Blessings Big and Little

With Emily visiting her family in Forrest, IL it fell to me to get up early, feed, move horses and clean stalls. This started reminding me of all the blessings that come with living here. With this nice break in the weather yesterday my sister Karin came to get her horse fix and was more than willing to put time into Anna even though there are much more fun horses to ride. Anna is a quiet willing Friesian without the fire to make things fun. Rhoda loves riding the bucks and that's exactly the kind of trainer we need for Evan. Emily enjoys working with Killian and Valiant Horsemeister's other 2 stallions. Then on top of those 3 amazing trainers we have lots of talented nieces that are more than willing to drop what they are doing and head out on the trails on young or problem horses. The horses here must be sure footed, beginner safe, willing to traverse steep hills and rushing water as the trails here are considered the 'death trails'. Then we have talented friends (yes we really do have friends) that are glad to jump in and help if we need riders for parades, demonstrations or shows. It just made me realize this entire Horsemeister program would be nothing without family and friends. When we were at Dr. Hoerr's waiting to collect Killian I was visiting with Dr. Pallen who happened to still be in her pajamas. She had been caring for a dummy foal for a customer for the last 2 days BY HERSELF and exhausted! When we had a problem with a foal that couldn't stand due to contracted tendons we had lots of family and friends willling take shifts all night long to load him into a wheel barrow and run him under the mother so he could nurse (by the way that wheel barrow baby went on to become a dancing horse excelling in high school dressage). So today I want to send out a BIG THANK YOU to all of you that have helped make Horsemeister the business it is today.