Hey guys, some exciting things happening in my neck of the woods lately! Some of you may remember I worked at a tack store - Columbia River - for several months, which was awesome and I really appreciated the discounts I got! Well, unfortunately the store closed and the owners moved back to their hometown in Oregon, so I lost my job with them back ( Read more... )

I posted a few weeks ago about possibly moving my mare, Andie, to a new barn here. Thanks again for everyone's advice. Getting her into the trailer was a little rough, but didn't go as badly as I had anticipated. She got into the trailer several times pretty early on, but would get really nervous and back out. I was a little bit disappointed in the ( Read more... )

Some of you may remember my barn drama last year here's the link in case you need a refresher ( Read more... )

Pardon my horrible pun ( Read more... )

I posted this a while back, and I wasn't having very good luck finding anything... ( until today! )

So I get out to the barn today, and I admit that unfortunatley it's been a couple of days since my last visit. The paddock Apollo is in is mud, literally up to the top of my muck boots. Now, it's not normally like that but we got 8" of snow dumped on us Monday. There wasn't much the BO could do about the mud, but I was annoyed that the only "dry" ( Read more... )

My big news for the week: I found a new barn ( Read more... )

I changed lesson barns.  A lot of things led up to my change but mainly it was really bad/unsafe lighting at night, lack of care for the school horses and a lack of organization from the staff ( Read more... )

I wanted to post to the Equestrian world just how super cool my BO/BM is. I wanted to pay my board fee prior to Thanksgiving (before we go away), so I asked him if he would mind if I gave him the check earlier. His response "Gee, I don't know that might throw everything out of order...YES OF COURSE YOU CAN PAY ME EARLY!!" (said in a joking manner ( Read more... )

So I went to the stables as Miguel came to do the horses. I arrive like, 2 hours later, but he was still there, and a new arrival ( Read more... )