My mother once served breakfast on April 1. She served me an egg for breakfast. It was whipped cream with a cling peach in the center. There were other things, but I don’t care to dwell on them.

Another slightly chilly, but sunny spring day. The snow melts in the daytime and freezes at night, so it is slippery out. The road, when I walked the horses, was down to patches of dirt.

Ice shoes are amazing, the horses fly over the ice, seldom pausing. Of course, I would like to them to be barefoot, but this is not realistic at this end of the world.

Tonight I rode Raudi down to the Murphy Road turnoff. She was chipper – did alert on some skiers who were packing up and leaving. And she alerted a few times on the ride back home – I think that there were moose moving around, which is common at dusk.

I then took Hrimmi for a walk around the loop – she enjoyed herself, of course running down road and then running back to me. This is so good for her because she is not one for moving out under saddle. She is what her dam’s owner called a peanut roller. But, well, she’s my peanut roller.

I did not get Tyra out – there was not enough time. There will be in the next few weeks because the daylight is on the upswing.

Tonight Pete showed me some computer images of Icelandic horses in Iceland. Two things came to mind. The first was that the horses seemed to do quite well in inclement conditions, which explains why they wintered over so well. The other is that over there, they have vast pasturage to roam around on. If say, someone was to sell me a large parcel of land at a discounted price, and this parcel was, say, in Homer, I would abandon the book project and go for it. Every day I look at our very small enclosure and think that what they have is insufficient.

Something to now worry about – the current high cost of fertilizer may drive hay prices up, in which case we might have cut grass and dry it and feed it to our three. Yes, this is a very real thing to fret about.

I’m eager to get back in the arena and resume doing agility with all the animals.

I think that we need to enjoy the sunny weather while it lasts because either one of two things is going to happen. Either it’s going to get really hot and we’ll all be sweltering in the vicinity of air conditioners, or it will get really rainy and we’ll be puddle jumping. This, the new weather system, is unpredictable. And It’s sort of scary because it is an indicator of what’s to come.

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