When I win Lotto......

The phrase that everyone has said in there life, "when I win Lotto". After this week, I've got the spending planned out. Stables, sand roll/ round yard, breeze way leading to the insulated indoor arena and heated wash bays. When the weather pulls a stunt like it did this week, I'll never have to combat icy ground again.

Last Sunday we started off with -22 by Tuesday it had warmed up and was pouring rain. Really pouring and didn't stop for what felt like a week. The ground turned icy and then the field turned to ankle deep mud. I can deal with mud, I'm use to it. But then mother nature had other plans. BAM! frozen mud and now it's back to snow again.

Not many animals where happy. The Edelweiss (the dog) wasn't all keen with life outside, Schillaci (the cat) turned her nose up at it and went back to keeping guard on the back of the couch and the horses...... well lets just say they added more fuel to the fire of the fact they aren't as smart as dogs. (Yes you read right, evidence based research has proven that Equines are not as switched on as those in the Canine form).

I know horses only think about three maybe four things. Food, sleep, reproduction and play. So this explains why the horses did what they did. Five horses refusing to go out in the rain at all (we might melt! haven't you read wizard of oz?), not even to get their hay, we had to take to them. All standing in their shelter from the wind and the rain, decided it was time for a bit of home makeover with their boredom. They have chewed quite the hole in the wall and pulled chunks of wood off.  Well, the size of a wood panel. So now the horses are trying to get out of the wind in the other corner of the shelter.....some thing they hadn't thought of. Lucky for them, the hardware store has plenty, so their house is repaired for now and so much for the boredom buster horse toys.

Some times when you have a horse or horses, they do things that makes think "why?", "really?" and "are you @*#! serious?" as you hand over yet another wad of cash. The joys of horse ownership.

Home and Winter

Well, Sammy has been home now for 15 days. Settling in with the other horses and continuing with his Education.  We've been riding in the field and down by the river and this horse makes me laugh. Saddled up and went for a hack with Coreen and her mare Missy. Well didn't mister "look at me! I'm a male! I'm good looking! Look what I can do!!" put on the show. I got on and it was buck, leap, buck, buck, passage, leap and then more passage. All in the name of showing off and sadly for Sammy, his bucks aren't worth a damn. He calmed down, brain back between his ears and was a pleasant ride.


Goes to show doesn't matter type of animal it is, bring in a female and boys will be silly boys.