Shameless winter rant

[DeirdreBarlow]

I am SICK of WINTER !

I know, I know - not the most productive of moans, and poor Canada have got it worse (judging by some of stormarion's photos).
But I'm just getting so depressed with it all .
It drizzles all day (interspersed with amazonian-like downpours which arrive and leave with zero warning!), the airs bitterly cold and is made colder with all the gale-force gusts of icey wind we're getting.
It's been like this all of last week and is due to continue all of this week too.

We have no indoor school (and at the minute, no time to travel to our nearest one), and (whilst I pride myself on being an all-weather gal ), it really is too cold, too boggy and too unpredictable (it throws it down painfully hard at a moment's notice) to ride.
As separate issues they're tolerable, but altogether it's too much .

Benjy's got mudfever, Grotbag's showing the beginnings of it, my arthritic hip is playing hell up, Ruby thinks all the puddles are never-ending-pits-of-doom (so my toes get trodden on daily as she performs airs-above-the-ground at the end of her leadrope), and my "water-proof gloves" are in fact anything but!

Rant over. Bring on summer!

 

[evilgiraffe]

Really? Where are you? Send it to me, I don't mind. It's been shockingly mild here lately, though wet. I'd actually like it to get a good five degrees colder - it's currently far too warm for January!

 

[Shadowlark]

I would simply be happy to get a little more daylight.. feeding twice a day - both times in the dark is getting OLD. This morning we had the privaledge of adding gale force winds to that.. Pitching hay was a nightmare.. filling water - nightmare tending to an injured horse NIGHTMARE. I cursed and swore all morning.
Now I am here at work looking like I walked thru a cyclone - I am going for the just rescued from a mountain top look.. If I still have any hay when I get home I will be impressed! Deja is heaving and I can't do a darn thing about it.

Right now I just don't want to go home and deal with it all - I should just camp out here at work and let poor hubby figure it out.

 

[DeirdreBarlow]

Really? Where are you? Send it to me, I don't mind. It's been shockingly mild here lately, though wet. I'd actually like it to get a good five degrees colder - it's currently far too warm for January!

Are you completely mad ?!

I'm in the North East - and pay NO attention to the weather forecast for up here. It's all lies !
I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but there's overwhelming evidence the Met office are up to something.
Today was supposed to be "cloudy with sunny intervals". And the day before that was apparently "dry and mild" (incidently it drizzled all day and we even got afew snowflakes).

 

[Rarah]

I've got to admit - it's getting to me too

I't doesn't stop me hacking out - I try to stick to riding in the valley when it's windy, but if it's really wet the streams get too deep to cross.
Not keen on schooling in a waterlogged outdoor school though on an evening.

I've put my girl on full livery just so that I don't have to go traipsing through the mud to bring her in. It was taking me so long to find her on an evening that I didn't have time to ride.

Roll on springtime!

 

[Mehitabel]

winter smells. i had to do two hours hack escorting on saturday - the rain went through my suede chaps, which ran their dye so i still have dark blue ink chap outlines on my legs. petal was furious by the second hour.

 

[Alfies-slave]

I am in the north east uk and so far we haven't had winter! When its been dry I have been working outside with no coat and its January. It seems un-natural! From a horsey point of view it needs to get a good deal colder. If we don't get some serious frosts next year is going to be hell with much, much more flies, ringworm, horse worms, mudfever, rainscold, flu, strangles etc lurking about. We need the cold to zap the majority of the eggs, spores, organisms, bacteria etc. If the grass comes through furiously in the spring all the laminitics will keel over! Roll on winter long and hard!

 

[DeirdreBarlow]

I am in the north east uk and so far we haven't had winter! When its been dry I have been working outside with no coat and its January. It seems un-natural! From a horsey point of view it needs to get a good deal colder.

So let me get this straight? My house and the yard I use has it's own personal rain/snow/hail cloud? Terrific .

 

[eml]

Join me DB!

I cancelled riding one day last year as I felt I couldn't get horses safely to the school through the ice/snow (200yds) only to be told that there was no snow 3 miles away!

We often have fog in the indoor school when a mile away it is clear and as for wind....well suffice it to say our land is on the edge of 'Windy Ridge' according to the map!

 

[Black Beastie]

Bit O/T but can anyone tell me what IMAO means???

And yes the weather is shocking I posted some piccies on another weather thread of my field turned lake!!!

Nikki xxxx

 

[CurlyWurlyRach]

gahhhh im sick of the rain!
the fields are muddy and i lost a welly in a puddle.
curlys white socks are invisible under the wet mud that never dries but bedding gets stuck to.
her sodden rugs are draped over the bannister stinking the house out - parents moaning ''it smells like something died in there''.
the field has no shelter and shes been walking up and down the fence screaming to be brought inside
im getting to college drenched. smelling like wet horse and late and my fingers dont work in the cold.

i shall stop now.

 

[DeirdreBarlow]

Join me DB!

I cancelled riding one day last year as I felt I couldn't get horses safely to the school through the ice/snow (200yds) only to be told that there was no snow 3 miles away!

We often have fog in the indoor school when a mile away it is clear and as for wind....well suffice it to say our land is on the edge of 'Windy Ridge' according to the map!

Well thank goodness for that.
I was beginning to wonder if I was going mad !

Very jealous of your indoor school though !