31/08/2025
This post might be a bit of a long one, but I feel that it needs to be written. I'm sure everyone who follows or takes time to dig through this page has had or still has many horse orientated goals. Some are short term easily achievable stepping stones, and others are hard hitting gritty goals that require investment and ask the most you can give. We need those goals to keep motivated and grinding forward towards our dreams. In reality lots of those dreams are put on the back burner, or life circumstances take us down a different path. We feel the sting of a lost dream, but most of us regroup and set out on a new goal instead of throwing in the towel and giving in. I moved in 2019 to my now home and it didn't have an arena on it, which was a difficult adjustment as I had always had one at my old place. I casually did c**t starting for many years, mostly my own projects for resale with a few client horses here and there. Not having an arena made things difficult for me mentally as it is a staple for training and for my program I needed one to train properly. When 2023 came around we made the effort to get an arena in place, I was beyond thrilled. My mind ran wild with visions of having clinics, events and eventually an indoor sitting overtop of this ground.
This dream was finally happening, I was getting the itch to train horses again, nothing better than seeing the progress of a horse being brought along. I had set up this page in 2021 for my bemer, nebulizer and equine massage services, with a pipe dream of maybe opening an equine therapy center one day. With the excitement of my arena in construction I fully expected to be training outside horses in 2024, so getting a page set up seemed to be a good easy stepping stone so people could see what I had to offer. The arena was finished in mid August, hours of land leveling, truckloads of sand, t posts pounded, panels up and countless hours of rock picking, it was ready. While all this was taking place, I was spending a minimum of 50hrs a week working my ass off and hammering down on my horse trailer payments, I wanted to be debt free by the end of the year and I was determined to make it happen.
Between all of those extra hours working the daily irrigation needs and just life basics I barely had time to even ride my own horses in the arena, nevermind bring in outside ones. I never advertised for wanting client horses after my first inital post, as I knew I wouldn't have the capacity to produce a good end product. I work hard for my money and I value other people's efforts for theirs as well, I would not put out a subpar product that people wouldn't be happy with.
Pretty soon peak riding season was over and I found out I was pregnant in early October, which was a wonderful surprise for my husband and I after years of trying. So without a second thought, starting horses was definitely off the table and I was content with letting that dream go for the meantime. All that hard work in constructing the arena didn't go to waste, even though I didn't get to achieve that particular dream. Now when I walk into that arena I have new goals and dreams just waiting for me to put in the effort. I know I'm not alone in posting something on Facebook and then not being able to make that fruition come to life. It was a tough one to swallow and now for an unachieved dream to come back and wreak havoc on my new journey in showing is disappointing to say the least. Hopefully those who took the time to dig up my past posts can read this one and have a better insight into my life. All you had to do was ask, and I would have told you a very long winded story of how a dream got put to the side for a greater life adventure ❤️
Life is a roller-coaster and you never know what someone has achieved or what dreams they had to put aside if you just speculate from afar based on a page that is very evidently not very active.
A little kindness and honesty go a long ways, be upfront and get the answers you want to know straight from the source. Be the kindness that builds eachother up and not tries to tear everyone down.
