Little Creek Stables

05/04/2024

Morning views while doing chores

05/01/2024

Getting the water throughs all hooked for the summer pastures.

05/01/2024

Taking advantage of this nice weather

02/04/2024

William decided he wanted to go for a ride with me and had so much fun!

09/09/2023

08/28/2023

Cuddles from Miss Hazel

08/11/2023

So many truths in this..

Are You Farm Strong?
“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.
There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive. The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.
There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.
“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.
Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.
Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.
If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.
When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
Their needs come first. In summer heat and coldest winter days. Clean water, clean bed, and plenty of feed. Before you have your first meal, they all eat.
When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.
You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.
You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.
You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile. You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.
You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.
You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.
Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.
You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.
Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.
You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.
Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.”

07/21/2023

Storm rolling by right over top of us

06/30/2023

They have been reunited at last.

06/30/2023

As the Canada Day Long weekend approaches, my anxiety rises with the fear of Fireworks....

Fireworks can be frightening to any animal, but horses specifically have such a strong flight instinct that they can actually bolt through fences, or try to leap over gates in an effort to get away. Every year, horses in Canada are injured or killed because of firework displays.

We have suffered our own loss of a horse due to fireworks.

We ask that everyone be extremely mindful of their surroundings this long weekend if letting off fireworks. My horses and I appreciate it more than you know.

05/19/2023

Here is the class list for the June 10 Show! Something for everyone!

05/12/2023

It’s a boy! 💙 we welcomed the newest addition to the family Wednesday night.
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05/07/2023

C**t or Filly what will it be? Today marks day 339.

04/13/2023

Enjoying the nice weather we have been having this week so far!

03/28/2023

Nothing beats those fresh lines of a harrowed arena

03/27/2023

Getting this girl back into shape after having a few months off

01/22/2023

Late in posting but happy 19th birthday Mikey! 🥕🥳🥕

12/24/2022

Making a path into the barn this morning, after all the snow and wind from yesterday and last night.

12/08/2022

11/05/2022

We have 1 spot available for outdoor board!
Pasture has a shelter and includes access to indoor riding arena, tack up area and wash bay. Message for more details.

10/18/2022

The new stalls are now complete!

10/08/2022

In this sometimes cold and wet season it is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of our indoor riding arena.

10/05/2022

Welcome Flo!

10/05/2022

Big hugs for big Ming 😊

09/18/2022

Welcome to the farm Keena!

09/09/2022

We have 1 indoor stall becoming available for the beginning of October.
Message me for more detail’s.

09/08/2022

08/22/2022

We unfortunately did not get any rain, but it was still a beautiful night.

08/17/2022

A little bit of rain turns into lots of mud for this pony

08/10/2022

Even the 🐈‍⬛ love camelina oil. They are always there to clean up the extra drops.