I took today off from work and boy was it nice getting to the barn in the sunshine, after a week of arriving in the dark. Never mind the fact that it was 19 degrees, it was still nice seeing the sun. The horses had recently come in from outside and were quite occupied with eating their hay. Well, except for the horses like Bestie who seemed to have vacuumed it down already.
I pulled her out of her stall to groom her first since Dude was still eating. I had good intentions of riding him (had the insulated pants and everything), but when I looked outside, the path down through the paddocks seemed to only go as far as the last paddock. The snow is probably a good two feet deep and pretty challenging to plow through. And it was getting a bit too close for comfort to the end-of-the-workday traffic surge for me to feel good about venturing out on the road. If I had gotten there about a half hour earlier I could've headed out with a couple other riders; bummer.
So instead we had a leisurely grooming session. They are both shedding quite a bit, so much so that the curry collects a mat of hair that can be pulled off in a solid clump. Hard to believe they're losing that much hair, because it has been pretty cold. But now's about the time of year when we start feeling the sun more and don't get as many of days in the single digits or low teens (yay!).
Not working tomorrow either, and looking forward to another day of more time with the ponies.
