A not so good month....

That is a lot of mud.... 

When it rains it pours... literally. I never really thought about the weather so much or how it can change time. It has rained consistantly for the last three weeks. Almost every night we have thunderstorms with scattered down pours so strong that a tidal wave comes pouring off the roof.

It wouldnt make a difference to me... except for the fact that since I moved three horses into the field next to my house, it has done nothing... but rained. I have a tiny run in shelter for them, which two of them stand in, and one of them does not. The option is there, I can't force her into the house.... it's her decision to stand all pathetic in the rain.

The rain makes the ground wet like a sponge, and the horses are beating the crap out of the land with their hooves. Giant patches of deep mud holes filled with water are everywhere from every step that they take. The ground is so soft that they sink up to their ankles in mud.

With water brings mosquitos. The horses are being eaten alive. No matter how much fly spray I put on them, it rains, and washes it off, and once again they are covered in tiny and large bites from green flies, horse flies, you name it. Its a mess.

Since the ground is so wet, I can't ride safely. The ground is too slippery and the footing is too deep. An injury could happen that would cost time and money- totally not worth it for a quick perk of a ride.

Not only am I affected by this, but it effects all sorts of other people too. Take the farmers.... their crops are ruined, (and so are mine by the way). Corn, Soy Beans, wheat, alfalfa... stands in water logged fields of mud. Millions of dollars are washed away, and now produce prices are up!  Glad I'm not a farmer.

On top of this it has affected the barn that I worked at. I say worked at because it closed today. Can't ride in the rain, lessons have been cancelled on and off for a month. Ginger couldn't keep up with the dwindling lesson loss, and has called it quits. I wonder how much of this was due to the rain. Rain certainly does bring a depression of sorts.

Meanwhile, I'm here now.... jobless, hopeless.... just biding my time and thinking of a time when I used to jump in my car and go riding every night with my friends before all this happened. Now, it's like a dark cloud has come over, shit on everything, and tossed a bill at us for cleanup.

Rain Rain go away..... you ruined every thing in my day.