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Monday, July 13, 2009
And... as quick as a flash my Nova scotian adventure is OVER
I do miss it... but i've been doing so many things i do not have the TIME to miss it.
Once i left planet bdf i was off at waterloo... of traipsing through toronto...
Amazing
BDF taught me tons, it was nothing what i expected. I learned to long line a horse, trained a young horse, taught him to be trained under saddle, probably his first rider. Honestly if i had money, the time, the right trainer to help me i would buy him and bring him on. Ive never been so close to a horse, like never had that kind of connection that i did with him. He was my project, the one i took on.
But i think the real adventure started after elisabeth left... when bob giles came things picked up wonderfully. It was just an amazing experience...
Here is what we did everyday
7.35-9.30am Prepare feeds, bring hin horses, groom horses, muck stalls, check water
9.30-12 am Colts feed/ groomed/ handled, bathrooms cleaned, horses ridden
12-1pm lunch
1pm- 2pm Catch horses and tack up
2pm-3.30pm trail ride
3.30-5.30pm Ring work riding, working with young horses/ gypsy vanners, clean tack, check water tanks, refill water tanks, feed and bring in horses
between 7 and 9pm- Feed gjest, take in yvonne and feed, redo stella's leg, showe offf holly's udder / leg
I do miss it... but i've been doing so many things i do not have the TIME to miss it.
Once i left planet bdf i was off at waterloo... of traipsing through toronto...
Amazing
BDF taught me tons, it was nothing what i expected. I learned to long line a horse, trained a young horse, taught him to be trained under saddle, probably his first rider. Honestly if i had money, the time, the right trainer to help me i would buy him and bring him on. Ive never been so close to a horse, like never had that kind of connection that i did with him. He was my project, the one i took on.
But i think the real adventure started after elisabeth left... when bob giles came things picked up wonderfully. It was just an amazing experience...
Here is what we did everyday
7.35-9.30am Prepare feeds, bring hin horses, groom horses, muck stalls, check water
9.30-12 am Colts feed/ groomed/ handled, bathrooms cleaned, horses ridden
12-1pm lunch
1pm- 2pm Catch horses and tack up
2pm-3.30pm trail ride
3.30-5.30pm Ring work riding, working with young horses/ gypsy vanners, clean tack, check water tanks, refill water tanks, feed and bring in horses
between 7 and 9pm- Feed gjest, take in yvonne and feed, redo stella's leg, showe offf holly's udder / leg
Monday, July 06, 2009
5 days left
Im gonna miss it here... but yet im ready to move on, it's been fun. I've been here since fricken may!!!!!!
Rode holly on the trail today. She felt like a coiled spring in the beginning... jus wanting to go. So during the short spurts when we did we went MAAAADDDDD galloping away, awesome time. Gonna miss these fjords, my orion, my willow. But i've learned so much, tolerated stupid annoying carole. Who has to dammit share a name with me.
The show was a success!!!! although i was FREAKING nervous before, and the only one in a black jacket and shirt. But apparently i looked realy nice with a black and white gypsy vanner. we spent SOOOOOOOOOOO long getting those feathers looking SHINY and white and clean clean clean. They looked SPECTACULAR. With those looong manes and shiny clean white feathers. WHen the music started i just WENT and tried to
a) enjoy myself
b) tell myself it was jus another day of training
c) not knock into bob
d) Not make up random movements not part of planned routine so not as to collide into bob
Im gonna miss it here... but yet im ready to move on, it's been fun. I've been here since fricken may!!!!!!
Rode holly on the trail today. She felt like a coiled spring in the beginning... jus wanting to go. So during the short spurts when we did we went MAAAADDDDD galloping away, awesome time. Gonna miss these fjords, my orion, my willow. But i've learned so much, tolerated stupid annoying carole. Who has to dammit share a name with me.
The show was a success!!!! although i was FREAKING nervous before, and the only one in a black jacket and shirt. But apparently i looked realy nice with a black and white gypsy vanner. we spent SOOOOOOOOOOO long getting those feathers looking SHINY and white and clean clean clean. They looked SPECTACULAR. With those looong manes and shiny clean white feathers. WHen the music started i just WENT and tried to
a) enjoy myself
b) tell myself it was jus another day of training
c) not knock into bob
d) Not make up random movements not part of planned routine so not as to collide into bob
Friday, June 26, 2009
Raggle taggle gypsy
Two more weeks left.......
