Anyone else got winter blues?

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Please tell Im not the only one struggeling with enthusiasm at the moment?

I get up the yard around 6pm after a long hard day at work, Ive got 3 to do and Im usually the only one up the yard and all I want to do it get the horses done and go home!

Ive got no enthusiasm to ride or do anything. And this wind is just a pain in my bum!

Please tell me Im not the only one feeling like this?
 
No your not, most of us are a bit weary of this on-going gales, rain etc. At the moment you just want to get them done and go and warm up. I live on the yard so I have no excuses but yes its not very easy at the moment.
 
No your not the only one! I'm not working today so went down this morning expecting to lunge my horse, got to the yard and it was so bloody windy I just turned them out and came home, I can't be bothered to get blown across the menage with a highly strung tb on the other end of the lunge line! When I'm working I don't get down till 6.45pm and am normally the last one there, I have to muck out my two and have no time to ride or lunge as we have to be off the yard by 8pm. I'm also scared of the dark which dosen't help!
 
i'v been feeling a bit like that 2 and think my horse is 2
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No...not just you.

I have 3 to do as well...I'm at the yard at 6.30 am and back about 6pm...constantly in the dark/wet/mud.I feel like a mole scurrying about...

Horses are filthy, weather is crap and I too just want to get done and go home and get warm with a glass of wine.

I think I'm in hibernation mode
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but just think of it this was....by the time christmas comes- it will have been the shortest day
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Join the club!
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Your not alone but sometimes you've just got to make yourself, have something to eat about between 4 - 5pm and a coffee or two to get your energy levels up, honestly once your tacked up and by the time you've warmed up, you forget its pitch dark, cold and windy and nobody else about...yeah nice isn't it!
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I made myself last night, mucked out, groomed Mr M (while debating weather to ride or not) then groomed PY (still debating at the point) then went for a wander into the school to see exactly ho windy it was....my woolly hat blew off and I just though ehhhh can't be bothered, then another voice in my head took over and said COME ON, you need the exercise as well as the horse (pictured my jelly belly and flabby thighs!) and escorted myself to my car for my tack.
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dragging my feet with my bottom lip out wittering to myself
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Strange thing is, I actually spent more time in the school than I usually do, off came the coat, my scarf blew off and I was stripped down to one layer, actually quite enjoyed it, had the usual one way conversation with the horse, sang a bit and blew a few cob webs away and Py went well.
 
i'm not too bad as i've been working up to going hunting this weekend so have a mission to keep her fit....
but after that i fear i may loose my mojo - esp as there's not much going on then until march (away in feb in NZ so she'll be turned away then anyway)
BUT - have me new dressage saddle arriving for xmas so that may keep me amused for january blues
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It's hard work and money for nothing, isn't it?

The stable roof has started to leak, so I'm using 5x more bedding than I should be and mucking out is a complete pain as it now involved removing and replacing most of the bed. Nothing can be done 'til the weather calms down.

The horses have gone nuts - combination of more time inside, no work and the wind winding them up. Skiing down the field behind a TB 18 feet in the air squealing ilike a pig isn't my idea of fun, especially in the dark.

I did ride in the rain and gales the other day but won't be doing it again for a while... just wasn't worth the effort.

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Me too, but I find it really depressing that I spend all my time mucking out and then can't ride because of the weather. Then we get a lull for a day, all the horses are on their toes because of the time off and before you know it the weather turns again and it's 2-3 days off again.

I went through the same thing last year with the snow, but I dread to think what it will be like in Dec/Jan this year after the horrible Nov!
 
I am so pleased to read this post - hang on that sounds wrong! I mean I a glad that its not just me. For some reason this year seems worse than past years and yet actually its not that cold yet. Wind and rain are awful though. I am seriously now trying to reconsider my career so that I can see more daylight during the day instead of sitting at a desk (with my back to the window - yeah going to change that) and then rush before and after work to see to my neddies who are my reason for working (mostly)
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I'm suffering really badly. After five years of virtually constant sunshine (sometimes too much!) I am now back in a very UK style climate and I hate it. I can't be bothered to ride and my two are kept at home and I don't go out to work! I mean how bad is that? I can feed, turnout, ride whenever I like and I just can't summon the enthusiasm to do anything with them. It's just rain, wind and mud nearly everyday. The sky is grey and leaden and I am just totally depressed by the whole thing. The only thing that keeps me going is doing the house up so we can sell it and move back south!

You are not alone!
 
Yes most deff have winter blues, just got back from a holiday in florida so not impressed with all this wind and rein.
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i was looking forward to coming back and ridding but since ive been back not really bothered.
BL**DY ENGLISH WEATHER!!!
 
ARGHHHHHHHHH!!! i live right on top of a mountain in wales and it is horrible!!!! all my friends carry extra coats to come here, they say they need at one extra layer, no matter whether it is summer or winter!!!
Im very lucky as i work night i have daylight hours to go and ride and play, but the wind and rain is so bad, i just dont want to. I have had to turn the eventers away so i can concentrate on 2 3yr olds i have to back but call me a woose, i really dont feel like backing them at the minute. Not sure i wouldn't get blown straight back off again anyway!
 
