Onward and Upward

I love when the county right next to us is in a Winter Weather Advisory and the county that we live in is only in a Wind Chill Advisory. The only problem is, we live three miles from the county line and no one tells Mother Nature she’s supposed to turn off the bad weather right at the county line.  I’m not too thrilled with doing chores tonight but it’s only going to get worse the rest of this week.

This entire week we are supposed to have lows in the subzero range. So much for having spring. Sure hope those robins find some place warm and out of the wind to protect themselves during this latest cold snap. Although it is the end of February so there’s hope that spring will be around the corner shortly.

I’m debating on putting horses in tonight. We are supposed to be below zero but I’m getting conflicting reports on how cold it’s going to actually be (and when those subzero temps are going to arrive). I’m sure when I go out to do chores, I’ll decide to put them in anyway. I’d rather have them happy and warm in a stall than grumpy and standing out in the wind. Ok, so they won’t actually be in the wind but they somehow know that being in a stall is way better during this type of weather.

I don’t have stalls ready because I wasn’t expecting cold weather. I haven’t seen a weather report in about a week. Oops, that’ll teach me!

On Saturday we went and picked up three round bales that were donated. I’m excited to use them. We’ll probably push those bales in when the Tri State Horse Expo arrives. I’ll be scrambling to get everywhere I need to so won’t have a lot of time to get home and do chores. It’ll be nice to let the horses gorge themselves.

Speaking of hay, we finally went through all the big squares in the barn. I always forget how spoiled I am to have the big squares in the barn. The big squares in the hay shed are ok but I don’t have a light overhead to help shine light over everything. So now I’m trying to manhandle hay in the dark or by the light of the flashlight. I’ll have to wait until the weekends to pick up the loose hay. There’s no sense in letting that good hay to go waste! I’ve threatened to put up a couple of corral panels and run a couple horses on the concrete around the hayshed, hay barn, and pens so that the horses can eat up all the loose hay that floats around when I toss the hay over the fence.

I’m hoping for a fairly quiet week where we just deal with cold temps and that’s about it. I’m trying to work on Sanctuary fundraiser stuff every night. But last night I petered out and fell asleep by 9:30pm with all the lights on and tv blaring. Some days I wonder how I make it through the day. We have 49 days until the Easter Fundraiser and I’m starting to get frantic over making sure everything is done and we have plenty of time to advertise. Hopefully advertising will be my goal this week. There’s just one area of question I have to figure out before moving forward.

I guess we’ll continue, onward and upward (otherwise we’ll freeze to the ground).