Brrrr...

We are experiencing very low temps and a lot of snow right now which makes it hard to want to spend time outside.  The older I get, the less I enjoy the snow - maybe one of these days our family will move somewhere where the winters are shorter and a lot less snowy!

Anyways, due to the extreme temperatures not much has been going on in horsey land at our house.  Hubby is working like crazy to get our stalls finished up.  All that's left are the bars.  The floors are in and the walls put up.  Can't wait! 

I was feeding last night and it looks like Star might be losing some weight.  My guess is that between Tyson and Zoe she's getting pushed off her feed (she eats the slowest).  Tonight I'm gonna pull her out and feed her separately.  I usually like to feed each horse separately, especially in the winter when there isn't any pasture, but without stalls it's pretty hard.  I was making three piles (with their grain dishes) hoping that everyone would just stay at their pile but that's not working anymore.  Needless to say, those stalls couldn't get done fast enough!

In other news, middle daughter decided that she didn't want to take riding lessons where she was at anymore.  I'm not going to lie, I was upset because of selfish reasons.  I really enjoyed our Monday's at the barn!  I felt like the people at that barn were my kind of people and we really clicked!  It was a dressage and western dressage barn but they were very accepting of everyone and their different horses and backgrounds.  The way they were teaching middle daughter was very much like how I was taught to ride.  But middle daughter was tired of riding on a lunge line and was bored.  She felt like they did the same things over and over again.  I tried to explain to her the importance of repeating the same exercises (muscle memory) but she had her mind made up.  It didn't help that hubby also felt like she was moving too slow.  I tried reasoning with them that rushing through could mean that important lessons might not be learned.  But I was overruled and we ended lessons at that barn.  I hope that one day soon I will be going there again for whatever reason, like maybe western dressage lessons???  Who knows?

Until next time!



Quote for the day:
"This is what I learned:  that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say."

-Brenda Ueland