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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Speaking of Killer Bees in December, we've been invaded by the plague of flies, in January. I've never seen so many files as I saw this past weekend, except for maybe at a 4th of July picnic. And they all wanted to be either in the house or in the car with me. I guess this warm weather we've been having has really made them start hatching out. I'm hoping that this cold front that's coming through will kill them all and we'll have less of them come springtime.
Oh yeah, that will be good .. They've hatched out, but havent' had time to reproduce .. then they'll freeze and you'll be down a whole generation of flies! Good deal for ya'll, huh?
It got here a few hours ago. We were 41 awhile ago and dropping. I've got to go blanket the horses. Do you leave them on all the time. Can water get under them?
I have to get my camera working. I have ducks in my front yard. I guess they are looking for a warmer place.
LOL! It's funny when your eyes play tricks on you like that.
Sounds like time to start looking for a boat! ;o)
My first one was a DD. Heavy and dark but very sturdy. My next will be aluminum.
That's not good on icy roads!
Darn spell check (grin). I don't think we will get that low. If it looks like we might freeze on overpasses though I'll cancel class tonight. I don't want my students having to drive in it.
I'm worried about these blankets. I think they need them but I'm concerned about injury though. I've only dressed them up when they were stalled before.
I think the biggest cause for worry would be loose straps. Snug the belly straps so there is no space, no loose straps that they can get a foot caught in. Otherwise, if they catch it on something, it might tear, they may even rip the straps, but I've never had one get injured. Heck, Cyn caught the neck of hers on the gate hinge when she climbed out of her stall and it tore through and was left in a pile within three steps.
Horses can hurt themselves lots of ways, of course, but in my experience, they are stronger than their blanket.
They should be fine as long as you don't leave any of the straps hanging too loose. Grace did fine in her fly sheet and I left it on her 24/7 all summer long. She rolled in it and everything. She did hang it on something a time or two, but the blanket just ripped. She didn't get hung or anything. And Lord knows that Cyn hung hers bigtime when she bugged out the gate and she didn't get hurt either.
Are their blankets waterproof?
LOL, both of us thought of Cyn's fiasco. That was a pretty extreme case wasn't it.
I never blanket my horses unless I have been riding hard all day and it is cold and wet.
I just feed them lots extra.
A good friend of mine in Colorado, a ranch wife, says they never blanket either, just be sure they have plenty of good rich feed. They are in high country on the Front Range.
Fed them this a.m., sweet feed and oats, and I will be going down again shortly to feed again. I am breaking ice on the stock tanks, it is 29 and falling.
He sure does...that was gross.
Mack and I have been discussing...is he going soft:), Mack thinks tonight either Audrey or his daughter is going to get killed, and that will revitalize him. I was very disappointed to see Wayne Palmer as Pres. I don't like that guy, he's greasy:)
Becky
The sun is melting some of the ice but it is actually making things worse then better. Today's the first time we had trouble getting to town. Before the melting since is all we got was sleet there was a roughness to the ice that gave you plenty of traction. Now it's melting just enough to make it smooth. Getting up and down hills is a real challenge now:(.
I think tomorrow I will stay home:)
Today I went to WalMart, and walked for awhile, like exercise walk. I ran into 2J:) and a few other acquaintances. Everyone is getting cabin fever.
Tonight they are forecasting 8 degrees, and tomorrow night 0. So the ice will be here a while.
Becky
Maybe a mountain lion will get 'em. ;~)
Wayne does seem too much of a lightweight middle management suck up type to be president. He doesn't have the "gravitas" that Pres.Palmer 1 had.
It should have probably been cast with a new guy, with Wayne around as some kind of advisor, if they wanted to continue his character and the history with Jack. In fact... since they ignored what Jack was telling them, it might have made more sense for it to have been a president that did not know Jack.
Wayne's little pin-head advisor has to go... I know that.
I dunno.... we'll see how it plays out, a lot can happen in 24 hours :~)
LOL...well Mack also thinks they are going to blow up the White House...He's just full of doom and gloom:)
I read on the 24 thread last night that Rush Limbaugh is suppose to have said last week, that we are not going to believe how tonight ends...so there's that.
Becky
It really was, and it tore like paper. Granted, it was not a new blanket, it was aged, that may make a difference, but I think if you put the power of a horse against it, anything will tear.
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