Breeches & Boat Shoes

Beka from The Owl Approves is hosting an 18 week blog hop, one for every week until her horse’s 18th birthday! I have made it my mission to participate in all 18 hops, so bring it on.

Week ten focuses on “What personality quirks does your pony have?  What makes him or her special?”

I did my own hop similar to this a few months ago, so I am going to do a few new ones.

• He never stops looking for cookies. I know that this is sort of my fault, but he drives me crazy sometimes. Blankets? There might be hidden treats inside. Saddle? Is it made out of peppermints? Your jacket? Let me search you top to bottom for the tiny crumb of cookie that may or may not be there.
• When he is at the barn at home, if the feed trunk is open it means he must tinkle. Every time.
• He uses his lead rope as a pacifier. I wish I was kidding. When you put his halter on and go to lead him away, he grabs the rope and chews on it. If he is on the crossties, he tries to chew on it. He prefers the little knobby knot at the end of the lead, but the rest of it will suffice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-TC

Read the previous weeks:

• Week One
• Week Two
• Week Three
• Week Four
• Week Five
• Week Six
• Week Seven
• Week Eight
• Week Nine

Check out the other blog hoppers here:

Thanks to Tracy from Fly On Over for this hop!

To be honest, it is difficult to have a set routine as an undergrad, especially when we are only a few weeks in and I have a grand total of three lecture classes. I wish this had been the case for my previous years, but I doubled up my classes early on in college to take of the load as I slowly entered the real world.

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Monday – (Considering the snow took away four out of the five past Monday’s in the semester, this is a hypothetical day.)

9:00AM – Force Jose to turn off alarm. Spend too long browsing social media, emails, and texts. Finally get up and be thankful that I can wear breeches and not real pants. Leave for class in W and end up late because coffee.

11:00AM – Sit in class for 75 minutes trying to learn about HR management.

12:15PM – Sprint to Alan (that’s my truck) to try to make it to the barn in 15 minutes. Curse the horrid city traffic and hate everyone who is in my way.

12:30/45PM – Finally get to the barn. Rush to get whichever school horse I am assigned tacked up. Cross my fingers that Coach doesn’t take away our stirrups forever and that said horse is well-behaved in my BCET lesson. Ride.

2:00PM – Dismount said school horse. Clean tack. Put horse back outside or in stall.

2:30/45PM – Steal Ax’s dinner from him so I can ride and he can hate me. Groom and tack up the Meatball while avoiding evil glares because he is clearly starving. Ride Ax. Try not kill any of people the lesson already going on in the indoor.

3:30/4:00PM – Untack. Groom. Re-blanket. Stuff full of treats. Take forever doing barn things that really don’t take that long.

5:00PM-Night – Drive back to campus. Grumble about having to park so far away from my hall. Go to W if staying at Jose’s apartment. Realize I’m hungry because I forgot to have lunch. Eat. Gym if I’m not being a lazy you-know-what. Shower. Homework. Blog. Team stuff. Procrastinate. Make sure my residents aren’t killing each other/ResLife stuff/do rounds if I am on duty. Do other miscellaneous things. Get into bed. Stay on my phone until I realize it is 3:00AM and I need to be up soon.

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Tuesday/Thursday

8:00AM – Snooze alarm because it feels so early since I stayed up half the night and don’t have a set time to work at the barn. Snooze again. And again.

8:30/9:00/9:30AM – Get up. Get dressed. Drive to barn. Work at barn (sweep, make grain, sweep, clean buckets, sweep, do miscellaneous things, sweep some more).

12:30PM – Realize I have class and I’ll probably be late. Drive back to campus.

1:15PM – Learn about Equine Biomechanics and Conformation for 110 minutes on Tuesday/50 minutes on Thursday. Actually pay attention because I like this class.

2:10ishPM (Thursdays only) – Meeting with my supervisor. Confirm that all of my residents are alive.

3:30PM  – Drive back to the barn. Tack up. Ride Ax. Untack and take care of horse.

6:00ishPM-Night- Drive back to campus. Do same stuff as Monday night.

8:ooPM (Tuesdays only) – Staff meeting.

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Wednesday

10:00AM – Wake up. Put breeches on for the third day in a row because do I even wears real pants anymore?

11:20AM – Drive to the barn. Tack up school horse. Ride in BCET lesson.

1:00PM – Dismount. Take care of horse and tack.

1:30/45PM –  Bring in, groom, and tack up the Meatball. Ride Ax.

2:30/45PM – Untack. Groom. Re-blanket. Make yummy treat/grain concoction for Ax’s dinner.

3:00PM – Drive to W for class. Complain about the awful city parking.

3:30PM – Try to be on time since this is my only class all day long. Listen to Equine Facilities Management for two hours and twenty minutes. Get lucky and maybe be let out early.

5:50PM or earlier-Night – Drive back to L or to Jose’s apartment. Perform same ritual as previous nights.

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Friday

5:45AM – Snooze alarm until I know I will be super late.

6:15 – Get coffee. Drive to the barn. Watch the pretty sunrise on my way since it is so early.

6:30AM – Tack up horses. Steal one of my favorites for practice.

7:00AM-9:00AM – BCET Practice.

9:30AM – Finish cleaning up tack and putting horses away from practice.

The rest of the day – Ride. Work. Do nothing since I have no class. Do the random stuff I do every other night.

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Linking up to Fly On Over:

-TC