So they struggle to get down to where the drainage is and walk there, but that's frozen and slippery, so it's not a lot safer.
I'm not really saying I want the mud back, am I? ;~)
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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
We are having a light snow this morning. SIL is home, so we are going to get the sheet rock put up. First, we have to go buy the wall thimble for the fireplace pipe. It's always something.
Morning all. We got NOTHING but cold. The freezing rain line stopped in Navasota and just south of Huntsville apparently. They are still saying it could push through this afternoon with sleet and freezing rain.
Got the kiddos bundled up and off the school this morning, plants and pipes were covered last night.
Funny thing .. our dogs are a wee bit spoiled. They've been begrudgingly going out to potty and then running right back to the door because it's cold. So this morning we are all getting ready for work and school and they are trying to be invisible because they know they usually go outside in the kennel during the day.
I went to the garage and got their crates and began setting them up in the living room. I couldn't even get them open and the dogs were trying to get in them. It was like they were saying "Yeah, CRATES, we'll stay in the CRATES, no problem, just don't make us stay out THERE ... " hehehe
So, the doggies are snug inside in their crates.
Morning. I'm home bound today. Guess I'm gonna have to buy a battery. As you say....it's always something.
LOL p2B - I have seen this "I'm invisible" behavior many times.
We're getting a rather undecided mix of rain, snow and what sounds like a little icy sleety stuff. It's a lot warmer than it's been, and we may get above freezing today. I'm looking forward to my hose working. I think the horses are looking forward to the painful frozen ouchy patch around the barn. Right now they are happy to wait it out in the barn.
"painful froze ouchy" as in to-walk-on??
Yep, the "invisible" look is unmistakable .. One was under the coffee table, nothing moving but her eyes. The other was curled up about the size of a dinner plate on the bed, and didn't move an inch when I walked through, wouldn't even look at me .. "I'm not here, I'm not here, I'm not here"
I have to make mine keep going. If she stops at the door she will pee and look at me like "I'm done,ok?"
Yeah, room at the inn found. Maybe a peace offering. Maybe she wasn't crazy about me bring them into the barn and tieing them to poles. Some people are never satisfied though. I wanted the half dozen that wanted to follow me in, in the barn too.
So they struggle to get down to where the drainage is and walk there, but that's frozen and slippery, so it's not a lot safer.
I'm not really saying I want the mud back, am I? ;~)
Oh nooooooooooooooooooooo, I do have one that will hold it until she bursts if it's storming out .. LOL
You're a good heart. I feel for the ones that were left out too.
I don't know which is worse .. 10 inches of mud .. or little 10 inch frozen mountains that are impossible to walk on .. LOL
My mom is a member of a "star gazing" club and she told me about this on our trip. I knew that name sounded familiar. http://www.marfatx.com/b_lights.asp
They're both uck. I really wish I had just a few moments with a big machine that could scoop all that out of there so I could put down gravel or something that would drain.
I look forward to having my own place where I can really design everything to drain well from the start.
Gravel would probably just sink and disappear. We put gravel in front of our barn, and you can't tell it now.
Have I mentioned I'm sick of ice, and I hate winter.
Becky
Yeah, would be nice .. I think we fret over it more than the critters. We think of the "what ifs" and they just deal with it or avoid it .. LOL
I have an old female blue heeler dog, who is having trouble getting in the house.
The steps up to the front door and solid ice that is rounded, and she has problems walking anyway, and has slipped twice coming up the stairs now. Slide all the way back down and then had trouble getting her back legs back under her. She is starting to resist going out, and I think it's because she knows she will have to come up those stairs and is afraid. Very sad. I'm afraid to carry her up them because those stairs are are dangerous. Later today, I'm going to try to get a patch cleared on them, but I don't know if that's possible, the ice is so hard.
Becky
Oh Hair that ground looks miserable. Very difficult to navigate if cold or warm.
Our guys have been in since Saturday. Just too much mud. Plus we worry about the 29 year old getting hurt or sick in the damp weather. He's already got 2 pins in a hind cannon bone from fracturing it himself out in the pasture. The "colds" that he got seem to have subsided once he started getting nasal dosages of some wonder drug, the name of which I can't remember. Luckily we can turn them out in the indoor and everyone gets ridden every day.
Harley lost that front shoe now that was sprung....He looks like he is really having trouble moving around on the ice. Every step his feet are slipping some.
Becky
Oh - poor dear... If you have salt, pour some salt on the steps, might be easier than trying to chip the ice off if it's worn in.
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