Ok, enoughs enough now!!

[L&M]

I know we are desparate for rain but please, please could we have a little break from it, even just for a few hours!

I have just spent 2 hrs in the hail, torrential downpours and thunder trying to catch a horse that had escaped it's starvation paddock - I don't blame it as it has turned into a mudbath over the last few days.

Most of horses have had to come back in at night to save the spring grass, which although thank god is growing well, is now just being mushed back into the mud. I daren't use the quad to feed and hay any horses still out as it is churning the ground up so much, so am having to lug it around by hand.

To top it all SJ comp has been cancelled at the weekend due to the parking being waterlogged, and our last comp was cancelled due to the snow, so can't even get any enjoyment out of my own horses!!

Oh to live in a town, not work with horses and mud, and have a nice clean job working in an office.

How is everyone else fairing?

 

[ebonyallen]

I do not what you mean, I only said yesterday as I was getting soaked for the third time that I am really bored with it now lol, we have a hose pipe ban down here and they are still saying that this will make no difference what so ever to the problem. The fields are a bog the school is like a swimming pool so tomorrow unless I want a swimming lesson guess will have to cancel again arrrrrrr. Everything is harder work and I am fed up with looking like a drowned rat !!
Mind you did you enjoy summer it was back in March deep joy

 

[Tammytoo]

I last rode on Monday and it hasn't stopped raining since! This morning it's dry but I can't ride till 4ish and the rain is forecast to start again after lunch aqnd will continue for another 2/3 days at least. I put my 2 out for a couple of hours in the morning (I have limited grazing) and hope they don't trash it too much. Even the t/o area is sludge as the water levels are so high. Mud on everything.

What drought! Fields around are under water and rivers flooded!

 

[LeannePip]

Oh to live in a town, not work with horses and mud, and have a nice clean job working in an office.

How is everyone else fairing?

i wish it would go!! i have worked every day this week and it has rained non stop i have been drenched to the bone every day my day off comes and it stops raining the one day of the week i like to not venture outside until 4pm to go and do the horses - whats the betting it will rain then!? . . .

im ment to be x-country schooling tomorrow so the rain had best hold off!! if it can stay sunfish today the ground tomorrow should be decent as it is normally solid at this place.

 

[AMH]

We're in Kent and we've been desperate for rain. This week's been a washout - I have my first dressage test tomorrow morning and the school's a pond.

At least if I do badly tomorrow I can blame the weather!

 

[LynH]

I've booked a lesson next Tues in local yard's indoor as I haven't been able to school in the field (arena to be built this yr) but I've just realised I left the trailer in the field storing hay next to field shelter and I'm wondering if it'll be too wet to get it out of the field or will taking the Landy in the field do more damage than it's worth.
Might end up hacking in the rain there to be able to school in the dry!!
One good thing tho, I can find out which fields will work best as winter fields before next winter. We've just moved in and it was hard to judge but at least now I know which fields get the wettest.

 

[JFTDWS]

I do not appreciate not being able to school or jump on my field, and I definitely do not appreciate heading out for hacks in the glorious sunshine to have to head for home at top speed after half an hour because it's a thundering, lightning-striking hail storm

 

[Copperpot]

I got soaked hacking today rain, thunder the lot! Imagine I will get soaked again tomorrow too

 

[L&M]

Good news!! It may be dry overnight so get the torches out and ride then!

Metcheck, although not known for it's reliability, thinks the sun will return from weds next week, so keeping fingers crossed.

Just got to get through this weekend first!

 

[Holly Hocks]

Try living in the Lake District - we get rain for about 364 days out of 365....