Forever Freezing

I love winter, but this is getting ridiculous.  It hasn't been above freezing in weeks.  I keep my house colder than most, but my bed stays nice and warm with that new heated mattress pad.  That is the greatest invention ever!

The weigh loss continues and I feel great!  The nice thing is that I'm not killing myself with some fad diet, and my eating habits won't change much when I get to my goal weight.  (Did you see that?  I said "when"!!!  Ha!)  And something I realized the other day ... the weight is coming off despite that I'm more sedentary right now that I have been since this time last year when I hurt my back and was wracked with depression over losing my brother (which I will never get over.)  Hopefully, the weight will come off a little faster when I am back to riding all the time.  I'm excited to have finally gotten my head in the right place and really started putting some effort into taking care of myself physically.  I haven't felt this good in years!  And now I just can't wait until the sun starts to come out and warm it up a bit to go riding.

And Kahlua ... poor thing.  I feel so bad for her out there in the cold.  I want to bring her in and let her lay on the couch while I feed her chips and dip or something.  I put her blanket on her for a few days, but I've always been told that horses' bodies deal, so I had mixed feelings about it.  The more people you talk to, the more opinions you get.  So I took it off her.  A few days later, I found a very informative post on The Equestrian Vagabond site that make me feel better in knowing I was doing the right thing.

Here's a few photos from my place yesterday morning.

 Everything is just frozen.

I drove over to my friend's house and here's what her street looks like.

Couple of random photos...

 I had Reese with me for the day, and she was awesome.  We went and picked up a bit of grass hay,  looked at a house for sale for my friend, came back to my place and off-loaded the hay, and then we went out to Chad's place to check out a couple of horses he had for sale out in Caldwell.  I think we're going to try to go riding next weekend in the Owyhees ... maybe Wilson Creek or something ... as I think the weather might warm up a bit this week and melt some of this white shit that I am so sick of!  Ha!