Seems like winter

[glenatron]

This last week has been frosty and cold, like proper winter.


Zorro was ever so frosty on his mane. It made him look grizzled.

Small regards the sunrise over the hill.

The field hasn't really unfrozen at any point so the ponies are having a whole lot of hay. The ice I'm removing from the water trough in the mornings and evenings isn't melting either, so we have a big old heap of ice by the ponies' water. It's supposed to get warmer this weekend but I sort of hope it doesn't. I rather like this sparkly kind of cold.

This evening was foggy but only at ground level so when I was giving the ponies dinner, although I could only see for about fifty metres horizontally, the moon was cutting through from above casting everything in a penumbral glow. It was quite beautiful.

I'm starting to feel a bit like it may be christmas soon now as well...

Comments

[skye-ds.livejournal.com]

We have had a lot of misty fog around here too, and I LOVE it! I can well understand why the Celts felt that Mist was the Veil between the Worlds.

Zorro and Little (and Joe) are PURTY PONIES! Also, you have "Teh Mad Peekture Taking Skillz!" ;-P

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

The Skills in question are a cunning combination of always carrying a camera, taking loads of pictures and the law of averages...

[http://users.livejournal.com/blitzen_/]

!!! i love cold like that... we just don't get it here.

think about us here in Perth on christmas day when it's supposed to hit 38Deg CELCIUS. can you imagine?

[rhyssafireheart.livejournal.com]

Wait, that is actual frost on Zorro's mane? Eep, poor pony! The frost covering the ground is beautiful though.

I could wish we only had frost on the ground at this time of the year. I have a feeling winter is going to be not so nice to the Northern Illinois area since we have a slushy melting mess of what used to be 6 inches of snow on the ground. While I love foggy nights (oh yes, low fog on moonlit nihgts = beautiful, especially if it's cold and frost out at the same time), and it's been plenty foggy all day, I really don't want it to last all through the night until tomorrow because I'm supposed to be getting on a plane to visit the in-laws for Christmas. Yes, I'm going willingly. :)

Hope you have a lovely Christmas and New Year's!

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

On the contrary- if there's frost on his mane (and the tips of his ears) it means that they are insulating him well enough that he's not losing enough heat to melt the frost. This is a good sign :-)

[rhyssafireheart.livejournal.com]

Really? I guess I never thought of it that way, but it makes sense.

So that works the same for my dog coming in from being outside on his rope in the mornings, right? If he's covered in snow that means his fur coat is keeping him warm enough? No wonder the little monster likes laying outside there and watching the world go by.

Interesting. Today is a good day then, because I learned something new. :D

[gemmabowles.livejournal.com]

our frost isnt even de frosting by the end of the day! very frosty. as zorro shows us.

[spirithorse21.livejournal.com]

That sounds beautiful. it LOOKS beautiful!

[skiesfirepaved.livejournal.com]

Omg, he had a frosty mane? Ahahaha! Poor boy. :P

[life-of-tom.livejournal.com]

That looks lovely- Edinburgh's surroundings did much the same when I got on a train today. Though with less horses, of course...

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Not enough horses in most places these days.

[baddynono.livejournal.com]

In cwmbran it was raining :(
It does keep looking like it's about to snow though, either that or zombies may soon descend...

[penella22.livejournal.com]

Yes, mad picture taking skills in evidence here. ;-) mine are much the same...

It is beautiful seeing the frost in his mane.

On a completely different note, I was just catching up on reading equestrian and came across this post here and holy %$#@%$#! This is not the first time the OP has posted something that made me cringe but I can't recall ever seeing you jump into the fray before. :] Needless to say, I didn't feel it was worth posting on at this point, since it's an older post, and it's already bogged down in many commentary bouts of circular reasoning, but if I had seen it sooner I think I would have pointed out that with #1 with the show being on NICKELODEON for starters, we can hardly reasonably expect it to be anything but half-assed. Any horse show I've seen on Animal Planet, Disney, etc has always been so bad it made me cringe. Their audience is people who have NOOO idea how to handle horses. They pick their 'expert' more on how pretty she is than how well she actually handles horses. It's like HGTV...where all the carpenters on the home-fixer-upper shows are models who didn't make it and kinda knew how to use a saw...

#2 OP certainly does seem a bit...sadistic and maniacal in her reactions? But why point it out when she'll just react that way to you too? Or, why would I point it out AGAIN, rather. Clearly it doesn't make an impression.

#3 Arghhh garr at all the people that HAVE so recently been again lead shanks over the nose, and are now all talking about how they give their horse a few good pops whenever he needs it. Oooph.

#4 I feel so sad and frustrated sometimes by the limitations of the internet, because it expands our horizons so much, allowing us to interact with and discuss things with people we would never have the chance to know in 'real life' and yet, when it comes down to it, I don't feel like I can honestly explain to them what I see flawed in their logic and why I would do it differently. Not sufficiently enough to change their mind which maybe I could do in real life. Demo'ing examples from said convo on a real live horse is more convincing than making a bajillion comments on LJ huh? :-(

Glad / shocked you jumped in...I think?

feel free to delete this if you don't want it in your lj...thought about emailing you but figured this was better...

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Thanks buddy, I appreciate it.

To me the only use for a chain shank right now is to cover over a hole in your horsemanship. Not a view I punt around everywhere, but I can't imagine the use of a tool like that would even occur to any of the horse trainers I respect. Absolutely needless.

I felt I had to make the point and I had to make it in the fewest words possible. I was particularly amused by the fact that one of the immediate responses was "how dare you suggest we're abusing our horses by doing this." I did point out that I never suggested anything of the type, but had I been on better form I would have observed that the idea that they were abusing their horses must have come from somewhere so maybe it's how they feel about their own horsemanship.

I don't usually wade in with anything confrontational, but I often offer advice phrased in very diplomatic terms that - to someone who knows me well enough - is full of indicators that my irritation has been piqued. Calm water, but with sharks below the surface. Typically that will be if there is a horse involved- I want to do anything I can to turn things around for that animal and the last thing that will help in most cases is a confrontational approach. Finding common ground and redirecting from it works a lot better if possible. A single-line question is a pretty good sign that I can't trust myself to respond without flaming...

I think your point about the limitations of the internet is a good one. Later in the discussion the original poster came back to something I said with a bunch of somewhat defensive stuff about how she rides her horse and there wasn't a whole lot there I would disagree with, but it has nothing to do with her initial post which was snarky and inflamatory and I wasn't prepared to allow to pass. I think one needs to be very conscious in anything like this that you are what you say on the internet.

Also on point 1 ( I'm bad at order today am I not? ) it's a Nickleodeon production. It's aimed at kids. There are safety calls involved. They don't have the strength to wrestle a horse to the ground to put it's bridle in and if some brat got overzealous with a dressage whip so their pony flattened them in self defence the TV station would probably get sued for it. I've yet to see any TV show that handles horses well but then I don't really watch TV, so there may be an explanation for that right there. The only animal training show I often see goes by the brilliant name of Dog Borstal - on that they take in dogs with problem owners ( they claim it's problem dogs, but when you see the trainers working you can see where the problem comes from and who is being fixed ) and gives them a few days of intensive training to get things right together. I would be interested to see a horse version of that, but my goodness it would be 1000% more dangerous. It always makes me conscious how much safer you are training dogs even if just because it's much harder for a dog to kill or severely injure you by accident...