Time is passing quickly, but mostly i have enjoyed it.. Working with horses all the time, i do ENJOY it.
Today- Worked on feeds in the morning, then went on to help out clean the HUGE barn mats which were stinking up the barn which had become wet and mucky not due to the rain but due to the water from the hay wheelbarrow, oh and did i mention horse pee, plenty of it since a lot of the mares are now in heat/ season and peeing everywhere and ALL the time
The gypsy vanner pie ( the thicker of the two) was practically flirting openly to gjest the resident stallion who feigned interest ( he's married to holly who teases him endlessly by peeing, filling the air with pee odour and driving gjest insane and then resting her chin on the wall while he stretches his neck out as far as he can to try to sniff her... so close yet so far..... )
Then went on to fill up the barn with shavings, after which relaxed with melanie and louisa in the feedroom for a bit. Went to the old barn to check on hay and water for orion and willa who were in there, they both got more hay. Bob took willa out to work with her. We didn't go up to the house for lunch today... due to the farrier coming, he was said to arrive at 12 but his 12 means after 12.30. But he is by no means a BAD farrier, if anything he probably extremely passionate about hoofcare and hooves. The gypsy and lexie ( lexie is the bob's big beautiful percheron mare) had terrible feet which traumatised the farrier. He's big on people taking good care of horse's feet.
Alex and Margret bought lunch and we sat outside the barn munching our burgers in the sunshine.
It was baking hot... so hot i didn't even feel like riding.. but i knew i had to, so i grabbed skye to ride her, had to practice for the show. I ended up having a hard time fitting the damn thing on her... will try quasar's on her... Finally got it and went into the ring to practice with song, as i was doing it, bob and carole got back and watched, apparently it looked fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!
Well i hope it was...... she's good to ride, easy to get on the bit, just needs some pushing...
Time is passing quickly, but mostly i have enjoyed it.. Working with horses all the time, i do ENJOY it.
Today- Worked on feeds in the morning, then went on to help out clean the HUGE barn mats which were stinking up the barn which had become wet and mucky not due to the rain but due to the water from the hay wheelbarrow, oh and did i mention horse pee, plenty of it since a lot of the mares are now in heat/ season and peeing everywhere and ALL the time
The gypsy vanner pie ( the thicker of the two) was practically flirting openly to gjest the resident stallion who feigned interest ( he's married to holly who teases him endlessly by peeing, filling the air with pee odour and driving gjest insane and then resting her chin on the wall while he stretches his neck out as far as he can to try to sniff her... so close yet so far..... )
Then went on to fill up the barn with shavings, after which relaxed with melanie and louisa in the feedroom for a bit. Went to the old barn to check on hay and water for orion and willa who were in there, they both got more hay. Bob took willa out to work with her. We didn't go up to the house for lunch today... due to the farrier coming, he was said to arrive at 12 but his 12 means after 12.30. But he is by no means a BAD farrier, if anything he probably extremely passionate about hoofcare and hooves. The gypsy and lexie ( lexie is the bob's big beautiful percheron mare) had terrible feet which traumatised the farrier. He's big on people taking good care of horse's feet.
Alex and Margret bought lunch and we sat outside the barn munching our burgers in the sunshine.
It was baking hot... so hot i didn't even feel like riding.. but i knew i had to, so i grabbed skye to ride her, had to practice for the show. I ended up having a hard time fitting the damn thing on her... will try quasar's on her... Finally got it and went into the ring to practice with song, as i was doing it, bob and carole got back and watched, apparently it looked fabulous!!!!!!!!!!!
Well i hope it was...... she's good to ride, easy to get on the bit, just needs some pushing...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
2 more weeks
I've been here for a month and two days...
I have been through various stages here and am glad to have reached a rather stagnant stage for the next two weeks...
