𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚕𝚎𝚢 𝙵𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚊𝚍

04/22/2025

Oops! We didn’t get pictures of everyone, but all of them did awesome today!

04/20/2025

04/20/2025

A little Easter Eve baby was born this morning! Meet Casca 🐣

04/15/2025

Nothing better than a beautiful sunny lesson day when the whole herd gets loved on 💗 good job all!

04/13/2025

Blue sky after a rainy morning! Happy Weekend!

04/11/2025

Today’s weather 71 and sunny followed by 56 & raining. The sky cleared back up for me to get a peek at a nearly full moon while going out to feed since Liv is at a youth group get-together. 🥰

04/09/2025

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4DA9AC2BA6FBC16-56229035-mayhorse SIGN UP FOR MAY PM HORSE CLUB! Open to new or continuing club members & current lesson students!!

04/08/2025

☔️PNW reality! Spring Rain can be intense in Western Washington. Luckily our trusty cow-pony really isn’t that bothered & the kids just throw on our riding rain-coats & get to work! There may have been some damp jeans but memories were made… ☔️

04/07/2025

Beautiful morning on the farmstead! Phil got a nice spring shed-out grooming with our April Club members & gave two sweet girls their first pony rides! 💗🦄

04/03/2025

Winter missed-lesson-make-up-day was today & the Spring rain held off for these 5 dears to get to work on their riding 💗⛅️

04/02/2025

Hobby or Lifestyle?

A life with horses is different than boarding a horse at a barn.
A life with horses is different than volunteering at a stable.
A life with horses is different than going to a lesson once or twice a week. A life with horses is different than being an employee or even a manager at an equine facility. A life with horses is different than being a groom, trainer or exerciser at an equine facility.

It’s different when you have your own horses in your backyard (or down the way), and you are solely responsible for the property upkeep, vet bills, feed bill, hay bill and farrier bill. When it is freezing outside and you know you have to get up and go out to feed & water YOUR animals, because there is no one else, it's different. When you are running a 102 degree fever, but your horse needs hay, and you have to go feed, it's different. When it is you responsible for fixing a broken fence in the middle of a thunder storm because you are responsible for your horse, it's different. When you get a 4 am call from your neighbor saying your horse is out and you have to go in pajamas and wrangle all of your horses in the middle of the night, it’s different. When you are filthy, tired and sore and come in at night, but can’t get to sleep because you can't remember if you turned the water off or not, so you climb out of bed & go back outside in the dark to check, it's different.

This is LIFE WITH HORSES. No amount of training/education or weekly lessons can fully prepare you for daily LIFE WITH HORSES.

There may be days that you will wish you boarded a horse at a facility. It would be so nice to make a weekly visit(s) and love on your horse, knowing someone else was feeding him & doing more work when you leave.

But, Living Life with horses at home is when it becomes a lifestyle not a hobby. You might find yourself riding less & working more. It isn’t easy & you make a lot of sacrifices for it, but the joy of enthusiastic horse-greetings in the morning (with your steaming coffee in hand), plus some added grit & grace and you will continue to choose this Lifestyle of Daily Life WITH Horses.

(Edited & shared from facebook)

03/29/2025

April horse club starts in ten days! Our monthly club is more of a horse-kid-get-together than a class. The focus during the weekly 1-hour club meeting is more on being around horses & participating in their care/feeding/grooming/exercise activities and of course riding basics (weather permitting) than about material/curriculum. Last chance to Join the April club!

03/27/2025

The storm didn’t turn out to be destructive here (we just got rain, lightening & thunder at about 8pm)… but after all the tornado and 2” hail hype we are very thankful that it didn’t pan out!! We reacheduled our last pm lesson yesterday, to be safe, & ended the day with this sweet sibling pair (& Fern enjoyed getting to know them). 💗 After that Liv & Raquel went to church ‘home song services’ where someone turned the lights down so we could watch the storm. What a rich day it was 🎶🐴

03/26/2025

We took advantage of the calm before the storm with our last March Horse Club meeting girls this am & then our student Elise got to take Beau for a road-walk during her private lesson! It will be interesting to see how the storm turns out later today (current models show it making it’s way into our region between 6-7pm). We will have the horses fed & cozy by then! Stay Safe y’all!

03/25/2025

⛈️ WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS⛈️

We will be watching the weather on Wednesday as the opportunity for thunderstorms is forecasted primarily for the afternoon and evening hours. If the weather is too stormy for safe riding, we will work on other horsemanship related learning during lessons. 🐴💗

03/24/2025

Our Summer Camps are now full, but you can get a similar weekly experience via our Monthly Horse Clubs! April has two spots left 🌷 https://m.signupgenius.com/ #!/showSignUp/10C0E4DA9AC2BA6FBC16-55255728-april

03/19/2025

Thankfully the weather gave us a break & we got to spend the entire Horse Club hour with Prince Phillip💗 then Abby got to experience being the ‘teacher in the middle’ after her private lesson!

03/18/2025

Sun!!! We took the opportunity to do a little yard-work on the farm today! See you tomorrow!! Morning Horse Club kids, wear something weather-proof, we will be doing a group riding lesson rain or shine (as long as it’s not pouring/windy like last week) 💗🎠