extremes...

-5 C when i went out this morning about 07.30 .. brrrrrrr

11 C when I went out at about 3 pm ... but that was only cos the car was in full sun, it was 3 degrees and falling everywhere else, LOL! all round the car is still icy...weird!

and what was drying out mud at the field gate is now a pond again .. the ballcock on the trough had got wedged, somehow, in the open position and wasn't discovered till lunchtime (it was still frozen when i came home again this morning at 08.30 ...) so none of us, people or horses, are happy about that!

but the horses were able to be out for longer today, lovely sunny afternoon despite the cold, and we took them for some grass in the park after we'd groomed them..

and a huge temperature difference even between the middle of the field (sunny) and the front of the stable (in shade.. )

yes, i could have done some work with her...but i didn't...grass in her was the better option ..

and here's a good one ... molly deliberately poos OVER the fence! bizarre! hope YM is reading this... we don't want anyone thinking we've chucked it over (clear, in fact, that it is a proper horse done pile, not a person chucked one)... maybe Molly thinks she's saving us a job? in which case, she could do that with all her poos, which she doesn't...just along the one fenceline.