Happy Thanksgiving!
It only got down to about 50 degrees last night, but it was crispy cold in the early morning. All the horses dove in to their hot bran mash mixed with their grain. I like to give them a hot wheat bran mash when the temperature changes pretty suddenly. Lately it has been in the upper 50's in the evenings, so the dropping temps in the morning was a good enough excuse for me to spoil them all.
As the sun began to rise, all of the fence boards that have been saturated with rain the past few days started to steam. It looked like smoke coming off the fences!
John and I moved a new round bale into Pasture 1 for Pokey and Goose and Pasture 2 for JW, Cas, and Bodhi. We used a "skid" (a 5 foot piece of chain link attached to the ball) to drag a round bale instead of our usual method of pushing it with the front of the truck. This worked fabulously well except for the fact that our truck's transmission is about to crap out. The truck was hesitating and surging forward for the 10 minutes we used it. We decided to give the truck a break and had to hand-push the next round bale. These bales are about 800 lbs each and are HARD to roll with only two people! JW and Cas tried to help by pulling the bale into the pasture as Bodhi stood back and watched.
It should drop temperature all day with a low tonight of 38 degrees! Blankets!
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