that winter feeling.

[tontoandtigger]

anyone else got that winter feeling.

 

[spotty_pony]

Yep, it's cold and rainy here!

 

[loz9]

YES!!! its cold & windy here, but luckily not raining. The ponies will be staying out as long as I can bare it as Im not ready to start mucking out yet!

 

[keanmu]

Horses where I am come in every night anyway but they are rugged at night all ready. Still warm in the day but it's getting very cold at night so most have a lightweigh rug on. Roll on -30.....woooo hoooo

 

[Enfys]

Nope

Glorious sunny day, 20C, tee shirts and sunglasses weather, been at a Farm show all morning and winter is nowhere near us yet I have seen Alfa still being cut in the fields for late baling today.

Tomorrow when I am checking horses at 5am in the pitch black before work I may feel differently though.

 

[Spit That Out]

Yep...dark mornings (well at 5.30am anyway!!) windy, raining and swapping fleeces for turnouts.
Puddles that always seem to get inside my mucker's...top, jumper and a coat, just going to search for my gloves.

And that was in August!!!

 

[not_with_it]

I feel as though I should be tucking the horses into their rugs and stables on a night. They are staying out for another month yet though.
I feel ready to put on all my winter layers but in reality im not ready for winter yet. I have so much left to do.

 

[TinselRider]

Oh yes! It's dark by 8 and the horses coats are starting to change. There is talk of clipping on the yard already

On the bright side it means my indoor SJ season starts, I can hack on crisp frosty mornings and I am closer to jetting off into the sunshine

 

[Echo Bravo]

Yes lovely isn't it, horses in,left them munching away at their hay and I do enjoy mucking out, so now I can start losing all the lbs I gained over the summer in idleness.

 

[NicoleS_007]

Yes indeedy Hairy sweaty horse, more energetic horse, rain rain and more rain oh and very windy ... wooooo i love it

 

[christi]

i keep my horse in overnight all the year round , so the mucking out etc is no diff for me , its just the temps thats diff for me

 

[GLEEK]

THere is a chill in the wind. My house feels warmer than outside! The farmers were saying that there is meant to be snow on the tops of the high hills

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

Yes, it feels right round the corner, dark flaming mornings, that is what I really hate, don't mind the cold so much but the lack of light

 

[christi]

THere is a chill in the wind. My house feels warmer than outside! The farmers were saying that there is meant to be snow on the tops of the high hills

Gleek we had our 1st flurry of snow yesterday !

 

[horsecrazy25]

Definately, got up at 6 went outside felt like 5 degrees

 

[horsecrazy25]

Gleek we had our 1st flurry of snow yesterday !

Your Joking

Oh know, hope that aint a sign winter gonna be bad!!

 

[Jesstickle]

Oh yeah. Dark when I wake up, dark when I finally make it home from the yard. Needed my feathers this evening for the first time in months ( feathers being ubiquitous toggi down gilet!) It's raining. My two year old is as fluffy as a teddy. My clipper blades need sharpening NOW, but so do the world and his wife's so I'll have to que like everyone else. It's definitely winter.

I spent two hours tonight soaking wood pellets to make beds so they can come in this weekend. I can't bear to see them shivering outside any longer!

Good luck with the winter everyone. I hope we make it out the other side! Sometimes I feel like the winter drudgery will kill me!

 

[dibbin]

Me it's cold and windy and wet, my horse has a turnout rug on and the YM told me the horses will probably be coming in at the end of this month. Sigh. 5.30 wakeup calls, here I come!

 

[Perrie]

It's been feeling wintry here for the past week.
Rain, rain more rain, very chilly in the wind & my field is like a mud bath.
We are due snow on the hills & frost within in the next few days too

XxX

 

[asterid]

Yup, dark mornings (6am) and nights drawing in. No more Tee shirts for me

Horses in at night now and coat malting.

I am just dreading the cold frosty mornings. Although in a strange way I do quite like it, but the novelty soon wears off!

 

[LeneHorse]

Oh yes! My girl has become quite fluffy and is a bit more on her toes. She is always more 'interesting' to ride in the winter! I am trying to hack out after work as much as possible as in a week or so it will be too dark and we'll be confined to the school

 

[noblesteed]

boo sucks to winter, my horse is beginning to look a bit polar-bear-ish already. I've not got my sharer anymore so noone to ride him on weekdays as it'll be too dark when I finish work. I hate winter!

 

[Shutterbug]

Yeah - my OH laughs cause I always say I can smell winter or smell summer - and I definately smelled winter the other day

 

[Balibee]

Cold and wet here too. I am determined though that he is out for another 4 weeks. I am looking forward to that first night tucked up in a thick fresh clean bed, munching on hay and out of the wind and rain though but hope it is a few weeks away.

We may get an indian summer!! fingers crossed

 

[tontoandtigger]

i am so pleased its not just me then. my horses have rugs on and if its wet and windy they have come in, however if they dont seem to be that keen they can stay out. strangely enough they seem to get it right every night. they must have some sort of internal weather detection system
i hate winter !!!!!
time for a cup of tea i think

 

[Vetwrap]

We're living on borrowed time, I think. Another couple of weeks and I think that will be that for the winter. With two old boys though, I prefer them to be out as much as possible - and I am encouraging the youngster to be a bit tougher about the weather.

The early part of winter is a bit of a novelty and it is lovely to see them tucked up in warm rugs in warm stables - but by the end, we're just praying for the Spring to come early!

This year, I am trying to do a rota with another girl on the yard, so that we put out/hay her two one morning of the weekend - and she sees to our three the other. That way, each of us get a lie in on the weekend.

 

[DH1]

Yep its wintery, just got back from doing two barrows of poo picking (each barrow of rain soaked poo weighed about 1/4 of a tonne).
The wind was whipping across the field, making my eyes water and my mascara has run and now I look like a panda, (OMG I actually went into the Co op looking like a panda).
The joy of horses and winter eh.

 

[catembi]

Yep, not much longer & I'll be lugging the floodlight about again. I couldn't get planning for flood lights for my school so I've got a mobile one on a tripod, & I have to drag it out every night, plus the 50m extension lead. Then if it's windy I have to tie it to the fence to stop it blowing over. Dark + muddy extension leads are the worst things for me over winter.

 

[littlemisslauren]

I have been trying to ignore the fat that winter is almost here but last night we had to get extra blankets for the bed!

I have asked for some new wellies and a warm coat for my birthday next month, I can't stand another winter with leaky wellies

I'm a groom so whilst some think its fun to go and see their own horses in the snow, I deal with 20+ horses a day.... it is never fun when the yard is icy and the fields are flooded.

 

[DH1]

LittlemissLauren that made my smile , only a horsey person would have wellies on their birthday wish list