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[diaryofarider]

And now it's cold.
So cold. *shiver*
It was a severe and quiet cold last night- 30 degrees when I got to the barn, 10 with the windchill. As I was grooming and tacking up (with my riding gloves on) my thumbs eventually went completely numb. I had to stop halfway through and warm my hands in order to finish the job.
I got on and Trudi went to work pretty quickly. After about 10 minutes of walking and watching our breath in the air, I was like "GEEZ it's COLD" and I thought about getting off. It was a persistant creeping cold that slowly chilled my legs to the bone. But we did some trotting, and some cantering, and the work was good and helped to warm us. We ended up doing a lot. I have been sitting better and I had a zen moment as we finished up, where I was sitting on both seatbones with a calf gently pressed against her on either side- I was connected to her back with my seat, my thighs were loose but my calves were on and I stayed that way in spite of how she moved- it was such a cool feeling I didn't want to get off. ^_^
But I did, and put Trudi's nice clean turnout on her so hopefully she's not freezing to death.
It was snowing really hard on my way to work this morning, and the roads were crappy- Hello, Winter.

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[(Anonymous)]

uh. its brutal with the cold. we went from 15C to -21C with the windchill in two days. the poor horses don't know what the hell to do with themselves :P and I realized that rico's winter blanket doesn't fit him well enough and isn't warm enough in case we get down to the -30C like we normall do come january

[skyhuntress.livejournal.com]

oops, that was me :P

[diaryofarider.livejournal.com]

Your cold is totally worse than our cold. I do feel sorry for you! The swings are nice because, hey, we had a 60 degree day in December... but a 30 degree difference in the high over the course of like a day is a bit of a shock...

[foalstory.livejournal.com]

I cannot wait for it to snow here!

however, it's gonna be COLLLLD. brr. I just want to ski :D

this is, however, the type of weather where I pull out my cross country helmet (skull cap) to ride in, since the vents in my troxel result in my scalp freezing. UNfun.
yay Winter!!