Goodbye, Irene!

Well, that wasn't so bad now, was it? Here's the Little Brat out in 'the storm of the century' at about 2pm on Saturday....throughout the night we lost power a couple times for just a few seconds each time....count us blessed!

...and this is about the extent of the damage on as of Sunday morning....

Obviously, we got off easy on this one....

The majority of this washout came from the unexpected and unforecasted flash downpour on Friday afternoon....the 'hurricane' mostly just added the leaves....

All our barns and sheds went unscathed...the sun panels in the breezeway leaked a bit, so we'll need to try and get those replaced before winter sets in to keep the snow and melt-off out.

...and the arena only had a few small mud puddles to note.

These bails of hay were placed to keep the rain water from flooding the barn's breezeway....turns out, the majority of the water in the breezeway from from me washing the horses before I put them up...

Still, the ponies were happy to have a spa day (bath & brush down) and a night in the horsey hotel complete with ankle deep shavings....

....you can just see the sun peeking through at about 9am on Sunday in the picture below....

It turned out to be a beautiful sunny day....after a little cleanup, we were able to still host the United Horseman's Association Relay Practice! Check back for a separate post on that shin dig...

Happy Trails!

Leah