It’s been a while since I have shared a blog post “from the heart” but my head is so full of thoughts at any given time these days, I need to get some of them out.
This would be a busy season for us in any year, but this year is especially busy as we try to juggle living life here while preparing to move it two states away.
We are in the middle of foaling season (“luckily” only expecting three foals this year) and gearing up for breeding season which really ties us down since we don’t want to miss heat cycles. Having demanding day jobs away from home already limits our time significantly so we need to be extra vigilant when we’re home to know where each of our mares are in their cycle.
We will have eight or nine mares to breed this year, two of which are maiden mares and a couple that we had trouble with last year so we have opted to AI the majority of them this year. We are really lucky to have a reproductive specialist near us, which is super helpful.
At the same time, we will need to make some Montana trips to get the property ready for our horses. We are planning to take some of the herd to Montana in May or June, ahead of us, to be out on grass and off of our feed bill here. Ideally, the mares without babies on their sides as well as Fawkes and Val can go live the good life.
I have been slowly going through things in the house, getting rid of what I can and psyching myself out about everything else. I feel like I should be doing something, I’m just not sure what that something is at this time. It’s too early to outright pack and, to be honest, the stuff in the house is not what is stressing me out – it’s just what I feel like I can control right now. What’s stressing me out is everything outside of the house. The horses have so. much. stuff. Stuff that they need wherever they will be and stuff that is multiple trips all by itself, not counting the actual horses.
Not to mention the shop. It will be challenging for Kelly to give up the big shop with the concrete floor and move all of his shop stuff into the dirt floor little make-do “shop” at the new place. We would love to be able to pour a concrete floor in there, but only time will tell if that’s financially feasible with all of the other things we’ll need to do to set the place up for our herd.
Have you noticed I’m not great at the “only time will tell” things? I want to plan. I want to know what to expect.
I’m working on it… I promise.
So many exciting things happening, and even though I’m a bit stressed, I’m SO grateful for every single one of them!