Carole still drives us insane... i had a minor breakdown last night... So we were upstairs having a bitchfest about her upstairs and she calls us down " GIRLS!!!! come down and do the dishes!!!" so being nice, i go down to do them, and she stands at the sinks and is like " dishes have to be cleaned after dinner and i want you to wake up early tomorrow and clean the house, mop the floor and dust" it was the WAY she was ordering us around was just... something ticked inside me and i was just... no i am NOT doing the dishes... WHY THE FUCK WAS I DOING HER DISHES?? i had cleaned my own, why should i do hers??? i didn't come here to clean dishes... i came here to look after horses... so i just abandoned the dishes and stormed upstairs and started crying hysterically... maybe i was just premenstrual...i couldn't take her...
Talking and ordering us around like we were filipino maids, plus she was drunk... you don't drunk order around people!! soo annoying... she just made me snap.
Anyway... onto better things. Today, we took 1/2 the afternoon off and i rode the gypsy vanner skye, Skye was nice.. easy to control and trot, it's just the saddle didn't realy fit and kept slipping, but i got most of the test down.
Bob giles took us out for dinner which was cool...
anyhow, i have to run.. byee
I have been through various stages here and am glad to have reached a rather stagnant stage for the next two weeks...
Carole still drives us insane... i had a minor breakdown last night... So we were upstairs having a bitchfest about her upstairs and she calls us down " GIRLS!!!! come down and do the dishes!!!" so being nice, i go down to do them, and she stands at the sinks and is like " dishes have to be cleaned after dinner and i want you to wake up early tomorrow and clean the house, mop the floor and dust" it was the WAY she was ordering us around was just... something ticked inside me and i was just... no i am NOT doing the dishes... WHY THE FUCK WAS I DOING HER DISHES?? i had cleaned my own, why should i do hers??? i didn't come here to clean dishes... i came here to look after horses... so i just abandoned the dishes and stormed upstairs and started crying hysterically... maybe i was just premenstrual...i couldn't take her...
Talking and ordering us around like we were filipino maids, plus she was drunk... you don't drunk order around people!! soo annoying... she just made me snap.
Anyway... onto better things. Today, we took 1/2 the afternoon off and i rode the gypsy vanner skye, Skye was nice.. easy to control and trot, it's just the saddle didn't realy fit and kept slipping, but i got most of the test down.
Bob giles took us out for dinner which was cool...
anyhow, i have to run.. byee
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Life at Beaver Dam
Time is passing fast, it's already mid june and i have about 3 weeks left till i leave this place.
I will miss it....... i admit i will, i would miss looking at the breath-takingly speactacular view that i take for granted every morning. Riding 2x a day... all that barn work...
WHat i have done in the last month
a) Mucked more stalls than i can remember
b) Become comfortable with a wheelbarrow/ broom/ pitchfork
c) Found zen and comfort in mucking stalls
d) Lunged a horse for the first time
e) ground drove a percheron and irish draft horse
f) Worked with a three year old gelding, teachi him under saddle
g) Introduced saddles to colts
h) Fallen off 3 x in two weeks
i) Learned to cook simple meals confidently
j) Realised i love jumping over natural jumps
Ive done many things here, and learnt a lot. Very fulfilling...
I will miss it....... i admit i will, i would miss looking at the breath-takingly speactacular view that i take for granted every morning. Riding 2x a day... all that barn work...
WHat i have done in the last month
a) Mucked more stalls than i can remember
b) Become comfortable with a wheelbarrow/ broom/ pitchfork
c) Found zen and comfort in mucking stalls
d) Lunged a horse for the first time
e) ground drove a percheron and irish draft horse
f) Worked with a three year old gelding, teachi him under saddle
g) Introduced saddles to colts
h) Fallen off 3 x in two weeks
i) Learned to cook simple meals confidently
j) Realised i love jumping over natural jumps
Ive done many things here, and learnt a lot. Very fulfilling...
Thursday, June 11, 2009
INSANITY and FRUSTRATION
My boss just makes me soo annoyed....
I mean, we got lectured today... and although she was lecturing the four of us, i felt personally attacked. I know it wasn;t meant in a bad way, more of a good way, for our own good sort of way... but it's just soo ERGHH.
