Snow the Winter '05 thread

**babeth** · 29th November 2005, 17:07

My mother is living in the snow right now, the Belgian Ardennes have been blessed with up to 20 centimeters of snow. We had to be there last weekend, family obligations, and the dog just loved it. Critter is close to 11 years old now, arthritic, hardly any fat left on her bones, going bald... and spent most of Saturday night outside lying in the snow as happy as a pig in the mud !
But when she came in when we went to bed she installed herself on the large couch near the wood-stove and later that night I caught her sleeping belly-up and paws-up, basking in the warm glow of the banked fire.

The snow has gone here in Vilvoorde and it looks like we will have a dry and warm week (5Â°C).

**grafix** · 29th November 2005, 19:18

poor me, no snow for me. Care to share anyone?

Mike.

**bex** · 29th November 2005, 19:24

Ill gladly share the snow with you i am beginning to dislike it

**babeth** · 30th November 2005, 14:00

Mike, my mothers chalÂªt is always open for friends.
If you can handle the chain-smoking feisty 62-year-old owner who drinks everybody under the table that is.
And she might drag you onto a horse for a wild ride through the woods too...

(Message edited by Babeth on November 30, 2005)

**leorcc** · 30th November 2005, 16:52

quote:

And she might drag you onto a horse for a wild ride through the woods too...

Occasionally on the horse.

**bex** · 30th November 2005, 19:52

awww she changes it i think, she must have realised what she had written

Nice one Babs

**babeth** · 1st December 2005, 15:52

Yeah, just checked it, it should have been on the horse.

Although, come to think of it, dragging you across the fields towards the pasture in order to catch the horses first before a ride is really exiting when done in the middle of a moonless night.
Or more precisely on a moonless winter morning, which Ive done often enough in the past... ever tried to catch 20 horses out in the field who dont want to get caught ? And half of them having shed their halters one way or another so you have nohting to attach the lead-rope at ? And then try to sort out with just 1 flashlight which of them is Lucky or Falonne, who are both brown with the same white sock ? Not to mention the completely dark-brown Vagabond, Melodie and Galejade who are experts at blending in with the dark trees bordering the pastures ? Ever tried to find Edelweiss and Cibolet -both grey/white- in the snow ? I mean: you call out their names and they watch what youve got in your hands... if its a bunch of ropes they will uniformly ignore and evade you, if it is a piece of dry bread or -even better- a bucket with picotins they will converge on you... all of them. No matter whose name you call.
During daytime they are much friendlier.

Been there today, snow is gone, and the horses are happy: they have found grass again and that is still tastier than hay.