Where we do the wet and dry dance amongst other things

October has landed with a splash. Right now we're playing on/off with the rugs like some kind of equine party game, even the horses don't know whats what anymore. Thankfully it only involves two players, EMW oldies Jimmy and Beau. If we had a yard full of the rugged kind I'd be carted off to some institution pretty fast.
To be honest I don't know why I'm playing this game yet. It's not even gone below freezing and they are both looking well covered, especially when you remember that they are ancient old lads. today it's chucked it down since early morning right up until just before 3-o-clock so we took pity and put on lightweight rain macs.
Now the sun is beaming down from a pale blue sky!
Time to go peel those rugs off but not before a quick mention of our newest most welcome volunteer Justine. I hope she comes back, she took our contact number so that's hopeful...only poor Justine came to help out on the last pouring down with rain wet day, Friday, so she got decidedly mucky and damp and saw us at our worse!

Here is Justine (left), with long term volunteer Astrid who introduced her to EMW Herefordshire, as they negotiate our super mud!

Yesterday we got loads done while the sun was still shining and it was dry. 

one job that has needed doing for a while was adding guttering to the small meadow field shelter. It was a great day for doing it and we got lots of help from various four legged residents!
Pete and I  got the job done by about 11am.
We've a lot of small but important jobs ahead at EMW Herefordshire including cladding the big barn and putting kick boards around the interior of the round pen.