A Little Patience

Today was windy. Crazy windy, with stuff blowing around, howling audible inside the house, and not much fun. It was probably only 20-25mph, but it felt worse. And it was out of the Southeast, which was weird. Usually it's out of the North.

This morning when I went to feed horses I struggled through a bunch of mud, walking away from the barn with 1/2" or so on the bottom of each shoe. I slogged around, getting bins on the west side of the barn so the hay wouldn't blow away. That's always a struggle, and I think having Gemini locked on the North side helped.

As I ran errands tonight our to Kiowa and Elizabeth, it was still blowing like crazy, flags whipping around at the ends of their tethers. The whole time I shuttled kids to Scouts, I was dreading trying to feed tonight, working out in my head how I'd separate horses and get them into stalls.

However a few hours later, 8:30 as I walked outside, it was almost calm.

A little patience, not trying to feed them early, and giving it a chance to calm down worked. Feeding was still muddy, but not too bad.