The Winter Doldrums: A Photo Journal

Truth moment here, guys. The thing I really want to work on this winter? Teaching Guinness changes. Unfortunately, we aren't quite there yet. We're hovering on the edge of being there, but I have some serious work on myself to finish before we can get there.

That's kind of frustrating.

Add to the hard work of fixing my position the nasty hovering-just-above-freezing-while-dumping-gallons-of-rain-on-me weather we've been having, and going to the barn is just an unpleasant thing right now.

I mean... Do you want to walk a half mile through shin-deep clay mud to get your equally disgusted horse?

I'm kind of over being an active person. Can't I hibernate like a bear?


Fun fact: Bears can eat as much as they want and don't get diabetes. Seriously. I want to be a bear. Or a little dog, she has it pretty easy...

Even though I don't like napping, I have to admit they've been looking pretty tempting...

"But why such long claws, Grandma?"

Being myself, though, the activity has continued. The dogs are still being run, even in the oppressive rainy dark of ... 5pm.


Misty sleet. 40 degrees. Mmmmmhm. Horrifying.

The horse and my position woes are still being worked, though some of our barn etiquette might have been completely relaxed.


What? You don't let your partially clothed horse freely wander the barn and snarf out of the hay cart at will? One of these days, that horse is going to bite down on a napping cat. That day, things will get real.

And some days, we take a much needed break at the local pub for a pint or two.


Yes. My local pub allows dogs. They are sort of local celebrities...

Will someone do a frozen dance to the weather gods already? I have had enough of this crappy warm, muddy, rainy, inconsistent winter! Give me frozen solid mud, deep white blankets of snow, and consistently cold temperatures! Please!

I'm dying for a good snow-ride!