I have been having an amazing time here in NY! My days are crazy busy but I'm enjoying every minute of it. Now that I've been here for a while my schedule and day to day tasks have become more consistent. On a typical day, I arrive at the barn at 7 AM. I help feed, turn out horses, clean my assigned stalls and take care of Cookie. Once my morning chores are done, I teach an adult amateur rider at Sunnyfield. On the days I don't work with her she lessons with Lendon so it's been very educational for myself to watch her lessons and later apply the same concepts in the sessions I have with her.
I am loving the horses I've been getting the opportunity to work with. In addition to Cookie, I ride Amalie (Intermediare 1) and TJ (4th level) 6 days a week. I'll have other horses thrown into my rotation but on a regular schedule Cookie, Amalie and TJ are the horses I ride when I'm working. I am incredibly grateful to get to work with such great horses who are teaching me so much in addition to what I am learning from my lessons with Lendon on Cookie.
Throughout the day in between rides there is laundry, sweeping and tack cleaning to be done, as well as other tasks such as inventory and shopping trips to the hardware store, tack store, ect. I usually wrap up my day between 4 and 5 PM and head back to the house where I'll do work for Lendon whether it be house chores, filing, or computer work. Tonight after I got home from the barn I prepped Lendon's house for the incoming hurricane! It shouldn't cause too much damage because we are inland but the wind and rain are going to be intense so everything that can be brought in has been and the cars will likely have to be parked across the street at the grocery store out of the way from trees that may fall. I will be staying at the barn tomorrow (Sat.) night and possibly Sunday night with some of the other working students because the roads won't be drivable. I'll post again once the storm has passed and I have internet connection again!
* Also for those reading my blog who aren't on facebook, Cookie and I received our invitation to compete at the Junior National Championships at the 2011 Collecting Gaits Festival of Champions in Gladstone, New Jersey Sept. 8-11. Wish us luck!*
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