Winter Thyme January 2010

The blues were about to set in when these glorious warm sunny days showed up.  We've been toting buckets of water out of the house and hand watering the horses daily.  They're buckets haven't completely thawed in two weeks even with the recent sunshine.  Most of the horses are unimpressed with my efforts.  Although, There are 3 that really enjoy the lukewarm water from the house.  Brandy who always loves to be hosed off in the summer, Tango who spends most warm days with her feet in the trough and Willie.  Willie the donkey who was afraid of buckets loves them now.  Just don't change the color....then he has to get used to it again.  He likes red and dark green buckets, even lime green buckets, but blue or...?!  I brought him water in a hot pink bucket today and after a few sniffs he took a long drink.  Now that the pastures are drying up it is suppose to rain again.