Anyone else feel that Spring is still a Long way off?

Karosel said:
Considering the snowbanks in my driveway are 6 feet tall, and I have over 3 feet of snow in my backyard, yes I feel like spring is a long way off. ;)
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Whereabouts are you then? :) What are your temperatures like?

I am glad I don't have 3' in my backyard, my tractor has just died (and hopefully gone to hell, it could have waited another month or so the wretch:mad:) 3' of snow (I know someone who called a colt 'Four Feet of Snow' - excellent name) 20 horses to feed and no tractor would be most inconvenient.
 
It's definitely a long way off for here. We have quite deep snow and it is expected to continue snowing until tomorrow. Hate the stuff. Doesn't look like it will get much better before Easter. Oh well at least the days are longer.
 
Enfys said:
Whereabouts are you then? :) What are your temperatures like?

I am glad I don't have 3' in my backyard, my tractor has just died (and hopefully gone to hell, it could have waited another month or so the wretch:mad:) 3' of snow (I know someone who called a colt 'Four Feet of Snow' - excellent name) 20 horses to feed and no tractor would be most inconvenient.
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Many years ago I worked on a standardbred stud in upstate NY and they had about 30 horses there, ranging from weanlings to four year olds all kept seperated in paddocks by age and gender (plus the stallions and mares elsewhere). The main paddocks were down a 1/2 mile track all in a row. The pick up truck broke down and it was snowing, we had to fashion a sled out of plywood and towed it behind my tiny Nissan Sentra (LOL, which didn't run well at the best of times!) with bales of hay and bags of feed. No, not convenient at all.
 
Looking out my window just now it's still snowing and blowing. Have about five or six inches accumulated and it's meant to be doing this til this evening. Nope, Spring is not springing here. :( Just crap that this winter has been so long (since July last year) and it doesn't want to give up the ghost just yet.
 
As i said... spring was JINXED!!!

Blame all those who cooed about how bloody warm it was end of Feb... people should learn to shut their mouths... grumble... mumble... grumble...

It'll never arrive now! You try pushing a wheelbarrow through what should be called "hellmud" when you're 6 months preggo!

Yes I'm grumpy about it... can you tell? :mad: :mad:
 
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Thank god its not just me then...! Roll on Spring - tomorrow apparently.

Well looking at the weather i think it will warm up a bit from Easter and then hopefully dry up a bit about 2 weeks after that so fingers crossed i can get them out after the Easter Holidays!
 
I'm sure it snowed in April in 1976.

It is a lovely,sunny spring day here,the ponies were actually grazing again today,[on what I don't know],but came for their hay pretty speedily.:)
 
I feel really miserable at the moment, because of this weather. I can't seem to get my neck and upper back warm for hours after being out. Snow,rain,snow,rain,snow rain. :(
 
I can remember a year when it snowed on April 25th which is my mum's birthday; I've got a picture of our old house somewhere with snow all over it and the trees all out coz it was springtime!

But am feeling your pain OP. Getting self up and out and in the saddle to ride out is a real effort; which is why I'm tending to wimp out at the moment and ride out with a friend at the weekends and an evening weekday. It really does take monumental effort to ride solo at the moment - particularly on a nappy little git who really doesn't want to leave his nice tasty haynet and makes no secret of his preference!

Have said this elsewhere and so will say it now: the weather won't improve until the moon gets off its backside. If you don't know what I mean, there's an old saying that if the moon is "sitting on its ass" then there will be unsettled weather for the duration of that moon. We're in the first quarter at the moment; and if you look out at the moon when its rising, you will see that it is slanted to what it should normally be, like it's out of kilter, and has been ever since last Spring when all this stupid weather kicked off. When/ if it rights itself, then we'll maybe have some sensible weather.

Personally I blame the Hadron Collider thing they stupidly built under the Swiss Alps. Said at the time they shouldn't have done it, but they did, and the weather has been totally cocked up ever since. Daft gits.
 
Oh dear - just seen the forecast for the rest of the week... think there may be a full livery day (aka duvet day) going on before too long. *sigh*.
 
Enfys said:
Whereabouts are you then? :) What are your temperatures like?

