Subtle...

The herd gets two bales of haylage every four days and they were due it tomorrow, "Yes" I said to Mark "they'll do another day."  

"Right" said the horses "you think so do you?" then they all amassed around the gate.  Haylage covered in snow no longer counts, if we have to dig for it, we are not playing.  

Then they heard Joe with the tractor and off headed Mule and Cherry at speed, as he gets out to do the gate he is greeted with a honkey donkey heee haw and a lot of whinnying, then as the tractor turned up the drive they got all over excited and came cantering up, bucking and squealing telling the others "We bring head in charge of haylage" bow down to the clever mule and its trusty side kick.  Joe is a seriously popular person with these horses!!

We've had a bit more snow and its lovely, all fresh and wintery and it must be so much healthier for the horses than the grey miserable winters we've been having.  I'm going to say something you won't hear very often on this farm - there is no mud... NO MUD!!!!