I Love My New Job!

I am really loving my new job, but I am so exhausted when I get home! It doesn't help that the last couple days I have had stuff going on after work. So I don't get to sit down and relax until around 8:00 p.m., which is hard for me considering I didn't work for 4 months! My body is going to need time to adjust to this level of work. It doesn't help that my OH has to work 12 hour days this week, and I have had to work late, so the poor Aussie's and horses are getting a much later dinner than usual. They will have to adjust to it, as well as I do. Hopefully next week my OH will be back on a normal schedule so we can get everyone back on a consistent feeding schedule.

I am starting to really get into the swing of things at work. The hardest part for me is remembering which horse goes to which name. I almost have all their stalls down now. But there are a few horses that I haven't touched yet, so until I actually get to handle them, then I can get the visual of the horse to stall thing down. It is hard to remember 50 horses names, which stall they belong to and what horse they actually are. Some look so much alike, that it will probably be awhile until I can just look at one and say who it is exactly. Then there are others, that you just know by looking at them, who they are. There are 50 horses in the main barn, but there are probably around 80-100+ horses at the facility.

Right now I am getting the horses ready for the trainers, grooming, turning horses out in paddocks, arena and on the hotwalker, longing, bathing, washing/braiding tails, feeding grain, and so much more. I am not riding yet, but hope I will be doing that someday soon. Gotta work my way up, ya know?

The trainers just left for the U.S. National Arabian Horse Show, so we had to finish getting the 12 horses that are going, ready for traveling, get them loaded into the trailers, and watch them head off. The barn was pretty quiet after they left. So we just groomed, longed and turned out as many as we could. Next on our list is weaning foals.

Most of the horses are so easy to work with. Only a few kick, one likes to nip, a couple are headcases and one is just a "special" case (she is so beautiful, but is a little crazy). So out of all those horses, and only a few have some issues. The stallions I am handling are very easy going, and I have already fallen in love with one. There is also a to die for halter filly that is drop dead gorgeous! I did find one in particular that is the sweetest horse, and is an awesome western pleasure horse. I can dream, right?

Until things are settled around here with my new job and my new baby, I might not be able to make as many visits to your blogs, but I will try my hardest to come over and say hi. But I am finding that I don't have much time right now, and since I am still sick, I am trying to get to bed as early as possible. My house is a pigsty, I am hoping to catch up on that next week. The rest of my week and weekend is really full. I am still volunteering on one of my days off, so I really will only have one day off a week. I also might not be able to post as often as I would like too. I think once I get used to having a job again, and new baby, it will calm down a little for me. Who would have thought that I would ever be too busy or too tired, to read? Not me! But it isn't just my body that is tired, my eyes are so heavy that I could fall asleep right now!

Did I say I LOVE my new job?