Winter for a day
10 February 2007 23:37![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glenatronThere was a day of proper winter, like we used to have when I was small. I even got to ride on a toboggan. It doesn't get much winterier than that.
I also remembered how bad my car is at going up slippery slopes. I remembered this on the steep corner of the road up to ponies, where I lost purchase and started sliding backwards with my wheels spinning merrily. In the end I gave up on getting up that hill and went around to another back road that although even more snowy was a bit less steep so I could get to the path that leads to the bottom of the ponies field.
This was especially good because no-one had walked on that path previously, so I got to put the first footprints on it. Very exciting!
It really was proper snow for a bit.
Another opportunity to use branches to create something a bit abstract- how could I not go for that?
Shortly after this a witch offered me turkish delight in exchange for betraying all my friends. Seemed like a pretty good deal.
The reason ponies look so sceptical would be because people are using the fenced off side of the field for tobogganing. I had a go too. It was very fast and then I fell off and got loads of snow down my neck, which is pretty much how tobogganing is supposed to be.
The next day the snow had mostly melted and, from what I could tell, the ponies' electric fence had exploded. Some of the fence posts were shattered into many pieces, others seemed to have been flipped 6-10 metres from the fence line. The tape itself was lying in a long loop on the ground pretty much to the main gate of the field. No idea what happened, but we're guessing that the combination of snow with white fence posts and white electric tape probably resulted in one of the boys spooking and running straight through it. Judging by how trashed things were they must have got tangled and dragged it around for quite a while. They both seemed alright, although Othello was a little jumpy, so hopefully no harm done, but fairly crazy.
Joe still seems a bit off-colour so we've got the vet coming out on Tuesday to take a look at him.
I also remembered how bad my car is at going up slippery slopes. I remembered this on the steep corner of the road up to ponies, where I lost purchase and started sliding backwards with my wheels spinning merrily. In the end I gave up on getting up that hill and went around to another back road that although even more snowy was a bit less steep so I could get to the path that leads to the bottom of the ponies field.
This was especially good because no-one had walked on that path previously, so I got to put the first footprints on it. Very exciting!
It really was proper snow for a bit.
Another opportunity to use branches to create something a bit abstract- how could I not go for that?
Shortly after this a witch offered me turkish delight in exchange for betraying all my friends. Seemed like a pretty good deal.
The reason ponies look so sceptical would be because people are using the fenced off side of the field for tobogganing. I had a go too. It was very fast and then I fell off and got loads of snow down my neck, which is pretty much how tobogganing is supposed to be.
The next day the snow had mostly melted and, from what I could tell, the ponies' electric fence had exploded. Some of the fence posts were shattered into many pieces, others seemed to have been flipped 6-10 metres from the fence line. The tape itself was lying in a long loop on the ground pretty much to the main gate of the field. No idea what happened, but we're guessing that the combination of snow with white fence posts and white electric tape probably resulted in one of the boys spooking and running straight through it. Judging by how trashed things were they must have got tangled and dragged it around for quite a while. They both seemed alright, although Othello was a little jumpy, so hopefully no harm done, but fairly crazy.
Joe still seems a bit off-colour so we've got the vet coming out on Tuesday to take a look at him.