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Shelter from the storm. How are you managing in this weather? [1]

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Date: 2023-02-26  

I had a neighbor, who moved a couple of years ago, who had an accident. One of her miniature horses kicked her (don’t get behind a horse, especially a bad-tempered one) and broke her back in two places. (Miniature has a wide range. Her horses were the size of ponies.) I took on the care of the horses, because, as disabled as I am, at least I wasn’t confined to bed.

Kay had four horses but I only have pictures of two of them. The one closest to me is Cassie, the one who “got” her. She was quite the bully and I gave her a lot of room.

One of the things Kay insisted on was bringing the horses into the barn and sorting them into their stalls every night, and also every time there was even a wee bit of rain. It wasn’t particularly easy, especially with stubborn Cassie, and often took longer than I was happy with. But when I got them close to the barn ahead of, or in, a rain storm, I always sang Shelter From the Storm. Fortunately, they couldn’t complain. And anyway, I was the one with the sweet feed, apples, and carrots. So they put up with me.

So how are things where you are? And what have you done, or are you doing, to cope with this weather?

And a bit of history for February:

“It began then to snow and freeze till the 22nd day of February, on which day men and women might well pass on the ice of Lyon in sundry places, and little tilth till the 26th day of February [1555,] and but in lyth (sheltered) places.” -- Sketches, pp. 341-394

After sermon and supper, on the 26th of February [1565,] said Randolph to Cecil, at the Lord Murray’s, and Darnley had seen the Queen, and divers ladies dance, he being required, by my Lord of Murray, danced a galliard with the Queen, who, for all the cold, and storms, came home, at the end of five weeks, lustier, than when she went forth. -- Life of Mary [Queen of Scots], pp 98-126

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