Bex+L

=My Experience at Northwestern stables= By Rebecca Livingston a.k.a. Bex L <3

//Shira and I remove from the ground a very handsome boulder with chiseled features.// //Shira(left) Me(right) Toni(Person in background more to left) and Mariah(Person behind Toni)//

My experience at northwestern stables so far this year has been awesome. We spend a lot of time around the horses and an even bigger amount of time cleaning up the barn. ;)  We had a very good time at the stables this semester hanging out with Goober, Houdini, Signey, Shane, Sammy, Travis, Jasper, Maggie and Oxford. (to name only a few)  Julie taught us a lot about caring for horses, and is more than willing to liste n to our annoying repetitive questions about the three adorable kitties that live at the barn- Oreo, Olive and Marley. Not to perseverate on cats, but we also met another cat who had wandered into Julie's care. I immediately dubbed the cat Tiger.(I don't know if they're still calling him that.) Tiger is probably in a good home by now.
 * //Log one 12/8/10//**

Our jobs included raking leaves on the side path of the new paddock, grooming horses, shaving Sammy's winter coat from last year, exercising Signey on the lunge line, feeding the horses, bringing in horses from the paddocks, spreading grass seed in the paddocks, removing boulders and rocks from the paddock so the grass could grow, sweeping the sidewalks and the barns, clearing out the area around the mounting block, cleaning out the old paddocks and a bunch of other things. Mucking out the paddocks was not so bad until Toni spilled the wheelbarrow of horse excrement on the ground. Even with that, going to the horse barn became one of the highlights of my week.

A lot of people think barns would smell bad, but since all the horses eat is grass, it really doesn't smell that bad.