Well this has been a crazy time of the year for me for the past 3 years. I have been the Ohio Haflinger Assoc. Equine Affaire coordinator for the past 3 years. At times I have loved it and at times I was ready to throw in the towel. For those not familiar with Equine Affaire it is a huge horse expo at the Ohio State Fairgrounds that hosts over 105,000 (yes thousand) attendees a year. They offer clinics by top clinicians, TONS of shopping for anything and everything horsey on the planet! The OHA (Ohio Haflinger Assoc) that Terry is President of, has taken horses down for breed demos and a booth to introduce all the attendees to our wonderful breed. We normally have 2-3 15 minute demos, have to man the booth while the expo is open and also do a youth demo with a q&a session after the presentation. I have to work as coordinator between our members that are taking horses and the Equine Affaire. I coordinate all of the demos by writing the 15 minute scripts and putting the music together. Praise God for Bonnie VanWinkle who stepped in last year to help me and took over the coordination of the booth and breed stall! Bonnie, if you are reading this.....THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU etc. a hundred times over! I couldn't do this without you my friend! I don't say all this for the atta girl or praise, just trying to clarify why my life gets so crazy at times. Add into this having Will at the indoor to work so that we can hopefully participate in our first reining show since 2007 in May! Plus 2 training horses. Plus all the dogs and horses at home to take care of! But do you know what?....God has blessed us with this life, He has given us these opportunities and through these he has brought so many blessings and special friends into our lives. For this we are forever thankful!
Ok brag time! I am so proud of my husband. He really did not know what he was getting into when he married me..... :) He has always been around livestock, mainly cattle and sheep and dabbled in horses a little when his daughter Nichole was showing (that is how we met, at a barn where Nic boarded her horse and I boarded mine). He jumped into this horse thing with both feet and is now our main rider for starting our young horses and training horses. He is usually the first one on then as they progress, I take over to put finishing touches on them! But he is getting to the point where he is starting to put some of those finishing touches on them too! You would think it would be hard for a guy to take direction from his wife on how to do something, but he is normally very easy to work with and listens well! (only with the horses though mind you!) :) Here is a video of his first unattended ride on Chip, one of our training horses in to be broke. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NBbnvT1Vzw . I am so proud of Terry and Chip! Chip is a 3 year old Haflinger owned by our friends the LaRoe Family from Michigan! They purchased Chip from us last year and we can't wait to see them in the show ring this year!!!
I think that is enough for today as my script deadline is tomorrow and I need to finish up the last one!
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Yeah to Terry and Chip! I LOVE the first unattended ride! Good for them! Where's Terry's helmet??? :( Lisa???? I'm thinking when I ride with you I have always where a helmet??? :)
And, thank you, thank you for doing the Equine Affaire! You do such a great job,and I know the endless time it takes (well, I have a good idea!) and we and the Haflinger breed thank you! Love ya!
Jacque
Don't talk to me, talk to Terry about the helmet. I can't tell you how many times we have been in a tack store and I went to get him one and he's like "I'm not riding much, I don't need one right now!!!!" Give him a hard time the next time you see him! When I get on those young ones, I always have one on!!
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