After a good breakfast, Floss and I put everyone outside without their rugs because they are all:-

• very floofy and fat
• they can move around better, roll and play
• and it wasn’t that bad, weather-wise.  The sun was shining.

So Iacs spent his valuable daylight hours by himself standing by the gate looking hopeful that I would return.

Everyone else was in the field digging and eating grass perfectly happily.

 

Iacs was now in a severe depression.  I thought it was because I hadn’t rugged him up.  I mean, don’t get me wrong, it was cold, but I thought they all have a good covering of fat and long fur and are built for this.

So obviously I gave in and opened the gate.

I don’t like anyone being miserable.

I gave Iacs a bucket of hay replacer, because it is easy to eat and I had it ready.  Iacs stuffed his fat floofy face not even coming up for air.  I also put his rug on.

Meanwhile Haakon and Kolka had spied that Iacs had vanished. You can almost feel the resentment from here.

And then everyone turned up to look resentful too.

Once finished, I shoved Iacs back out to rejoin all his friends hoping everyone would now be ok.

Not even two hours later, we had a huge blizzard. It was vile. So Flossie opened the big shed doors, and I opened the gate.  All the horses and ponies came in as fast as they could.

Even Fivla showed some speed.

So they have all gone to bed an hour or so early and are tucked up with food and water in their nice warm shed.  The hens and ducks also went to bed early and I haven’t seen any sheep.  When I go out again later, I think they should be home by then. I left their gate open and shouted a bit but honestly we couldn’t see to the fence as the blizzard was so bad.