Too much rain for dressage
May. 15th, 2025 08:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThe dressage schooling show for this Saturday has unfortunately been cancelled due to the excessive amounts of rain that fell on the area. (We got between 3 and 4 inches of rain this week. That's a lot. More is expected, off and on, for today (Thurs) and Fri. The show is for Saturday.) The problem here is the parking.
Typically parking for these events is in a large grassy field (horse trailers with the trucks that pull them are fairly large) that doubles as a paddock or hay growing area or whatever. The dirt is decent quality and can frequently get soft-ish in the event of rain. Given that it's May and there's just been a shit ton of rain, I can totally understand the event venue being... lolnope.
So, I cleaned my tack for nothing. Probably it will not hurt me to have clean tack, though. And all is not lost. Event venue is going to try to reschedule for early in June, which gives me a few more weeks to work on my shit productively, which... yay? Hopefully that will be useful. I am optimistic. If not, there will be other options.
In other news, I have remedied the current dead newt problem. Working on a screening solution that I can live with, but am Having Thoughts about that for the moment because the spring box intake is not super accessible. I did hike up and look at it, but the spring box itself is bigger than I remembered, the spring water is like 40F (so cold as hell and not fun to be fishing an arm around in up to one's shoulder), and the intake pipe for the great big giant plastic holding tank, which should be IN the spring box, is not particularly easy to find. It may be at the bottom of the spring box. More research on this front is needed. And better light. I couldn't see shit.
I do think I can put a screen in where the pipe from the spring box feeds into the great big giant holding tank. That, I might be able to manage. I will need some different fittings but I think I can manage it. Again, not an urgent problem.
I'll work on it.
Typically parking for these events is in a large grassy field (horse trailers with the trucks that pull them are fairly large) that doubles as a paddock or hay growing area or whatever. The dirt is decent quality and can frequently get soft-ish in the event of rain. Given that it's May and there's just been a shit ton of rain, I can totally understand the event venue being... lolnope.
So, I cleaned my tack for nothing. Probably it will not hurt me to have clean tack, though. And all is not lost. Event venue is going to try to reschedule for early in June, which gives me a few more weeks to work on my shit productively, which... yay? Hopefully that will be useful. I am optimistic. If not, there will be other options.
In other news, I have remedied the current dead newt problem. Working on a screening solution that I can live with, but am Having Thoughts about that for the moment because the spring box intake is not super accessible. I did hike up and look at it, but the spring box itself is bigger than I remembered, the spring water is like 40F (so cold as hell and not fun to be fishing an arm around in up to one's shoulder), and the intake pipe for the great big giant plastic holding tank, which should be IN the spring box, is not particularly easy to find. It may be at the bottom of the spring box. More research on this front is needed. And better light. I couldn't see shit.
I do think I can put a screen in where the pipe from the spring box feeds into the great big giant holding tank. That, I might be able to manage. I will need some different fittings but I think I can manage it. Again, not an urgent problem.
I'll work on it.
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Date: 2025-05-17 05:11 am (UTC)And hooray for no longer currently having a dead newt clogging the pipes.
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Date: 2025-05-18 08:37 pm (UTC)lolol