No, your not alone, the thing I am finding the hardest is dragging myself to night school after a days work to finish this last year of my AAT which I do not really want to do anymore, but I will finish it! Good little qualification to have until I can, if i can get a job I like.
Getting up is harder, tending to the horse in this weather is rubbish sometimes, its the rain really and darkness i suppose, hardly getting to ride, sorry I appear to have gone on and on and on......!
 
Def not alone, I am SO p****d off with the wind, I don't mind riding in the rain, just get my waterproofs on but this wind is doing my head in. Very depressed actually, can't hack out as have nobody to hack out with during the week and in this wind just won't risk going out alone as he can be a bit on his toes and in this wind no chance as have to go along a very busy main road to get to better hacking and just too dangerous. We don't have a school unfortunately, we do have a riding field but its just wet and muddy and slippery so can't do anything more than walk round in there and horse even spooking in there and slipping so basically haven't ridden for about 2 weeks. Horse unfit and bored, me fed up, actually thinking of moving to a yard with an all weather school and/or quiet off road hacking and/or where people hack out during the week
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Please tell Im not the only one struggeling with enthusiasm at the moment?

I get up the yard around 6pm after a long hard day at work, Ive got 3 to do and Im usually the only one up the yard and all I want to do it get the horses done and go home!

Ive got no enthusiasm to ride or do anything. And this wind is just a pain in my bum!

Please tell me Im not the only one feeling like this?

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As soon as the wind drops and it dries up and the sun comes out and it stays like that for a few days, then we'll all feel better
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It is the darkness and mud I struggle with the most. I am generally ok as I am just grateful that my lad can go out on a bit of grass now during the day...following the hell of laminitis and box rest.
But as he is on restricted areas they are getting very muddy very quickly and when I have a field stable in the middle of this it makes for a tricky time in the dark with a head torch!
I look forward to the weekends as at least then I can do my chores in daylight and see my horse in daylight too.
Cant ride him just yet but I am in no rush with the weather as it is and it will not hurt him to have some more time off to make sure he is all healed foot wise.
 
So glad I'm not the only one. Like ChicoMio I have the horses at home & don't work, so I'm very fortunate. I'm finding excuses not to ride & its usually weather related. I don't like riding in the wind and I'm sure its probably a confidence thing. My old horse is well behaved but occassionaly spooky, I've never come off on a hack, but broke my collar bone out hunting last year & I don't want to do it again this year!

I also used to ride out with a friend who has moved her horse to livery, so now I've got even less get up & go. I'm not minding the work at all though - quite enjoy it even.

I just need a big kick up the backside & start spending less time on here with a mug in my hand! Poo picking - here I come!
 
Reading these has brought a much needed smile to my face! I said to my friend on Monday that I am at the stage that I normally reach in February, when I seriously start asking myself what I am doing it for after bringing in a muddy horse with mud dreadlocks, a rug on that must be coated in at least an inch of the stuff, that you know will have more mud coated around all the clips, from a field that you have to struggle through without losing boots in the mud or fall over in, whilst dragging a horse that's determined to eat the one blade of grass it can see on it's way out of the gate, it's bucketing down and your trying to struggle with the gate as the wind is catching it and it's pitch black, and it's not even the end of bloody November yet!

I can only come to the conclusion that we are all out of our tiny little minds! Add to that the fact that I really get the impression my boy who probably lived a semi feral life in Dublin or Belfast somewhere, and was out all the time, has absolutely no enthusiasm to go out either! If he wasn't such a dirty little swine in his stable I would quite happily let him stay in and save myself the hassle of the above!

Roll on Summer!
 
Its bl**dy horrid isn't it? But after many years feeling like this every winter, horses or not, and suffering from chronic fatigue I have developed a coping technique.

I tell myself that I can't change the weather so I must shut up and get on with it. Moaning makes me feel worse! And learning to reach my own backside with my foot helps...
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Me too, everything just seems to take twice as long to do this week when battling against the gales and rain. Then I'm so knackered I lose the interest to ride. I've had to wash all my waterproof riding jackets this week and wash and reproof one of the horse's rugs as such a mess. If it rains any more I reckon I'm going to shrink or turn into a dolphin, and horse runs the risk of developing webbed hooves
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this has really helped me feel im not alone.i am driving my family and myself mad moaning about the weather,mud,wind,boggy field.,mad skitty horses that have hardly been ridden etc.my 3 are at home and its the first winter ive had 3.my grazing is a mess and struggling to get them in ,in the dark and wind is starting to drive me totally mad.it helps to know others are out there.im seriously thinking of turning my horse away til february as no time or opportunity to ride.roll on spring
 
RE debsflo "im seriously thinking of turning my horse away til february as no time or opportunity to ride.roll on spring"

I have seriously considered the same, but would like to get some hunting in come Jan/Feb, so need him fit for that.
 
Ditto to all of the above posts. I definately feel like I normally do coming out of Winter March time, not going into winter. Big bug bear at the moment electric fencing flattened every single morning due to this darn wind. Arggh, just what you don't need at 7am every day. Also cannot believe this time last year our fields were rock hard and now like swamps. Mind you dread to think how those poor folk up North are coping.

Pink wine helps lots though
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I'm starting to think it was a waste of time getting Henry shod last time. Since the 9th November I think he's been ridden 4 or 5 times. Maybe 6 at a push. Not even very long rides, either. He's due again 18th Dec, so I'm probably going to have them taken off and pootle around in hoofboots if I get the urge. Not worth the £80 at the moment!!
 
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