PSA: Windy Days
If you own, ride, or have any contact whatsoever with horses, you don't like windy days.
Windy days make horses spooky, uppity, and generally on-edge. Also, all your jumps fall over, and when you try to sweep the barn aisle the wind just blows everything back in your face. Don't even get me STARTED about dumping a wheelbarrow full of shavings and manure on a windy day. Just don't go there.
REALLY windy days can be bad news. We're talking 40-60mph of bad news.
Like Saturday.
On Saturday Michael and I trekked out to the barn to see Dino and maybe do a little round penning. It was an exceptionally windy day, but we weren't too concerned. We hadn't been there longer than five minutes when an incredible gust of wind blew so hard that the eye hook securing the chain that secured one of the pasture gates got pulled right out of the fence post. The gate swung open, and before we knew it six horses were galloping around the property like crazy things.
Thankfully they weren't loose for very long, and we managed to herd them back into the pasture and secure the gate, but there was probably some divine intervention at work helping us out.
So, folks, be careful on windy days. Check your fencing.
This has been a PONY'TUDE Public Service Announcement.
Windy days make horses spooky, uppity, and generally on-edge. Also, all your jumps fall over, and when you try to sweep the barn aisle the wind just blows everything back in your face. Don't even get me STARTED about dumping a wheelbarrow full of shavings and manure on a windy day. Just don't go there.
REALLY windy days can be bad news. We're talking 40-60mph of bad news.
Like Saturday.
On Saturday Michael and I trekked out to the barn to see Dino and maybe do a little round penning. It was an exceptionally windy day, but we weren't too concerned. We hadn't been there longer than five minutes when an incredible gust of wind blew so hard that the eye hook securing the chain that secured one of the pasture gates got pulled right out of the fence post. The gate swung open, and before we knew it six horses were galloping around the property like crazy things.
Thankfully they weren't loose for very long, and we managed to herd them back into the pasture and secure the gate, but there was probably some divine intervention at work helping us out.
So, folks, be careful on windy days. Check your fencing.
This has been a PONY'TUDE Public Service Announcement.
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