Looking out of the windows of our lovely new mud room on New Years Eve. Bit different to Glenelg pictures of the frolicking bikini babes back home. It's been 'soldier bold' here which is rhyming slang for 'cold'. Just like 'trouble and strife' for wife and 'dead 'orse' for sauce. My Dad and other aussie old timers can rattle off strings of sentences using rhyming slang and you'd have to think they were talking a foreign language. Which they sort of are. Don't forget to click on images to see them better.
This was taken before the blizzard really hit. His name is Duncan and he's a cute little bay (brown) yearling. But for most of the day he was a gray!I don't think the little guy was even aware of the harsh weather. While his buddies huddled together in the shelter he took advantage of their absence to gobble up their share of lunch!
At the height of the blizzard it was a complete white out.
Even here it was bad enough with horizontal wind and 20 below wind chill. Poor Mernie.
It's tough taking care of the critters in the harsh Wyoming winters. The horses are equipped to deal with it and do remarkably well. I really think they prefer this to flies and you wont see any of them out here right now! It takes its toll on us however. Fencing and stabling them render them dependent on us for food and water and its the latter that tips us over the edge. Even where we are set up for automatic watering it can't stand up to the extremes and is constantly breaking down and freezing. It's a full time job for Mernie just keeping the horses alive by ensuring a constant supply of water in sub zero temperatures like we are having now. Hence the Michilan Man look.Very fashionable here in Wyoming this time of the year!THIS IS FUNNY. THIS POSTING IS SUPPOSE TO BE ON MY BLOG BUT I GOOFED UP AND PUT IT ON MERNIE'S. GOOD START FOR THE NEW YEAR RONNIE ROO! WAY TO GO!
