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About Exechorseluver

A writer and horse lover (animal lover) at heart. With a few year's exception, I have mostly worked outside the animal field. I am pretty good at what I do. But at the end of day, I want to be with the horses, cuddle with the dogs and sit quietly as the sun goes down with a cat on my lap. Spending time with my family and especially my grandchildren is number one for me. My little farm gives me a perfect life.

Good Weekends

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Had a surprise great weekend.  I have been struggling with my health (stomach, blood pressure), my mother’s need to move to a higher level of assisted living and the on-going pressures of work and too many animals. I had agreed to work as the announcer at a horse show Sunday and was stressing out about having no weekend for me.

The first crop of hay was in and I had neglected to tell my friends that hay was available.  Friday night I realized my mistake and we made plans for them to come down and pick up the hay.  My friend, Caroline came with her daughters, Arianna and Abby.  They brought their Mustang rescue, Ellie Mae.  We ended up have a great time riding, jumping and looking at pictures of the horses.

 I seldom have friends come and cannot believe how much joy it brought for both Lauren and I to share our little world.  It is hard to leave the social environment of the boarding barn and have your horses at home.  It is great to always have them nearby but sometimes riding is more like a chore than the joy it is supposed to be.

We loaded up 30 bales of hay.  Put Ellie Mae in the last slot of the trailer

Mustang Ellie Mae says this is a long way from hunting for food on the prairie!

and watched them head for home.  I am going to make sure we start a new tradition of riding playdates.  How great!

It starts here.

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Someone once said you should do what you love when you are in fourth grade.  Well, I loved horses and loved to write.  I have horses and write (who doesn’t?) but I have a master’s degree in Administration and formally, I run things.  I am lucky to work at a top company.  But, it is true that my heart is with my horses and writing.  I could write the horse, dog, cat rescue story.  I could write the nothing to a champion horse story.  But mostly, I will write the story of getting by, never easily, never necessarily smartly, but making it.  The single mother, grandmother, horse, dog, cat  person who has been divorced almost as many years as I was married. My life is my family; my girls, my grandchildren, my mother, my animals.  I am blessed.  Still, I want more-guess it is natural.  I struggle.  It is hard to know what is the correct decision.  I am always afraid of what will happen next.  Disasters befall me on a regular basis. 

It is always interesting.  Come take a ride with me and my horses at my little farm.  Learn how the exec horse lover endures and occasionally triumphs.