'm struggling with who should go where. It's going to be a guessing game tonight.

I expect I'll be blanketing the horses in the barn for tomorrow's weather. I'm going to have to do some fast thinking to get a few of the blankets repaired tonight and on different horses. It's all stuff I wanted to do months ago but never had the time or energy.

With the high tomorrow being only 4 degrees, I want to make sure all the "delicate flowers" are covered and stay warm to avoid the wind chill. Thank goodness we haven't had to deal with this type of weather for the past month. I am guessing I would still be as ill-prepared as I am.

I do get to try out the two brand new blankets I bought at TSC, yet another clearance find! I don't have the corral panels set up yet to put Maverick in (he demolishes everyone else's blankets) so I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that he doesn't decide to rip up a blanket during this cold snap. That gelding drives me nuts some days. This morning Maverick and Rain got in to it. They were just playing but to stand and watch those two play made me appreciate the little things in life.

Keep your fingers crossed that the weatherman is wrong and we won't get the wind chills like they are prediciting. The older the herd gets, the more I worry.