. How cold/wet is it where you are?
Thanks for the link. We live at Applegate Oregon, a tiny (store, church, school) farming community in a valley formed by the Applegate river. The surrounding mountains protect us and create a nice temperate zone - as compared to Vernon, BC. Compared to Modesto, where my sister taught school for a few years, we live in the artic. Night time lows in December, January and February are in the high 20's and daytime highs usually reach low 40's. We get lots of rainy days, but we might also have a day like Wednesday where highs are near 50. It rarely snows. It's the rain and temperature swings that make blanketing questionable. Ideally, we could pop out and put the blankets on and off as the weather changes. Practically, the blankets are inclined to go in different weights and stay on. I suspect one of the reason we use the turnouts is that all the horses are out with shelters and we have a nice dry back to place a saddle on and less mud to scrape off. Nancy
