Spring has Sprung
Well yesterday was the first day of spring!!!
Yeah right. Ice pellets followed by several hours of freezing rain. Followed up today by snow and high winds.
Yesterday I got the three big horses in at 7:30am as the ice pellets had already started and there they stayed until 8:00am this morning. It still wasn't a great day to put them out. Strong winds and snow, but they would be climbimng the walls if I kept them in much more. 24 hours straight is enough. I think they will be in again tonight anyway so they need some time to have somne fresh air and freedom.
The paddock is a little slippery thanks the freezing rain, but the snow actually helps that so they should be ok.
The ponies have a big shed to get out of the weather,but surprise me by still choodsing to be out despite horrible weather.
The ponies bad hair day. Freezing rain wreeks havock with ones hairdoo.
With our land being on a slope it makes it very slippery when trying to get to and from the barn.
It really is an ice rink. Salt doesn't really seam to touch it.
I am not sure how much detail you can see, but I took some pics of the effects of the freezing rain.
A tree bends over under the weight of the ice. They make amazing creaking and cracking noises as the ice envelopes them and they move around in the wind.
This fence was competely dry the day before. Now the freezing rain has just encased the bars and dripped down to form icicles.
You can see how the ice just moulds itslef around everything.
The ice shows up well in the lights from the house.
These are just a few views of the pretty but evil freezing rain.
I hope they are the last I will be posting this winter. Oh no that should be spring!
