The cold remains

Shellie and her boy friend ^. As I near them Shellie wanders off and JW is left standing there ,blaming me for scaring off his lady.
Besty looks good in this picture! I can always tell when her mom comes to visit because her stall is filled with hair! This girl is shedding already!

Here is Shellie carrying on. She's galloping over to shoo Dancer away from her man on the other side of the fence, JW.
And in the picture below she's running Satin around for no apparent reason.


Shellie is a "roller". She always has dirt and mud all over her!
Dancer loves her Shellie, and in the image below it's hard to see where the first chestnut ends and the second begins! In the summer Shellie is more of a liver chestnut and it's easier to see their differences.
I tried to get Pokey and Tav playing their games, but as usual, as soon as I bring out the camera, even when I'm stealthy, they quit! :(

So, yeah, it's been cold.
When the temp dipped a few days ago everyone got hot wheat bran mash mixed with their grain. Everyone typically receives about 1/2 scoop of this delicious slop.

The rain has been on and off for the past few days. When it was rainy AND cold, I kept blankets on and was able to stay home on those days to monitor the horses with saturated blankets. Everyone stayed warm despite the awful weather. When the rain stopped, blankets came off, ponies' fur dried, and dry blankets went on. The horses usually tell me when they want their blankets on or if "they'd rather not". And for the past week everyone has been happily accepting their additional warmth!

With highs in the low 50's and the sun shining away I've been taking blankets off in the morning (or I should say that I instruct John to take them off - he deserves the credit for morning feeding these days!). We almost always bring the blankets back to the barn for safe keeping, but on the rare occasion that we are in a rush and don't plan accordingly, the blankets have been left out and subsequently rained on! Good thing we have enough blankets around for back-ups.

Yesterday it was sunny with just a little wind so blankets came off. This morning, however, it was frikkin cold (to put it nicely)!!! So we left blankets on. The high is expected to be about 50, so we thought this would be prudent. No one is going to sweat under their blankets at this temperature, but I hope none of the tougher horses are grumbling under their breath that rolling doesn't feel so nice with this 'thing' on.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures! Today's images were from a few days ago and apparently Shellie was the focus of my camera. She's always doing something worthy of snapping a pic!