Bitter Cold

This has been a cold cold winter.  When I went out to feed horses this morning it was -20 deg, and the forecast for the high today is 2 deg.  We have quite a bit of snow on the ground which is great for the pastures, but makes barn chores much more challenging.  Does 2 hours of barn chores daily, including heavy lifting and carrying of warm water buckets across the property, moving and feeding 110# hay bales, and constant walking in sub zero temps constitute being physically active? Because I feel like a slug only working for 2 hours, but I'm exhausted.

Grace looking out of her stall at the winter wonderland.  Samson is the darker horse in the background

 

Nitro is the black and white paint

Rain is our other black and white paint

Highboy

The plan is for Grace to be sold and go to a forever home after the horse expo in March, and she will have a weatherbeeta blanket that goes with her as well as a leather halter.  Her engraved nameplate arrived this week and it looks quite nice on her black halter with maroon padding.

This is what I look like just before I step outside to do barn chores in -20 deg snowy weather.