Looks pretty nice, doesn't it? What the photo doesn't show is the wind. I went out to feed this morning, and the horses stayed out in their paddocks, because, you see, there were horse eating tarps flapping; like this one that covers their hay-
and another one. Beamer stayed in his shelter at the far end of his paddock.
The mares stayed out in their paddock too, until Beamer ventured forth when the wind finally eased up a bit; then they all went to their feeders.
I was hoping to ride today- will have to see how that goes, because this is another thing that warm wind is doing:
Making ice. I won't be taking Beamer out of this gate for a while.
Anywhere the snow is packed down, there's ice but where it isn't packed it's melting to bare ground.
The natives call this warm west wind the Snow Eater. In Alberta we called it a Chinook wind. It could change the temperature by 30 degrees in a matter of minutes. Since it's supposed to stay warm for at least a week, this should all disappear, hopefully the ice too. I really want to be able to use my round pen again.
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Reminds me of an Ian Tyson song :-).
It's Chinooking here the past two days and if it keeps it up we'll be able to ride here again...not so sure the yard ice will go to get to the barn though.
You're a little bit cooler than us. Ours melted off, but it made a muddy mess out of everything. I'm waiting for it all to solidify..no ice. And, I'm looking into having sand delivered because I'm getting so tired of waiting. :(
We have heard it is coming this way with some snow first so it can blow around. Be careful on the ice:)
Oh I hate ice, that's all we have around here right now, its dangerous just to walk out the door, no riding at home for a while but its supposed to be warm all week so hopefully some will go away
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