Life Lesson #10 Horses do not have steering wheels, and I learn something everyday.

I want to start off with saying today was a good day in the barn.  Last night, however, I could not shut off my brain.  I was not angry, I just had a busy mind. I finally went to bed at 5:00 am. I was a little worried about my patience today but all the [...]

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Life Lesson #9 I did Take the High Road.

My day today started out before I went to sleep.  Mark and I had just gotten in bed when Mark asked me if  I saw someone come into our room.  I told him that it was surely a dog and that is what caused the door to open.  Mark told me the door had been [...]

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Life Lesson #8 I will never complain about tooth paste again.

Well today was my day off and I really did not do any work or much of anything, EXCEPT get riled up all over again. Without going into details, I got an email this morning that sent me right over the edge, knocked me right off of The High Road.  So much for walking in [...]

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Life Lesson #7 “I See You.”

I said yesterday that today would be a little out of the norm and it was.  Sometimes it is nice to have things different but on the other hand it made me a little off kilter.  I found that my day sort of seemed like a non day or maybe one where I did not [...]

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Life Lesson #6 I do not want to go to the moon.

Wow was today busy!  Ate lunch (a peanut butter sandwich) at 4:00 pm and did not leave the ring all day.  Today was a blur of horses horses horses, people people people!  Everybody did a great job and we even had a guest visit us.  I hope they were not too shocked by all the [...]

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Life Lesson #5 there is never enough patience

First I want to start out by telling everyone the update on Pitch Black.  The vet did come out and scope him and what he has going on is a lot of words that I can not spell.  So here so goes his epiglottis (this is one of the words I can not spell) is flat [...]

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Life Lesson #4 Take the high road!

Well, here I am again.  I wonder if anyone is out there?  Am I typing away just for practice ( I really do need to practice)? I would first like to report our vet will be out tomorrow and will scope Pitch, so please keep this poor old soul in your thoughts and prayers.   Today [...]

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Life Lesson #3 Horses are a gift from God!

Yes, I was tired today as I knew I would be, but the first part of the morning went very well. Dr. M had great rides and as always, was very supportive. All the horses worked well and we were actually ahead of schedule, until the new run-in shed arrived. I already knew in my [...]

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Life Lesson #2 Use Horse Sense

Today was a good day in the barn, all the horses worked well and everyone was fairly happy. I was feeling good about how I handled some touchy situations and was able to steer around any big problems, which is part of managing any barn or company for that fact. Sometimes keeping everyone happy is harder [...]

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Life Lesson #1 “It takes a village”

Today was supposed to be my day off and it was until I woke up (at noon). From noon on it was let’s try to figure how to get  all the internet ideas I got from the UPHA convention out of my head and into reality. I am not good on the computer and I would give [...]

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