Slip Sliding Away

The old song "Slip Sliding Away" is perfect for the weather, the rain, the mud. The upper barn is going to slide to the lower barn and the lower barn is going to slide all the way to the lower well. Our mud has reached perfection. It's gooey, slippery, and in some places so deep that if you venture in you'll never been seen again. I'm going to make horse skis and invent a new Olympic sport.
Daisy and Levi try to make the best of miserable conditions. We really can't put Levi in a confined stall because he just goes nuts. We're hoping to get a shelter in his turnout that will protect them from the rain and water but won't be closed in. Jim made a wind break with tarps and horse blankets that works OK. They tuck themselves beside it and stay out of the wind. Levi will not wear a blanket. He doesn't even like the panels to have blankets and tries to take them off the panels. Then he has a ball stomping them in the mud.

We had no rain for about an hour. Silly me. I thought it was over.

Had to mail some Holiday cards, so knowing that today and tomorrow are the post offices' busiest days, I girded my loins and set off. I didn't really gird anything because I don't have a girdle. I did however get "the look" from the dogs as I set out.
The rain had returned.

On the way to the post office. Rain!!!!

I love our post office- no lines, no waiting, just friendly, helpful people.
Ours is a post office, feed store, hardware store, stationery store, and deli. Just ask and they probably have it.

On the way home-RAIN!!!

These silly horses could go to the barn and snuggle in with two or three others but they won't leave this part of the turnout. On occasion when I have had them stalled there were unhappy and fidgety until they could go back to their spot. Would like two or three nice run-ins out here, too. Maybe these silly kids would go in out of the weather.

You horses make me feel guilty.

The wind turbine and new generator have had a good work out while the solar panels snooze. We actually have a readout on an energy computer that says something is snoozing.

Mac has the right idea.

So do the kitties. Patches, Princess and Feisty think only fools and horse feeders should be out in this weather.

Thank you Ursula and Walt for your donation. Thank you to Dorothy who chose to donate to Home At Last as a gift from her sister. What a nice idea. The animals appreciate it.

When we lived in Magalia our Breeze Bay used to love run in the mud, then slam on the brakes and slide right up to the fence. At the last possible second she would turn and race away, stop and slide up to the next fence. She would do this over and over, having the best time.

We had a Thoroughbred, April, who watched a few times then decided to try it herself. Now April was tall, stately and clumsy. She would run, brake, turn and fall on her side. She'd slide along in the mud, trying to figure out what went wrong. Up she'd get and try it again. She never did get the turn and stay on your feet part, but I guess she had fun trying.

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