Done to death snow post...anyone else not actually bothered?

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Anyone else not actually that bothered by it now? Didn't seem any different to me personally today. Walked down there as normal [didn't get muddy, which is a plus!], took no longer [quicker, if anything as not turned out], ponies were happy and dry inside, hay had been delivered as normal, water doesn't freeze down there....no stress.


And BC pics, naturally.


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I wouldn't mind snow like that.

Our snow is melty horrible stuff that has put my fields under 2" of water already and is as foul as it comes. That said, it didn't stop me riding or having a blast :D
 
JFTD said:
That said, it didn't stop me riding or having a blast :D
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T'is first snow, ever, I have no horse to have a snow blast with :'(


Though BC did have a blast taking for a handgraze...bouncy bouncy best described him lol.
 
I don't mind this week as horsey has hurt himself and is signed off til Tuesday anyway.

Feel better about him being off now intact, was gutted as I have a week off (typical!) but hey ho!
 
You don't have very much CS. Some people are underneath feet of the stuff. A quarter of the country has no electricity.
 
I am only annoyed that it happened over the weekend and not during the week. I have limited time to ride during the week so weekends are when I need to ride. I will take one out in it but not the other one.

I'm hoping we get loads more overnight!
 
ChristmasSparkles said:
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T'is first snow, ever, I have no horse to have a snow blast with :'(


Though BC did have a blast taking for a handgraze...bouncy bouncy best described him lol.
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You'd be welcome to borrow mine :p

Amymay is right though, a friend of mine on facebook was posting photos from the Isle of Man where they've got 5ft+ snow drifts and the roads are unpassable. Secretly I quite fancy riding in 4ft deep snow, but it really doesn't make life easy!
 
We don't have snow just more Bloomin rain :( Our fields that had finaly started to think about drying out are knee deep in mud again :( :( I find myself actualy wishing it was freezing, atleast then it would be dry ;)
 
JFTD said:
You'd be welcome to borrow mine :p

Amymay is right though, a friend of mine on facebook was posting photos from the Isle of Man where they've got 5ft+ snow drifts and the roads are unpassable. Secretly I quite fancy riding in 4ft deep snow, but it really doesn't make life easy!
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Yeah...we had that last time when I moved back home earlier on in the year, Bloody nightmare. Ended up handwalking the neds through almost waist deep snow drifts for about a mile and a half as could only get the horsebox to the garage on the main road closest! [That caused some odd looks!] And had no water running in the barn, so was having to drive bowsers as close as we could get, then hand drag them the rest up the hill. Nightmare.
 
It's been snowing all day here but not lying. Horses were a little confused by it as we led them out. My big girl adores snow and loves to watch it coming down in giant flakes and then go and have a good play in it. She seems to have found this snow far too much like rain, which she hates, and almost insulting:D
 
Not to bad here but my hay car got stuck in snow on field so had to carry bales and bales across the field :( then decided it was bad enough to bring them in, caught two led Down to yard then decided it was thawing so took them back out again. I'm not overlly bothered by snow but I could do without it tbh!
 
Oh yes I'm bothered! It's going to take a helluva long time for the land to dry out and where do you think your hay, straw, hard feed is going to come from if farmers can't get onto soaking wet land to grow anything?
 
I don't like English snow because it's always too wet. Back home (a Nordic country) we get proper snow and it's just very cold, not wet at all. That's bearable and it's actually really nice to ride outside. My Shetland pony goes mental when it snows for the first time in a winter, he loves playing in the snow.

This was taken around last Christmas, me and a beautiful Finnish bred horse:

 
Well on the plus side the horses came in with clean ankles and toes tonight, I haven't checked them for mud fever since the last snow so am pleased to say they are fine!
 
It's ok here. Although we have snow and drifts, the snow has been very well behaved and melted off the roads and lanes, but friend 5 miles down the road is completely snowed in.

Ainouu Lovely picture of you and your horse. My OH works in Denmark most weeks and he's always impressed with how efficiently the snow is managed there. Everyone seems to carry on as normal.
 
