Go away winter!

I am so ready for summer to get here!

So we had a relatively dry and somewhat mild winter, and we were all starting to get nervous that we would plunge into a far more severe drought than last year.  But, old man winter has decided to finally open the heavens.  A week ago we got well over a foot of snow in 3 days, it just wouldn't stop snowing! While snow in April is not unusual, the volume of it this time was quite amazing!


My backyard on the first day of the storm...
I had twice as much by the end of it!

 As a result, with it quickly melting off, it has been a muddy muddy mess and I've just been too busy to get to the barn.  I stopped by briefly yesterday and Cash was just caked in mud, go figure.  Dirtiest horse I've ever owned. Today I was planning on riding him, or at least lunging him... BUT the weather man is calling for another winter storm with 6-8 inches of snow.  Seriously???  Go away winter!  There is already a very stiff and very cold wind blowing.

I picked up a new little rooster for my hens yesterday, he's so cute! He's the same age as the two Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets I had picked up last month so that's perfect.  He's a Blue Copper Maran.  He's quite shy at the moment but hopefully that will change with time.  The plan to get him nice and tame and friendly now so that he won't turn into a terror later.  I'm ok if he doesn't want to be handled, just as long as he doesn't get aggressive I'll be happy.  He's already all buddy buddy with the two little girls.  The big hens quickly put him in his place though, haha!

One of the Silver Laced Wyandottes

He is going to be so pretty when he gets older

So, that's all for now.  Just staying busy, the Spring semester is so close to being done! I'm taking a summer class starting May 20th... a 3 credit class in 4 weeks. That will be fun.

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I own a mud lark

Sooo... I walked out to the barn today to find this:

ACK!

Yeah... brand new blanket, less than a week and he's got it filthy!!! None of the other horses blankets look like that... c'mon! Ah well. What's really the bugger is that, notice his nice n white socks, not a speck of mud. That's tallent!

Besides from that, while the arena is still covered in snow, there is a large dry patch out in the turnout, so I did a little mini lunging with him, mostly walk, working on focus and circle size, baby steps! He's learning how to stand quietly, I've moved to tying him up closer to the turnout, once he's learned to be chill there we'll try out the new skills further away by the tackroom. In the meantime, he can chill by his buddies.

Cash + Sassy = <3

 

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Snow Day

Well... my plans to ride Cash this weekend got snowed in. A monster snow storm hit Colorado these past couple of days, dumping a LOT of snow. We got off easy with only 6" of light and powdery snow. However, this made any sort of riding on a green OTTB out of the question. Ah well, my puppy dog and I can still enjoy the snow.

We love snow, we really really love snow!

I wandered out and said hi to Mr Cash, brushed his mane out, fed him some cookies, and gave him some scratches. He has obviously had his mane pulled in the past, he does not even like having his mane brushed, I'm working on trying to trim it up with scissors, it's a work in progress. Overall though, he is getting really friendly and comfortable being caught and being around people! It's awesome and I'm trilled to pieces, I couldn't have asked for a better temperament!

I can has cookies?

 So, now I'm counting down the days till this snow melts and (hopefully) the arena and round pen dry out so that I can work with him again!! I'm rather impatient at the moment. Oh well, I guess this is a good excuse to work on lab reports.... right?

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