Get up early.
If you live on a farm, your first items probably revolve around feeding animals and letting them out. Probably doing stalls.
Do a day's worth of work if you have a full time job.
Bring horses in. Feed them. Probably find 100 million small chores to do around the property/barn.
Find time to feed yourself and loved ones.
And somehow, in the midst of all of that, find time to ride.
I am blessed to share some responsibilities with my barn owners so it is not all on me/them, but regardless, it's a massive undertaking for barn owners that happen to have full time jobs and want to find the time to ride. Honestly, just managing a barn or training full time is such a huge time commitment. We willingly choose to revolve our lives around 1200lbs animals that as a friend put it, "could hurt themselves on a marshmallow." Why? Because we love them. Because our whole entire lives revolve around them. I am a horse girl, through and through, and could not imagine my life without them. But it certainly is a lot of time/money/effort. The fortitude and strength to be around these majestic animals in significant, but I would not trade it for the world. So today, I am reminded of how 15 year old Roberta would have been absolutely stunned/pleased/ecstatic by the fact that 31 year old Roberta has a going on 9 year old thoroughbred that she gets to spend time with everyday.
Also, I will forever be the one to point out horse farms while driving down the road. That will never change.
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