FLAMIN RAIN

olliethecob

olliethecob

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Just wanted a moan about the rain.
I am now getting really fed up. My field is a bog, my tack is forever wet from riding in the rain and I would really appreciate some sunshine.

Sorry just wanted a moan!!!!
 
I can't believe it. Just a few days of dry weather would be nice, especially at the weekend so i can get some nice riding in. Oh well roll on August....
 
Totally agree, flippin rain !! I need nearly a week of good weather to get the hay done !! dont think thats likely but on the upside there is some better weather forecast for end of month, hopefully this will also encourage people onto all year turnout as about to "hopefully" open livery yard which thankfully is on a hill so excellent ground (unlike my own place)
 
The fields look like it's the middle of winter! Normally, if we have short spells like this during the summer, I bring them into the sand turnout for a few days to save the paddocks, but this year I have just decided to trash them as there doesn't seem to be an end in sight and they will be confined all winter to the sand turnout, so they may as well stay out on the grass. It's just unbelievable!
 
The grass in my field for hay has now gone past its best and looks quite sick. So my husband (who is a farmer) has decided just to cut it and round bale it for cattle. What will my girls and boys have for the winter. All i want is say 8 days sunshine, thats all.
 
I am having to bring my two in at night to try and save the paddock from getting totally trashed. It is very slow draining and has lots of standing water. The horses are being stabled at night more now than they were throughout the whole of the winter :mad:
 
I am quite a nervous rider and i wanted to do so much after work this june and july but it has ended up to doing nothing much really. May be august will be better.

Where i walk my horses by the gate it is like a mud bath. :(
 
Can I join? Arghh it's too depressing isn't it! Slipping about in the mud and winter yard boots in July! I am totally over this rain and I WILL cry if it carries on much longer! :( :(
 
My hay field is sodden, my grazing field is boggy, my non grass turnout is flooded and my yard is drenched..

Total rubbish..
 
I have just been on the long range forecast and we have this till the end of July....but we do have one dry day on the 19th July, that day will be just cloudy. So get ready to go out and have some fun and get that hay done....

this is pants...:mad:
 
Constant wet plus horses plus walking dogs equals misery!! I'm going thru 4 pairs of trousers/jods a day, my muck boots have been in the airing cupboard for the last 2 days trying to get the insides dry :mad:

T/O fields looking as bad as they do in the winter................have this awful vision of GB being highly embarrassed as they have to cancel half the Olympic events due to rain :D
 
Another fed up person here.I have lost so much work through bad weather that it isn't funny.:( This is the first year my girls have been able to go to shows and Pony Club after I saved up and bought a trailer,but everything has been cancelled.Even if the rain stops for a day,the ground is still sodden.

I'm starting to worry about hay too,my parents are farmers and can't mow,neither can the farmer I buy horse hay from.Goodness knows what the price/quality will be like if it ever gets baled.

I even bought a new pair of wellies 2 months back,hoping that would jinx the weather into drying up.
 
I feel your pain!! I too am totally fed up with having to wait for ages to dry the boy off before I can ride him, cancelled shows, school and fields too boggy to do anything productive in, hacking out in the rain and loosing shoes in the quagmire that is his field. Between the three of us at our yard I think we have been keeping our farrier in business over the past few weeks with the number of shoes lost in the mud!! Surely it's got to get better at some point (as I keep telling myself while banging my head against the wall) :(. Anyone fancy chipping in to open a yard in sunny Spain? :p:p
 
Make sure its sunny southern spain! Coming from someone who was fooled into a snowy, haily, wind-chill-factor-of-minus-15 winter in Spain! Believe me that's no fun when you've optimistically only packed nice summery clothes!
 
Careful what you wish for tho............... :o

in 1976 (a bit of a dry-ish summer as some may recall) it was pretty dire up till around the 3rd week in July........ then there was no rain till late autumn, temperatures were steaming high...... (and as I was at school, I wasn't bothered, but I do remember my mum getting hay made on the 'bog field - which has never had hay taken off it before or since)

That said, its not cold & nobody is moaning about lack of grass as far as I can see - just mud instead! (a nice drying wind & some sun would be good :)
 
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