True Connection Horse Farm and Training

10/21/2024

I absolutely love my herd! Amora and Luke were so sweet and good with little Addy today, it just melts my heart! They truly enjoyed being part of Addy’s photo session today!

These are such special moments! 💕🐎🫏💕

10/12/2024

It has been quiet the week!

First, and most importantly, I am so grateful the animals and humans were fine!! The humans were a little worn from lack of sleep and stress, but safe! We are without power still but the generators are working great and the weather is cooler!

Getting my hands on my horses and knowing they were okay was my breaking point. Adonai literally ran to me and pulled me into him while I cried, with relief. My entire herd came to me and wanted love and cuddles!

Seeing the farm with so much water, trees, and branches down every where was quite shocking. We are so grateful that we did the prep and trimming that we have done over the last few weeks! Otherwise I am confident we would have had more trees come down.

To say I felt overwhelmed Thursday morning seeing my farm, our neighbors property’s, the trees downs and flooding,and then the road being blocked by a huge tree is an understatement. But that feeling was quickly replaced with gratitude and I knew we would be okay! Our neighbors came together to clear the road, then our friends came to help us clear the driveway and fix fencing.

I truly can’t thank Channing, Sammi, Joe, Emma, and Joey for all of their help! They made a huge difference and impact on what we were able to accomplish Thursday.

truly rocked little Center Hill and our community! I will not forget this experience anytime soon, if anyone needs anything please reach out we will help in anyway we can, hold each other a little tight and say a little prayer for all those effected by Milton and Helene!

The cleanup and assessments continue. As we have the roof looked at, continue to move downed trees and debris, repair fencing, and help our neighbors! But we are safe and taking it a moment at a time! 

Here’s a quick tour of the farm!

10/12/2024

This was the moment I waited for 💕, getting out to my horses 🐎 and donkeys 🫏 Thursday morning!

As soon as the sun came up Jonas and I were outside. I couldn’t see my herd at first and so I ran into their pasture calling for them. They were around the corner and as soon as Adonai saw and heard me he came running and so did Bean, Koko and The donkeys. Adonai immediately put his head over my shoulder and pulled me to him, hugging me. The tears just started falling and I hugged him back. None of them would leave me alone and it was a complete love fest!

I just cried and hugged my babies. It was such relief to know they and everyone else was okay!

10/09/2024

Well to say we are tired is an understatement!
😳⛈️💨 🐎🫏🐈‍⬛🐕🙏🏻💕

Between preparing the whole farm, horses, dogs, the house, welcoming friends from Tampa with their horses, and getting ourselves ready we haven’t stopped since Sunday!

But we are ready! The horses are all outside with their battle masks on and extra hay, the dogs are ready to cuddle, and we are ready to eat our hurricane snacks!

We are so grateful for the help that Channing Larson and Nick McNair have provided and so glad they are here! You guys have made a big difference so thank you!!

We are praying for everyone that is going to be affected by this storm! And looking forward to getting through tonight 🙏🏻⛈️💨💕🥺🙏🏻!

10/08/2024

Since many friends and family are asking I thought I would make a post. We are hunkering down at the farm for Milton’s visit! Spent the last few days preparing the farm and horses. Have a few more things to do tomorrow, but we are mostly ready
🙏🏻🤞🏻🥺💕!

We trimmed trees, cleaned out the overhang by the barn, welcomed our friend and her four horses from the Tampa area, helped my neighbor welcome another evacuee from Tampa, tagged the horses, topped off gas and diesel cans, bought a 2nd generator so we will have basic power at the house and have power for the well at the barn, received another load of hay and other horse essentials and made one last run to Publix. It was a busy two days to say the least.

I am so grateful for my husband and that we are in this together, even if it means learning something new and being in the rain to prepare our home! I am also very grateful for our amazing neighbors and how everyone comes together and helps each other. Thanks to our neighbor coming with his tractor and what I call the “claw”,moving the trimmed branches didn’t take 6 hours, we couldn’t be more grateful for his help!!

