You know it's cold when.....

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Fee Fo

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1) You assume that your feet were amputated from the ankle while you were out riding;
2) Your chill blains have chill blains;
3) You pull your horses rugs off and throw them around your shoulders to take advantage of the heat;
4) Your sugar beet has frozen despite a layer of straw on it and even though you "hid" it in a feed bin;
5) When you finally DO get in a shower the lovely warm water is freezing by the time it reaches your knees.

Ho hum.:rolleyes:
 
you know it's cold when...

....you take the butter out of the fridge and it gets harder
....the cat has gained 4 pounds overnight in fluff
....Moaning Myrtle (the one remaining lonely hen) voluntarily comes into the kitchen to warm up
....even my dad says its cold!
 
You know its cold when:
The yard chicken refuses to go outside for 4 solid days!!
Under a thermal top, 2 jumpers, gillet, coat, hat, musto snug jods, rambo fleece full chaps, 2 pairs of socks and a hat...and you're still freezing!!
 
You know it's cold when.......your stepdad leaves the heating on 24/7 despite everyone being in work during the day!!
 
You're poo picking and your nose is running - you just let it drip to the ground and don't even bother trying to wipe/blow or even attempt to get a tissue out of your pocket due to the 'thick glove in small pocket' argument that would ensue :D

....or is this just me!
 
Or poo-picking with nose running that turns into ice by the time it drips out.

And you have to carefully defrost your eyeballs and unpeel your lids before attempting to blink out in the field.

You know it's time to leave the yard when actually the prospect of curling up in a ball on the feed bins seems quite inviting, WARNING - this is not a good state, this is the moment before hypothermia sets in and you actually feel very very tired and oddly not cold at all................
 
you break the ice in the water trough and its 5" thick!
you can see your breath even in bed.
you want to voluntarily sit in the uni library all day just because it has heating on.
your dog who is usually boiling all of the time wants to get under a blanket.
your welsh mountain pony has a spring in her step because it's finally reached her favourite temperature!
 
You break the 5" ice on the water buckets and 10 mins later it's frozen again... And poo is frozen in the field and in the stable. Never a good sign!!
 
when your about to set of to work wearing 1 cardy, 1 thick puffa fleece and a workmans jacket and your still cold and thats indoors. Oh and my toggi boots to walk accross the hospital car park in as its probably a mess :D
 
You know it's a cold day in New Zealand winter when you don't get to work in a T shirt till around 10am.

Really feel for you guys having to deal with the snow and ice. It's a very hard time for you all.
 
when my sheepskin lined yard boots have become the only boots i wear for work!

(i have to hide them in the kitchen at work when i take them off as they smell quite bad!)
 
When you go into YO house to find her cooking sausage rolls with her hat still on even though house has heating on 24/7.
When you go to open car door and discover it is ever so slightly frozen
When the de-icer refreezes...it was -17 at the time but still!!
When the windscreen re freezes as you drive along...very scary

My newfoundland finally wants to go out running for hours, as its her temperature at last!
The cats are happy to stay inside for a week running away if the door is opened!
 
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You have to factor in an extra 30 mins before you leave the house in order to layer up.....

You view dropped shavings and bedding on the yard with relief as it means less likelihood of broken limbs.....

You are feeding carrot shaped ice cubes......

Your horses water buckets, previously fastidiously clean, now contain stray shavings and strands of hay amid the ice as you daren't throw away anything that vaguely resembles water.....

Having arrived back inside after a few hours in the cold you soon resemble someone with a major drink issue as your face turns bright pink and remains that way for several hours....

You can't get the lid off your hip flask because it has frozen....

The diet yoghurts in the fridge remain strangely untouched.....
 
Slightly off topic but I had to giggle at my pony last night as she pulled funny faces trying to eat her own whisker icicles.
We've got it pretty easy here - just a couple of dustings of snow. But still the taps have frozen so we're fulling up buckets in the ladies loo (tap - not WC!)
 
You know it's cold when you stamp with one foot to break the ice on the trough and the underlying water shoots up in a jet and gets you right in the crotch - and then freezes solid.

You can't untie your haynet, which has frozen solid to the stable wall.

You start to wonder how much money you could make offering sleigh rides instead of forking out for twice as much forage as usual.

Everyone asks how the horses are coping as you struggle past them loaded with hay, feed and water hardly able to move.

Mud actually starts to sound quite appealing.

You wonder how long it might be before you get speared by the huge icicles overhanging the place, and think whether you've provided for you horse in your will.

Emigrating is becoming more attractive by the day.
 
I apologise if these have already been said:

When your hands get so cold they go numb and you can't feel them anymore!
When you had three pairs of socks on and your feet still feel like blocks of ice
When water refreezes over every half an hour
When there are icicles hanging from the stable roof
When there is ice on the INSIDE of your car windscreen as well as the outside!
 
....You have to chip the ice out of the shower before you get in it,
The toothpaste tube has to be jumped on to get the stuff out,
Shampoo/shower gel needs to be run under the hot tap before it will come out the bottle too!,
NEVER shave your legs when you have goose pimples unless you like the 'I've just stepped out of a blender look'!!!:D
The inside of the windows, even in the kitchen with the aga on, freeze - although it is pretty - who needs curtains in this weather!!:D,
The cats get stuck to their water bowl when they go for a drink!:D
Even with my electric blanket on full blast and with 14 cats sitting on the bed it's still cold!,
You're in bed by 8pm because it's warmer!,
You loose the will to live when you realise you do actually need the loo after you've put on 50 layers,
Everything that contains fat in the fridge has been eaten, all that is left are Rivita and a jar of pickled onions!!:D
 
Lol! Its amazing how many of these apply to me!

Car door frozen solid - happened to me 5 days in a row, yet I cunningly still keep the de-icer in the car :-)
Its so cold that I'm now glad I don't have a thermometer in the car - was in my friends other day and it was -8 at midday. Not good!
My horse has icicle fetlocks, you can swing one and they bump off each other and make a noise, very amusing!
I soak my speedibeet as I use it - left it 30 mins whilst I rode the other day (indoor school is a godsend!) and had to remake more. It had frozen :-(
 
when you mane and tail conditioner spray freezes.
when you end up taking sugar beet/ calm and condition home to prevent it from freezing.
when you end up waddling/rolling onto the yard from the amount of layers you have on.
 
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