Okay--I tried to get a close up of the outside border color--I'll see if this looks close....
Alaskan lady--I am very weary of dealing with the weather as far as the horses are concerned. If it was just me I had to worry about--it'd not be a big deal. Take this morning, for example: I got up at 5:15 am on a Saturday :shock: because I knew the waters in the barn would be frozen. Then I emptied four 70 lb tubes of traction sand in the pasture (heavy!!) so the horses would have a path to walk on--I worry about them slipping--borken legs and lost foals :( . I also spread three buckets of lime--it adheres to ice and creates traction. Then I shoveled--again. Plus I did all the usual--clean stalls, empty buckets, make stalls up, get hay down for the week. It took two hours. I ate a double serving of oatmeal when I came in. :D