We had guests come over to stay in the cottage that she rents out, and they told her they felt the interns this year were not as friendly as last years.... how is that supposed to make us feel? how it was suppoosed to mean something that we did not get tips?? hello???? there is a reason i LEFT the service industry. I didn't come here to serve ppl, i came here to to serve horses, and yes maybe i should be more open to working beyond my job scope... but, it is not like im unfriendly or unwilling to talk to ppl..... its not the guest's fault i suppose, but still, this is NO riders ldoge, there they had ppl who cook professionally for them, professional instructors... i m not saying this place is shit cos it is not...... but... Im just annoyed at her sometimes and the way she treats ppl...i conclude her problem is deepseated family issues.
ERGHH
enough vetning
the horses are amazing though, they trump everything.
I really need my cellphone charger cos I AM NOT ALLOWED TO USE MY BOSS'S HOME PHONE FOR SOME WEIRD REASON.
thanks a lot carole, thanks a lot.
I mean, we got lectured today... and although she was lecturing the four of us, i felt personally attacked. I know it wasn;t meant in a bad way, more of a good way, for our own good sort of way... but it's just soo ERGHH.
We had guests come over to stay in the cottage that she rents out, and they told her they felt the interns this year were not as friendly as last years.... how is that supposed to make us feel? how it was suppoosed to mean something that we did not get tips?? hello???? there is a reason i LEFT the service industry. I didn't come here to serve ppl, i came here to to serve horses, and yes maybe i should be more open to working beyond my job scope... but, it is not like im unfriendly or unwilling to talk to ppl..... its not the guest's fault i suppose, but still, this is NO riders ldoge, there they had ppl who cook professionally for them, professional instructors... i m not saying this place is shit cos it is not...... but... Im just annoyed at her sometimes and the way she treats ppl...i conclude her problem is deepseated family issues.
ERGHH
enough vetning
the horses are amazing though, they trump everything.
I really need my cellphone charger cos I AM NOT ALLOWED TO USE MY BOSS'S HOME PHONE FOR SOME WEIRD REASON.
thanks a lot carole, thanks a lot.
Sunday, June 07, 2009
FINALLY LEARNED HOW TIO LONG REIN
Muahahahaha....... i learned how to long rein/ lunge ahahahahah
ALthough i just got off an EXHAUSING EXHAUSTING weekend... there was a clinic held at the farm and we were working 16 hrs straight for 2 days and 8 hrs today. AHHHH I mean it was good fun learning how to long rein, and i learned soo much stuff, the clinician is amazing, his name is clay maier. He worked wonders with the horses, orion, the 3 yr old i am working with is getting good, i mean from being non-trottable both under saddle and in hand on the first day to today trotting well!! that is improvement and i am PLEASED with that, cos i guess i am getting rather close to him now... he may not have the best movement in thw world... but i will still like him. He doesn't bite, actually none of them bite except for one of the babies.
So tirring.. But i am enjoying it, i think where in the world can i get this kind of amazing opportunity? it's a trade off, carole may not be mrs warm-and-cuddly but hey i get to work with young horses !! I will try my best to enjoy it and make the most of it cos probably when this ends i will think that this never happened.
ALthough i just got off an EXHAUSING EXHAUSTING weekend... there was a clinic held at the farm and we were working 16 hrs straight for 2 days and 8 hrs today. AHHHH I mean it was good fun learning how to long rein, and i learned soo much stuff, the clinician is amazing, his name is clay maier. He worked wonders with the horses, orion, the 3 yr old i am working with is getting good, i mean from being non-trottable both under saddle and in hand on the first day to today trotting well!! that is improvement and i am PLEASED with that, cos i guess i am getting rather close to him now... he may not have the best movement in thw world... but i will still like him. He doesn't bite, actually none of them bite except for one of the babies.
So tirring.. But i am enjoying it, i think where in the world can i get this kind of amazing opportunity? it's a trade off, carole may not be mrs warm-and-cuddly but hey i get to work with young horses !! I will try my best to enjoy it and make the most of it cos probably when this ends i will think that this never happened.