Rain Ranting Thread

[Rokele55]

Raining again, horses are in at night, don't really want to go out in the day. Costing fortune in bedding and haylage, can't put sand turnout in as want to roll first. Gripes full of water.

Apart from that it's great lol

Off to Exmoor for weekend riding in 2 weeks, will be taking big rain coat...

Bring snorkel and flippers, I've not seen the common this wet in April before

 

[ElectricChampagne]

It's absolutely chucking it down here now. Beating off the window and the road has turned to a river. It's like someone forgot to turn off the tap.

More events cancelled at the weekend and now we have yellow and orange wind warnings for Saturday, and a named storm.

I'm so done with this winter

 

[dominobrown]

anyone seen the weekend forecast?

I feel like I need to go the one of the places where you pay to smash things....

 

[SEL]

I was so looking forward to 2 days of dry weather but apparently we only get dry with 50mph winds.

I'm sinking to my ankles in my summer field so no chance of the horses going in there any time soon.

 

[Dave's Mam]

I was so looking forward to 2 days of dry weather but apparently we only get dry with 50mph winds.

I'm sinking to my ankles in my summer field so no chance of the horses going in there any time soon.

It'll be nice & dry with 50mph gales & 20 degrees heat. Just ready to get rained on again.

 

[Caol Ila]

anyone seen the weekend forecast?

I feel like I need to go the one of the places where you pay to smash things....

Those were my thoughts. Why the f89ck are we getting 50mph winds in April? I didn't order this weather.

 

[meesha]

Horrendous amounts of rain last night ..but.. I know I've said it before but it really is looking better from 12th April here in Somerset. One more week before someone turns the sky tap off ...

 

[Slightlyconfused]

After it raining all night its now drizzly and going up to 17 degrees....weekend 20 ish degrees and high winds

 

[tda]

We had warm temps and high winds forcast for the weekend, but that promptly changed to rain and high winds
And it rained a lot yesterday evening

 

[setterlover]

Heavy rain overnight and to add to the misery I have a bad head cold so was awake coughing at 3 am listening to the wind and rain beating on the windows.The cob decided to come in on 3 legs on Wednesday farrier out abscess found so now struggling with my head under a cobs belly poulticing his foot just what I need
Can it really get any worse.
Dosing myself up and only doing what I have to do hope this cold passes quickly.

 

[setterlover]

To add insult just ordered another £120 of bedding fortunately we make all our own haylege and still have lots left.

 

[Time for Tea]

Warm and wet. Perfect midge weather. Apparently the jet stream is stuck over us. Please someone make it go away. I have never seen my fields in such a state, and they are good old well draining gravel.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Heavy rain overnight but sunny off and on now and breezy. Ground is unbelievably wet.

 

[paddy555]

another with horrendous rain last night. High winds today and (we are in the SW) higher winds for tomorrow with or without rain.

Not very happy as tomorrow we have an added attraction ie the hunt meet and there will be a large field. Fields I can barely walk on that I have carefully preserved all winter, a couple of horses that have to be out in the field when the hunt are around or they go crazy what more could anyone want in this weather.

 

[Pinkvboots]

Heavy rain last night but it's sunny and 17 degrees now I might get my bikini out

 

[Pinkvboots]

anyone seen the weekend forecast?

I feel like I need to go the one of the places where you pay to smash things....

Turkish restaurants

 

[Sanversera]

Rain woke me in the night battering on the window

 

[Sanversera]

Looking ahead they are forecasting some dry weather here ( midlands) after mid April. We'll see.

 

[Pinkvboots]

It's meant to be 20 degrees here tomorrow so the bikini will definitely be out but will have to pair with country boots to wade through the mud and wet classy

 

[Flowerofthefen]

Rode out between downpours first thing. Now it's sunny but really windy. Weekend oops really windy still!!

 

[94lunagem]

Looking ahead they are forecasting some dry weather here ( midlands) after mid April. We'll see.

Also Midlands so here's hoping! And rain in the night woke me too.

I have 6 acres that usually allows me to rotate around 5 over winter then they're happy on an acre for spring/summer through to the clock change, including one on a starvation paddock with hay. I have a laminitic and a good doer so it works well. I'd usually move them to the summer patch around now but it's just too wet, and I can't risk them trashing it for the rest of the summer. But balancing that with making sure there isn't too much grass over there by the time I move is stressing me out!

 

[Indieanna6]

I am actually considering (for the first time in my life) having a few sessions on a sunbed to cheer me up! I am starting to feel really depressed.

