Spring or Winter?

I can't figure out this crazy weather. Yesterday morning I woke up to no snow and today I woke up to three inches of snow and ice. Typical SD spring but it's still weird. We are supposed to be in the 40s today and 50s tomorrow. I think with the constant fog we are dealing with, we'll be lucky to see 30s.

Last night when I went out to do chores, it was snowing like crazy. I swear I always end up doing chores during the worst weather. I figured that I better get the horses in to the barn and stalls so that they can dry off. I had no idea what the temperatures were going to be like overnight and all the horses were wet (except Rabbit and Rain who had blanekts on). It was nice to get all the chores done before it got dark out but I wish I would have waited until after most of the big flakes had stopped falling.

By the time I got the old horses and hard keepers into the barn, it stopped snowing. Typical SD fashion. But I decided I would rather have the horses in the barn to dry off before going out. They were ready to get out of the barn this morning but only because I hadn't given them the high quality hay. I decided I would just throw a couple of small squares to them instead. I figured they wouldn't be too upset after having worked on a round bale.

Thoses horses are spoiled. The small squares are good but the horses are picky apparently. Although Bo and Zeke polished off all their hay with  no problerms. We'd pushed round bales in last Wednesday night and they lasted for the most part until this morning. There's still a little left and I'm sure the horses will nibble on it over the next couple of days.

We'd put a ring around one bale and a cinch net over the other. Somehow those horse managed to pull the cinch net off, along with the outer layer of the round bale. Of course, I wasn't thinking fast enough and didn't pull the cinch net up before it snowed so now it's buried under 3 inches of snow. I'll have to dig that out tonight. So now I'm back to feeding the horses morning and night. I could get really spoiled with using round bales only.

The last I heard, we are supposed to have another round of not so good weather coming in tonight and again on Monday. I know we aren't out of the woods yet, we are still in winter technically and it'll be another month of this weird weather before spring really arrives. I won't complain. We really do need this moisture and the snow this time around was heavy with moisture, unlike all the snow we've gotten so far this winter, which was light and fluffy and blew around all the time because it was so dang cold.

Here's to hoping we see some sunshine this afternoon!