Are there any plus points to this weather?

[nagseastsussex]

All I can think of is no flies or midges - good for sweat itch sufferers but not a lot else.

 

[3Beasties]

Urrrrm.......





Nope, don't think so!

 

[kellybee]

My lammy shetland isn't gorging the spring grass....

No fence repairs after her escape attempts because she's in 24/7...

 

[be positive]

It's not raining

 

[noblesteed]

Ditto no spring grass!

 

[noblesteed]

Also nobody on the beach so it's still good to ride on. And not much tourist traffic as yet either!

 

[Elbie]

No midges

And I don't get super hot schooling!

 

[flump]

Yes! I am shivering calories off, more mucking out and going back and forth to horse walker/field. Pushing 4 bales of hay half a mile a day...on the negative front after all that macdonalds seems more appealing than salad lol

 

[Shysmum]

Hubs is enjoying his off roading in the landy. Does that count ? The only plus I can think of atm.

 

[sychnant]

My Gypsy Cob has super clean feathers and I haven't had to do anything to achieve that. It's usually a million kettles of hot water and endless shampooing. At the moment I just have to turn him out and the snow does all the work for me

 

[CobsGalore]

The cold weather is giving me extra time to get weight off my cob before the spring grass comes through

 

[goodtimes]

Yes. I've been bomb proofing my youngster. He hated flapping exercise sheets. A couple of days lunging in this wind wearing the exercise sheet has cured that one.

 

[Cinnamontoast]

The whole being inside in the warm is very nice, not that I'm going outside currently but the snuggly thing is good.

 

[Meowy Catkin]

The snow cleans up hooves beautifully and it's better than any amount of tubbing and poulticing for cleaning out abscess holes.

Luckily I don't have any with an abscess at the mo. *Touch wood* that it stays that way.

 

[rara007]

We'll appreciate the summer when it's just wet rather than wet, icey and cold more!

 

[ridefast]

No grrrrrrrrr

 

[Passtheshampoo]

No poopicking. BUT once our snow clears will have tons of the stuff to shift.

 

[Emilieu]

The other horses aren't out for as long so I don't feel so sorry for my boy on box rest

 

[Polos Mum]

No grrrrrrrrr

THIS

 

[JFTDWS]

We'll appreciate the summer when it's just wet rather than wet, icey and cold more!

HA! Screw that for a game of soldiers. I'm emigrating to the Bahamas.

The highlands will love it there

 

[cambrica]

Even if I thought long and hard all evening I could not come up with a single reason not to complain. It's costing me a fortune. I'm cold. I hate mud and I neeeeeed vitamin D !

 

[Jesstickle]

No. None at all. I hate it

 

[Tabula Rasa]

Too cold for idiots on dirt bikes to speed down the bridal paths near me.
Saves me screaming and swearing and 18yr olds high as a kite scaring my filly on land they shouldn't be on.

Plus no spring grass, but still some nice grass coming in I let her munch on a little on our walks

 

[Spotsrock]

My 33 year old who loves snow got an extra load this year, who knows how many more she'll see so any extra chances to roll in snow are a bonus!

 

[BWa]

Where we are we have missed the snow but are getting the full force of the Easterly bloody gales. However everything is drying up quickly. Much less mud to wade through.

 

[ebonyallen]

No flies

 

[googol]

No. There's not. And we better have the longest most amazing perfect summer in the history of summers

 

[Toffee44]

OH is another that has extended his landy+mud=good season. My drive is a mud bath grrr!!

That's about it really.

 

[Toffee44]

Oh god just checked the oil tank this evening could have fainted a whole tank does us two winters, into the second half now!!!!!!!!!! And my heating is on tonight argh

 

[Mrs C]

I feel like Ive lost a couple of pounds from all the digging!