For those asking where we are located now we are in Center Hill, Fl. north east of Tampa. So not in a flood zone or evacuation zone. Which means storm surge isn’t an issue, but the wind and rain are.

Please be safe everyone and if you need something please reach out, if we can help we will!!

09/27/2024

We are all safe at the farm! Very grateful we trimmed the trees Friday! Lots of small branches blown around. We didn’t get a lot of rain compared to past storms this summer, which we are happy about! Horses are all outside and happy!!

If anyone needs anything please let us know!

We are saying prayers for everyone affected by the storm! 🙏🏻🌀🐎🫏💕

09/25/2024

📢We can help 📢

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

We are happy to offer temporary boarding for those that need or needed to evacuate during a storm!

We can offer stalls (limited amount) and pasture options with large run-ins on our safe and dry farm!

Whether before or after the storm, feel free to reach out if you need help or share with a friend that does!

09/22/2024

09/22/2024

We love Tao of Horsemanship Academy and are so proud to be ambassador for the program!

The Tao of Horsemanship has provided me with the ability to help my horses work through their trauma and develop a true partnership and connection with them! Allowing them to become happy confident horses emotionally and mentally.

09/15/2024

🌟WELCOME to our newest boarder 🌟

We are excited to welcome Drama Queen and her mom Jessica to our barn family!!

She has already made friends with Mr. Bryce and is settling in perfectly!

08/10/2024

Say hello to Griffin (red) and Raven (blue), our newest members of our farm family 💕 💕!!

We just adopted them today and they will be our new barn cats! They are 4 months old, very friendly, and curious! Needless to say they won’t have free roam of the barn or property until they are much bigger and know this is their home!

We spent time playing with them in the barn break room and they are just adorable and I know they will keep unwanted animals away from the barn!

08/06/2024

I have been telling Jonas I wanted to take Adonai to play in water! Wellllll……. Between the storm ⛈️ and a water pipe 🛠️ by our back pasture breaking today my wish came true 🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️!

Pasture three (the back pasture) had a drain box and with how soft the ground was it collapsed this morning crushing the water pipe 🤯. Soooooo…. We were slowly filling pasture three with more water, untill Jonas found it! He then turned the water off, dug up the pipe capped it and restored water to the whole farm 💪🏻. We will now need to dig up that whole area to rebuild the water lines for pasture three🙄!

Jonas Feeley did a fantastic job repairing everything and I am so grateful for him!! Caring for our farm, animals, and business is truly a team effort!

This is farm life, things happening, figuring out what happened, and then learning how to fix it all through OTJ 😆!

In the meantime I will enjoy playing in the water till it drains away with my ponies 🐴💕🤷🏻‍♀️😊

(No we normally don’t have water like this after a storm. The broken water pipe added a lot of water.)

08/04/2024

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

We are happy to offer temporary boarding for those that need or needed to evacuate during a storm!

We can offer stalls (limited amount) and pasture options with large run-ins on our safe and dry farm!

Whether before or after the storm, feel free to reach out if you need help or share with a friend that does!

07/28/2024

When it’s hot out Amora gets braids! Her mane is so thick that she just sweats! Jonas did a great job for his first attempt at braiding! 😊💕

07/17/2024

🧼The farm is getting all nice and clean 🧼!

Today Chris from Prowashservicesfl came today and cleaned the exterior of the barn and horse run ins. In addition to a few extra areas around the farm.

We cannot say enough about Chris, his professionalism, and detail of work! Thank you for helping keep our farm beautiful and clean! 😊

07/14/2024

Laundry 🧺 or trim trees 🌳?

Let’s trim trees!! I would rather be outside with my husband 👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻 working on our farm 🚜🌞!

I leave for another work trip tomorrow and haven’t finished getting ready for it 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️!

07/13/2024

Today we redid the tack/break room and created a feed room!! Utilizing space more efficiently and making more storage room for tools and equipment 😊!

We still have a few things to do, but we are really happy with how it all turned out!