After another light snow and plunging temperatures forecast for last night, it was time to bring the horses in from pasture for the winter. Alayne took these photos of me leading blind Lena (on the left) and blind Nikki back to the barns yesterday afternoon. The horses love being out on pasture -- and we like to leave them out as much as possible, given how long our winters are -- but by this time of year they're ready to head in.
It was 9 below zero this morning (-22 C) when we got up, and the horses were all glad to be in corrals today being fed big piles of hay!
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Lena & Nikki are so beautiful. I'm sure even though they love the pasture it's good to be inside since it's that cold. All week long they predicted snow in our part of TX & it didn't happen. Most all around us got a teeny bit but we got nothing. So disappointing. So I'll just enjoy your pictures.
Posted by: Colleen & Sweet Kitty Erin | December 04, 2009 at 03:17 PM
Steve,I saw how you were bundled up and I thought, Gee, how cold could it be? I dress like that when it's 40F. Then I saw -9F - - wow! Stay warm, folks!
Posted by: moon rani | December 03, 2009 at 12:14 PM
What beautiful pictures! Please stay warm, horses - and Steve & Alayne too!
Posted by: Angela | December 03, 2009 at 10:12 AM
Beautiful picture.
Posted by: Ev | December 03, 2009 at 09:37 AM
Smart horses!
From my perspective, it was a beautiful day there yesterday. : )
Posted by: boundforglory | December 03, 2009 at 08:35 AM
Hey RDR voters. Denison City Pound is making their move. (I don't want to say I told you so, but...) They have their entire town voting for them. We all have to get at least one additional person to vote for RDR for the next two weeks until the end of the contest. Let's go!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Barb Ribinski | December 03, 2009 at 06:51 AM
Make sure you all tell your families and friends to VOTE for RDR. I'm concerned about how fast the organization in second place has risen. They must have an army of people voting for them.
Posted by: Carol | December 02, 2009 at 09:42 PM
Hope Rosie got to go back out to pasture before winter arrived.
Funny how you say "light snow". All schools close and most people take off work when we get that much snow here. We're weanies about ice and snow but hey, we can handle a hurricane!!
Lena and Nikki look beautiful; thanks for a horse blog.
Posted by: Lynn (in Louisiana) | December 02, 2009 at 04:01 PM
How is the horse doing that had the surgery? Is she back with her boyfriend yet?
Posted by: Marla | December 02, 2009 at 03:45 PM