Re: Freezing buckets

["DeSoto Saddle" <desotosaddle@voyager.net>]

Hi Angie!

32 what's that? Haven't seen the sunny side of 32 in at least 8 weeks. The
snow is so deep the snowmobiles get stuck unless you go down a packed trail
and Lilly my 16 1/2 hand Thorobred thinks her pasture has giant mounds of
whipped cream  to play in. The rest of the guys (ones from down south) think
they are in a white prison and not able to function, kind of like robots
with rusty parts. They haven't figured out yet that stuff can be fun to play
in. I have a 15h two year old Arab that loves to race anything and he thinks
if it is in the snow it's even more fun.We believe he is practicing to be
Rudolph.
 He raced a snowmobile the other day and forgot the 5ft fence was coming up
at the end of the pasture so he just flew over it to keep on racing.

We would be glad to send you'all some snow free of charge! Last check last
night it was waist deep in the woods. Today it is a blizzard out. Coming
down by the buckets full. One neat thought. If it wasn't for this foot
surgery I just had, I could go out and work on breaking Lilly the giant and
if I fell off I would have a soft landing. A horse sure would tire out in a
hurry walking in this snow. Would take any buck right out of em.

Marilyn Horstmyer
DeSoto Custom Saddlery
(231) 775-5612
desotosaddle@voyager.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Rides 2 Far <rides2far@juno.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:35 PM
Subject: RC: Freezing buckets


> Hey ya'll,
> School's out for the holidays so I get to come out and play. :-)
> It's COLD here...barely above freezing since Saturday.  I decided to try
> a little experiment and it was fairly successful. I don't have water at
> my barn; usually doesn't matter since they're not locked in it, but the
> really choppy muddy ground was frozen and so hard to walk on.. and the
> wind was so bad Kaboot refused to come out from under the shed and called
> for "room service". The hose from the house reaches within about 50' of
> the barn and if that freezes I have to haul it from the bathtub :-P. When
> the pipe thawed out for awhile Monday afternoon I filled all my buckets
> with water, put lids on them and then put them in my sawdust pile in the
> barn.  Banked the sawdust around them and though the buckets in the stall
> froze almost solid, those stayed perfectly thawed.  The next night I took
> a muck bucket and put an empty 5-gal. bucket down in it, then filled in
> all around it with sawdust. Put that in the stall, then poured a bucket
> of water in it.  The next day the bucket was about 3/4 empty, so it had
> stayed thawed most of the night. There was a very thin layer of ice on
> it, as compared to one I couldn't break with an ax the day before.  We
> don't have ice problems often enough around here to worry too much about
> buying heaters, but this was a nice short term fix.
>
> Angie
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