02.28.08
Horsefolks sick of snow in New Hampshire?
Never thought I’d say it, since snowboarding is such fun, but we are getting fed up with the snowstorms. ENOUGH ALREADY!!! There’s no place to even put it anymore because the piles alongside driveways are so high you can’t reach the top with our tractor bucket. We got only 4 inches last night, but the snowplow who does the driveway couldn’t come because there’s nowhere to push the snow. Hubby had to pick up each bucketload and cart it down the street to somewhere.
Now there’s YET ANOTHER snow heading our way for Friday night and Saturday– the plowtruck won’t be able to come, it’s too cold for any of the piles to melt down.
Horsepeople are more sick of it than many folks because of all the extra shoveling and plowing around the barn and the horse paddocks every time.
HERE’S THE WORST OF IT!!! Right now our fence wires which are on fence posts are mostly buried in the snow (posts are 3 ft. to 4 ft. high)– the electric wire above our stone walls is buried, and the horses are standing up on the stone walls chewing on trees they have never been able to reach before. We’ve had to limit where they can roam to keep them from possibly getting entangled in tape fencing they can’t even see anymore, and we’re starting to get worried they might walk out into the street, we’ll have to string temporary string up high on trees I guess.
Jeez… it’s helpful to vent. And I did have a wonderful snowshoe excursion yesterday into our neighboring town woods… was perfectly beautiful, though I had to do much breaking trail in 2 ft. depths or more, it was well worth it!
Tina Y said,
February 28, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I wish I could say that we’re tired of snow, and being in MN you’d think that we would be, but we’re WAY below (over 20″ below) our average. It wouldn’t be bad except that it doesn’t bode well for the hay crop next summer…again. I have seen quite a few people giving away really nice horses simply because they can’t feed them.
connie moses said,
February 29, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Tina,
I wish we could give you some of OUR snow, we have already broken the all time record for our area. I just came in from tying up baling twine line 2 feet above our “normal” electric fenceline just so the horses could see a visible barrier. Though they are not trying to cross, they ARE standing with front feet on top of our stone walls… It’s a bit risky because the snow is so deep the horses are insulated from the ground and thus NOT grounded, so the electric wire does not even shock them anymore. Still predicted is up to a foot of new stuff starting late tonight and through tomorrow!