Louder than words

The new barn has been interesting and fun so far. Although I was assured there is "NO DRAMA" before moving, at the end of the first week there was a near Knock down, drag out in the aisle way. Two of the women got into it and were going at it at the other end of the barn. They nearly came to throwing blows. One of the women involved? You guessed it. The one who had assured me there is no drama.... the drama queen herself.

Fast forward 2-3 weeks. There's another woman at the barn- G - who has 1 horse and thinks she owns the place. She is hardly ever there, thankfully, but of the two times I have seen her, she runs her mouth and throws a temper tantrum. Apparently she has gone after just about everyone there and after seeing her the first time, I knew it was a matter of time until she took a shot at me.

One of the other women at the barn moved her horse to the stall next to G's horse, and subsequently the DQ moved G's feed box over more in front of her stall. There was a lot of ranting on the part of DQ about how she moved the box and didn't care if G liked it or not... Of course when G got there and threw a hissy fit, DQ said nothing. When G's tantrum was almost over, DQ approached her and said nothing about being the one to move her box. Clearly DQ is your friend as long as things benefit her. Duly noted.

Fast forward another week aaaaaaaand then G took her shot. I put my TB mare in the cross ties between her stall and mine. Oh. My. Gawd. You would think the world was about to end. She started squawking and bitching that I had to move my mare- it was upsetting her horse. I called bullshit. Her horse was standing there and hadn't moved. Mine was standing there not moving either.  I told her they were both fine, I've been tying her there for the past month and I was tacking her up.

More squawking....  and she calls the BO. (I swear she has the poor man on speed dial. LOL I've seen her do this before and it's nice to know she always has to run away and nark on people) I pay board here just like everyone else and have just as much right to use the facility as she does. More squawking and she tells me if I don't move my horse, she will do it FOR me. Yeah, We all know That went over well... Hahahahaha I quickly put her in her place and told her that would be a very Bad idea on her part and she made a hasty retreat. As Dena said once -> Well that went surprisingly well.... *snork*

One of the guys at the barn said he missed the whole thing and that would be better than any reality TV.  I apologized, Sorry to disappoint.  G may reconsider her position before taking another shot at me again but I won't be surprised if she does. I guess it's a matter of when?  Insert massive eyeroll.

WEG Tryon 2018

Although I would love to go, whether to watch or one day maybe compete (we can all dream) my new man found the Cross Country competition going on and recorded it for me. YAY!  When I got to sit down and watch it, they were talking about all the different events going on so I fired up the remote, flipped thru the listings and recorded-
Vaulting- team compulsory rounds
Para Dressage- different rounds, finals are tonight and an hour
Jumping- team & individual competition 3.5 hours, 4 more hours of team and individual competition and then another 4 hours of team gold competition.
And this morning? DRIVING!
Marathon is 3.5 hours and tomorrow morning is
Cones for 2 hours

I had seen the Driving Dressage and thought I had it set to record, but apparently somehow it slipped thru the cracks and *POOF* gone. I will look it up to see if I can find it because Dressage sets the tone for the standings. It's not often you can have a mediocre round in dressage and expect to move up enough in the standings with your scores from the marathon and cones.

I'm looking forward to watching it!

Turn the page

I recently moved barns. The last one there was a LOT of drama an bullshit going on and as much as the barn owner said he doesn't tolerate drama, he was at the root of it.

There were a lot of colic's there and after my friend lost her pony, he never said a word to her about it. When I thought my mare was either foundered or navicular, he ran around telling everyone she fell in the pasture and got stuck in a small ditch that ran thru it. I was not supposed to tell people what I thought was going on and supposedly everyone was talking smack about my horse anyways. Really?

Then he sent out multiple text messages asking everyone for their email addresses. Nope. I did not respond. If he couldn't respect my privacy enough NOT to share my number and info with everyone at the barn and blow up my phone during the day while I was at work- he wasn't getting it. My phone was going off over and over with everyones emails coming back. The following day there was quite the buzz in the barn.

Supposedly the email "only applies to the New People", but he had no problem applying everything to everyone.

- If I were to sell one of my horses. help someone with training or bring someone in for lessons, he wanted 10%.
- If I were to bring in a horse as a 'flip project', he wanted 20%
- If I had the farier out, someone out for ddental care, massage therapy, Magnawave, etc. He wanted 10% of that too.

There was a lot more, but these were the main things on his list. Did I comply with any of this? Would you seriously expect me to?

There were other issues going on where he was making racial slurs and asking things that are none of his business. He never asked me anything about the other boarders because he knows I would tell him to go ask them ot its probably none of his business anyways. Of course when it was my turn to be the target of this bullshit, he asked everyone but me about these things, because he's just that way. Then last few weeks he has been telling his 'groupies' my mare needs a bullet in her head.  Again it's none of his business what I do with my horse and what difference is it to him?  If I want to put money into keeping her going or put her down- Its MY horse and MY decision.

Knowing my horses- my mare has been quite anxious and wound up lately at that barn. She didn't drink much in her stall, but as soon as she went out- straight to the water trough. When she went in the stall- first thing she did was piss it up. She no longer laid down to roll in her stall and she also started chasing all other horses away from my pony.

The new barn- they put a tractor bucket load of sand in the one stall to level it out before I got there. No more auto waterers- mosquito breeding grounds- so with new tubs my mare is drinking in her stall again. She can also put her head over the half wall between them and is right next to my little man. Instead of getting a wheel barrow of shavings and manure out of each stall- It doesn't even fill up half.

The stalls are light and airy, they are both relaxed and calm and my mare promptly laid down to roll when I put her in the stall. It's a good feeling knowing my horses are comfortable in their new surroundings.  The tack room situation leaves a bit to be desired, but I can manage.