Snowy Roads and Canceled Lessons

Wow, what a turn the weather took. We all knew it was coming, but it's still not nice.

As you might know, we canceled lessons for Monday night as it's going to be VERY cold (-30c kind of cold). Add to that the fact the roads are terrible, and it's be irresponsible of us to run lessons. We'll probably be canceling Wednesday and Thursday night's lessons too.

Talking of the roads, we got stuck last night. We were on our way home from dinner in Edmonton, and we had to pop in to our neighbors to feed their horses. Well, I took the turn for their driveway a couple of feet too early and ended up in the ditch, well and truly stuck. We went down to the neighbors house to use their truck to pull us out, but it didn't work so well. We then got their truck stuck. Just goes to show that even with two 3/4 tonne 4x4 pickups, you're still at the mercy of the weather.

We ended up calling AMA and they came out and pulled both trucks out around 2am.

So, avoid the roads if you can. And call us to confirm your lesson is still on if you haven't heard from us. As always, take it slow when coming out here. We'd rather you be a little late, than not make it at all.

By the way, the horses are fine. They're all standing in front of bales of hay, keeping warm by eating. They have shelter from the wind too. Horses actually handle extreme cold better than they handle heat in the summer. By summer we'll have a shade system installed, as well as a new watering system to ensure the horses are ok in the heat.