Well, we all know Florida has a hurricane season and hey… luckily, we are NOT talking about those kinds of storms. But we have Had Some Rain here these last few days. I’m thinking about getting the horses water wings to use for turnout. They’ve been such troopers; I try really hard to make sure they get out as much as humanly possible, and despite the squishy ground, we’ve been able to turn them out daily, until today when the paddocks were just too darn wet and they had to settle for a bit of hand grazing. Fortunately they are all very sensible and when they go out and I tell them all, “MAKE GOOD CHOICES,” they mostly do.
The arena drains amazingly well and so we’ve still been able to work a bit. The last round of rain was over the top though, so for the moment we are stuck with tack walking. I suppose it is better than nothing, but … sigh. The upside though is that we have some really lovely visitors, including this wonderful junior heron!!
He’s enjoying the semi-temporary “pond” in the center of the field. Those will eventually be paddocks for use in the winter, when the weather is way drier, because that is always the best grass. The bottom half of this field will be reserved for riding, since we really do like to get out of the arena. And the entire thing will (eventually) have a nice properly surfaced galloping track around the perimeter!!
Hedgerow Farm 