For the record, I simply meant as opposed to last times, as I'm normally the biggest snow grinch going, I just don't have the desire to moan about it like I normally do. More just this time have a 'sod it its snowy again, oh well carry on' attitude...as opposed to 'I want to emigrate to Australia' or SAD syndrome.....
 
Walked over to the horses but that was solely down to the fact my car failed its MOT and the repair work hasn't been done yet. Didn't take any longer than the usual walk does. Our horses live out all year round so didn't have a hooley in the snow, they were more excited when the hay delivery arrived :D
 
We have had snow on and off since October that's 5 months! Is there any other weather:confused: There isn't exactly very much on the ground but there has been snow in the air and fresh snow on the ground in the morning for weeks now. It comes and goes as it pleases.
 
Ive had horizontal blizzards for 5 days solid now, and have to tend to sheep and geese and chickens as well as the horses, so yes I am bothered. And the sheep are in lamb....

Ask me again when I can get out of our place and the animals aren't running out of feed...
 
Well, we have had hardly any snow here all winter, which is all the more surprising when I say I'm in the Scottish Highlands, north of Inverness!

But the wind has been very cruel and it is so cold it is very unpleasant to work outside. The ponies (Highlands) could not give a damn and all have thick luxurious coats. They don't like the rain but fortunately it has been quite dry. If it gets really bad, they do use the field shelter but mostly prefer to be out hunting for the odd blade of grass (ignoring the ad lib hay!).

This year I got myself organised and the most used water troughs have fitted over flows so they keep running and don't freeze. In previous years, just going around with a Calor gas cylinder on the back of the quad to get them thawed out was taking half the day.
 
Worst bit about it this time around in my area anyway is it is more like sleet and the ground now has inches of standing water again. Horses are in for the weekend so they don't care - I do worry about people who have to be out and about in it though and getting stuck in drifts, having no heating, floods ruining houses and people dying.
 
Er you have about a mm of snow, I agree that's nothing. We only have an inch however it has drifted into 6ft drifts 30ft long on the roads and gale force winds for 48 hours, power been off most of the day and roads impassable to even 4wds...

Tomorrow I have got to get off the place with a 16ft trailer and a 3yr old on tow to get hay to my stock. Chances of not getting stuck - slim!
 
Haven't noticed the weather for the past couple of weeks :o but was freed from my tethers and surprised to see snow over Hampstead this morning. It was quite pretty!
 
We've got quite a lot, but its bearable to me, probably because its the end of winter, and Spring has to come sooner or later! If it was early jan I would be feeling a lot more fed up about it.

I couldn't make it to work and lost a flight, so will lose all the flying allowance pay that I should have got, plus I will be on standby when I can get out, so the days off I had are not fixed anymore, so all the plans I made are not solid anymore (like first ride with a potential sharer etc), and my next flight can be changed too if they like, so the next fortnight is up in the air now...

To be honest, watching the news yesterday, I felt sorry for the people further south who were getting the flooding and houses falling down. Luckily we've never experienced it here, I expect its a million times worse than snow. At least you can keep snow out of your house..

I always smile at the ones "not bothered" or "hoping it snows". They're usually the ones who don't have to go to work, do the shopping, or who are hoping the school will be closed. Snow is great if you've not much to do!
 
Here in derbyshire the mountain rescue are being called out to rescue peopke stranded in their cars on major A roads. We have massive snow drifts and the snow is still falling. We have managed as usual but only because we have a 4x4, my car hasn't moved since Thursday even with the 4x4 we have struggled to get to the stables. Those with cars have had to walk in. They gave taken over an hour each way despite being well prepared. Our taps are frozen and snow is coming into the stables. So yes it is a bit irritating this snow...........
 
I had to laugh at my lot this evening, they've been out most of the day and have watched the fields turn slowly white as the temperature dropped and the snow began to settle. No problem. They were keen to come in but not desperate. You can't see into our yard from the fields, you come down a tractorway and through an arch. Every horse, without exception, got through the arch and stopped dead with shock to find everything white in there. :D
 
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