12/11/2023
Well, time to make an official announcement.
TLDR: not shoeing for the foreseeable future, trimming services to continue as normal!
My work truck was rear-ended on on November 28th. Fortunately, both my daughter and I are okay. Unfortunately, my truck is not drivable, the insurance company won’t total it, and it will be a minimum of 2-4 months before it will be repaired.
This has been an infuriating loss, and given the current used vehicle market and the demands of motherhood/homeschooling/grad school, I’m not able to to financially justify replacing my work truck with something that can hold up to carrying my shoeing body over the long term.
I’ve always said that my trimming business supported my shoeing hobby, and I’ve had to make the difficult decision to sell my shoeing body and buy a lighter duty truck. I will be continuing to offer trimming services, but will not be able to offer shoeing services for the foreseeable future.
There are too many variables right now, and I do not know if I will outfit this new lighter duty truck as a shoeing rig in the future or not. I’ll be keeping all of my tools as I’m still shoeing at my barn, and when I graduate from my MA program in April, I’m going to take a minute to catch my breath and decide what makes sense! I will be continuing to offer trimming services for as many decades as possible.
(And, after almost 3 years of not being able to accept new clients… maybe I will be able to open my books again in May 2024!)