Horses in today as we had rivers everywhere this morning, currently dry and blue skies but I think I will leave them in for the ground to dry out a little.

50mph winds but dry and 17 degrees forecast tomorrow - really can't decide whether to leave in or turn out! I would love them out but they can be rather silly to handle when being walked to and from the fields and the field won't cope with many hoolies!

 

[proctorclaire]

I've decided to make a rain/bad weather thread so that all that are suffering with this endless rain can all come and get it off their chest and perhaps for some moral support!

I am so utterly fed up of it, to the point of tears and not the first ones either! I don't remember it ever being this bad and there is still no end in sight. My forecast is saying we only have 3 dry days over the next two weeks. My fields are wrecked, the hardcore and mats on my gateways are no longer to be seen including the small hard standing I had which has also given up, everything is covered in mud. My back, legs and feet are cramping from trying to walk through certain areas of field and pull wheelbarrows of hay through it. I am really struggling.

I feel your pain totally. I was in tears this morning. Fields are unusable, hardstandings wrecked with mud washed over them, hardstandings flooded, barn flooded, tack room flooded. Can barely muck out stables because can't get through the flooding to empty wheelbarrow. All that hard work and money to be wrecked and no money to fix all the mud that has clogged everything including additional drainage needed. Everything was just starting to dry up a little. It's soul destroying it really is. Hoping the wind tomorrow and Sunday shifts most of the water but then more rain next week....and yes shouldn't have bothered looking at long range

 

[GrassChop]

The forecast is showing that only 2 days out of the next 14 are dry.

 

[dominobrown]

Turkish restaurants

We need to organise a 'therapy/ rage' outing for HHO/ horse owners for getting through this winter!

The forecast is showing that only 2 days out of the next 14 are dry.

Lucky you... mine has rain EVERY DAM day!!!!! And a weather warning for tomorrow

 

[setterlover]

Oddly I am starting to feel strangely calm about it all.
Have decided there is nothing I can do to change the situation we are in weather wise.so just keep plodding on .
The horses are now out overnight and on the pole barn in the day which means less mucking out as out for 15 hours .and out of the midges on the warm wet days. Plenty of haylege left.( probably until August )
The one hay field rested all winter will be ready to cut hay/haylege with first cut possibly June/July.
Move to the summer field will just wait until it's dry enough and be strip grazed if there is too much grass .
Horses are fine thankfully no mud fever and not rugged so no decisions to be made about rugging.
The field they are on is holding up ok and has grass on it , the tracks have a skim of mud but not even over their hooves so I have officially given up worrying and fretting it seems this is the way winters are going.

 

[Caol Ila]

I live in hope that this week's Met Office longer range forecast is wrong. That's the only thing getting me through the day.

 

[Flame_]

Not very happy as tomorrow we have an added attraction ie the hunt meet and there will be a large field. Fields I can barely walk on that I have carefully preserved all winter, a couple of horses that have to be out in the field when the hunt are around or they go crazy what more could anyone want in this weather.

Have you got transport? Hire an indoor for a couple of hours? Or if they're non-ridden, take them to your local equivalent to somerford park, leave them in the box with a net and spend a couple of hours in the tack shop and cafe

 

[paddy555]

Have you got transport? Hire an indoor for a couple of hours? Or if they're non-ridden, take them to your local equivalent to somerford park, leave them in the box with a net and spend a couple of hours in the tack shop and cafe

thanks for the suggestion. I don't have transport. I'm in the middle of Dartmoor, the equivalent of Somerford or anything similar doesn't exist but I have to admit the cafe idea and coffee would be very nice.. They will be hunting from 11am to 6 pm I imagine. Hopefully the fox won't decide to go round in circles but will go a long way away.

 

[setterlover]

This came up on my Facebook memories from today 6 years ago! Seems it not unusual for spring to be like it is now!

Dear Mother Nature, I ordered a delivery of "Spring" in November, with a delivery date of mid March. My delivery has not yet arrived.
Please could you kick your collection / delivery agents up the arse, so we can get away from the soggy mess that "Winter" is becoming after being left in use for far too long.
Many thanks in advance.

Edited to add. I have just checked the care label on "Winter". It advises that if used beyond a 3 month period, the white crispness will be lost & the product will become wet, damp & very soggy. I fear this is what has happened. Please collect your overdue "Winter" at your earliest convenience. Like tomorrow.