in that i ended up going to my mother's after lunch, having received a call that she hadn't turned up at a friend's as expected, and not answering the phone - happily she was fine, and thought she'd cancelled...
so again, not really in the mood for working with Monf, but did hose his legs off and give him a groom - amazingly, he WASN'T covered in mud today!
thought i'd start hosing due to the mud fever, gives me a chance to have a look, and reapply cream as necessary in the morning before he goes out again.
Plus, someone when it was frosty put a load of used bedding at the field entrance, so i hate to think what brew they're standing in when loitering round the gate! cue for skin infections, certainly, if not kept an eye on. i could see the sense at the time, as the field was THEN bone hard and horrid and slippy .. but....
That's the trouble with temporary solutions to problems in the winter. I have a manure pile by the barn I'll have to move whenever spring actually arrives and the mud is gone. And, there are similar messes elsewhere. Fine, as you say, to cover the ice, but then what???
ReplyDeleteGlad your mother was OK. That was a bit of a worry.