Do you ever take a good long look at your time or your bank account and think, “oh, for the love of horses”?
I do. Especially this time of year!
This is the time of year when time and money are slim and time spent with my horses is even slimmer. Yet their needs stay the same.
I leave my house in the dark and return in the dark five days per week, yet I still need to feed them, water them, point my headlamp at them and make sure they’re still standing and in good health. They still need their feet trimmed, and dewormed, and scratches for their itchy winter woolies. And I’m rewarded with less and less daylight hours to enjoy them.
Last weekend we needed hay, we needed a farrier, and we needed some quality horse time. And there’s about 8.5 hours of daylight each day. We picked up a load of hay, got trims on seven horses and a little donkey, and played with a few horses… no, let’s not talk about my bank account. But I can tell you what is absolutely full: my heart.
It’s amazing what a little horse time does for us.
It makes all of the 5:00am feedings worth it. All of the unexpected vet bills (*cough cough* Scar Face). All of the sore muscles after loading and unloading tons (literally) of hay. All of the stress spent finding the farrier that’s right for your horses and the hours spent holding your horses while said farrier works their magic. All of the horse-mom guilt about if you’re doing right by them.
All for the love of horses.
