Late this Monday morning: our horses enjoy the sun after a cold winter night. Just for a few days we will be "in the deep freezer" in Alberta, Canada. A light snow started yesterday and a cold night with -27 C. The sun today will be so nice for our horses and cattle. They like to rest and warm up the one side, after a while turn around and warm up the other side. The use trees, bushes and hills for wind breaks, since they have to be out of the wind to get the insulation they need with their long hair trapping air. Past week was still very mild and some spots got so icy, that I had to work on the access to the stock waterer for the animals. The cows got a trail with salt/sand and used that wisely (slow and one at the time). The horses didn't trust the new sandy trail and I had to move a water trough into the pasture, were it wasn't icy and filled it up with a hose from the house. Now, that there is fresh snow, the walking is good for them to be able to back to the heated waterer in the corral.
Lakes, small and big, have been frozen for several weeks, but due to abnormal milder winter, the ice fisher guys have been hesitant to drive their pick up trucks on the ice . But after this week, they will be happily driving onto nearby Twin Lake or Cow Lake, but mostly onto bigger Silvan Lake to get their ice fishing gear on there with ease.
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