I am glad I don't have 3' in my backyard, my tractor has just died (and hopefully gone to hell, it could have waited another month or so the wretch:mad:) 3' of snow (I know someone who called a colt 'Four Feet of Snow' - excellent name) 20 horses to feed and no tractor would be most inconvenient.
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I'm located on the Canadian prairies. I took this picture of the front of my house today. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=351615271611184&set=a.240636316042414.43240.100002881436404&type=1&theater

It was a cold winter this year. Several weeks of almost daily -30 C weather (not accounting for the windchill), with the coldest day being -46 with the windchill.

Lately its been around -10-15 C, so -20ish with the windchill.

Oh, and the snow came at the end of October and never left. It doesn't look like it's going to leave anytime soon either.
 
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The trees and hedgerows etc certainly don't think its spring yet either, well here they don't. Don't mind wet weather in March, but it is the cold which is worse.
 
we've had a couple of sunny days here and one rugless morning. but no sign of 24/7 turnout yet. although...I rode after work on Monday which was far!!

the daffodils are out here but ny garden is still looking very boring.

I'm feeling like spring must be on its way as everything I own is covered in malted white hair and when I ride I am surrounded by a small cloud of it too. I'm sure the clever native knows what he's doing :)
 
Pull yourselves together ladies!

In 10 days time the clocks go forward, you'll have more time to spend with your horses :D There may well be snow in some places right now but it's still early yet and the weather will dry up. This is green and pleasant England and I would rather keep horses here than many other countries where the grass never grows.
 
Clippy said:
Pull yourselves together ladies!

In 10 days time the clocks go forward, you'll have more time to spend with your horses :D There may well be snow in some places right now but it's still early yet and the weather will dry up. This is green and pleasant England and I would rather keep horses here than many other countries where the grass never grows.
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It hasn't dried up here in the last year!!!
 
Fed up with it now.

Like a previous poster, I too bought my horse in Autumn and don't feel I've been able to get into a routine of riding since! My mare must think she's with me to put her hooves up and take it easy, in semi retirement! (Wrong :p)

I have managed to ride quite a lot in the last three weeks, but it would be oh so much more enjoyable without having to contend with -50000C and bucketloads of rain / snow / mud etcd
 
winchester said:
All ponies came in at night at Christmas when the weather turned bad and havent gone back out since.

Im getting up at 5.20 to muck out 4 before travelling to work then coming back to get them in and ride at 6pm...

Really struggling now - fields are looking rough still eating me out of everything and costing me an absolute fortune in hay and bedding!

They was all turned out at the beginning of March last year...

Anyone else feel my pain!? Please dont tell me its only me
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Ours came in at the end of October, and we've got at least another 6 weeks before we kick out again.

Saying that, the grass is going to be that lush that I can't kick my boy out anyway... his weight is already bad :(

*sigh*
 
Totally fed up with it now.
My lot came in at night in September instead of the normal November and it looks like it'll be late April before they can get out 24/7 again, a month later than normal if then which means they've been in at night three months longer than normal. No wonder I want to sell everything off and hibernate.
 
Ours are now in 24/7 which I hate but don't blame the YO as the fields are all now underwater again - snow, then rain which melts the snow, then more snow and it all seems endless. Too cold for the grass to grow so even when they get to go out, they need hay to stop them trashing the paddocks.
I'm old enough to remember lots of long winters and rubbish springs and summers but I really, really want some dry weather now.
That said, we only have to worry about the horses - the farmers round here can't get on to the land to drill and have already suffered one awful year. One field at the end of our road has been a lake since September.
Perhaps we should all use the famous HHO vibes to bring on spring!
 
This morning it was DRY and CLOUDY. And the forecast I saw on the tele last night said DRY and CLOUDY today. So I traipsed across the 40 acre field to find them, removed their rugs so they can have a good itch/roll. I traipsed back across the 40 acre field to put the rugs in the barn.

Then it started to rain, then snow. Then snow quite heavily.

I then traipsed back across the 40 acre field with the rugs, to find my horses in the blizzard, to re-rug them.
 
It's so depressing! I'm becoming a real weather bore....... First thing I say to the liveries everyday is "isn't it cold" or " when is it going to dry up".
 
Well my plans of there being light at the end of the tunnel and everything going out after Easter looks like it will be put on hold....

There is SNOW Forescast in London on Saturday - oh no please not again!!!!!!!
 
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