Are we all completely nuts?!

[Navalgem]

Will someone please explain why I was attending to my horses at 7pm this eve, with water in my wellies, getting blown all over the place by a raging gale - then traipsing in my house all soggy and dripping mud everywhere?!

Think we are all nuts! lol

 

[amandathepanda]

I was having exactly the same conversation with my mother earlier as we mucked out my 8 stables in a gale and blizzard. She did suggest that perhaps I'd like to go back to keeping guinea-pigs as I did when i was a child and sell all of my horses but somehow I can't see myself doing grand-prix dressage on a rodent measuring about a hand tall. Perhaps all horsey people should just be certified under the mental health act for our own preservation???

 

[Anastasia]

LOL.......tell me about it.

We had horrendous weather a couple of weeks ago, the winds were 90mph and broke the cross beam of one of our wooden sheds that was housing two mares and a foal. We had to try and open the doors in the wind and transfer them in the middle of the night to the other stables.

We too are just in from watering our horses and fluffing up their haylege for the night. God I cannot wait until the OH gets my automatic waters into our new stabling, our black colt has taken to picking up the waterbucket full of water and chucking it about all over the place........little devil that he is....but lovable at that..

Getting up at 5.30am most mornings to do 13 horses before a fulltime job, then back again at night to do the same thing..........yup........not just mad.....insane.....LOL

But I would not be without them........unless I got offered maybe a 7 figure sum for them all job lot......

 

[arwenplusone]

Having spent most of the day being battered by the elements and some of the equines (including little miss innocent in my foal post below) I have to agree that we are!

But, when I consider the alternative - a day in the shopping centre/visiting distant relatives/cleaning the house - I know where I'd rather be!

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

By this time tomorrow I will be RIGHT OFF horses, as the boys will have had their teeth done, and the foal had her jabs AND microchip AND passport, and will probably be a complete typical foal pain in the *ss for all of it!

Took her for second short walk on the road today (50 metres at the most!), when we took her out last weekend her mother was such a nappy sod that she wouldn't go in front and the foal had to lead! So today, we took my gelding instead, he is perfect for the job - but the mare called and galloped around the whole time, despite being so useless last week - really don't like horses sometimes!!

 

[volatis]

Totally mad, it was freezing yesterday and standing in a field trying to avoid being mown down by stampeding horses demanding their feed and hay was not fun. I did appreciate the indoor school though, shut the doors and pretended I couldn't hear the gales outside.

 

[PrincessDana]

Lol winter is such a nightmare when you have horses isn't it? My dad used to say to me "couldn't you have just taken up table tennis or something?" lmao.

 

[Touchwood]

I have been thinking for a while now that I am certifiably insane......getting up at stupid o'clock every single morning to do the entire yard before working full time to fund it, before going back in the evening to do it all over again, trundling through the elements to get the broodmares fed, riding and training like mad every blimmin day, and spending all my money (and a fair portion of the bank's!) on training, competitions, stud fees and vets fees!

 

[Nickymac]

I was going to post something similar yesterday but thought it was just me who was struggling with winter, thank god I'm not alone. Even on a bad day when I consider the alternatives (like ArWen said, shopping/relatives/cleaning), I'd much rather be with my scrummy ponies than anywhere else.

Yep, I'm certifiable too. Maybe there's a new clique to be started?