Will somebody please turn off the spigot?

Under the heading, “Careful what you wish for, you just might get it.” It’s been raining so hard here for the past 24 hours (and expected to go another 24) that there is some danger of serious road damage here on the mountainside. So far, so good though and for now the crowning on the roads is doing its job.

We do still have one feed group of maiden and retired females that is out living beneath the stars for another few weeks and I confess to feeling a little guilty when I passed them on the way up to the Arena to do some breedings earlier today. The phrase drowned rats came to mind. That being said, the majority of the farm’s herd including the newborn crias and their dams at the Arena are willingly out romping around their paddock and even the normally uber-coddled females of the fall show string living at the Main Barn, though forcibly locked outside on this occasion, have all been happily grazing in the downpour all day long.  It can’t be that bad really.  Roads stay, dusty fleeces be gone!