Farewell Daylight Savings

Daylight savings is over again for the year, the nights are already getting colder and my unrugged horses/ponies are very fluffy indeed

Plans for the winter months?? Mine is staying indoors as much as possible and being able to bench press 100kg at the end of it

I always go into mourning when daylight savings ends (although at least my mobile phone is on the right time now - it clicked over to AEST last weekend, stupid thing, and can't be re-set manually)

My plans for winter are to be smart about feeding the ponies (maximum goodness and nutrition for minimum outlay), relax as much as possible, run up a frightening heating bill and try not to have heart palpitations about the mud in the house...

And I might try not to strangle the kids on those wet weekends when we're all cooped up inside together going stir crazy, but that's optional really!

i want to hibernate.

After the last 6 months Ive had hibernation sounds very appealing So does a few months off work, but then I wouldnt get paid so thats no fun.... Winning Tattslotto sounds like the plan for winter

mmm. getting dark early... like its gloomy at four. i have bought series 4 and 5 of Greys so i have evening entertainment.. or.. um sometimes in the day... gosh i'm kinda hooked...
lots of good books too.
new job tomorrow at a very fancy arab stud with lots of cottonwool horses. I feel very proper. Poor Woody is just a gymkhana pony next to these globetrotters. I mean what horse has shown in Paris? In Paris??
I havent been to Paris and I am much cheaper to travel. OK must sleep, am fighting off a bug brought by family over easter- curse them I cant get sick now!
wish me luck.
will take photos

ooh i cant resist....

OK so its mid April & Ive lifted 70 kg - will stay indoors and work hard for the next 30kg

Fitch you could maybe spend the Aus winter in the Fench Summer??? Offer to go horse shopping for him in Paris

Benched 75kg last night whoo hoo - only 25 kg to go

Shit it getgting bloody cold though, we trained in horrendous winds last week & competed in much the same Sunday, glad I dont have the feeding/rugging to so also otherwise Id never cope!!

So OVER daylight savings. Riding before and after school is ALWAYS in the dark. To freaking cold and T looks like a feral with a wooley coat. Gah

Mine are mega hairy, nothing here is rugged (which is VERY different for me lol). Pizzant looks like Yak, I'll grab some pics of him soon & post them, he is sooooo cute

I have rugged one of the more delicate Arabian girls and my 25yo boy - the rest are fat and hairy and now muddy as well

My pinto colt goes from looking sleek and almost sexy to the spitting image of a Hereford bull calf in the space of about 2 weeks this time of year. Hate winter coats

Hate winter, come to think of it

See I kinda like winter, as in the colder days, warm roaring woodheater burning in the living room, an excuse to wear long boots, hats & oversized, stretched jumpers. Its the lack of daylight I hate - and the wind, wind sucks!

Well, yeah, admittedly there ARE benefits (like hot chocolate, having an excuse to do bugger-all because the weather's crap, casseroles, pies and stews), but the shorter days drive me bananas in the end. I think I have Seasonal Affective Disorder by the beginning of July.