We don't get snow here very often. If it makes any surfaces white, it's cause for excitement and if it accumulates enough to sled down a hill it can shut down the whole city. We had an inch or two yesterday here in town but out at the barn... ! Must have had something like FOUR OR FIVE inches there. So we packed up the dogs and the sleds and went out to the property and had a Snow Day.
Weird perspective photo of Scot and Max. Scot was socializing with Roxy but you can't see her behind Max.
Scot looks like a dog-riding Hobbit:
Roxy (in her new purple windbreaker) and Max anxious to get out of the truck and play:
The barn, the percherons, the front pasture:
"NOW can we get out?":
Luna and her well-insulated rump:
Sonja, our new (and pregnant) percheron. She was not very photogenic today:
Luna in crossties in the barn, getting restless while I finish gathering and assembling all the harness components. She seems to enjoy driving and gets dancy as things near readyness:
Closer shot of Luna in her harness:
Scot took the rest of the photos on this page, excluding the very last one. This one just managed to catch Luna's back half, most of Max and me in the sled as we took off down the driveway:
Driving out on the road between the front of our property and the folks across the street. In this photo you can see the neighbors' chocolate lab bounding along the inside of his fence, just under Luna's head:
Trotting back toward home... the pace quickens...
Here I am sternly lecturing Luna about her excessive speed. She, in turn, is ignoring me in favor of making a fast beeline for Scot:
A more mannerly pace:
The end of today's sledding. Scot and I piled into the sled and took another trip down the road. During the U-turn to come back home, Luna lurched forward and to the left a step and took up the slack in the tugs with a jerk while the sled was still slightly askew and angled uphill. My homemade makeshift pine "singletree" snapped in half. The center eyebolt and hitching hook stayed attached to our sled while the two halves of the singletree, Luna, the harness and the lines all went ahead without us for several paces before my "whoa" stopped her. I was very very glad not to have stupidly wrapped the lines around my hands. I've caught myself doing this in the past. Quite an eye-opener as I could easily have broken one or more fingers in this mishap:
Me and my beast:
Scratching the itchy spots... And putting the harness away:
Really neat old barn on the way out to our place. As far as I can tell, this barn isn't used for anything.
I think it really really wants to be used as a produce stand:
So that was our day! Scot sledded down the back hill of our property while I wrestled the harness onto Luna. Didn't get any photos of that. But we both got our sled quota. We also got sufficiently wet and cold and tired to appreciate hot chocolate at home afterward.
Oh, and this is a new digital camera. High-quality photos and easy to use.