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Snow day at the barn

February 9, 2021: school called it off, so Rylee and Kaleb spent the whole white day bareback among the blanketed horses.

August 9, 2026 · Horse Commons

On February 9, 2021, the snow came down hard enough to cancel everything except the barn. So the barn won. Rylee and Kaleb pulled on every layer they owned, and the horses — already rugged up in plaid, pink, purple, and teal — seemed just as pleased about the change of plans.

Nobody bothered with saddles. There was bareback riding over blankets, a lot of leaning, hugging, and balancing, and at least one curious nose shoved directly into the camera. The palomino supervised from the fence line in its purple blanket, entirely unbothered by the weather.

By afternoon the two of them were riding side by side down the fence line through unbroken snow. The last frame is the lane after everyone went in to warm up: black fence posts, white ground, and quiet.

The purple-blanketed palomino looking straight at the camera in the snow.
Kaleb and Rylee holding both blanketed horses beneath snow-laden branches.
Rylee mounted bareback on the teal-blanketed pinto, grinning through the snowfall.
A curious horse nose pokes into the frame as Kaleb plays beside the blanketed buckskin.
Kaleb grinning as he leans across the buckskin's pink-blanketed back.
Rylee bareback on the teal-blanketed bay pinto beside the buckskin in the snow.
Rylee riding the plaid-blanketed gray through the snowy paddock.
Rylee standing beside the blanketed gray in knee-deep snow.
Rylee riding the purple-blanketed palomino bareback through the snow.
Kaleb bareback on the blanketed buckskin beside the black fence in the snow.
Kaleb and Rylee riding their blanketed horses side by side through the snow.
The empty snow-covered farm lane, black fence posts marching into the white.
Rylee riding a blanketed pinto across the snowy paddock lane.

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