Eight Fences LLC

05/13/2023

Spring cleaning day … part 1 🧼

12/26/2022

Borrowing from a friend because… 💯

“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 are not 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.

“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.
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’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 crinkle 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.”

~author unknown

10/31/2022

Early morning rides = dreamy cooldown walks

10/16/2022

The most beautiful colors on our cooldown walk around the farms today… 🍂🍁

09/23/2022

Happy horses make us happy… 🥰

09/14/2022

Grateful. Just really, really grateful.

07/04/2022

Evidence of a good long weekend at Eight Fences… everyone has the sleepies. 😴 🇺🇸

06/14/2022

Teddy Grahams… a new farm favorite.
(Hair Cred: wicked humidity)

06/12/2022

Lots of growing up happening around Eight Fences this year! Swagger & Pye looking like real big kids.

06/04/2022

Offering “Lyric,” a 16.3 hh large-bodied 13 year old Hanoverian mare for consideration to the right home or program. Lyric would do best in a light flatwork or trail riding environment with plenty of turnout, or even as a companion horse. She is a very easy keeper with a good disposition. Lyric is not sound for work over fences or high-level/demanding flatwork. Price is very negotiable to the perfect home.

05/28/2022

little girl…BIG HORSE. Lots of love between these two. Swagger+Emma 💕

04/24/2022

Fresh & Clean! See ya, ❄️!

04/03/2022

Eight Fences’ “Salem” is our little shotgun rider during morning chores, and the best cat-dog that ever did exist.

03/12/2022

Some of us are more helpful than others when it comes to fixing pasture waterers… Pye & Swagger here are on the less helpful end of the spectrum, but they sure are cute!

10/30/2021

The horses (and doggo) of Eight Fences all love it when Dr. Jessi of Cultivate Health Chiropractic comes to visit. Adjustments all around! 💕🐴 🐶

10/23/2021

Arena games with Swagger, one of this year’s new kids @ Eight Fences…

09/19/2021

Having a lot of fun with this one…

08/14/2021

It makes us giggle when she eats a mash… you have something on your face, Lyric. ☺️💕

08/08/2021

What an athlete…

06/27/2021

Hi Freddie! 👋 (Head rest courtesy of Swagger.)

06/05/2021

John thoughts 💭

05/31/2021

Lucy finds the best nap spots... ☀️

05/21/2021

*SALE PENDING*

“Lyric” - Twelve Year Old Bay Roan Hanoverian Mare.

Lyric has been most recently schooling in a Hunter Jumper program, but we feel that she would be happiest and excel in a Dressage or Trail Riding focused home. She stands approximately 17 hh and is big bodied with great feet. Lyric is an easy keeper, is extremely quiet on trails and in neighborhood settings. Has been ridden to Lake Michigan and is happy to leave the farm independently or in a group. Loads and hauls well.

Asking high four figures. Message with questions or for more information.

05/21/2021

Life at Eight Fences... :)

05/21/2021