Last night we got some SERIOUS rain. It was gray with on and off sprinkles all day but by dark the rain had started and it absolutely roared and poured most of the night. Since we bought our home last year and have the horses at home (I boarded my horses out most of my horse-owning life) I don’t sleep through stormy nights very well, there is so much to think about as far as trees down or possible property damage, the horses etc. I also get paranoid about the power going out because I HATE it when that happens. It really doesn’t happen very often here but when I was growing up on the coast it happened quite a few times a winter so I am still ingrained to expect/dread it.

This morning Blaze was snug as a bug in a rug in his thick waterproof blanket, the mini looked like a little swamp creature, Sheza was bug eyed and spooky, and Desire was shivering. Poor girl doesn’t have any sort of winter coat. It looks like she at least managed to stay under her shed most of the night since she wasn’t soaked, but Sheza was sure soaked. I definitely need to order D and Sheza’s blankets, it was in the 40s and pouring last night and is supposed to be in the 40s again tonight.With wind and/or rain and a horse with no winter coat that’s pretty chilly!

Everything is soggy and cold and wet. I’m drinking a hot cup of tea with my chihuahua curled up on a heating pad next to me. Enjoying it, since the forecast says sunny and in the 70s by Friday.

Well I’ve been neglecting the blog the last few days. The weather has suddenly decided its fall, or maybe winter, and rain is forecast with winds and 45 mph gusts by Wednesday. The last few days I have been cleaning up around the property, putting the camping gear and other summer stuff away, etc. We need to stack some more wood that’s for sure. So far we haven’t timed the whole restocking the woodshed thing well, we certainly don’t want to do it in 100 degree summer but seem to then leave it to late in the year.

Anyway, Sheza and Desire are doing well, Sheza has started lying down to nap again in the last few days, she didn’t for the first few days after I separated them. She is eating like a hog and there isn’t a wisp of hay left come next feeding time. I’m feeding grass hay with some Elk Grove Milling hay pellets and Sheza gets some Foal Developer as well. The hay grower I am trying to hook up with will not return my call so I’m really frustrated there but hopefully that will come through.

I put Blaze’s blanket on for the first time tonight, since rain is forecast and he and his mini are out in the big pasture with lots of trees but no shed like the other paddocks have. Blaze loves standing in his sheds so I feel a little guilty he doesn’t have one now but he does have plenty of shelter in the trees should he choose to use it, and now he has his thick waterproof blanket on as well. Napoleon the mini is hairy as a little mountain goat so I’m not really worried about him. I still need to order Sheza a blanket though she as grown a nice little winter coat. Desire doesn’t seem to grow a winter coat, she didn’t have one when she arrived last January and isn’t particularly fuzzy now. Curious.

I’m exhausted and have to figure out something to make for dinner…