What we did last night....

[robintutt]

Intrepid readers may remember that Katherine received horsebackriding lessons from my parents this past Christmas.  Now that the snow has finally melted, we were able to start....

First you clean the horse...

Comments

[brodyjen]

You should be able to work something out with the stables. When my mom sent me for riding lessons, she was a newly single mom and it was a **huge** financial sacrafice to allow me to go as it was - if she'd had to pay for me to do things like cleaning tack and such, she wouldn't have done it at all. In my paid lessons, there was enough time built in for us to get the horse from the corral, halter them, walk down to the ring, brush, clean hooves, saddle up and be ready to ride. If for some reason class was cancelled (we didn't ride in the rain, for example), then that same class time would be used for cleaning tack, or laying in a fresh stall or whatever but we weren't charged for the lesson. Because my mom worked on my class days (Saturdays), she usually dropped me off then came back for me on her lunch break, so after my lesson, I did a lot of work around the stables, and it was definitely not a problem. Obviously your boys would be a lot younger, and you'd need to stay and supervise them but I can't imagine any stable that wouldn't welcome the help.

[robintutt]

Yeah, I did a little will-work-for-riding-lessons when I was in grade school, too.