The turnout situation is exactly what I thought it would be. Both Saturday morning and Sunday morning all Kaswyn did was run and scream, even though there were horses clearly in his sight about 20 feet from him. He's just such a boob and can't be turned out alone. They are going to try him with another horse tomorrow and hopefully that will go better.
Today I was really really sore. My hips and back were all tight and my abs were killing me. I'm not used to riding this many days in a row, and with such intensity. I decided that Kaswyn probably felt the same way so today all we did was walk around the farm for a good 20 minutes. Afterwards my hips and back felt much better, but my abs were still sore. We have our second lesson tomorrow. I'll be sure to load up on ibuprofen beforehand!
Since it was a beautiful day I took a bunch of photos of the farm to share.
Here is Kaswyn looking out of his stall.
This is the barn aisle.
The barn from the front.
The barn from the side.
The wash rack.
The huge tack room.
The beautiful and spacious tack lockers.
One of the all weather paddocks. This one has a run-in shed with stalls built on the inside. Kaswyn may live in one of these stalls for future Boot Camps if all the stalls in the main barn are filled.
Another all weather paddock with run-in shed.
The outside of the indoor arena.
The inside of the indoor arena.
The front grass pasture
The back grass pasture
The side grass pasture. There's even another huge grass pasture that I didn't get a photo of.
Future site of the outdoor arena. The area has drain tile laid already and has been leveled off. All it needs is footing and borders of some type and it will be finished. It's okay to ride on so I walked him around there today. It's really nice.
So as you can see, the farm is beautiful. It's going to be really hard to leave.
8 comments:
Gorgeous place!
Thanks for sharing your bootcamp experience. It's been wonderful to read about your enthusiasm!
The barn looks like heaven! Sounds like boot camp is going well too, can't wait to read the next installment!
Holy Cow! I want to live there. The barn is so new and clean and the tack boxes are actually big enough for tack and the pastures and green and wow it just looks great.
Even as a non norse person, I can see how lovely and mmaculate it is.
I think you need to win the superlotto, buy land and build your own stables and arena.
The barn looks like a really great place to keep a horse and ride. It seems your boot camp experiences are going well, but I can relate to the soreness and pain killers.
Wow - no wonder you want to have K there - such a gorgeous place. I love how clean it is.
Videos are interesting - looks like you have a great seat. You're way past me in terms of what you're working on but I can relate to needing to take your horse more in hand - that's something I'm working on too.
Cheers...
Really happy for you for having such a productive time in what looks like a wonderful set-up :) Hope your asthma attack goes away soon!
That place is gorgeous. I could live with one of those.
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