Graceful Winds Farm

11/11/2024

11/11/2024

Happy Veterans day to All who served and still are💜💜💜 God bless you 💜💜💜

11/08/2024

All are calm quiet and happy this morning!💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

10/18/2024

The Fall colors in this moon tonight are absolutely stunning! Never gets old!

08/23/2024

You're never to old to splash in the water and play in the dirt!❤️💜🐴

08/23/2024

Last night I heard giggling and turned around in the cutting pen to see my child fully embracing her horse in fits of laughter as he arched his neck to expose his most itchiest itchy spot. My heart smiled. This morning I watched her slap on her seat belt and crank the radio up and yell at me to do a burn out on the gravel and drive faster with her hand out the window, again my heart smiled. A 10 yr old girls ability to find joy in everything is life goals. She’s blessed she’s yet to know much in the way of stress and heart ache but if she holds onto the feeling of joy even when it’s fleeting she’ll deal with it much better. On the way home I found myself doing another burn out just because. I wanna be like my kid when I grow up.

07/22/2024

I love this! Joy is contagious!

07/22/2024

Don't accidentally poison your barn cats with fly spray ingredients, some foods, sweeteners, and even some flowers.

03/28/2024

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11/07/2023

Beautiful evening on the farm!

07/31/2023

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Be sure to smile as you gallop across the field. Or trudge from your house to the barn. Unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs” or “drones”) are everywhere, whether you and your horse want them to be or not. Some horse owners and community officials are taking steps to protect their horses’ safet...

07/28/2023

07/25/2023

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.”

07/24/2023

Out doing feild maintenance watching this cool cloud with lightning!

07/24/2023

The best view!❤️

07/22/2023

Graceful Winds Farm welcomes Carrie! Fitting right in with the herd! What a beautiful girl!

07/22/2023

If you give your child a pony, they will want to ride. You’ll buy them the best pony you can find, followed by a hat, boots and all the other things pony.

You look for a local stables to ride at where you start to socialise with the horsey community...and then life as you know it, will end.

Before you know it, they want to go to shows so you join BS …there will be no more lazy weekends watching TV. You will see more sunrises than you ever thought possible.

Every spare minute of your time will be spent driving horseboxes and enduring a crazy addiction to practice for the next show.

Your house may be a mess, and your car will be dirty. All because you gave your child a pony. Your weekends will be spent freezing or burning to death on a fold up chair. And their weekends will be spent gaining confidence and friends, learning new skills and having fun and getting dirty!!!!

You will be there the day he or she takes the first few steps of canter, the first taste of a jump, first rosette, first win. And they will make you SO proud. Other parents will congratulate you, but you feel weird saying thank you because it's not you on the pony, it’s your child. It's everything that they did, they achieved. And right before your eyes, your little boy/girl will be transformed from the baby who bounced around on their rocking horse into an exceptional young horse enthusiast on the hunt for the next HOYS ticket or maybe even the Olympics!

When you give your child a pony, you give them more than just something to ride. You give them a sport, a talent, hope and dreams. Friends, a new family, a place to learn about life, room to grow as a person where they can push their limits, and bravery, and courage, and memories. And they will have ALL of these things, simply because you gave your child a pony.

Because you gave your child a pony, you too will develop new/lifelong friendships, developed solely from the same passion for the sport. You will have an equestrian family because you gave your child a pony.

Then one day, many years from today…they will be in their room and a certain trophy will catch their eye. And they will pick it up and realise instantly that when you gave them a pony, you also gave them a childhood that they would never forget. At this point, you realise that everything you gave up along the way and sacrificed was totally worth it…..

All because you gave your child a pony...

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