Happy First Day of Winter - I guess

[CarolU]

While it is still the longest night of the year here, daylight won't happen for another hour, I think we can all look now on the bright side. The sun is as far south as it will go and now the days can start getting longer.

Of course, the most miserable 2 months of the year are ahead of us, but they'll go by quickly.

I sure do wish I was rich enough for a heated barn and arena to ride in the winter...AND someone to clean it for me. LOL

[ErinC]

http://i17.tinypic.com/2udxqi8.jpg

[Linda Y]

Our winter came in with some of the most rain we have seen since being back here! Our rain gauge holds 3 inches, and Dave emptied it 3 times yesterday. We had to get out during a lull and redig the ditches because the back room flooded. The horses stayed in the barn all day...their choice...that doesn't happen often.
At least it wasn't cold!

[Carol Nelson]

Carol...I keep telling you the solution to your problem...MOVE SOUTH! ;-) :lol:
You won't NEED a covered arena nor a heated barn! :D

I really don't understand how you people stand it in those places...of course, those who have jobs don't have an option...but man, once retired, why stay there??!!

Of course, I guess we wouldn't WANT everyone down here...it would cause a lurch in the planet's tilt and we would all fall off the face of the earth! :lol: :lol: :lol:

(p.s. now there are TWO ten acre lots for sale next to me...and I'm sure one can be gotten for a VERY reasonable price...grin!)

[Carol Nelson]

Linda, are you kidding me that you're getting rain??? I don't understand it...they're getting rain in New Mexico, Colorado is snow-packed and you're flooding...!!
What...is it just making a detour around us here??? :-?
We're still dry as a bone...oh, it sprinkled on us the last two days ...enough to dampen the topsoil so that it drags into the house on your boots! :roll:

[Linda Y]

I don't know Carol...this is a really screwy weather pattern that we have been in for the past couple years. We have been dry, dry for probably a month. Then yesterday, we get part of the system that is burying Terry. We have to go out today for a little last minute Christmas shopping...can't wait to see how bad our little dirt 'road' (using that term very loosely) is! Then next week is supposed to be freezing again. At least maybe there will be hay in the spring.

[CarolU]

Carol, let me see, why don't I move south??

Heat, humidty, chiggers, gnats, skeetters, ticks, hunidity, heat, no large tracts of Federal land, heart worms, alligators, armidillo holes, no mountains, did I mention heat and humidty?

I wouldn't mind living a little farther south, but will never leave the west. I like to go outside and work without sweating. I hate BUGS. I love the mountains, and I definately have to have the freedom to go ride all over the place.

Now...I'd be tempted to come VISIT from December through March though. LOL

[Carol Nelson]

Well..I may have to drive your way to buy hay this spring...here it's going up up up in price still...makes me angry how they take advantage of us folks in the dry area when you can drive 150 miles to the east and buy it for 2.50 to 3.50 in the field. :mad:

[Carol Nelson]

Heat, humidty, chiggers, gnats, skeetters, ticks, hunidity, heat, no large tracts of Federal land, heart worms, alligators, armidillo holes, no mountains, did I mention heat and humidty?

Aw...come on, Carol...those are minor little things...hehe... ;-)

[Linda Y]

Well..I may have to drive your way to buy hay this spring...here it's going up up up in price still...makes me angry how they take advantage of us folks in the dry area when you can drive 150 miles to the east and buy it for 2.50 to 3.50 in the field. :mad:

I am paying $6 a bale for coastal now. Don't bother coming over this way...there isn't any that I know of. They are going somewhere up north and bringing it in for the feed store.

[qltrlori]

Well, you could move here! It snows about once every forty years. And in the summer humidity is rare. If you really want snow for skiing, there are lots of places within a short drive. The ocean is twenty minutes away. And we don't get tons of bugs in the summer, although in the Fall we end up with lots of flies.

In the Winter lots of nights it gets below freezing. But like today, there isn't a cloud in the sky, although it isn't exactly warm.

We have lots of great vets and farriers - they say there are 35,000 horses here. And I am tired of being pretty much the only Paso Fino owner here. As far as I can tell there is only one other! Three out of 35,000, what is the percentage?

We have lots of places to ride around here, too. You could ride your horse to the corner store to use the pay phone - I see a guy doing it about every week!

You could go to Monty Roberts place and learn the language of Equus, or maybe you could get Ramon Bacerra to teach your horse some fancy tricks.

You might see some movie stars - lots of them have moved up here and now consider themselves country folk ;-)

The only problem is that real estate is ridiculously expensive.

Lori

[Cindy]

Yeah, rub it in , Lori. If I could live where you live I might actually think about moving back to California. Alamo Pintado right down the road, great Pea Soup, perfect weather all year round, beautiful rolling hills covered with Oak trees and to top it all off, Ramon. Maybe I could get a job cleaning stalls for Ramon. Then I could live there and watch him ride all day long. :confused You need to go over there and get a man can shot of Ramon for Barb. She could then discontinue her long time search for perfection. :twisted:

[LynnG]

Carol...we have lots of trees!

Its really "where" you live that makes you feel like you are "home". Home is the southeast to me namely: North Carolina... we have the deep blue ocean and smoky blue mountains, great universities, and great homedown folks.

We do get alot of folks who move here due to the job market beciase so many poeple move here. We have seen too much high growth in our region though.

Humidity and ticks, well you get acclimated (why we have so much green landscapes) and they're what bug repellents are made for. ;-) :shock: We have a change of seasons which I like.

:!: :D

[Jasfino]

Its the first day of winter? You wouldnt know it here.

Its a warm, sunny, beautiful Ky day. :D

[Monty]

Our weather is more like Easter than Christmas in winter - over 2" of rain - and flood warnings ! :cry:
Mud all over - and just sloppy! :roll:
46 degrees in December - that is weird!