Getting Ready

In an hour or so a mini blizzard will be blowing through Brockport and moving into Rochester.  It should be in Buffalo about now.  Snow squalls for a short period of time with no visibility.  After that, it will be getting colder and by 7am, 3 degrees with wind chills down to -20 or more.  Yippeeeee. 

Once again, we put hay behind the indoor so the horses could be protected from the wind this morning.

Because they are spoiled, we also hung hay nets under the shed roof.  Actually, they left a lot of hay today.

This afternoon I went to the Library to play bridge.  We came in last and I had so many good hands!  In duplicate, you just never know what's going to happen.

Before tucking the ponies in, Janet and I emptied out the water trough and turned it upside down to prevent it from freezing into a solid block.  The horses will be inside tomorrow (or the most part), drinking from buckets.  By Saturday we should be in the mid 20s.

Tomorrow, when we clean the stalls, they can go eat in the indoor.

Fortunately, the temperature in the barn was 31 degrees.  Let's see what it is in the morning.

Dinner was easy, I heated up the bratwurst and sauerkraut and served it open faced on ciabatta rolls with a side of the remaining pasta (added some caramelized onions).

Off duty for now.

Night all.

Sunshine All Day Long

When I was in the barn for morning chores the radio said with the wind chill it was 3 degrees.

After the horses had their breakfast, Janet put a boot on Ronin to protect his shoeless foot until the farriers were to arrive at 11.  He is sporting one of Gary's socks

Since it was so cold, we fed the ponies their hay behind the indoor so they could absorb the sunshine and have the wind blocked.

Gary had a doctor's appointment and I started thinking about what to make for dinner.  I bought some bratwurst and sauerkraut yesterday and that sounded pretty good.  Sautéed bacon and onions, added the sauerkraut (which I boiled in fresh water and drained before adding), topped it with a little cider vinegar and brown sugar, mixed and added a chopped up apple.  Later, it would go in the oven topped with the bratwurst, which had been par boiled.

It sure has been a long time since we have had so much good light.

As the lasts longer, evening chores start a little later.

In the house by 5:30 and finished putting dinner together.

Made a side of buttered "noodles"

and broiled some pumpernickel bread, which we topped with strawberry jam.

So delicious!  And plenty of leftovers...

Night all.