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Equine Supplement Bucket to Trick or Treating Bucket
My kids actually go trick or treating several times each year. We own a camper so we camp seasonally and the season includes two early October Trick or Treating weekends. By the time actual Halloween comes along it is pretty much a non-event. Since they trick or treat three times at least, it is pretty inevitable that at least one of those days will be raining. Last year, all three days were raining and any candy they did get that wasn’t eaten on that first night had to be thrown out. It was all soak and wet right through the bag and through the candy. This year we are planning…
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How I Define Weather
This is how I define weather: HHOOOTTTT – 95 degrees plus – far too hot to clean stalls, far too hot to ride a horse, far too hot for the horses. Change the water often because they aren’t huge fans of warm hay saturated tea… Hot – 80 degrees plus when my eyeballs sweat while mucking stalls Perfect Day – 65 degrees and perfect for tacking up a horse, riding, hanging out all day at the barn enjoying our horses. Too nice to bother cleaning stalls. Warm – when it is 20 degrees and I am working up just a slight sweat mucking stalls but all in…
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Supply Storage Strap – The Answer To So Many Needs
We own horses and they have outdoor fields and indoor stalls. They spend most of their time outside but in poor weather conditions they have stalls to go into. When you own horses there is never enough storage space and when you do store things they need to be out of the way so horses don’t trip on them or simply step on them and break whatever you spent your hard earned money on. Accidents happen – but doing what we can to prevent them is critical. That is why I love this storage strap. All week we have been cleaning up the barn – we board at a facility…
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How Will I Best Display My Horses? With Easy Canvas Prints Of Course!
This is a sponsored post in partnership with BraVoMark and EasyCanvasPrints.com. We own four horses – and absolutely love them to death. Sure they are so much work – every single day, 365 days a year. Occasionally we have some sort of family crisis that results in us needing assistance but in general, we absolutely work with the horses every day. Doesn’t matter if it is hot, cold, dreary, rainy, snowy and more. There is no break – we need the horses and they need us. There is also very rarely a day that I don’t go camera crazy trying to capture as many moments of love as possible. But leaving all…
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The Cost (Benefit) of Owning Horses -Priceless
Why do you pay so much money for your kids horses? I get that question all the time. In fact, occasionally people who have no business having an opinion will even get angry at the amount of money I spend on the kids horses. Seriously? We work very hard to make this happen and we all make sacrifices to make it happen. With good reason. I don’t pay so much money for a recreational activity – Here is what I am paying for… I pay for those moments when my kids become so tired they want to quit – but don’t. I pay for those days when my kids come…
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Adding A Little Zen To My Workspace
Everyone who knows me, knows I love horses. I have a very demanding job by day and everyone tries to add something to their workspace that offers a little bit of peace and tranquility. For me, that means adding an equine terrarium, a couple other decorative touches and a pair of silk fern plants. With all the hours I spend there I need to make a corner to “get away from it all”. Not to mention sometimes when people come to my office they are under a great deal of stress from some source. When they walk in and see this corner they instantly know that I value individuality,…
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Let’s Talk About Barn Fire Safety
Sad to say but lately there have been some barn fires in our area. In one – all the horses in that barn perished from smoke inhalation and in the other – the barn was lost but the horses were spared. This is all so scary. Our horses are boarded and there are people who live on the property so I hope and pray that if something ever happens, the horses can be spared also. But there are alot of horses on the property in two separate barns. I try not to put too much thought into the “what could happen”. NFPA.org has a nice checklist to keep on hand…
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Safe Trail Riding On The Roads
One of our absolute favorite things to do with our horses is trail ride. We have two thoroughbreds and two draft horses. They all have special characteristics that we know we need to watch for when riding. But ultimately we can only control our horse the best we can – we need to prepare for our surroundings and environment which is even less predictable. I wish I could say our horses are predictable but they are just like people – good days and bad days. So how can we best prepare for our trail rides to be as safe as possible? Always wear a helmet. Don’t get me wrong, I…
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DIY Equine (Horse) Insulated Water Buckets
This post contains affiliate links This is our 2nd winter with horses – last winter was pretty mild and there were a few days where I needed to deal with frozen water buckets in the stalls but not entirely frozen solid and not for more than a few days. This winter is horrid – absolutely horrid. The full 5 gallon buckets are freezing solid as a rock, in the barn, within 4 hours. Water troughs outside a definitely totally freezing. Trying to keep fresh water available for the horses has been a monumental task. All this and sometimes the pipes are frozen so just trying to fill anything with water…
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Equestrian Ribbon Display Solutions
This post contains affiliate links After a year and a half of shows – I really needed to come up with a storage solution for my kids ribbons. My daughter has wallpaper on her walls and the solution I used for my son was not working for her. His is basically a wooden dowel along the top of his wall and the ribbons are clipped on it. But the sticky backed hooks would not stay “stuck” on her wall and I wasn’t interested in putting holes in the wall. For the last three months her ribbons have been all over her room. It was frustrating because I knew she was…
