We started vending this year at local horse shows. We have a full schedule of events to attend as there is always something horsey going on in and around Aiken!
We attended the Sporting Days Farm Horse Trials on February 6 & 7. It was cold and windy, but we had a perfect view of the stadium jumping. We are planning to attend the next event at Sporting Days on March 6 & 7. Hopefully the weather will be good to us that weekend.
Just this past weekend we were at Paradise Farm Horse Trials, the largest event of the year for Lellie. We had super weather, could not have been any better. My mom and I met a ton of new people and put lots of faces and names together. It's always nice to meet in person. We are always looking forward to events like this where we can promote our services and share our craft our handmade leather items.
While we were at the show on Saturday we had some customers drop off items for repair and then we brought them back to the show on Sunday all fixed up! We would love to grow into a "mobile repair unit" someday. This will allow us to fix items on the spot!
Well, I have some catching up to do after such a busy weekend. This website needs a lot of work! I have got to get my catalog photos up and descriptions of our products.
Happy trails, until we meet again!
The weather was absolutely perfect at Paradise Farm this past weekend.
Clinton Anderson: Downunder Horsemanship "G'Day Mate!"
The weekend was fantastic! I learned a great deal of new techniques. And I got a refresher on things that I knew, but somehow that all slipped out of my brain over the years.... I blame this on motherhood. (lol) Overall, all I can say is Clinton Anderson's method WORKS! As long as you follow his step by step method, you will get results. It just makes perfect sense.
The most common complaint we get about problem horses is that they are disrespectful. How do we fix this problem? Gain control on the ground and teach them to respect you, your space, your role as a leader. Be a leader to your horse... God knows someone has got to. Take this for example... A newborn foal is born and the first object they want and need is their mother. Be there! Imprint that foal and earn his trust. Later on when it comes time to start training him you will be way ahead of the game. A foal's brain is like a clean slate, even as a yearling, get to that clean slate of a brain before it is clouded up with cobwebs. As Clinton always says: "Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult."
Yesterday, as I drove home I watched a little puppy, maybe about 6 weeks old, run out of the woods into the road. I thought for a moment - Oh he made it! As he was twirling around from under the car that hit him. I immediately stopped, actually I think I was stopping when I saw him running up the hill from the woods. I thought it was a cat at first, then I realized it was a puppy. After the van hit him I pulled over on the side of the road. Two cars behind me also stopped as I got out the truck. The person who hit him just kept driving, in fact, they never even hit the breaks. I realized he was hit, if not directly, the force of the vehicle as it traveled over him was enough to break his neck.
Things like this always bother me. My female boxer was hit and killed on a busy road when I lived in Florida, about 7 years ago. We were home when it happened, she scooted out the back door and the gate to her pen was open. She was just being curious about the men doing road work. We lived back off the road a ways, but when I realized she had gone up to the road I panicked. I knew the worst was yet to come. I ran up to the road, when she saw me she tried to cross to come back to me and that's when it happened. The car never stopped, never slowed down. Another lady was passing by and she stopped as I was running across four lanes of traffic to get to her, laying there helplessly - but still breathing. This lady loaded us up in her pick up truck, and took us to the emergency vet that was up the road. Needless to say with all of my efforts to save my dog, she died in my arms at the vets office. Roxie was my dog, she was a purebred registered boxer, and I loved her so much.
I said I would never have another dog as good as she was. Then I found "Penny" a stray running in the road on the 4th of July, just months after Roxie's death. I stopped and loaded her up, she had no collar or anything. I brought her home - actually, I saved her life. The next day I drove all over town with her, asking anyone if they knew who's dog it was. No one knew. The weeks went by with no response from posters I had put up. Then I named her "Penny" because it was Independence Day when I found her. I was finally ready to move on and love another dog again.
This little puppy was still moving when I went to him, but I knew he wouldn't make it. I picked him up and moved him out of the road. I just put my hands on him as he died. I love animals, it doesn't matter if they are mine or someone else's. This little puppy was probably out of a stray, and for all I know the person responsible for him might not even care that he is missing. I really wish that people would come to realize the true responsibility of owning animals, whether it be a puppy, kitten or even a horse. Take care of your pets and they will take care of you.
Get your girls spayed and your boys neutured - it will give them life. Why do people feel as though they are taking something away from them? The only thing that is taken away is the ability to create more unwanted helpless babies to be left in the woods, only to wander into a busy road. Spare them the pain, and the occasional passer by that might actually stop to help a helpless animal.
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