Saturday, December 12, 2009

I'm Baaaack!

Hi All. Well again it's been awhile since I've written. Seeing as it's now officially winter and everyone is leaving I am going to start blogging again....after all I'm going to need someone to talk to haha.
Things here continue to go great. The weather has turned from Fall to -15 and snow....how did that happen? Brrrrr
Last week I treated myself to a one week holiday in the Dominican for some much needed R and R. It was FANTASTIC! Bit of a shock to return home to this cold.
Now I'm back to the grind at Millar Brooke. The first load of horses left for Florida yesterday and the next leaves on Wednesday. There will just be one other staff member and myself at home for most of the winter, they are in Florida until April.
My horse, Ralph, is doing great and I can't WAIT to start our jumping lessons :)
I've been riding a few of the young horses and they are coming along very well. My heart certainly sways towards working with the young ones.....training has always been my passion.
I'm going to be riding 4 a day all winter and will rotate them out as needed since I have more then 4 to ride.

Other exciting things since I last wrote. For a week I got to ride Contino....Jonathans HUGE grand prix horse. He is so incredible and I really felt tiny on him as he's bigger then Ralph. I'll have to add the pictures. I've also got to ride a few of the clients horses and all of them are equally as fabulous.
We've been clipping like crazy....no hairy horses around here. Really need to do laundry! Everything is itchy haha.

I finally got around to putting up my Christmas decorations tonight. Mom is coming to visit so I'm excited to see her!!
Hope everyone is doing well.....Talk soon I promise.
TTFN

2 comments:

  1. Hi Shawna,

    Hope you've got a nice wooly toque! I hope you can post some pictures of your horse. How big is he? The big news here is that Jessie will be having Ripley's first foal in late Feb. or early Mar. Maybe Nacara and Phoxy later. I traded Paris to a fellow in Alberta who is going to put him in harness with another Canadian gelding. I got a Canadian mare named June who is in foal to Blackjack Dawn who is Nacara and Phoxy's sire. We could end up with 4 foals (2 for sure) next year. Good grief! Stay safe and warm.

    Cheers,
    Ann

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  2. Hi Ann,

    Wow lots happening over your way! Ralph is doing awesome. We start jumping lessons with Amy after Christmas :) Mom is here visiting so I'll try to get some new pictures of him.
    He's gotta be close to 18 hh I think....He's very tall!
    I do have a good touqe and lots of warm winter woolies haha. Talk soon.

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