Job number two

So of course mostly I write about my horses and I run a boarding barn and teach every day, but along the way I have picked up a little part-time gig....

So it's 6:30am and I'm heading out with hubby Dwayne to shoe horses all day. I think at the first barn we have eighteen (10 shoeings, 8 trims), our regular stop, and two extras at a barn after that.I learned to shoe and got certified so I could do my own horses and not have to inflict badly-mannered new horses on Dwayne all the time.... I already knew the theory and conformation and biomechanics, horse handling, etc., so it was just a matter of application. Very handy skill. Then I started helping Dwayne when his last helper moved away, and now I help him about 13 days out of his 20-day (five week) shoeing rotation.

Fortunately we get along pretty well, not many couples could work together that much! A couple weeks out of the schedule we pull long days and then I come home and teach and there's no time to even look at my personal horses, but with the economy I'm sure not going to complain! It is certainly helping with getting to shows and making improvements around the barn....

So today my horses won't get ridden but next week the new paddock fence WILL be going up!